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October 14: I gave a presentation to the Canadian Tectonics Group (CTG) webinar:
September 25: Paper accepted! “Long-term effect of inherited basement structures on the basin evolution of northwestern Canada” in GSA Bulletin by Pinto et al.
September 10: The NSERC Alliance grant entitled “Tectonostratigraphy and structural evolution of the Great Bear project, NW Ontario”, with Kinross Gold Corporation (CAN)” together with Dr. Pete Hollings got approved
September 08: The NSERC Alliance grant entitled “Alteration chemistry of the Tower Mountain gold deposit”, with Thunder Gold Corp.” together with Dr. Pete Hollings got approved
August 10: Congrats to Hanna Tiitto for successfully defending her MSc thesis entitled: “Deformation processes in a mid-crustal strike-slip shear zone: insights from the Archean Quetico Shear Zone, Superior Province, Canada”
May 26: The article “Analyzing the horizontal orientation of the crustal stress adjacent to plate boundaries” published together with Eva Enkelmann in Scientific Reports won the 2026 David Elliott Best Paper award from the Canadian Tectonics Group (CTG).
May 22: Congrats to Hanna for winning the Student Paper award at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Institute on Late Superior Geology
April 15: My NSERC Discovery Grant entitled “Kinematics and Strain Geometry of Archean Tectonics — A New Tool for Predicting Gold Mineralization in the Canadian Shield” got approved

Dec 01: I started a new role as “Assistant Professor” at the Department of Geology at Lakehead University