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Mattia Poinelli

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

Member of:

Sea Level And Ice

Research Affiliate (UC Irvine)

Education

  • Ph.D., Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands (2023)
  • M.Sc. with Distinctions, Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands (2017)
  • B.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy (2014)

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Specialist, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA (2020-present)
  • Research Affiliate, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (2018-present)
  • Graduate Research Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (2017)
  • Research Scholar, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (2016)

Research Interests

  • Ice-ocean Interactions
  • Ice-shelf rifting
  • Icy Moons

Selected Awards

  • JPL Graduate Fellowship (2017)
  • Holland Scholarship (2016)

Selected Publications

  1. Poinelli, M., Nakayama, Y., Larour, E., Vizcaino, M., & Riva, R. (2023). Ice-front retreat controls on ocean dynamics under Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104588. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104588
  2. Poinelli, M., Schodlok, M., Larour, E., Vizcaino, M., & Riva, R. (2023). Can rifts alter ocean dynamics beneath ice shelves?, The Cryosphere, 17, 2261–2283, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2261-2023.
  3. Larour, E., Rignot, E., Poinelli, M., and Scheuchl, B. (2021). Processes controlling the rifting of Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica, prior to the calving of iceberg A68, PNAS, 118, 1–8, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105080118
  4. Poinelli, M., Larour, E., Castillo-Rogez, J., & Vermeersen, B. (2019). Crevasse propagation on brittle ice: Application to cycloids on Europa. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084033