Giampiero Iaffaldano Reginald A. Daly post-doctoral fellow Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University G9 Hoffman Lab., 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 - U.S.A. E-mail: iaffaldano AT eps.harvard.edu Phone: +1 617 496 4375

I grew up in southern Italy and moved to Rome to study physics at University "La Sapienza". After completing my Ph.D. at the International Graduate College THESIS (Bavarian Elitenetwork) I moved to Harvard University, where I currently hold a Reginald A. Daly post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

My research aims at a detailed understanding of the magnitude and spatial distribution of driving and resisting forces in Plate Tectonics, for which I use global numerical models of the coupled mantle/lithosphere system.