Some Recent Papers

• Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic, @ Geology
• Subduction initiation triggered the Caribbean large igneous province, @ Nature Communications: ​​​
• Sunda subduction drives ongoing India-Asia convergence, @ Tectonophysics
• Subduction invasion polarity switch from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean: A new geodynamic model of subduction initiation based on the Scotia Sea region, @ Earth Sciences Reviews
• Self-replicating subduction zone initiation by polarity reversal​, @ Communications Earth & Environment
• Polarity-reversal subduction zone initiation triggered by buoyant plateau obstruction, @ EPSL

Ongoing Projects

• Tectono-volcanism across the solar system: Venus, Europa and Io. Under the scope of Diogo Quirino PhD
• Origin of life. Under the scope of Carlos Ramos MSc thesis.
• Biogeodynamics. COST-Action | CA23150 - pan-EUROpean BIoGeodynamics network (EUROBIG) Link
• Geosciences of Exoplanets | Special Issue following an ISSI workshop.
• ​Geodynamics of the Macaronesia, GEMMA project funded by FCT, start 2022
• Climate of the Archean: led by Mattias Green @ Bangor, funded by the Leverhulm Trust, include a PhD and Post Doc, start 2022, Link
• Lithospheric structure of the Southwest Iberia Margin - LISA: led by Marta Neres, funded by FCT, started 2021 
• Subduction Initiation at Magma-Poor margins: An Atlantic Perspective: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship led by Patricia Cadenas, start 2022
• Local amber and exchange networks in the prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula: characterization of Portuguese sources as a global case study, IberAmber project funded by FCT 2023.
• Subduction invasion of the Atlantic: with Nicolas Riel at Mainz University
• Ophiolite emplacement: with Filipe Rosas and the PhD candidate Afonso Gomes

CIENCIAS ULISBOA

Instituto Dom LuiZ

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