Matteo Vacchi

I am a geomorphologist and my research is mainly focused on the Quaternary evolution of the coastal zones and on the impacts of global change on both landscape evolution and ecological assemblages of littoral areas. My current fields of interest are on palaeo-environmental reconstructions, late Quaternary sea level changes, geoarchaeology, marine biogeomorphology as well as geologic and geomorphologic mapping of marine and coastal areas.
My on-going projects and collaborations are centred on the multiproxy reconstructions of the sea-level evolution in the last millennia in order to better assess the future sea level scenarios in the context of the climate change.
After my Phd at the University of Genova in 2012, I moved to France (University of Aix-Marseille and Montpellier III) and then to the UK (University of Exeter). In 2018, I was awarded with the Rita Levi Montalcini fellow, an Italian financial scheme to re-attract young scientists to Italy and I moved to Pisa in January 2019.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

September 2017-December 2018 : Lecturer in Physical Geography. College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK

January 2017- August 2017. Postdoctoral Research fellow, Université P. Valery Montpellier 3, CNRS-ASM, France.

July 2013-December 2016: Postdoctoral Research fellow, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS-CEREGE, France

January 2010: Founder and associate of SEAMap srl Environmental consultancy, Italy

EDUCATION

March 2012 : Phd in Earth Science, University of Genova, Italy. Supervisors: Prof. Marco Firpo (University of Genova) et Prof. Nickolas Zouros (University of Aegean, Greece).
Awarded with the European Phd label. Title: Coastal geomorphology of Lesvos Island, processes, late-Quaternary evolution and the neotectonic implications.

2001-2007 : Bsc and Msc in Geosciences - University of Genova, Italy.

PROJECTS

Principal investigator of the Rita Levi Montalcini fellowship (2019-2022) funded by the Italian Agency for Research (MIUR). Future sea level rise scenarios in mid-Western Africa. Reconstructing the past to predict the future.

Principal Investigator in two projects funded by ANR (French National Agency of Research) in the framework of the LABEX (laboratories d'excellence)
1) Adaptmed: “Adaptation strategies of past societies to face the extreme environmental modifications along the Mediterranean coastlines” (funded for 1 year, 2017)
2)“Medmax, Mediterranean Sea level Maximum” (funded for 2 years, 2013-2015)

2019-now: Vice President of the Commission of Marine and Coastal processes of INQUA
2016-now. Team Leader of the INQUA International Focus Group, MOPP-Medflood: Modelling Paleo Processes (1603P) and active member of the INQUA Focus Groups Palsea (1301F) and HOLsea (1601P).

From 2015. Member of the editorial board of the following Journals:
Quaternary International:
Mediterranée, Journal of Mediterranean Geography: