Dr. Umberta Tinivella obtained her PhD in Applied Geophysics from University of Trieste, Italy in 2006. Currently she is working as Senior Researcher in Geophysics Department, OGS(Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Italy. In past she worked as Assistant Research at Ecole olitecnique Federale de Losanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She is member of many scientific societies.She also Participated to EU-COST project: Impact of Fluid circulation in old oceanic Lithosphere on the seismicity of transfOrm-type plate boundaries: New solutions for early seismic monitoring of major European Seismogenic zones (FLOWS), Management Committee of the EU-COST project: PERGAMON -Permafrost and gas hydrate related methane release in Arctic and impact on climate change: European cooperation for long-term monitoring. She is also member of organization of scientific meeting. She also supervised graduate and post doctoral students. She received the Best Poster Presentation at the Near Surface Conference. She is the author of many technical reports and papers on gas hydrate topic and she received several invitation to present her work. Moreover, she is active on dissemination of her research.