Education and Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Scholar – Ongoing
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences – State College, PA, USA
PhD, Marine Geosciences – August 2025
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science – Miami, FL, USA
• Dissertation: Thermal Structure and Exhumation During Time Dependent Subduction: Insights from Numerical Modeling
Master of Science, Physics of the Earth System – March 2020
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna – Bologna, Italy
• Thesis: The Role of Passive Margins in the Continental Collision Dynamics
Bachelor of Science, Physics – October 2017
Università degli Studi di Milano – Milan, Italy
• Bachelor Thesis: Non-relativistic Reduction of a Nuclear Equation of State Model
Science Communication & Presentations
- AGU Fall Meeting 2025 – “Interface Deformation, Exhumation, and Underplating: The Role of Plate Velocity Changes Throughout a Subduction Zone’s Lifetime”; Oral presentation
- AGU Fall Meeting 2024 – “Exploring the impact of plate velocity changes and channel rheology on exhumation within oceanic subduction models”; Poster presentation
- AGU Fall Meeting 2022 – “Isolating the Thermal Effects of Continental Collision using Dynamic Subduction Models”; iPoster presentation
- Ada Lovelace Workshop 2022 – “Three-dimensionality of Slab Thermal structure within Dynamic Subduction Models”; Poster presentation
- AGU Fall Meeting 2021 – “Three-dimensionality of Slab Thermal Structure in Dynamic Subduction Models”; Poster Presentation
- EGU General Assembly, 2021 – “The effect of magma poor and magma rich rifted margins on continental collision dynamics” ; Oral presentation
Invited Talks
- Upcoming: EGU 2026 – “The effect of magma poor and magma rich rifted margins on continental collision dynamics”
- Fall 2025, Geophysics Seminars, The Pennsylvania State University – “Interface Deformation, Exhumation, and Underplating: The Role of Plate Velocity Changes Throughout a Subduction Zone’s Lifetime”
- Spring 2025, Solid Earth Seminars, Georgia Institute of Technology – “Exploring the Impact of Plate Velocity Changes and Interface Rheology on Exhumation within Oceanic Subduction Models”
- ASPECT user meeting 2023 – “Three-dimensionality of Slab Thermal Structure in Dynamic Subduction Models”
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