Promotion!

I have had the privilege to be promoted to Professor. It is a great honor to see my work recognized in this manner. Thanks to all those who supported me in my career, especially those you wrote positive letter in support of my promotion.(I don't know who you are, but thanks!

Recent Publications

Crameri, F., C. P. Conrad, L. G. J. Montési, Jand C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2018), The dynamic life of an oceanic plate, Tectonophysics, in press, corrected proof available online 28 March 2018, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2018.03.016

Schools, J. W. and L.G.J. Montési (2018), The Generation of Barriers to Melt Ascent in the Martian Lithosphere Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 123 47–66. doi: 10.1002/2017JE005396.

Activities

Upcoming trips : AGU down the road in Washington, DC! I am involved in 9 abstracts, five of which are lead by UMD students!

SCEC Annual Meeting (Palm Spring, CA). I gave an invited presentation at the Community Rheology Meeting and presented a poster at the general meeting introducint RHEOL_GUI to the community. Great collaborations ahead!

CIDER. I participated to the 2018 CIDER summer program and got involved in a project addressing the stability of a dense layer at the base of the mantle that is enriched in Heat-Producing Elements. CIDER always provides a great opportunity to do interdisciplinary science and mean new people!

Summer trips: Over the summer I also traveled to the Jet Propulsion Lab and to ETH Zürich to visit collaborators Sam Howell, Bob Papallardo and Taras Gerya. Along the way I gave a talk at Professor François Renard writing retreat and chaired a session at the 50 years of Plate Tectonics: Then, Now, and Beyond symposium at the College de France in Paris.

Research

I am in charge of the Geodynamics group at the University of Maryland, Department of Geology. Please visit our groupss webpage for information on

We are always interested in welcoming new collagorators and talented researchers in our group. Currently, we are anticipating funding for a postdoctoral researcher working on the development of shear zone models. This job will involve extensive Finite Element programing using the deal.II library. Send me an email for more details if you are interested.

Bathymetry of the Southwest Indian Ridge

The sponsors' corner

My research is possible thanks to the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA.