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Dal 2020 sono Professore Ordinario di Geologia Strutturale e Tettonica all'Universita' di Firenze dove mi sono laureata nel 1993 con una tesi sull'interazione fluidi/faglie applicata al sistema di sovrascorrimenti dell'avanfossa dell'Unita' Cervarola sull'Unita' della Marnoso-Arenacea (supervisore Prof. M. Coli). Durante la tesi sono stata invitata per un "quarter" all'Universita' della California di Santa Cruz dove ho studiato sotto la supervisione del prof. Casey Moore, che poi sarebbe diventato mio co-supervisore di dottorato. In quegli anni ho sviluppato la mia passione per la geologia marina e per le zone di subduzione, in particolare.

Ho conseguito il dottorato di ricerca nel 1998 presso l'Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia con una tesi sui processi di deformazione responsabili delle strutture a "blocchi-in-matrice" con un confronto fra le unita' dell'Appennino Settentrionale e la deformazione di sedimenti coinvolti in prismi di accrezione (supervisori P. Fazzini, G. Bettelli, J.C. Moore, M.B. Cita e E. Abbate). Nel 1996 ho trascorso due mesi a bordo della Joides Resolution partecipando al Leg ODP (Ocean Drilling Program) 196 "Costa Rica Subduction System". Da allora ho partecipato ad altre quattro spedizioni ODP/IODP al largo della Costa Rica, per poi andare nell'Oceano Indiano - Fossa di Sumatra e nel Mar Tirreno. Sono anche coinvolta in progetti per lo studio dell'Arco Calabro/Fossa Ellenica, Fossa del Giappone, del Margine Iberico, e del margine equatoriale brasiliano.

Dal 1998 al 2007 ho lavorato nell'ambito di borse post-dottorato all'Universita' del Galles ad Aberyswyth, alla Pennsylvania State University, all'Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia e all'Universita' di Firenze, dove sono stata assunta come ricercatrice nel 2007. Nel 2012 mi sono trasferita nel Regno Unito alla Royal Holloway, University of London, dove dal 2017 ho ricoperto il ruolo di Full Professor in Tectonics. Nel 2018 ho trascorso un "semestre" sabbatico all'Universita' di Harvard per imparare i segreti della modellizzazione numerica.

La mia ricerca si articola intorno ai sistemi di subduzione: dalla meccanica dei terremoti, ai processi tettonici responsabili per lo scambio di materiale lungo (e attraverso) il limite di placca, alla evoluzione della crosta continentale. Sono incuriosita dalla struttura delle faglie coinvolte in processi sismici e asismici - e da tutto cio' che sta nel mezzo! - che studio attraverso esempi naturali (tramite l'investigazione di zone di faglia fossili ed esumate), esperimenti di laboratorio (tramite la riproduzione delle condizioni di deformazione durante un terremoto - in collaborazione con il laboratorio di SHIVA all'INGV) e modellizzazione numerica sia in sistemi fossili sia in sistemi moderni. Parlando di faglie sono anche interessata alle faglie trasformi e alle zone di frattura per capire i processi coinvolti nella loro attivita' sismica e la loro evoluzione nel tempo.

Nel 2004 ho vinto il Richter Award dell'European Geosciences Union (EGU) per aver trovato dati geologici in supporto del processo di erosione tettonica nei margini in subduzione.

Dal 2021 al 2025 sono in presidente della Sezione di Tettonica e Geologia Strutturale di EGU.

Nel 2024 ho vinto il "Research Award" della Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/)

Tutti i miei lavori, la ricerca passata, presente e futura sono frutto di collaborazione con colleghi straordinari.

