STERNAI PIETRO

Role
Full Professor  
Academic disciplines
Solid Earth Geophysics (GEOS-04/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
GEOPHYSICS (04/GEOS-04)
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Publications

  • Castrogiovanni, L., Sternai, P., Piana Agostinetti, N., Pasquero, C. (2025). A reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm to estimate paleo surface CO2 fluxes linking temperature to atmospheric CO2 concentration time series. COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES, 196(February 2025) [10.1016/j.cageo.2024.105838]. Detail

  • Jia, Z., Sternai, P., Peng, J. (2025). Role of Surface Processes and Mantle Plumes in the Formation of Microcontinents: Insights from Numerical Modeling and the Seychelles Microcontinent Case Study. JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE, 36(1), 233-249 [10.1007/s12583-024-0067-3]. Detail

  • Ostorero, L., Esposito, R., Bouilhol, P., Ballato, P., Müller, V., Frezzotti, M., et al. (2025). Iranian Neo-Tethyan magmas as a significant CO2 source during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum. LITHOS, 514-515(15 November 2025) [10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108216]. Detail

  • Ostorero, L., Esposito, R., Bouilhol, P., Ballato, P., Müller, V., Frezzotti, M., et al. (2025). Iranian Neo-Tethyan Magmas as a Significant Co2 Source During the Middle Eocene Climate Optimum [Altro] [10.2139/ssrn.5118124]. Detail

  • Jia, Z., Peng, J., Sternai, P., Lu, Q., Huang, W., Zhao, L., et al. (2025). Mantle influence on crustal discontinuity revealed by He isotopes and resistivity in the East African Rift System. TECTONOPHYSICS, 898(6 March 2025) [10.1016/j.tecto.2025.230637]. Detail

Research projects

MATRICs - Magmatic Triggering of Cenozoic Climate Changes
Year: 2023
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS
Grantors: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Magmatic Triggering of Cenozoic Climate Changes - MATRICs
Year: 2022
Call: FAQC 2022 - seconda finestra
Grantors: Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA
Magmatic Triggering of Cenozoic Climate Changes - MATRICs
Year: 2022
Grantors: FONDAZIONE CARIPLO
PNRR per la Missione 4, componente 2 Investimento 1.1- Avviso 104/2022 | RISING - The Role of continental lithosphere In Subduction zones: sINking or floatinG?
Year: 2022
Call: Bando PRIN 2022
Grantors: MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA (MUR)
Modellizzazione numerica delle interazioni tra processi di superficie e profondi: investigazione delle interrelazioni tra cicli climatici, erosione e produttività di magma Numerical modeling to link deep Earth and surface dynamics: untangling the links between climate cycles, erosion and the magma productivity
Year: 2019
Call: Programma per giovani ricercatori Rita Levi Montalcini 2015
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA

Awards

Awards

  • Flinn-Hart Award, International Lithosphere Program (http://www.scl-ilp.org), 2022
  • Premio Giovani Talenti Bicocca - Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Università di Milano-Bicocca e Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 2021
  • Premio Giovani Talenti Bicocca - Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Università di Milano-Bicocca e Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 2020
  • Premio Giovani Talenti Bicocca - Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Università di Milano-Bicocca e Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 2019
  • Programma Giovani Ricercatori "Rita Levi Montalcini", MIUR, 2018
  • Programma "Rita Levi Montalcini", Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita' e della Ricerca (MIUR), 2017
  • Programma "Rita Levi Montalcini", Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita' e della Ricerca (MIUR), 2015

Scientific fellowships

  • Fellow - Young Academy of Europe, 2022
  • Fellow - MIUR, 2019
  • Fellow - MIUR, 2018
  • Fellow - Fondo Nazionale per la Ricerca Scientifica Svizzero, 2016
  • Fellow - Utrecht University, 2014

Editorial boards

  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH, 2021

Research and teaching assignments

  • Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2019 - 2022
  • Ricercatore all estero - Ambizione Research Fellow - Université de Genève, 2016 - 2019
  • Ricercatore all estero - Post-doctoral Research Associate - University of Cambridge, 2015 - 2016
  • Ricercatore all estero - Post-doctoral Research Associate - California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2014 - 2015
  • Ricercatore all estero - University of Orleans, 2012 - 2014

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program committee - TOPO-EUROPE Coordinating Committee(Europeo), 2021
  • Program chair - Principal organizer of the Steepest Descent Meeting, 2018
  • Program chair - EGU session G3.1/CL4.18/CR5.8/GD3.4/GM10.8/TS8.7, Glacial isostatic adjustment: Theory, modeling, observations and related effects, 2018
  • Program chair - EGU session GM4.2/CL4.33/GD11.5/GMPV1.3/SSP1.7./TS9.8, Solid Earth and Fluid Earth In- teractions: a holistic approach to the couplings between mantle dynamics, magmas, tectonics, climate, and earth surface processes, 2018
  • Program chair - Principal organizer of the Steepest Descent Meeting, 2017
  • Program chair - EGU session G3.1/CL4.18/CR5.8/GD3.4/GM10.8/TS8.7, Glacial isostatic adjustment: Theory, modeling, observations and related effects, 2017
  • Program chair - EGU session G3.1/CL4.18/CR5.8/GD3.4/GM10.8/TS8.7, Glacial isostatic adjustment: Theory, modeling, observations and related effects, 2016

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