Antonio Schettino is retired from the University of Camerino, Italy, where he was an aggregate professor of Geophysics. From 1982 to 2002 he was a software developer and consultant in Milano, Italy, with scientific interests in the application of advanced algorithms to geosciences. During this period he collaborated with academic institutions in Italy (universities of Milano and Camerino) and the USA (university of Texas at Arlington) to the design and implementation of software for plate tectonic modelling. His academic track initiated in 2002, when he received a PhD scholarship in Earth Sciences from the University of Camerino. From 2002 onward his scientific interests have been especially focused on global tectonics, plate kinematics, and geodynamics, with a special emphasis on the numerical modelling of upper mantle flow and the application of geomagnetism and paleomagnetism to the study of the tectonic evolution of the Earth. Starting from 2015, he also used magnetic and electromagnetic methods in applied geophysics problems. He participated to eight financed research projects and was scientific coordinator of one of them. He led eleven scientific expeditions to Saudi Arabia, Albania, and Peru. He wrote 42 scientific papers, 5 of which were published in the period preceding the academic track, and one book. From 2006 onward he taught courses of Solid Earth Geophysics and Geophysical Prospecting, supervised several PhD and graduate students and one post-doc researcher