Methods: structural fieldwork, drone and satellite imaging, multibeam mapping, Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS), analogue modeling of volcano-tectonic processes, optical and electronic microscope analysis (SEM) on dike samples.
Studied areas: active and fossilized magmatic systems (Iceland and Ethiopia); Nevados dos Chillán (Central Chile), Kirishima and Sakurajima (Japan), Askja volcanoes (Iceland); Faial Island (Azores, Portugal); Harrat Lunayyir volcanic field (Saudi Arabia); Northern Red Sea.

• Trippanera D., Ruch J., Acocella V., Thordarson T. and Urbani S (2018). Interaction between central volcanoes and regional tectonics along divergent plate boundaries: Askja, Iceland. Bulletin of Volcanology, 80, 1, doi.org/10.1007/s00445-017-1179-8.
• Acocella V. and Trippanera, D. (2016).How diking affects the tectono-magmatic evolution of slow spreading plate boundaries: Overview and model. Geosphere, 12, 3, 1-17, doi:10.1130/GES01271.1.​
• Urbani, S., Trippanera D., Porreca M., Kissel C., and Acocella V. (2015). Anatomy of an extinct magmatic system along a divergent plate boundary: Alftafjordur, Iceland. Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 6306–6313, doi:10.1002/ 2015GL065087.
• Trippanera, D., Acocella V., Ruch J., and Abebe B. (2015). Fault and graben growth along active magmatic divergent plate boundaries in Iceland and Ethiopia, Tectonics, 34, doi:10.1002/ 2015TC003991.
• Trippanera D., Ruch J., Acocella V. and Rivalta E. (2015). Experiments of dike-induced deformation: insights on the long-term evolution of divergent plate boundaries. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,120, doi:10.1002/2014JB011850.
• Trippanera D., Acocella V. and Ruch J. (2014). Dike-induced contraction along oceanic and continental divergent plate boundaries. Geophysical Research Letters, 40. Doi:10.1002/2014GL061570
• Trippanera D., Porreca M., Ruch J., Pimentel A., Acocella V., Pacheco J. and Salvatore M. (2014). Relationships between tectonics and magmatism in a transtensive/transform setting: An example from Faial Island (Azores, Portugal). GSA Bulletin, 126, 1-2, 164-181. Doi:10.1130/B30758.1​

• Ph.D., Environmental Geology and Geodynamics, Roma Tre University, Italy
• M.S., Geology and Earth Resources, Roma Tre University, Italy
• B.S., Geology, Roma Tre University, Italy

• ​October 2017 - January 2021: Post-Doc Fellowship at Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. 
• January 2016 – July 2017: Research Grant on “Development of EPOS platform – European Plate Observing System for Working Package 16 – Multi-Scale Laboratories”, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy.

• ​March 2015: “Renato Funiciello Award”, best PhD thesis of Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
• September 2014: Geomod2014 conference participation grant (Potsdam, Germany).
• April 2014: EGU “Young scientist” grant, EGU meeting (Wien, Austria).
• 2010 - 2014: PhD co-founded by the Italian PRIN National Project on “Analysis of magma induced deformation along the divergent plate boundaries”.​

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