Name Surname: Michele Fondriest
Education:
2014 PhD in Earth Sciences – Department of Geosciences, Padua University, Padua (IT)
2014-2015 Post-doctoral Researcher - Department of Geosciences, Padua University, Padua (IT)
2014-2015 Visiting Researcher (seven months) - Department of Earth Sciences, UCL, London (UK)
2016-2018 Post-doctoral Research Associate - DEES, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK)
2019 Post-doctoral Researcher - Department of Geosciences, Padua University, Padua (IT)
2020-2022 Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Research Fellow (MSCA-IF: project DAMAGE 839880) - ISTerre, UGA, Grenoble (FR)
2022-now Fix-term researcher (RTDA) - Department of Geosciences, Padua University, Padua (IT)
Current grants:
Project STIFF “Slow to Instantaneous fracture sealing by chemically-active fluids: the damage-recovery cycle in fault zones” (2022-2024)
Project REACT “Rock damage and recovery assisted by reactive fluids” (2022-2025)

My research focus is the study of the internal structure and mechanics of fault zones. I tackled this topic at first, as structural geologist, based on robust field structural surveys of exhumed fault zones and microanalytical study of natural fault rocks, and then by rock deformation experiments and near-surface seismic surveys within fault zones. I am currently active in the study of fluid rock interaction and mechanical recovery of fractured rocks assisted by mineral precipitation through innovative laboratory experiments and the study of natural fault zone rocks.

Prizes and awards
2022 “Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Research Fellow”
2018 “Seal of Excellence – Marie Curie Actions” for the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship 2017
2016 Best poster of the session S3, Italian Geological Society Meeting, Naples, Italy
2012 Outstanding student paper award of the Seismology section (OSPA), AGU Annual Meeting
2012, San Francisco, USA
2012 Best oral presentation of “non-faculties”, GIGS Annual Meeting 2012, Modena, Italy

Invited talks and seminars
June 2021 - Invited keynote speaker at the international meeting “Waiting for YORSGET” meeting (21-22 June 2021). Title of the presentation: "The shallow internal structure of carbonate-hosted seismogenic faults: constraints from field structural surveys and near surface geophysics".
April 2018 - Fondriest M., Anatomy of an Active Seismic Source: the interplay between Present-Day Seismic Activity and Inherited Fault Zone Architecture (Central Apennines, Italy). ISTerre, Grenoble (FR).
March 2018 - Fondriest M., Anatomy of an Active Seismic Source: the interplay between Present-Day Seismic Activity and Inherited Fault Zone Architecture (Central Apennines, Italy). Institute de Physique du Globe (IPGP), Paris (FR).
November 2014 - Fondriest M., Structure and mechanical properties of seismogenic fault zones in carbonates, Go-Go Seminars, UCL, London (UK).