Vincenzo Stagno is a postdoctoral fellow at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. ESLI is located at the Geodynamics Research Center at Ehime University. Before joining ELSI, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Geophysical Laboratory, where he carried out high-pressure and high-temperature experiments using a multianvil press, and developed a large volume press to investigate the behavior of materials at extreme conditions and its implications for geoscience.