Dr Fabrizio Tursi is Tenure Track Researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Turin. He completed his PhD studies in Geosciences at the University of Bari, and has been awarded of the best PhD Thesis in Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry, Vulcanology, Environmental Applications and Cultural Heritage of the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP). He has recently received the Italian Science Fund Starting Grant for studying the hierarchical scale micro-instabilities that condition lower crustal earthquakes. He has published 19 papers in various journals. His teaching disciplines include Petrography, Petrology and Geomaterials, and his interests include thermodynamics of minerals under stress, partial melting of metasediments and densification of the crust.