Niccolò Menegoni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Post-doctoral Fellow - Finkbeiner Group

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Research Interests

Working on structural geology and rock mechanics, with a main focus on rock fractures and their implications, using wellbore imaging and remote sensing techniques.

Selected Publications

  • Structure and fracture characterization of the Jizan group: Implications for subsurface CO2 basalt mineralization.
    J. Fedorik, A. Delaunay, G. Losi, Y. Panara, N. Menegoni, A.M. Afifi, S. Arkadakskiy, M. Al Malallah, E. Oelkers, S.R. Gislason, Z. Ahmed, N. Kunnummal
    Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 10, 946532. (2023) https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.946532
  • Relation between fault and fracture network affecting the Lastoni di Formin carbonate platform (Italian Dolomites) and its deformation history
    N. Menegoni, Y. Panara, R. Inama, C. Perotti
    Geosciences, 12(12), 451. (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12120451
  • DICE: an open-source MATLAB application for quantification and parametrization of Digital Outcrop Model-based fracture datasets
    N. Menegoni, D. Giordan, C. Perotti
    Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, XX, XXXX. (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrmge.2022.09.011
  • Fracture network analysis of the Balmuccia Peridotite by drone-based photogrammetry.
    N. Menegoni, A. Greenwood, G. Hetényi
    Near Surface Geoscience 2022 Conferenece and Exhibition (Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-5). EAGE (2022, September) https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202220052
  • 3D Digital outcrop model-based analysis of fracture network along the seismogenic Mt. Vettore Fault System (Central Italy): The importance of inherited fractures.
    Y. Panara, N. Menegoni, F. Carboni, R. Inama
    Journal of Structural Geology, 161, 104654. (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2022.104654
  • Early deformation structures connected to the progradation of a carbonate platform: The case of the Nuvolau Cassian platform (Dolomites-Italy).
    N. Menegoni, R. Inama, M. Crozi, C. Perotti
    Marine and Petroleum Geology, 138, 105574. (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105574
  • Mineralogical Mapping with Accurately Corrected Shortwave Infrared Hyperspectral Data Acquired Obliquely from UAVs.
    S. Thiele, Z. Bnoulkacem, S. Lorenz, A. Bordenave, N. Menegoni, Y. Madriz, E. Dujoncquoy, R. Gloaguen, J. Kenter
    Remote Sensing, 14, 5. (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14010005
  • Syndepositional fractures and architecture of the Lastoni di Formin carbonate platform: Insights from virtual outcrop models and field studies.
    R. Inama, N. Menegoni, C. Perotti
    Marine and Petroleum Geology, 12(10), 104606. (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104606
  • Detection and geometric characterization of rock mass discontinuities using a 3D high-resolution digital outcrop model generated from RPAS imagery - Ormea rock slope, Italy.
    N. Menegoni, D. Giordan, C. Perotti, D. Tannant
    Engineering Geology, 252, 145-163. (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.02.028
  • Analysis by UAV digital photogrammetry of folds and related fractures in the Monte Antola flysch Formation (Ponte Organasco, Italy).
    N. Menegoni, C. Meisina, C. Perotti, M. Crozi
    Geosciences, 8(8), 299. (2018) https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8080299

Education

  • Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 2019
  • MSc, Geology and Geotechnics, University of Padova, Padova Italy, 2015
  • BSc, Geological sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, 2013

Professional Profile

  • 2019-2023: Post-doctoral fellow, University of Pavia, Italy

Scientific and Professional Membership

  • Interuniversity Center for 3D Seismotectonics with territorial applications (CRUST)
  • European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)

KAUST Affiliations

  • Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center (ANPERC)
    Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE)

Research Interests Keywords

.Rock Mechanics structural geology CO2 storage