STERNAI PIETRO

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

Publications

  • Sternai, P., Meroni, A., Vaes, B., Pasquero, C. (2025). Dynamic Topography and The Mantle Forcing on Climate: A Missing Link in Earth System Science. In Abstract EGU25 [10.5194/egusphere-egu25-5805]. 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

  • Metcalfe, A., Druitt, T., Pank, K., Kutterolf, S., Preine, J., Beethe, S., et al. (2025). Tectonic modulation of caldera volcanism on the South Aegean Volcanic Arc. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 671(1 December 2025) [10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119633]. Detail

  • Sternai, P., Pilia, S., Ghelichkhan, S., Bouilhol, P., Menant, A., Davies, D., et al. (2025). Raising the Roof of the World: Intra-Crustal Asian Mantle Supports the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen. TECTONICS, 44(9) [10.1029/2025TC009057]. Detail

  • Petroccia, A., Giuntoli, F., Pilia, S., Viola, G., Sternai, P., Callegari, I. (2025). Sustained strain localisation and coeval brittle-ductile deformation in an exhuming low-grade shear zone: Insights from the Saih Hatat Window (NE Oman). JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, 191(February 2025) [10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105328]. 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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