FORMAZIONE 1998 – Dottorato in Scienze della Terra: Università di Bologna e Modena 1993 – Laurea in Geologia, Università di Firenze Visiting (1992), Dottorando (1996) @UC Santa Cruz – Tutor: Prof. J.C. Moore

POSIZIONI ACCADEMICHE 2020 - Professore Ordinario di Geologia Strutturale, Università di Firenze 2017-20 - Professore di Tettonica, Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) [Lista completa delle posizioni accademiche omessa per brevità]

PREMI 2014-15 ECORD Distinguished Lecturer 2005-06 IODP-Italia Distinguished Lecturer 2004 Premio "Arne Richter" – European Geosciences Union 2000 Premio "Best Young Author" e Fellow della Geological Society of London, 2024 "Research Grant Award" Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

SERVIZI

190 revisioni per 20 riviste ISI e proposte di progetti Presidente Divisione Tettonica e Geologia Strutturale EGU (2021-25)

CROCIERE OCEANOGRAFICHE [6 crociere IODP/ODP dal 1996 al 2024]

ORGANIZZAZIONE Convegni internazionali: EGU GA 2022; 16 sessioni EGU, 6 AGU, 1 Goldschmidt, 1 IGC

ATTIVITÀ EDITORIALE Comitato Editoriale GEOLOGY (2008-11, 2020-presente) Editor Associato di TECTONICS (2012-presente)

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C3fmaE4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Since 2020, I have been Full Professor of Structural Geology and Tectonics at the University of Florence, where I graduated in 1993 with a thesis on fluid/fault interaction in the Cervarola Unit thrust system over the Marnoso-Arenacea Unit (supervisor Prof. M. Coli). During my thesis, I was invited for a quarter at the University of California Santa Cruz under Prof. Casey Moore's supervision, who later became my PhD co-supervisor. During those years, I developed my passion for marine geology and subduction zones.

I completed my PhD in 1998 at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, studying deformation processes responsible for "blocks-in-matrix" structures, comparing Northern Apennine units with accretionary prism sediment deformation (supervisors P. Fazzini, G. Bettelli, J.C. Moore, M.B. Cita, and E. Abbate). In 1996, I spent two months aboard JOIDES Resolution during ODP Leg 196 "Costa Rica Subduction System." Since then, I've participated in four more ODP/IODP expeditions off Costa Rica, followed by work in the Indian Ocean - Sumatra Trench and Tyrrhenian Sea. I'm also involved in projects studying the Calabrian Arc/Hellenic Trench, Japan Trench, Iberian Margin, and Brazilian equatorial margin.

From 1998 to 2007, I held postdoctoral positions at Aberystwyth University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and University of Florence, where I became a researcher in 2007. In 2012, I moved to Royal Holloway, University of London, becoming Full Professor in Tectonics in 2017. In 2018, I spent a sabbatical semester at Harvard University learning numerical modeling.

My research focuses on subduction systems: from earthquake mechanics to tectonic processes responsible for material exchange along plate boundaries, to continental crust evolution. I'm interested in fault structures involved in seismic and aseismic processes, studying them through natural examples (fossil and exhumed fault zones), laboratory experiments (earthquake deformation conditions at INGV's SHIVA lab), and numerical modeling. I also study transform faults and fracture zones to understand their seismic activity and evolution.

In 2004, I won the EGU Richter Award for finding geological evidence supporting tectonic erosion in subduction margins. I'm serving as president of EGU's Tectonics and Structural Geology Section (2021-2025). In 2024, I received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award.

All my work, past, present, and future research results from collaboration with extraordinary colleagues.

PAOLA VANNUCCHI

Earth Sciences Department

University of Florence

Via la Pira, 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy

Office/dept : 00-39-(0)55-2757539

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Professional experience                                                                                                                                                            

2020-today                       Full Professor in Tectonics and Structural Geology, University of Florence, Italy

                                            (from 2023 Head of Teaching at the Earth Science Dept.)

