Fabio Capitanio

Fabio Capitanio is an Associate Professor in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University, where he holds an ARC Future Fellowship. His research focuses on Earth's dynamics, including seismicity, climate interactions, mountain building, and global plate motions, leveraging numerical modeling, high-performance computing, and deep learning. He actively supervises PhD students in topics ranging from early Earth formation to modern tectonic processes.

Research Interests:

• Geodynamics and Tectonics
• Early Earth evolution
• Subduction zone dynamics
• Climate-geosphere interactions
• Numerical modeling techniques

Scientific Awards:

• ARC Future Fellow (current)

Grants & Projects:

• Leading the ARC-funded project on India-Asia tectonics-climate interactions (2022–2025)
• Principal Investigator for the Underworld computational geodynamics initiative (2017–2025)
• Monash SAM Project (2017–2025) advancing HPC in geosciences

Collaborations: Part of an international group integrating Earth and computational sciences, with global partnerships in tectonics and planetary dynamics.