Profilo: Senior Researcher
Incarico: Referente, presso la Sezione di Pisa, della linea di attività V2 – Dinamiche di unrest e scenari pre-eruttivi
Disciplina di specializzazione: Petrology – Physical Volcanology
Istituto di appartenenza: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – Sezione di Pisa
Indirizzo: Via della Faggiola, 32 -56126 Pisa
Telefono: +39 050 8311940
Fax: +39 050 8311942
Breve biografia
Educational history
- Laurea Magistralis in Geological Sciences, University of Pisa (1985).
- PhD Courses (1985-88) interrupted for incompatibility with permanent position held at CNR.
Current employment
- Senior Scientist at INGV – Sezione di Pisa;
- Responsible of research group “Unrest dynamics and pre-eruptive scenarios” at INGV-Pisa;
Scientific profile
Research career of MP has been focused on the study of mechanisms of genesis, ascent, eruption and emplacement of basaltic magmas. These arguments have been studied on the basis of:
- field observations and measurements and petrological monitoring carried during eruptions of last three decades of Stromboli and Etna volcanoes;
- volcanological, petrological and geochemical investigations on products of Italian volcanoes (Mt.Etna , Hyblean plateau, Stromboli and Ustica islands and Sicily Channel seamounts, Phlegrean Fields, Capraia), El Hierro (Canarie, Spagna), Eyjafjallajokull (Islanda) e Terra Vittoria Settentrionale (Antartide;
- laboratory experiments.
Beside the study of the active volcanism MP carried also volcanological and petrologic studies of volcanic detritus within drilled or gravity cores aimed at paleoenvironmental-paleoclimatic reconstructions.
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