2017-2020                        Full Professor in Marine Science and Tectonics at Royal Holloway, University of London

2015-2016                        Reader in Marine Science and Tectonics at Royal Holloway, University of London

2012-2015                        Senior Lecturer in Marine Science and Tectonics at Royal Holloway, University of London

2007-2020                        Researcher in Structural Geology and Tectonics, University of Florence

2012-2013                        Guest Researcher at IFREE/Jamstec, Japan

2005-2007                        Lecturer (Structural Geology and Tectonics) at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

2003–2007                       Research Scientist at the University of Florence

2003-2004                        Visiting Scientist at Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA fellowship by the Italian National Research Council (CNR)

1999-2003                        Research Scientist the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

1998-1999                        Post-doctoral researcher at University of Wales – Aberystwyth

EDUCATION                                                                                                                                                                                         

1998 – Ph.D. in Earth Sciences - Tectonics and Structural Geology – Doctorate Consortium of the Universities of Bologna and Modena:Syn-diagenetic deformation of clay rich sediments in convergence zones: examples from the Northern Apennines and Costa Rica.

1996: Visiting Ph.D. student at Department of Earth Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz

1993 – B.S. + M.S. Geology, University of Florence – 110/110: Tectonic-kinematic evolution of calcite veins related to the emplacement of the Cervarola Thrust, Northern Apennines, Ital

1992: Visiting UG student at Department of Earth Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz

AWARDS                                                                                                                                                                                               

2014/2015 European Consortium for Oceanic Research Drilling - ECORD Distinguished Lecturer

2005-06 IODP-Italia Distinguished Lecturer

2004 “OUTSTANDING YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD” – European Geosciences Union

2000 “BEST YOUNG AUTHOR AWARD” – and Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of London

paper: Insights into shallow-level processes of mountain building from the Northern Apennines, Italy. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 157, pp. 105-120.

CRUISES                                                                                                                                                                                                

Invited - INTENATIONAL OCEAN DISCOVERY PROGRAM EXP.405 J-TRACK, Shipboard Scientist (Structural Geologist) – Yokohama, 5 Settembre-5 Novembre 2024,

INTERNATIONAL OCEAN DISCOVERY PROGRAM EXP.402 The Tyrrhenian COT, Shipboard Scientist (Structural Geologist) - Napoli, 8 Febbraio–8 Aprile 2024,

RRV James Cook Leg 228A “Bend Faulting on the Cocos Plate offshore Costa Rica”, PI and Shipboard Scientist - 10 January-22 January 2023

INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM EXP.362 Sumatra Seismogenesis Zone, Shipboard Scientist (Structural Geologist) - Colombo, 6 August–6 October 2016,

INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM EXP.344 Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project (CRISP) A-2, PI and Shipboard Scientist (Structural Geologist) - Costa Rica, 23 October–11 December 2012

INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM EXP.334 Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project (CRISP) A-1, PI and Co-chief Scientist - Costa Rica, 13 March–14 April 2011

Sonne SO-173/2 Subduction Erosion in Costa Rica and Guatemala, Shipboard Scientist - 3 August-1 September 2003

OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM LEG 205 “Fluid flow and subduction fluxes across the Costa Rica convergent margin: implications for the seismogenic zone and subduction factory”, Shipboard Scientist (Structural Geologist) - Costa Rica, September - November 2002

OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM LEG 170 “Costa Rica Accretionary Wedge”, Shipboard Scientist (Structural Geologist) - Costa Rica. 17 October - 18 December 1996

Organization of Conferences, WORKSHOPS, SHORT COURSES                                                                                     

Programme committee member EGU General Assembly 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

