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Donato Giovannelli is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Naples Federico II, an explorer and an entrepreneur. With his research group he investigates microbial diversity in extreme environments, the planetary impacts of life and the coevolution of Life and Planet. His approach combines fieldwork and classic microbiology with cutting edge molecular tools and computational approaches. He is an affiliated scientist and guest investigator at the Earth-Life Science Institute (Tokyo), Rutgers University (USA), the National Research Council of Italy (Italy), and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA).

Andrew Greenwood earned his PhD degree in 2013 from the Western Australia School of Mines at Curtin University, Australia, and since 2019 is Senior Lecturer of Borehole Geophysics at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. Andrew previously worked in development of autonomous wireline logging tools for diamond drilling and characterising fracture networks in crystalline rocks from borehole geophysical methods. Andrew’s current research focus is on the origins of seismic reflectivity and imaging steeply dipping structure in crystalline environments from borehole seismic methods.

György Hetényi earned his PhD degree in 2007 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and since 2015 is professor of geophysics at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research focuses on orogenic processes: the internal structure of mountain belts imaged by passive seismology and gravimetry, as well as physical and chemical processes taking place on timescales ranging from earthquakes to tectonics and metamorphism. György was/is active in several international, collaborative projects focusing on the Himalayas and the Alps.

Othmar Müntener is a Professor of Petrology at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He received his PhD (1997) from ETH Zürich. He joined the faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences in Lausanne in 2006, after research stays at MIT, WHOI, Neuchâtel and Bern. He is a petrologist by training combining field studies, geochemistry, and experimental petrology. He is interested in magmatic aspects of geological processes, from melt production in the mantle to emplacement in the crust. He conducts field work in the Alps, Patagonia and the Himalayas, with a focus on subduction-related magmatic arcs and the evolution of continental crust and ocean-continent transitions. His current interest is in timescales of felsic plutonic systems.

Mattia Pistone obtained a PhD in Earth Science at ETH-Zurich (Switzerland) after completing research in multiphase magma rheology. He conducted postdoctoral research on magma mixing at the University of Bristol (UK) and on magma differentiation in the Western Aleutians at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC, USA). He was a Maître Assistant (Lecturer) at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) where he explored fluid transport in the Ivrea-Verbano Zone. He is currently Assistant Professor in Petrology and Volcanology and director of MAGMA MIA Lab at the University of Georgia (USA). He is an enthusiastic researcher who uses a combination of experimental, analytical, and field-based approaches to investigate multiphase magma mechanics, eruption dynamics, and volatile cycles in the Earth’s interior.

Alberto Zanetti is Research Director of the National Research Council at the Pavia branch of the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources. He received his research doctorate in 1994 at the University of Pavia (Italy), and has always carried out research and analytical development at the geochemical microanalysis laboratories of the CNR of Pavia, holding both CNR and university researcher positions. His research is mainly focused on the geochemical and petrological characterization of the production and migration processes of mantle melts, with particular focus on their emplacement at both mantle and crustal levels. These studies are aimed at understanding elementary and isotopic cycles on a geological scale. The research activity has seen the Ivrea-Verbano zone as a privileged area of research since the early 90s. However, research has been carried out to define the processes of mantle evolution and the interplay with the crust in practically every terrestrial geodynamic environment.

Luca Ziberna is Researcher in Petrology and Petrography at the Department of Mathematics and Geosciences, University of Trieste, Italy, since January 2019. He was previously a post-doctoral researcher at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Germany and at the School of Earth Science, University of Bristol, UK. Luca's research interests include thermodynamic modelling and thermobarometry of igneous cumulates, mantle rocks and basaltic magmas, mineralogy and petrology of the crust-mantle transition zone, and cutting-edge techniques to measure the oxidation state of iron in crust and mantle minerals.