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Gabriele Morra graduated from the Physics Department of the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Rome 1 "La Sapienza" in 1999 and then moved to take a PhD in Computational Geodynamics from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 2005.

After two two years post-doctoral experiences, one at the Institute of Computer Science also at ETH where he learned parallel computing, and one at the school of geosciences in Italy at the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Roma 3, he was awarded the Advanced Researcher Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, with which he went to work at the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Sydney, Australia.

In 2011 he was offered a Research Professor position at the Seoul National Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, S. Korea, where he remained until 2013 when he took a faculty position at UL Lafayette, jointly in the Department of Physics and the School of Geosciences, where he was tenured in 2019.

PhD in Computational Geodynamics, 2004
ETH Z¨¹rich (CH)

Laurea in Physics, equivalent to BS+MS Physics, 1999
Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ ¡°La Sapienza¡± Rome (IT)

Dr. Morra's research interests include:

• Planetary Interiors
• Planetary Dynamics
• Volcanology
• Origin of Plate Tectonics
• Fluid Dynamics

• P.M. Gunawardana, P. Chowdhury, G. Morra and P.A. Cawood, 2024 Correlating the mantle cooling with tectonic transitions on Archean Earth, Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G51874.1
• Batubo, P., G. Morra, D. Oppo, and A. Moore, 2024, A Medium©\Sized Paleo©\Tsunami Reconstruction by a Deep Neural Network Processing Sedimentary Deposits. Earth and Space Science 11, no. 1: e2023EA003216.
• J. Kuang, G. Morra, D.A. Yuen, T. Kusky, S. Jiang, H. Yao, S. Qi F, 2023, Metamorphic constraints on Archean tectonics, Precambrian Research, 397, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107195
• L. Honarbakhsh, G. Morra, 2023, Classification of IR Images of Small Eruptions at the Erebus Volcano, Antarctica, with Zernike moments and Support Vector Machine, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB025728. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025728
• P. Mora, G. Morra, D.A. Yuen, 2023, The Lattice Boltzmann Method to simulate mantle convection with highly nonlinear rheology, Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences, 4: 47-58.
• P. Mora, G. Morra, D.A. Yuen, S. Patil, R. Juanes, 2023, Convection-diffusion with the colour gradient Lattice Boltzmann Method for three-component, two-phase flow, Transport in Porous Media, 1-22.
• P. Mora, G. Morra, D.A. Yuen, R. Juanes, 2021, Phase space study of viscous fingering and saturation pre and post breakthrough using Lattice Boltzmann simulations of two-phase flow, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, AJGS-D-21-01681R1, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-08683-y
• S. Gautam, G. Morra, 2021, Pre-breakdown to stable phase and origin of multiple current pulses in argon DBD, Plasma Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-6272/ac241f
• H.R. Tufo, D.A. Yuen, G. Morra, M.G. Knepley, Bei ZhangÕű´ and Shi Chen³Âʯ. 2021, Application of HPC and Big Data in Post-Pandemic Times, Earthquake Research Advances, 1, no. 3: 100006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eqrea.2021.100006
• G. Morra, E. Bozdag, M. Knepley, L. R?ss, and V. Vesselinov, 2021, A tectonic shift in analytics and computing is coming, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 102, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EO159258.
• P. Mora, G. Morra, D.A. Yuen, R. Juanes, 2021, Influence of wetting on viscous fingering via 2D Lattice Boltzmann simulations, Transport in Porous Media, DOI 10.1007/s11242-021-01629-8
• S. Gautam, G. Morra, A Venkattraman, 2021, High frequency impedance characteristics of a tunable microplasma device, Journal of Applied Physics, 129, no. 15: 153301
• B. Brunsvik, G. Morra, G. Cambiotti, L. Chiaraluce, R. Di Stefano, P. De Gori, D. A. Yuen, 2021, Three-Dimensional Fault Morphology Obtained from Unsupervised Machine Learning of Clusters of Aftershocks, Tectonophysics, 804 228756, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228756 , Jupyter Notebook: https://bit.ly/2MnCFdj
• P. Mora, G. Morra, D.A. Yuen, 2021, Optimized surface tension isotropy in the Rothman-Keller colour gradient Lattice Boltzmann Method for multi-phase flow, Physical Review E, 103, 033302
• P. Mora, G. Morra, D.A. Yuen, R. Juanes, 2021, Optimal wetting angles in Lattice Boltzmann simulations of viscous fingering, Transport in Porous Media, 136, no. 3: 831-842, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-020-01541-7

• 2020 ¨C present Editor in Chief of ¡°Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences¡± (CAS/Elsevier editors)
• 2015 ¨C present Hensarling/Chapman Endowed Professorship in Geology (U. of Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, USA)
• 2020 ¨C 2022 & 2023 ¨C present MS Physics graduate Coordinator (U. of Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, USA)
• 2013, 2017, 2023 Organizer American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting sessions, USA
• 2018, 2019, 2021 & 2022: Main organizer AGU workshops on Data Science and Supercomputing
• 2017 Awarded Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ Board of Regents ¡°Travel Grant for Emerging Faculty¡± (USA)
• 2013 National Habilitation for Associate Professor in Geophysics (Italy)
• 2013 Lecturing 20h graduate course at the Ecole Nationale Superieure, Nancy (France)
• 2012 Main organizer first international conference on Geodynamics in S. Korea (Jeju Island)
• 2011 8 hours graduate course on Accelerated Numerical Methods, Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Brescia (Italy)
• 2009 Awarded 2y Advanced Researcher Fellowship SNCF (Swiss National Science Foundation)