⋄ Sternai P., S. Pilia, S. Ghelichkhan, P. Bouilhol, A. Menant, D. R. Davies, L. Ostorero, B. Vaes, R. Esposito, E. Garzanti, S. Cloetingh, T. Gerya  (2024), Raising the roof of the world: a key role for intra-crustal mantle in supporting Tibet . Science, under review.

⋄ Fioraso M., Olivetti V., Sternai P., Balestrieri M.L., Zattin M., Cornamusini G. (2024), Enhanced syn-extensional magmatism in the western Ross Sea driven by Miocene climate cooling and aridification of Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, under review.

⋄ Jia Z., Sternai P., Peng J. (2024), The role of surface processes in the formation of microcontinents: insights from numerical modeling and the Seychelles microcontinent case study. Journal of Earth Science, under review.

⋄ Garcia A., Bellwald B., Anell I., Planke S., Mykelbust R., Sternai P., Mitkandal I. (2024), Sedimentation record of a complete glacial-interglacial cycle: down-slope deposits, contourites and plumites of the North Sea Trough Mouth Fan. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, under review.

⋄ Zaki A., Delaunay A., Baby G., Haghipour N., Blanchet C., Dallmeyer A., Sternai P., Afifi A., Woor S., Wani O., Khalil H., Schuster M., Petraglia M., Dajmali M., SylvesterF., Peyrotty G., Ali M., Van Buchem F., Castelltort S. (2024), Early Holocene Catastrophic Lake Floods in Rub’al Khali Desert, Arabia. Nature Communications, under review.

⋄ Muller V., Sue C., Valla P., Sternai P., Simon-Labric T., Gauteron C., Cuffey K., Grujic D., Bernet M., Martinod J., Ghiglione M., Herman F., Reiners P., Shuster D., Willett., Baumgartner L., Braun J. (2024), Geodynamic and climatic forcing on late-Cenozoic exhumation of the Southern Patagonian Andes (Fitz Roy and Torres del Paine massifs). Tectonics, pending minor revisions.

⋄ Shen J., Dai J., Yang K., Zhao L., Zhang W., Malaspina N., Sternai P. (2024), Coeval Generation and Diachronic Exhumation of Metamorphic Sole and Ophiolite in the Saga Ophiolitic M ́elange: Insights into Subduction Infancy of the Neo-Tethys. Journal of Metamorphic Petrology, Accepted.

⋄ Muller V., Sternai P., Sue C., (2024), Fast uplift of the Souterhn Patagonian Andes due to long and short term deglaciation and the asthenospheric window underneath. Solid Earth - EGU, accepted.

⋄ Mubashir A., Coletti G., Mariani L., Benedetti A., Muhammad-Jawad M., Ur Rehman S., Sternai P., Basso D., Malinverno E., Shahzad K., Khan S., Awais M, Usman M, Castelltort S., Adatte T., Garzanti E. (2023), Shallow-water carbonate facies herald the onset of the Palaeocene eocene thermal maximum (Hazara basin, Northern Pakistan). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. X, 100169.

⋄ Cloetingh S., Sternai P. (co-first authors), Koptev A., et al., (2023) Coupled surface to deep Earth processes: Perspectives from TOPO-EUROPE with an emphasis on climate- and energy-related societal challenges. Global and Planetary Change, 104140.

⋄ Vimpere L., Spangenberg J., Roige M., Adatte T., De Kaenel E., Fildani A., Clark J., Sahoo S, Bowman A., Sternai P., Castelltort S. (2023), Carbon isotope and biostratigraphic evidence for an expanded PETM sedimentary record in the deep Gulf of Mexico. Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G50641.1.

⋄ Sternai P. (2023), Feedbacks between internal and external dynamics. In Dynamics of plate tectonics and mantle convection, Editor Joao Duarte, Elsevier.

⋄ Muller V., Sternai P., Sue C., Simon-Labric T., Valla P. (2022), Climatic control on the location of continental volcanic arcs. Scientific Reports 12, 22167.