• Convener: ECORD MagellanPlus Workshop “CosNiCa” – Graz, Austria, 28-30 October 2022.
• Convener: ECORD MagellanPlus Workshop “Scylla” – Bologna, Italy, 21-23 September, 2022
• Co-Convener: Workshop “RELICT” - The role of lithospheric inheritance on subduction initiation” Lisbon, Portugal, 12-13 September, 2019
• EGU2019 General Assembly – Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April, 2018
• Co-convener Session:TS2.2/EMRP1.9/GMPV7.25/SM2.9 – Earthquakes: from slow to fast, from the field to the laboratory and models
• EGU2018 General Assembly – Vienna, Austria, 8-13 April, 2018
• Co-convener Session:TS9.2/GD5.7/GMPV8.4/SM1.09 Subduction interface properties and large subduction earthquakes: integrating geological and geophysical observations, laboratory results, and numerical modeling
• EGU2017 General Assembly – Vienna, Austria, 23-28 April, 2017
• Co-convener Session:TS9.2 Oceanic and continental transform plate boundaries: nucleation, evolution and tectonic significance
• Scientific Committee: Workshop “Subduction Interface Processes - SIP” – Barcelona, Spain, 18-21 April 2017
• Convener: ECORD MagellanPlus Workshop “Bend-Fault Serpentinization” - - London, United Kingdom, 18-20 June 2016
• EGU General Assembly 2016 – Vienna, 17-22 April, 2016
• Co-convener session TS8.3/GD6.8: The Ocean Frontier: from continental margins to the deep ocean (PICO)
• Convener: ECORD MagellanPlus Workshop “BEM II: The Brazilian Equatorial Margin” - Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, 30 March-1 April 2016
• Convener: Workshop “BEM: The Brazilian Equatorial Margin” - Maresias, São Paulo, Brazil, 4-6 February 2014
• EGU General Assembly 2014 – Vienna, 27 April-2 May, 2014
• Co-convener session TS7.2/GD5.6/GMPV24/SM6.8: On and through the plate interface: zooming into subduction zone processes
• AGU Fall Meeting 2013 – San Francisco, USA, 9-13 December 2013
  • Co-convener Session T31
• Goldschmidt 2013 – Firenze 25-30 August
  • Co-Convener Session 07h: Biogeochemical Cycling, Hydrogeology and Deformation in the Forearc of Subduction Zones
• Convener: IODP Exp. 334 Second Post Cruise Meeting – Heredia (Costa Rica). 10-15 March, 2013
• AGU Fall Meeting 2011 – San Francisco, USA, 5-11 December 2011
  • Co-convener Session T25
  • GeoPrism Mini-workshop convener and keynote speaker: Integrating CRISP IODP Drilling and 3D Seismic Study.
• Convener of GSA Penrose Conference “Fluid flow, material transfer and deformation in the forearcs of convergent margins” Il Ciocco, Lucca, 25-31 March, 2012
• EGU10 General Assembly – Vienna, Austria, 2-7 May, 2010
  • Co-convener Session:TS6.8/GD5.6/NH4.14/SM3.6 Caribbean and South American subduction zones: subduction processes and resulting tectonics, seismogenesis and fore-arc evolution
• Short Courses in Geodynamics and Computational Geodynamics held by Prof. Jason Phipps Morgan– Modena, Italy, 22-26 Feb. and 22-26 March 2010
  • Organising Committee
• EGU09 General Assembly – Vienna, Austria, 19-24 April, 2009
  • Co-convener Session:TS7.2 Earthquakes, fluids and metamorphism
• AGU Fall Meeting 2007 – San Francisco, USA, 10-14 December 2007
  • Convener Session T08 Tectonic erosion, sediment accretion and mass recycling in subduction zones (CoSponsor: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology)
• EGU07 General Assembly – Vienna, Austria, 15-20 April, 2007
  • Co-convener SessionTS01 Open Session
  • Co-convener Session: The tectonics and dynamics of subduction: from shallow to deep processes
• EGU06 General Assembly – Vienna, Austria, 2-7 April, 2006
  • Co-convener Session TS01 Open Session
• AGU Fall Meeting 2005 – San Francisco, USA, 5-9 December, 2005
  • Co-convener Session S12 Fault-zone properties and earthquake rupture dynamics (co-listed in T and MR)
• EGU05 General Assembly – Vienna, Austria, 23-29 April, 2005
  • Convener Session TS18 Lithospheric scale shear zones: mechanical behavior, structural style and strain localization in the ductile and brittle field
  • Co-convener Session TS25 Deformation of soft sediment: interactions between gravity, compaction and tectonic stresses (co-listed in SSP)
• Host: ODP Leg 205 Second Post Cruise Meeting - Greve (Fi), Italy. 27-30 September, 2004
• 32^nd IGC - Firenze, Italy. 20-28 August, 2004.

