EDUCATION
2008-2012: PhD in Earth Sciences, University of Padova. “Origin and environmental impact of the Central Atlantic magmatic province”.
2008: MSc in Geology and Technical Geology, University of Padova (Italy). “CAMP volcanism at the T-J boundary: age and geochemistry of lava piles from the Moroccan Meseta”, 110/110 magna cum laude.
EXPERIENCE
2024-: Tenure-track researcher at BiGeA, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna.
2020 – 2024: Researcher at the Univerisy of Oslo (Norway), project leader of MAPLES – Magma PLays with sEdimentary rockS, funded by the Norwegian Research Counsil
2019 – 2019: Science high-scool teacher, IIS E. De Nicola Piove di Sacco (PD)
2016 – 2019: Post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Univerisy of Oslo (Norway) within the Earth Crises team.
2012 – 2016: Post-doctoral research fellow Department of Geoscience, University of Pasdova
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
2023: Italian National Scientific Habilitation for Full Professor (Professore Ordinario 04/A1).
2021: Italian National Scientific Habilitation for Associate Professor (Professore Associato 04/A1).
2024: ERC-CoG proposal 101170872 evaluated positively at Step 1 and invited for interview.
2024 P.I. of synchrotron light experiment SP38226, microfluorescence beamline I18 of Diamond Light Source. Project title: Franklin Large Igneous Province and Sturtian Snowball Earth: insights from in-situ sulphur analysis in magmatic minerals. Analyses scheduled for Spring 2025.
2021 UiO Leadership Course – Starting Level. Course organized by the University of Oslo, which can be attended only by invitation/endorsement by the Head of Department.
2019 MAPLES project funded (0.8 M€) - Young Research Talent grant #302096 from the Norwegian Research Council.
2016 Research fellowship: 3-years post-doc project funded in 2016 at the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2019 EU Seal of Excellence for Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (Individual Fellowships) for proposal #838698 - MAGMARCTIC evaluated 91.2% (threshold for immediate grant preparation agreement: 92.4%).
2019 CEED Young Scientist Prize for my “excellent scientific contribution to unravelling the links between massive volcanic degassing, global climatic changes, and mass extinctions through geologic time”. With a 5000 € research grant.
2014 “Borsa per l’estero Enzo Michele Piccirillo”, grant for a research stay abroad for PhD students funded by the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrography (SIMP).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2024: Co-chair of Theme 4 at Goldschmidt 2025 “Volcanism, magmatic systems, and hazard”
2024: Editorial board of the journal Mesozoic.
2023: Co-convener of the Goldschmidt 2023 (Lyon) session “Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs): Their Plumbing Systems, and links with plumes, supercontinent breakup, Ore Deposits, and Environmental Change through Earth history”.
2023: Guest editor for ELEMENTS Magazine “Large Igneous Provinces: versatile drivers of global change”
2022: Guest editor for Frontiers in Earth Science “Frontiers in Earth Science (“How Large Igneous Provinces During the Triassic Shaped Modern-Day Ecosystems”
2021: Co-convener of the Goldschmidt 2023 (Lyon) session “Large Igneous Provinces: A Driver of Global Environmental and Biotic Crises”
Reviewer of manuscripts for: Science Advances, Nature Geoscience, Geology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Journal of Petrology, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, G-cubed, American Mineralogist, Lithos, African Journal of Earth Sciences, Arabian Journal of Earth Sciences
SUPERVISION ACTIVITY
Post-Docs
2021-2023: Manfredo Capriolo. Fluid and melt inclusions investigations to constrain magma-sediment interaction processes, on my Young Research Talent Grant MAPLES. Now employed in Birmingham by the C-FORCE project (S. Jones, S. Greene).
PhD students
2020- : co-supervision of Lea Belosa. PhD project on the petrogenesis of Vesteris seamount and the tectonic controls on volcanism in the North Atlantic Ocean.
2021- : co-supervision of Jack Whattam. PhD project on mapping the volcanostratigraphic sequences of north-east Oslo Rift.
2016-2019: co-supervision of Thea H. Heimdal. PhD project on sills of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province intruded in the Amazonas basin and their thermogenic production of carbon. Now at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.
Master and bachelor students
2024-: Lill Karoline Syversen, master project on xenoliths found in Oslo Rift magmas
2023-2024: Guro Lilledal Andersen, thesis: “Ignimbrites of the Drammen Caldera: A Stratigraphic, Petrographic and Geochemical Analysis of Explosive Volcanism in the Oslo Rift, Norway”
2012-2016: co-supervision of 3 bachelor and 4 master students, University of Padova
INVITED SEMINARS & COMMUNICATIONS
Invited and keynote presentations
2024 – AGU 2024, Washington D.C., USA. Tracing LIP-related volcanic winters through sulfur (and Fluorine) partitioning in augite: the Deccan Traps case. Invited.
2024 – EGU 2024, Vienna, Austria. Sulfur and fluorine degassing from Deccan Traps lavas inferred from pyroxene chemistry: potential for end-Cretaceous volcanic winters. Invited.
2022 – SGI-SIMP 2022, Torino. Magma-host rock interaction in basaltic sills from the Siberian Traps (Tunguska basin, Russia): mineral scale and whole-rock perspectives. Invited.
2017 – GSA 2017, Seattle, USA. Sulfur partitioning between clinopyroxene and melt: tackling gas loads from LIP magmas. Invited.
2017 – IUGG-IAVCEI 2017, Prague, CZ. Quantifying sulfur emissions from Large Igneous Provinces: a new method based on clinopyroxene/melt S partition coefficient. Invited.
Invited seminars
IFE Kjeller 2024, Khalifa University 2022, Trinity College Dublin 2018, Aarhus University 2017, University of Oslo 2015, Freie Universität Berlin 2014, CRPG Nancy 2014.
FIELDWORK/CRUISES
Fieldwork
Morocco (2024, 2010, 2007), Oslo Rift (2016-2024), Namibia (2023), Corsica (2023), South Africa and Lesotho (2018), Alps (2021, 2023), Veneto Volcanic Province (2012-2015), Mt Nyiragongo (2011), Eastern North America (2009), Sardinia (2008), Lagonegro (2006).
Cruise
SvalGeoBase II Svalbard archipelago, september 2024, PI Jaroslaw Majka (Uni. Uppsala) and Krzysztof Michalski (Polish Academy of Science)
