2015 – 2017 Postdoctoral research associate at IPGP
I worked as a postdoctoral research associate in L’Équipe de Tectonique et mécanique de la lithosphère at the IPGP Paris, with Gino de Gelder, Robin Lacassin and Rolando Armijo as part of the ALErT ITN Marie Curie Network.
We aim at gaining insights into the behaviour of the Aegean lithosphere over time in order to better understand the (surficial vs. deep) factors driving its evolution. Integration of data on the regional scale, analysis of marine terraces coupled with river incision and river basin evolution, cosmogenic dating, and numerical and analogue modelling are some of the major ingredients of this tasteful dish.
2014 Academic guest at ETH Zürich
From July 2014 to December 2014, I was an academic guest in collaboration with Sean Willett and the Surface Dynamics Group at the ETH Zürich, to perform a couple of studies dealing with the evolution of topography in Cyprus and south Turkey, using two completely different approaches:
- 2D thermo-mechanical finite element models of accretionary margins “Accretionary Margins – Geology”
- X approach to river basin disequilibrium “River Basins – Science”
2013 Senior geologist at Red Bull Media House GmbH
From April 2013 to September 2013, alongside my doctoral studies, I studied the tectonics and geophysical parameters in relation to the Great Sumatran Fault in north Sumatra and offshore, in the “Animal Perception of Seismic and Non-Seismic Earthquake Phenomena” project, financed by Red Bull Media House.
2009 Ph.D. student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
From 2009 to 2013, I researched as a Ph.D. student in the Tectonic Department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands), under the supervision of Dr. Prof. Giovanni Bertotti. I worked as part of the Vertical Anatolian Movement Project, one of the projects included within the TopoEurope EUROCORES research initiative, which is funded by the European Science Foundation (E.S.F.).
My Ph.D. thesis deals with the geometries, kinematics and geodynamics of the vertical movements occurred during Neogene times in the Central Anatolia orogenic plateau in Turkey, with special attention to its southern margin. I aimed at unraveling the basin evolution consequence of, and the geophysical mechanisms responsible for, these movements, under the large-scale regional point of view. I gained these goals through structural fieldworks, seismics, remote sensing 3D mapping, basin-approach techniques and tectonic modelization. I defended my dissertation, called “Evolution of Orogenic Plateaus at Subduction Margins: Sinking and raising the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau” on the 8th of December 2014.
2008 M.Sc. Student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
I did the last year of my Licentiate Degree as an Erasmus student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My M.Sc. Thesis “Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous horizontal tectonics drives the Jbel Amsittene anticline, in the Haha Basin, Morocco”, published in 2008, focuses on understanding the vertical movements occurred in NW Africa (Morocco) during the post-rift evolution of the area. This project is associated with Mohamed Gouiza’s Ph.D. Thesis on the Jurassic to Early Cretaceous events in NW Africa.
2008 Licentiate (B.Sc. & M.Sc.) at Oviedo University
General geology degree with focus on a solid and balanced geologic formation leading to a skill-set that capacitates the student in solving geologic challenges in any professional environment and/or in continuing their post-graduate academic formation. The degree has a strong emphasis on intensive fieldworks (70+ days in total) aimed at a hands-on, direct immersion with the natural objects of study, which range all geologic fields.
2006 Mousterian excavation
In 2006, I conducted a Fieldwork in Mousterian industry excavation in “Las cuevas de l’Arbreda, Serinyà” in Girona, Spain.
