ACTUAL POSITION:


Associate Professor of Geochemistry

Earth and Environmental Sciences Department University of Pavia

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

Researcher and manager of the LA-ICP-MS laboratory at the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (National Research Council of Italy)
IGG-CNR of Pavia (web:  http://iggcnrpavia.unipv.it)

Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse (web:  www.igg.cnr.it)


2021-2022 Adjunct professor - Geology and Petrology of the Alps

2013-2021 Adjunct professor - Laboratory of Petrography

2017 - today Member of the PhD school commetee

@Earth and Environmental Sciences Department - University of Pavia


 

 

Education and research experiences

 

✦February 2018

One month stage at the Leeds University (UK) for a collaboration with Dr. Sandra Piazolo on the topic: zircon deformation fabric in pseudotachylytes. CNR Short Term Mobility program.

 

✦ September 2015 - October 2015

One month stage at the “Géosciences Montpellier” Institute of the Monpellier University (France) for a collaboration with Dr. Andrea Tommasi on the topic: olivine deformation fabric in mantle peridotites. CNR Short Term Mobility program.

 

✦ July 2010 - October 2011

Research grant at the Institute of the Geosciences and Earth Resources (C.N.R.) of Pisa, on the topic: “Petrographic, geochemical and isotopic analyses of ophiolites and their alteration products”. Supervisor: Dr. Sonia Tonarini.

✦ March-June 2010

Research grant at the Department of the Earth and Geological-Environmental Sciences of the Bologna University on the topic: “Partial melting of the continental crust”.

✦ 2008-2010    

Research grant at the Institute of the Geosciences and Earth Resources (C.N.R.) U.O.S. of Pavia , in collaboration with the LA-ICP-MS team, on the topic: “ U-Th-Pb isotopic characterisation by LA-ICP-MS of accessory minerals, such as zircon and monazite, occurring in magmatic and metamorphic systems”.

✦ 2006-2007   

Nine months stage at the "Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris" (I.P.G.P) for microstructural analysis, EMP analyses, mineral X-ray mapping, image analysis and P-T determinations (Thermocalc). Collaboration with Dr. Gaston Godard.

✦ 2005-2008   

Ph.D. student at the Department of the Earth and Geological-Environmental Sciences of the Bologna University. Supervisors: Prof. Alessandro Rottura, Prof. Alfredo Caggianelli, Prof. Giacomo Prosser, Dr. Gaston Godard. 

✦ 2004   

Degree on geological sciences (cum laude). Thesis title: Structural and kinematics analyses of the eastern sector of the Curinga-Girifalco Shear Zone (northern Serre - Calabra): geodynamic implications.