⋄ Koptev A., Cloetingh S., Gerya T., Sternai P., Botsyun S. (2022), Ocean-continent subduction cannot be initiated without preceding intra-oceanic subduction! Frontiers Earth Science, 10, 1097922.

⋄ Chen H., Lin X., Zuza A.V., Wu L., Wei S., Sternai P. (2022), Continental basin and orogenic processes: Deep structure, tectonic deformation, and dynamics. Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 10, 1033217.

⋄ Stuewe K., Robl J, Turab S.A., Sternai P., Fin S. (2022), A feedback cycle between sea-floor spreading, trade wind and precipitation: the case for the Southern Red Sea. Nature Communications, 13, 1, 1-8.

⋄ Garzanti E., Sternai P. (2022), Against Steady State. Geologos, 28, 2, 157-168.

⋄ Reitano R., Corbi F., Funiciello F., Willett., Sternai P., Faccenna C. (2022), Sediment recycling and the evolution of analogue orogenic wedges. Tectonics, e2021TC006951.

⋄ Sternai P., Muller V., Jolivet L., Garzanti E., Corti G., Pasquero C., Sembroni A., Faccenna C. (2021), Effects of asthenospheric flow and orographic precipitation on continental rifting. Tectonophysics, 820, 229120.

⋄ Valla P., Sternai P., Fox M. (2021), How climate, uplift and erosion shaped the Alpine topography. Elements, doi 10.2138/GSELEMENTS.17.1.41.

⋄ Muller V., Calderon M., Cury L., Fosdick J. C., Ghiglione M., Massonne H.-J., Fanning C. M., Warren C., Ramirez de Arellano C., Sternai P. (2021), The closure of the Rocas Verdes Basin and early evolution of the Magallanes Fold-and-Thrust Belt in the Patagonian Andes (52-54S). Tectonophysics, doi 10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228686.

⋄ Spreafico M. C., Sternai P., Agliardi F. (2020), Paraglacial rock-slope deformations: sudden or delayed response? Insights from an integrated numerical modelling approach. Landslides, 18, p.1311-1326.

⋄ Sternai P. (2020), Surface processes forcing on extensional rock melting. Scientific Reports, doi.org/10.1038/s41598- 020-63920-w.

⋄ Sternai P., Caricchi L., Pasquero C., Garzanti E., van Hinsbergen D., Castelltort S. (2019), Magmatic forcing of Cenozoic climate? Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Special issue “Grand Challenges in Earth Sciences” for the AGU’s 100 years anniversary, doi 10.1029/2018JB016460.

⋄ Sternai P., Sue C., Husson L., Serpelloni E., Walpersdorf A., Becker T., Willett S., Faccenna C., di Giulio A., Spada G., Jolivet L., Valla P., Petit C., Nocquet J.-M., Castelltort S. (2019), Present-day uplift of the European Alps: evaluating me- chanisms and models of their relative contributions. Earth Science Reviews, 190, 589-604, doi 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.01.005.

⋄ Jolivet L., Pik R., Gorini C., Sternai P., Menant A., Faccenna C., Stab M., Leroy S., Bellahsen N., Clerc C. (2018), Extensional crustal tectonics and crust-mantle coupling, a view from the geological record. Earth Science Reviews, doi 10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.09.010.

⋄ Jolivet L., Faccenna C., Becker T., Tesauro M., Sternai P., Bouilhol P. (2018), Mantle flow and deforming continen- ts: From India-Asia convergence to Pacific subduction. Tectonics 37-9, 2887-2914, doi 10.1029/2018tc005036.

⋄ Amadori C., Garcia-Castellanos D., Toscani G., Sternai P., Fantoni R, Ghielmi M. and Di Giulio A. (2018), Restored topography of the Po Plain-Northern Adriatic region during the Messinian base-level drop - implications for the physio- graphy and compartmentalisation of the paleo-Mediterranean basin. Basin Research, 30-6, 1247-1263, doi 10.1111/bre.12302.

⋄ Roche V., Sternai P., Guillou-Frottier L., Menant A., Jolivet L., Bouchot V., Gerya T. (2018), Emplacement of me- tamorphic core complexes and associated geothermal systems controlled by slab rollback. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 498, 322-333, doi 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.06.043.

