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She is Managing Director of Red Tree Consulting. MAC is an active collaborator of the United Nations, and numerous non-profit geo-centric organizations like the AGU, SEG, SPE, and AAPG.  Her passion lies in promoting the juxtaposition of the geosciences and the future of the energy industry through training, mentoring, corporate resilience, and diversity & inclusion initiatives. Her work has been recognized by the Italian Government through the “Star of Italy” honor (knighthood), and by the UNESCO endorsing her work leading the “Geosciences Sustainable Development Atlas” to advance the SDGs across the geosciences.

Currently, he is the leader of the UNESCO/IUGS International Geosciences Program (IGCP) 739 “Mesozoic-Palaeogene hyperthermal events” and the co-leader of the International Sedimentological Group of the IUGS Big Science Program “Deep-Time Digital Earth (DDE)”. He services as the council member of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), and the vice-Secretary General of the Chinese Association of Sedimentologists (CAS), as the associated editor/editorial member for the journals including Sedimentology, Science China Earth Sciences, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Journal of Earth Sciences.

He works on evolution of Earth’s mantle and mainly focuses on chemical compositions of the asthenosphere using mantle peridotites from different tectonic settings, including abyssal peridotites, ophiolitic peridotites and mantle xenoliths. He has discovered ancient mantle domains in the asthenosphere beneath the modern ultraslow spreading ridges and thus actively advocates that the asthenosphere is highly heterogeneous in compositions. Besides, he has innovatively proposed that the Yarlung-Tsangpo ophiolites in the Tibetan Plateau show similarities with ocean lithosphere in ultra-slow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge and thus were generated as ocean core complexes in the Neo-Tethys Ocean.

Her research field extends across the study of the hazard and risk assessment of multiple and complex phenomena with a multi-disciplinary approach. Her education includes a Master at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in Environmental/geotechnical Engineering, a Master of Advanced studies in “Settlements upgrading for cooperation and development”, focused on prevention and forecast of natural hazards and a PhD at the Rock Mechanics Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). She has carried out a Postdoc at the Civil engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, US) and a postdoc and a senior Research and teaching assistant role at the University of Geneva. She has worked as Assistant Professor first and then as Associated Professor in Engineering Geology and Geohazards at the University of Plymouth (UK). She is deputy Scientific Leader of the Geohazards, Geoengineering and Georesilience theme of the Geological Society of London and nominated member of the Natural Environment Research Council Review Panel.

His research focuses on understanding the composition, structure and evolution of the planet and its domains with an emphasis on defining the energy driving the Earth’s engine. The mantle-crust system is fueled in part by radioactive energy and by secular cooling, the residual primordial energy that powers the core and mantle. This latter fuel source drives the geodynamo, which produces a magnetic shield that attenuates the flux of harmful cosmic rays, that renews and protects life making the Earth habitable.

Anita's research is focussed on mine waste characterisation to improve mine planning and waste management practices where she has worked with mining industry, METS sector and government stakeholders. She has developed new tests and protocols for improving waste characterisation and is also involved in identifying remediation options for abandoned/ historical mine sites. Most recently, Anita is leading government and industry funded projects characterising a range of mine waste materials across Australia, and internationally, to evaluate their economic potential with a focus on critical metal recovery.

Her research interests include structure, magmatism, deformation and evolving dynamics of continental margins, spreading ocean and subduction zone. Upon which, she strives for dissolving the genetic relationship between the deep lithos/athenos-phere and the shallow geological behavior, including earthquake, submarine venting and volatile circulation. Her main tools include reflection and refraction seismicity, electromagnetic detecting, and analogue vs mathematical modeling.