**Meet the editor**

Dr Sebastiano D'Amico (PhD) has been working as Research Officer III at the Physics Department, University of Malta, since 2010. He was enrolled in the Physics program of the University of Messina where he was awarded the title of "Dottore in Fisica". In 2005, Dr D'Amico moved to Rome where he joined the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and, in

2007, he married Rosarianna and moved to the United States to join the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department at Saint Louis University. His research interests are in the applied aspects of earthquake seismology and he has authored several publications in this field. Dr D'Amico is particularly interested in seismicity and tectonics of the Central Mediterranean, earthquake ground motion and seismic hazard, earthquake moment tensor solutions, and ambient noise measurements on soil and buildings.