-         Co-Convener Session T01.2 - Transport of continental material toward the mantle at subduction zones, evidence from modern and ancient convergent margins.

-         Co-leader of field excursion: D09 Cruising along deformed Adria continental margin and Tethys rocks (La Spezia, Cinque Terre, Ligurian Sea, Central Italy)

• EGU04 General Assembly - Nice, France. 25-30 April, 2004

-         Co-Convener Session TS28 - In-situ studies of seismogenic zones: from survey and monitoring to drilling

• C.RI.S.P. Workshop - Kiel, Germany. 20-22 October, 2003

-         Workshop Convener with R. von Huene and C.R. Ranero

• EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly - Nice, France. 6-11 April, 2003

-         Co-Convener Session GD7 - The subduction factory; inputs, outputs and mantle recycling

• EGS XXV General Assembly - Nice, France. 25-29 April, 2000.

-         Co-convener Session SE11-01 - Convergent margins, Seismic images and geophysical signatures at subduction zones

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY                                                                                                                                                        

• President of the Tectonics and Structural Geology Division of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) (2021-2025).
• Member of the IODP ITALIA Committee (2023-ongoing).
• Coordinator of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Division of the Italian Geological Society (2021-2023).
• ECORD member of IODP Scientific Evaluation Panel SEP (2019-23).
• UKIODP Evaluation panel (2019-20).
• Advisory Board Member – “ZIP” (Zooming In between Plates)”, FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, Grant agreement no.: 604713 http://www.zip-itn.eu/ (2013-present).
• Management Committee member- UK – EU COST Action ES1301 “FLOWS” http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/essem/Actions/ES1301
• Moderator of the “Active Fault” theme at the workshop Chikyu+10, Tokyo, Japan, 21-23 April 2013
• Member of the International Panel at the GeoPRISMS Implementation Workshop: Subduction Cycles and Deformation Austin, TX, January 5-7, 2011
• Member of the EGU Committee for the “Outstanding Young Scientist Award” (2010-2013)
• Member of the IODP ITALIA Committee (2005-2012).
• Vice-president of the Tectonics and Structural Geology Division of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) (2004-2007).

Editorship of journals                                                                                                                                                              

• Associate Editor of TECTONICS (2012-present) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291944-9194/homepage/associate_editors.htm.
• Editorial Board for GEOLOGY (2008-2011) and (2020-2022)

https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Publications/Journals/geology/gsa/pubs/geology/edBoard_Geology.aspx

• Associate Editor of GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS, GEOSYSTEMS Special Section:Subduction processes in Central America with an emphasis on CRISP results (2013-present) (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291525-2027/specialsection/SUBDUCT2.)
• Guest editor Sedimentary Geology Special Issue “Deformation of soft sediments in nature and laboratory” Sedimentary Geology, 196, 1-4, 278 pg, 2007http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0037073806002946.

