Alessandro Forte, professor of geology at the University of Florida, is one of the winners of the third wave of the Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) call for projects. He will join the IPGP geomagnetism team for a joint project called GYPTIS aimed at better identifying the geodynamic disturbances of climatic markers.

Led by the National Research Agency and the CNRS, the Make Our Planet Great Again program is intended for researchers not residing on the national territory and wishing to develop, in France and in collaboration with French partners, research projects high level to deal with climate and planetary changes.

Alessandro Forte is Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Florida and Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Quebec in Montreal.

He obtained his doctorate in mantle convection geophysics under the supervision of W. Richard Peltier at the University of Toronto in 1989. Subsequently he carried out his postdoctoral research in collaboration with Adam Dziewonski on global seismic tomography, in the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University. It was during this period (from 1989 to 1994) that he developed increasingly realistic physical models associating the 3D terrestrial structure with the dynamics of the mantle and in particular with the dynamic processes on the surface of the Earth.

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