Educational Background

• PhD Geophysics, 2017 Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. PhD title: Modeling uncertainty in volcanic hazards with focus on Pyroclastic Density Currents from Neapolitan volcanoes
• MSc Geology, 2011 Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. MSc title: The lamprophyre dikes of the Panticosa pluton: petrological, geochemical and structural characterization
• BSc Geology, 2010 Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

Research experience and employment history

• Dec 2023 – present. Research Scientist (Volcanologist), Geociencias Barcelona-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
• Mar 2023 – present. Honorary Research Associate (HRA), British Geological Survey, UK.
• Jan 2019 – Mar 2023. Statistical Multihazard Geologist, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, UK.
• Feb 2019 – Apr 2019. Visiting researcher, SAMSI, USA.
• Aug 2017 – Aug 2019. Post-Doctoral Research Associate, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, UK.
• Jan 2014 – May 2017. PhD candidate in Geophysics, INGV Sezione di Bologna, Italy.
• Aug 2015 – Dec 2015. Visiting postgraduate researcher, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK.
• Jan 2013 – Jun 2014. Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher (NEMOH project), INGV Sezione di Bologna, Italy.
• Feb 2014 – Jun 2014 (90 days). Secondment at the Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (DPC), Roma, Italy.
• Aug 2013 – Dec 2013. Visiting J1 scholar, Dept. of Mech. and Aerospace Eng., University at Buffalo, USA.
• Aug 2010 – Dec 2012. Postgraduate researcher, Dept. Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. .

Research Interests

Uncertainty quantification of volcanic processes and probabilistic volcanic multi-hazard (and risk) assessment. Main factors that control the generation and transport of pyroclastic density currents and lahars. Global volcanism and objective selection of analogue volcanoes to overcome data-scarcity issues. Magma physico-chemical properties from magma storage to eruptive conditions. Interrelationship between tectonics and magma generation, migration and intrusion/eruption. Volcano monitoring, definition of volcanic unrest and probabilistic eruption forecasting.

Outreach and awards

Outreach activities

• RiftVolc outreach activities, Garasalan school, Ethiopia.
• Doors Open Day, The Lyell Centre, Edinburgh, UK.
• Handbook: “Uncertainty” (scientific committee), Researchers’ night, Bologna, Italy.
• Doors Open Day, The Lyell Centre, Edinburgh, UK.
• Researchers’ night, Bologna, Italy.
• NEMOH Marie Curie Open Day, Linguaglossa, Italy.
• Invited talk: Tierz, P., “Volcanoes are uncertain… What could we do?” In Workshop on research activities in the DIpartimento di Fisica e Astronomia (DIFA), Bologna, Italy.
• NEMOH Marie Curie Open Day, Dublin, Ireland.
• NEMOH Marie Curie Open Day, Bristol, UK.
• NEMOH Marie Curie Open Day, Munich, Germany.
• Week of immersion in Sciences, Zaragoza, Spain.
• Scientific Summer Campus Iberus, Zaragoza, Spain.
• Week of immersion in Sciences, Zaragoza, Spain.
• Outreach activity: Geosciences in High Schools, Casetas and Zaragoza, Spain.

Awards

• Sep 2023 Invitation to the role of Associate Editor of Bulletin of Volcanology
• Mar 2023 Appointed as Honorary Research Associate of the British Geological Survey
• Nov 2022 Selected by competitive procedure as permanent staff (research scientist) by the Spanish public system of research institutions, under the profile: Volcanology (BOE no. 161, 6th July 2022)
• Nov 2022 Invitation to workshop: “PDC dynamics and hazards – Benchmarking of concentrated PDC models and other avenues”, University of South Florida-NSF, hybrid event: online, Martinique (France) & Tampa (FL, USA)
• Sep 2021 Invited talk: “The ingredients of volcanic hazard assessment: probabilistic examples from a rift volcano (Aluto, Main Ethiopian Rift)” (Online seminar “Rifts and Rifted Margins”, GFZ Potsdam, Germany)
• Jan 2021 Seminar: “The hazard component of volcanic risk: challenges and opportunities” (Lunchtime Lecture, BGS, UK)
• Dec 2020 Expert elicitation participant: Regional analysis of distributions of eruption sizes for volcanoes in Ethiopia (Crummy et al., RiftVolc project) Nov 2020 Invited talk: “The hazard component of volcanic risk: challenges and opportunities” (Société Française de Statistique event on hazard/risk) Oct 2020 Invited author: leading author on pyroclastic density current and co-author on debris flow/lahars/floods of the United Nations Hazard Information Profiles (UN HIPs)
• Apr 2019 Invited seminar: “A novel method to quantify the ‘how much’ and ‘why’ of selecting analogue volcanoes” (Cascades Volcano Observatory, USGS, Vancouver, WA, USA)
• Feb 2019 Invited manuscript on Frontiers in Earth Science Research Topic “The impact of Open Science for evaluation of volcanic hazards”.
• Feb 2019 Invited talk: “Lahars as multi-hazard: accounting for the spatial variability in volume sources originated from tephra fallout and pyroclastic density currents” (Lyell Centre workshop on debris flows)
• Nov 2018 Proved eligibility as permanent staff (research scientist) at INGV (Italy): “Statistical and probabilistic models for the quantification of volcanic hazard” (call A-RIC-VULC-2018)
• Jul 2016 Expert elicitation participant: First steps to a national volcano hazard model: Estimation of time varying hazard from New Zealand volcanoes through expert elicitation and Bayesian analogues (Bebbington et al., in prep)
• Nov 2015 Invited seminar:“Modelling uncertainty related to Pyroclastic Density Currents: insights into Probabilistic Volcanic Hazard Assessment” (University of Bristol, UK)
• Aug 2015 PhD mobility grant Marco Polo (Università di Bologna, Italy)
• June 2014 Invited seminar: “Probabilistic Volcanic Hazard Assessment: the case of Pyroclastic Density Currents” (Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, Roma, Italy)
• May 2014 Seminar: “Assigning probabilities to volcanic hazards: the case of Pyroclastic Density Currents” (INGV, Sezione di Bologna, Italy)
• Jan 2013 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, Early-Stage Researcher.

Publications