INVITED TALKS at International Congresses and workshops                                                                                   

• Invited talk: Seamount and aseismic ridge subduction in the Middle America Trench off Costa Rica. New perspective on subducting seamounts and slow earthquakes through drilling and monitoring, University of Tokyo, 27^th May 2023,
• Keynote: Wilson cycle: From rifted margins to continental collision. Earth’s History, Dynamic and Planetary Habitability, Sundvollen (Oslo) 13-19 November, 2022.
• Plenary conference: Understanding the Earth System through scientific drilling. 90º Congresso della Società Geologica Italiana, Trieste, September 2021.
• Invited talk: Transform faults are forever. EGU21, April, 2021.
• Invited talk: Zone di Subduzione tra passato e futuro. 4ºConvegno dei Geologi Marini Italiani, February 2021
• Invited talk: The impact of shallow rheological transition along the subduction plate interface on tremor and earthquake nucleation. 2019 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December, 2019
• Invited talk: Controlling factors for the mode of slip in the shallowest portions of megathrusts. SGI-SIMP 2018, Catania, 12-14 September, 2018
• Invited talk: Past slip to the trench recorded in Central America and its global significance. 2016 JpGU Meeting, Chiba, Japan, May 2016
• Invited talk: Frictional properties of the biogenic oozes from the CRISP drilling project: possible evidence of past slip-to-the-trench.2015 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December, 2016.
• Keynote presentation: Understanding megathrust earthquakes through ocean drilling. Kiyi Ve Deniz Jeolojisi Sempozyumu, IODP‐ECORD Toplantisi Teknik Programi, Istanbul, Turkey, 15-16 October, 2015
• Invited talk: Costa Rica subduction zone drilling UKIODP Conference, London, UK, 5 November, 2014.
• Keynote presentation: CRISP: IODP Exp. 334 and 344 results and the focus on seismogenesis at an extremely erosive margin. ECORD Council-ESSAC Meeting #2, Zurich, Switzerland, 9-10 October, 2014.
• Invited talk: CRISP: Seismogenesis at an Extremely Erosive Margin. AOGS 2014, Sapporo, Japan, 28 July-1 August, 2014
• Keynote presentation: IODP Insights on Forearc Destruction in Central America and its Implications for the Evolution of Continents. Goldschmidt2014, Sacramento, California, June 8-13, 2014
• Keynote presentation: The Alps/Apennines boundary: Structures and kinematics of interfering orogens and comparisons with modern analogues. 11^th Workshop on Alpine Geological Studies, Schladming, Austria, 9-11 September, 2013
• CRISP A expeditions: synthesis of key results from IODP Exp. 334 and introduction to IODP Exp. 344, Final colloquium of SFB 574, Lubeck, May 23-25, 2012
• IODP exp. 334 CRISP A: The first step toward drilling the Seismogenic Zone in Central America, GeoPrism Mini-workshop Integrating CRISP IODP Drilling and 3D Seismic Study, December 7, 2011
• The role of subduction erosion in material transfer at convergent margins, INSTOC Symposium on the Origin and Evolution of the Continental Crust, Cornell University September 26, 2011
• ESSAC Highlights: IODP Expedition 334. 16^th ESSAC Meeting. Leuven, Belgium, 11-12th May 2011
• GeoPRISMS Implementation Workshop: Subduction Cycles and Deformation. Member of the International Panel. Austin, TX, January 5-7, 2011
• IODP CRISP Program A: the first step toward drilling the Seismogenic Zone in Central America. 2010 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.Session T22B. From Sediment Inputs to Seismogenesis at Subduction Zones II, December 2010
• How do subduction plate boundaries move? Workshop: Physico-chemical processes in seismic faults. November 18-20, 2010, Padova, Italy
• The role of near trench extension at convergent plate boundaries. EGU09, Vienna, Austria. Session TS6.4 Subduction zone seismotectonics: Temporal and spatial observations and models, April2009
• Estimating long term recycling at subduction zones and their contribution to the growth of continental crust. GEOITALIA 2007. September 12-14, 2007, Rimini, Italy.
• Subduction mega-thrusts: field, borehole and geophysical observations on shear and fluid flow in clay-rich sediments. GEOITALIA 2007. September 12-14, 2007, Rimini, Italy.
• Tectonic erosion in Central America: implications for material flux along the seismogenic zone and future IODP drilling plans. Workshop to Integrate Subduction Factory and Seismogenic Zone Studies in Central America. June 18-22, 2007 Heredia, Costa Rica
• Double décollement zone bordering the subduction channel in an ancient erosive subduction complex: implications for seismogenesis. EGU 07, Vienna, Austria. Session TS3.2 Seismogenic coupling zones - state and processes – April, 2007.
• Internal fabric and fault zone character of an erosive subduction channel. GFZ Potsdam workshop on “Deformation at convergent plate margins”, Nov. 2-3, 2006.
• Dynamic interaction between dewatering and faulting along the Costa Rica Décollement. SFB 574 Retreat 2006, Kiel, Germany, Sept. 27-29, 2006.
• Keynote presentation: From tectonic accretion to erosion: the effect of the Cocos Ridge subduction along the Middle America Trench – Penrose Conference: Lessons in Tectonics, Climate and Eustacy from the Stratigraphic Record in Arc Collision Zones, Price, Utah - 10-14th October 2005.
• Direct and indirect evidence of material transfer from the upper to the lower plate: the integration between fossil and modern convergent erosional margins – EGU 05, Vienna, Austria - Session TS3 Ocean plates at subduction zones: from trenches to deep slabs – April 2005
• Award Lecture: The Osa Mélange: a fossil accretionary complex as a plate boundary zone of an erosive compressive margin - EGU 04, Nice, France- April 27, 2004

