[1] In 2016, Tommasi was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for pioneering work on deformation mechanisms and microstructures within the Earth and their impact on plate tectonics".
[8] Tommasi's research extends to locations around the globe including Siberia,[9] the Avacha volcano in Kamchatka,[10] Hawaii,[11] and the Southwest Indian Ridge.
Tomassi et al. (2000) created models accurately capturing the development of mineral alignment (lattice preferred orientation) of olivine and seismic anisotropy in response to upper mantle plastic flow.
The anisotropic viscoplastic self-consistent model had the best correlation to natural and experimental observations of how olivine alignment during deformation affects seismic properties, as S-wave and P-wave propagation prediction errors were less than 15º off.
Le Roux et al. (2007) centers around the investigation of the Lherz Massif, a large body of mantle peridotite located in the French Pyrenees.