I am a physics-based modeler and data scientist. I received undergraduate training from the University of Valencia and the Complutense University of Madrid; the latter being from where I received a Bachelor's Degree in Physics (2009) and a Master's Degree in Geophysics and Meteorology (2010). In 2010, I received a Singapore International Graduate Award to pursue my PhD at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. My doctoral research, focused on unraveling the dynamics of volcanoes through new data analysis and physics-based modeling, was awarded the Natural Hazards Award for Graduate Research 2016, given annually by the American Geophysical Union to "outstanding contributions to natural hazards research by a young scientist". In December 2018, I received a Certificate in Data Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Between February 2015 and August 2017, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Brown University. Between August 2017 and June 2020, I worked as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. My work at NASA, which integrated terabytes of remote sensing data, machine learning techniques, and process-based models, was awarded a 2019 JPL Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Award. Since September 2020, I have been working as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks - Geophysical Institute, and I have been a member of the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
Publications in peer-reviewed journals:
1. Girona, T., F. Costa (2013). DIPRA: A user-friendly program to model multi-element diffusion in olivine with applications to timescales of magmatic processes. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 14, 422-431, doi:10.1029/2012GC004427.
2. Girona, T., F. Costa, C. Newhall, B. Taisne (2014). On depressurization of volcanic magma reservoirs by passive degassing. J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1002/2014JB011368.
3. Girona, T., F. Costa, B. Taisne, B. Aggangan, S. Ildefonso (2015). Fractal degassing from Erebus and Mayon volcanoes revealed by a new method to monitor H2O emission cycles. J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1002/2014JB011797.
4. Girona, T., F. Costa, G. Schubert (2015). Degassing during quiescence as a trigger of magma ascent and volcanic eruptions. Sci. Rep., 5, 18212, doi: 10.1038/srep18212.
5. Girona, T., C. Huber, C. Caudron (2018). Sensitivity to lunar cycles prior to the 2007 eruption of Ruapehu volcano. Sci. Rep., 8, 1476, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19307-z.
6. Caudron, C., T. Girona, B. Taisne, Suparjan, H. Gunawan, Kristianto, Kasbani (2019). Seismic attenuation as a long-term precursor of phreatic eruptions. Geology, doi: 10.1130/G46107.1.
7. Girona, T., C. Caudron, C. Huber (2019). Origin of shallow volcanic tremor: the dynamics of gas pockets trapped beneath thin permeable media. J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2019JB017482.
8. Reath, K., J. Biggs, B. Andrews, S. Ebmeier, M. Bagnardi, T. Girona, P. Lundgren, T. Lopez, M. Poland, M. Pritchard (2020). Using conceptual models to relate multi-parameter satellite data to sub-surface volcanic processes in Latin America. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 21, e2019GC008494. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008494.
9. Caudron, C., L. Chardot, T. Girona, Y. Aoki, N. Fournier (2020). Editorial: Towards improved forecasting of volcanic eruptions. Front. Earth Sci. 8:45, doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00045.
10. Jolly, A., C. Caudron, T. Girona, B. Christenson, R. Carniel (2020). ‘Silent’ dome emplacement into a wet volcano: Observations from an effusive eruption at White Island (Whakaari), New Zealand in late 2012. Geosciences, 10, 142, doi: 10.3390/geosciences10040142.
11. Girona, T. (2020). Confinement time required to avoid a quick rebound of COVID-19: Predictions from a Monte Carlo stochastic model. Front. Phys. 8:186, doi: 10.3389/fphy.2020.00186.
12. Lundgren, P., T. Girona, M.G. Bato, V. Realmuto, S. Samsonov, C. Cardona, L. Franco, E. Gurrola, M. Aivazis (2020). Dynamics of unrest at large silicic systems: The intriguing case of Domuyo volcano, Argentina. Sci. Rep., 10, 11642, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67982-8.
13. Lecocq, T., S. Hicks, K. Van Noten, K. Van Wijk, P. Koelemeijer, R.S.M. De Plaen, F. Massin, G. Hillers, R. Anthony, M.T. Apoloner, M. Arroyo-Solórzano, J.D. Assink, P. Buyukakpinar, A. Cannata, F. Cannavo, S. Carrasco, C. Caudron, E.J. Chaves, D.G. Cornwell, D. Craig, O.F.C. de Ouden, J. Diaz, S. Donner, C.P. Evangelidis, L. Evers, B. Fauville, G.A. Fernández, D. Giannopoulos, S.J. Gibbons, T. Girona, B. Grecu, M. Grunberg, G. Hetényi, A. Horleston, A. Inza, J.C.E. Irving, M. Jamalreyhani, A. Kafka, M.R. Koymans, C. Labedz, E. Larose, N.J. Lindsey, M. McKinnon, T. Megies, M.S. Miller, W. Minarik, L. Moresi, V.H. Marquez-Ramírez, M. Mollhoff, I. Nesbitt, S. Niyogi, J. Ojeda, A. Oth, S. Proud, J. Pulli, L. Retailleau, A.E. Rintamaki, C. Satriano, M.K. Savage, S. Shani-Kadmiel, R. Sleeman, E. Sokos, K. Stammler, A.E. Stott, S. Subedi, M.B. Sorensen, T. Taira, M. Tapia, F. Turhan, M. Vanstone, J. Vergne, T.A.T. Vuorinen, T. Warren, J. Wassermann, and H. Xiao (2020). Global quieting of high frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures. Science, 369, 6509, 1338-1343 DOI: 10.1126/science.abd2438.
14. Berton, M., E. Nathan, H. Karani, T. Girona, C. Huber, P.G. Williard, J. Head (2020), Effects of dissolved volatiles on the freezing dynamics of ocean worlds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125, e2020JE006528, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006528.
15. Reed, M.H., C. Munoz-Saez, S. Hajimirza, S.M. Wu, A. Barth, T. Girona, M. Rasht-Behesht, E.B. White, M.S. Karplus, S. Hurwitz, M. Manga (2021), The 2018 reawakening and eruption dynamics of Steamboat Geyser, the world’s tallest active geyser. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 118, No 2 e2020943118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020943118.
16. Girona, T., V. Realmuto, P. Lundgren (2021), Large-scale thermal unrest of volcanoes for years prior to eruption. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00705-4.
17. Caudron, C., T. Girona, A. Jolly, B. Christenson, M. Savage, R. Carniel, T. Lecocq, B. Kennedy, I. Lokmer, A. Yates, I. Hamling, I. Park, G. Kilgour, A. Mazot (2021), A quest for unrest in multiparameter observations at Whakarari/White Island volcano, New Zealand 2007-2018. Earth, Planets, Space 73, 195, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-021-01506-0.