Recent INVITED SEMINARS AND SHORT COURSES AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS                                                                    

• Rift and Rifted Margins Online Seminar, 28 June 2021.
• Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, 4 December 2020
• GFZ Potsdam, 21 October 2020
• School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, 23 January, 2020
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 16 November 2017
• Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Harvard, 24 October 2017
• Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, University of Berlin, Germany. 14 January 2016
• ECORD Distinguished Lecturer 2014/2015: Understanding megathrust earthquakes through ocean drilling
  • University of Graz, Austria, 10-3-2015
  • Plymouth University, UK, 20-3-2015
  • University of Durham, UK 28-4-2015
  • Haifa and Ben Gurion Universities, Israel, 5-5-2015
  • Universita’ di Modena, Italy 25-5-2015
  • Geosciences Montpellier, France, 4-6-2015
  • University of Victoria, Canada, 15-9-2015
  • University of Gent, Belgium 26-10-2015
  • Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France, 28-10-2015
  • GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany 27-11-2015
  • Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 6 October, 2014
  • Short course on Active Margins, Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, 5-9 August 2013
  • Geology & Petroleum Geology Dept, University of Aberdeen, UK. 26 March 2013.
  • Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland. 31 May 2011
  • Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia. 28 April 2011.
  • Institut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain. 8 June 2010
  • Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK. 7 July 2010
  • IODP-Italia Distinguished Lecturer: Dinamica delle zone di subduzione: sismogenesi e limiti di placca nell'esplorazione IODP “Subduction zone dynamics: seismogenesis and plate boundaries in IODP exploration”– Autumn 2005/Spring 2006

Visiting Scientist @

• 2017: University of Harvard, Cambridge, Ma, USA. Host: Prof. Jerry Mitrovica
• 2012: Jamstec, Yokohama, Japan – Host: Prof. Arito Sakaguchi
• 9/2003-9/2004: Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA – Host: Prof. Donald Fisher
• 2001: New Mexico Tech, Socorro, USA– Host: Prof. Harold Tobin
• Since 2021 –Geology II with laboratory - University of Florence
• 2007/2012-and since 2022 –Geodynamics - University of Florence
• 2013/2020 – GL 1100 Global Tectonics – Royal Holloway, University of London
• 2013/2020 – GL2901/2930 Field Methods in geology - 2^nd year Field Trip – SE Spain – 2 weeks – RHUL
• 2014/2019 - GL3951/3901 Independent Field Mapping – Royal Holloway, University of London
• 2014/2015 – GL 1700 Maths for Geologists – Royal Holloway, University of London
• 2013/2015 – Pyrenees Field Course – MSc Petroleum Geoscience – 10 days – RHUL
• 2005/2007 – Structural Geology - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
• 2005/2007 – Geostructural Mapping at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
• 2001 – Quaternary Geology and Neotectonics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

