The 40-year contribution of Fabrizio Innocenti to understanding the geodynamic evolution of Eastern Mediterranean.

In the last decades Fabrizio Innocenti was a mentor to many scientists. As a highly acknowledged researcher with a long career, he was very influential, particularly in Italy. We review his major findings in the study of the magmatic and geodynamic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean. His most relevant contributions were the analytical description of a large number of peculiar magmatic rocks in the area, and the development of new geodynamic models to explain their origin.