Summary
Simone Masoch obtained his Bachelor’s degree Geological Sciences (2016), Master’s degree in Geology and Technical Geology (2018), and Ph.D. in Geosciences (2023) at the University of Padova (Padua, Italy). In the 2018 spring semester, he studied at the ETH Zürich thanks to the Swiss-European Mobility Program. During his Master project, he analyzed the formation mechanism of cockade breccias in extensional brittle faults in Alpine Corsica (France), under the supervision of Prof. Giulio Di Toro. During his Ph.D., under the supervision of Profs. Giulio Di Toro, José Cembrano and Giorgio Pennacchioni, he studied the structural evolution and along-strike architectural variability of the exhumed seismogenic Bolfin Fault Zone (pseudotachylyte-bearing segment of the Atacama Fault System, Chile), and processes of fluid-rock interaction occurring at greenschist conditions. From April 2023 to September 2024, he worked as research scholar and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padova, under the supervision of Dr. Michele Fondriest and Prof. Giorgio Pennacchioni, investigating the Oligocene-Miocene lithospheric extension affecting Alpine Corsica. He joined UNR as postdoctoral researcher in October 2024. He worked with Prof. Christie Rowe at the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, investigating the processes of selective rock pulverization along an exhumed detachment in the Mojave extensional belt (California), and of pluton-induced strain softening process and its feedback to detachment evolution. Since October 2026, he joined the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Zuza, with the aim to apply novel geochronological methods to date deformation in the rock record.
Research interests
I do research in Structural and Earthquake Geology. My research interests concern the structure and evolution of brittle faults and ductile shear zones in the Earth's continental crust, seismic slip in the rock record, fluid-assisted processes and crustal fluid flow.
Education
- Ph.D. in Geosciences, University of Padova – Padua, Italy, 2023
- M.Sc. in Geology and Technical Geology, University of Padova – Padua, Italy, 2018
- B.Sc. in Geological Sciences, University of Padova – Padua, Italy, 2016