TEACHING                                                                                                                                                                                            

STUDENT SUPERVISION                                                                                                                                                                    

Ongoing – Giacomo Risaliti               Ph.D. supervisor                                 Università di Firenze

Ongoing – Lauretta Kaerger             Ph.D. supervisor                                 Università di Firenze

2024 – Julia Carvalho                         Ph.D. supervisor                                 Università di Firenze

                                                               Now Post-doc at OGS (Trieste)

2019 – Sibel Bulkan                            Ph.D. supervisor                                 Royal Holloway, University of London

-          Now at GeoSmart Information, Shrewsbury, UK

2018 – Alexander Clarke                   Ph.D. supervisor                                 Royal Holloway, University of London

                                                               Now Humboldt Fellow in Mainz (DE)

2010 – Giovanni Pezzati                    Master Thesis supervisor                  Università di Firenze – 110/110 cum laude

2010 – Damiano della Lunga            Master Thesis supervisor                  Università di Firenze – 110/110 cum laude

2005 – Francesca Remitti                  Ph.D. co-supervisor                            Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

                                                               Now Associate Professor at Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

2005 – Lorenzo Leoni                        Master Thesis co-supervisor            Università di Firenze – 110/110

Professional CERTIFICATIONS                                                                                                                                                    

Navigation Licence “over 12 miles” (motorboats and sailingboats)

STCW-95 Personal Survival Techniques

Consulting Geologist habilitation

Research Projects as Principal Investigator or co-proponent (last 5 years)                                                

2023

Principal Investigator. Project Title: Digital Particle Velocimetry

€ 72.025. Funding Agency: University of Florence, MUR, Next Generation EU                                                   

Co-Investigator: Project Title: LOC3G Localization in Geophysics, Geohazard and Geoengineering

€1.656.000 (€165.600 to UniFi). Funding agency: EU - HORIZON-MSCA-SE-2022 - GAP-101129729             

2017 (effectively started in 2023 due to ship availability)

Co-Investigator. Project Title: From Ridge to Trench, MoHole to Bend-Faults

£ 787.982.00. Funding Agency: NERC- NE/M017443/1                                                                                          

2022

Critical Mass UniFi. Project Title: RETURN Multi-Risk science for resilient communities under a changing climate

€120.760.000 (€283.496 to PV). Funding Agency: Next Generation EU                                                               

Subduction plate interfaces and how they release strain at different spatial and temporal scales in both modern and ancient subduction systems:

1. determining thedimensions, geometry and physical properties of the plate interface from the trench to the depths of earthquake nucleation,

2. evaluating the feedbacks between the plate boundary interface and the upper and lower plates,

3. modeling time-integrated material fluxes,

4. understanding how rock rheology and circulating fluids relate to seismicity and megathrust earthquakes, and how these control earthquake nucleation and rupture propagation.

The tectonic processes causing deformation, destruction and build-up of forearcs and continental crust in both modern and ancient subduction systems:

1. investigating forearc basin development,

2. reconstructing the stress state during the seismic cycle,

3. modeling time-integrated material fluxes from/to the upper and lower plates at subduction zones and the processes of mélange formation,

4. determining the parameters that influence the evolution of the continental crust and geological mass balances at subduction zones, to ultimately reconstruct a time-history of crust-mantle recycling.

Transform faults and fracture zones:

1. mapping and dating deformation structures along onshore-offshore transects,

2. determining thedimensions, geometry and physical properties of the plate interface from the surface to the depths of earthquake nucleation,

3. Fracture zone rejuvenation and the neotectonic deformation processes along submarine passive margins

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