⋄ Sternai P., Caricchi L., Garcia-Castellanos D., Jolivet L., Sheldrake T., Castelltort S. (2017), Magmatic pulse driven by sea level changes associated with the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature Geoscience, doi 10.1038/NGEO3032.

⋄ Pirouz M., Acouac J.-P., Gualandi A., Hassanzadeh J., and Sternai P. (2017), Flexural bending of the Zagros fore- land basin. Geophysical Journal International, 210, 3, 1659-1680, doi 10.1093/gji/ggx252.

⋄ Sternai P., Avouac J.-P., Jolivet L., Faccenna C., Gerya T.V., Becker T., Menant, A. (2016a), On the influence of the asthenospheric flow on the tectonics and topography at collision-subduction transition zones: comparison with the eastern Tibetan margin. Journal of Geodynamics, 100, 18-194, doi 10.1016/j.jog.2016.02.009.

⋄ Sternai P., Caricchi L., Castelltort S., Champagnac J-.D. (2016b), Deglaciation and glacial erosion: a joint control on the magma productivity by continental unloading. Geophysical Research Letters, doi 10.1002/2015GL067285.

⋄ Menant A., Sternai P., Jolivet L., Guillou-Frottier L., Gerya T. (2016), 3D numerical modeling of mantle flow, cru- stal dynamics and magma genesis associated with slab roll-back and tearing: The eastern Mediterranean case. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 442, 93-107, doi 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.002.

⋄ Jolivet L., Faccenna C., Agard P., Frizon de Lamotte D., Menant A., Sternai P., Guillocheau F. (2015), Neo-Tethys geodynamics and mantle convection: A conceptual model for obduction. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, ja, doi 10.1139/cjes-2015-0118.

⋄ Lei, C., Ren J., Sternai P., Willett S., Fox M., Xie X., Clift P., Liao J., Wang Z. (2015), Structure and Sediment Budget of Yinggehai-Song Hong Basin, South China Sea: Implications for Cenozoic Tectonics and River Basins Reorganiza- tion in Southeast Asia. Tectonophysics, 655, 177-190, doi 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.05.024.

⋄ Jolivet, L., Menant A., Sternai P., Rabillard A., Arbaret L., Augier R., Laurent V., Beaudoin A., Graseman B. (2015), The geological signature of a slab tear below the Aegean. Tectonophysics, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.08.004.

⋄ Sternai P., Jolivet L., Menant A., Gerya T.V. (2014), Driving the upper plate surface deformation by slab rollback and mantle flow. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 405, 110-118, doi 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.08.023.

⋄ Fox M., Reverman R., Fellin G., Herman F., Sternai P., Willett S. D. (2014), Rock uplift and erosion history of the Bergell Intrusion from the inversion of low temperature thermochronometry. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15, 4, 1235-1257, doi 10.1002/2013gc005224.

⋄ Sternai P., Herman F., Valla P. G., Champagnac J.-D. (2013), Spatial and temporal variation of glacial erosion in the Rhˆone valley: insights from numerical modelling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 368, 119-131, doi 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.02.039.

⋄ Sternai P., Herman F., Champagnac J.-D., Fox M. R., Salcher B., Willett S. D. (2012), Pre-glacial topography of the European Alps. Geology, doi: 10.1130/G33540.1.

⋄ Herman F., Beaud F., Champagnac J.-D., Lemieux J.-M., Sternai P. (2011), Glacial hydrology and erosion patterns: a mechanism for carving glacial valleys, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 310, 3-4, 498-508, doi 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.022.

⋄ Sternai P., Herman F., Fox M. R., Castélltort S. (2011), Hypsometric analysis to identify spatially variable glacial erosion, Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, 116, F03001, doi 10.1029/2010JF001823.

⋄ Rossi G., Calcagni L., Sternai P., Crippa B. (2008), Primi risultati nell’analisi degli spostamenti verticali nella zona di Gemona mediante tecnica DInSAR. Rendiconti Online Societ ́a geologica Italiana, 2, 1-3.