Personal Info:
Date of birth: 10/12/1978
Nationality: Italian
Academic career:
- April 2009: Invited as assistant professor at the École et
observatoire des sciences de la Terre (EOST), Luis Pasteur University,
Strasbourg
- May 2008-Present: post-doc at the Dipartimento di Scienze Mineralogiche e Petrologiche , Università di Torino (Italy)
- April 2008: Invited as assistant professor at the École et observatoire des sciences de la Terre (EOST), Luis Pasteur University, Strasbourg
- 2003-2007: PhD at the Research School of Earth Sciences (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Title of PhD thesis: On the evolution of the Western Alps: Pressure cycles and deformation mode switches
- 2001-2002: MSc in Geology (Torino University and Utrecht
University). Title of MSc thesis: structural and petrographic study of
the Balmuccia Peridotite (Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Western Alps)
- 1997-2000: bachelor in Geology, Torino University (Italy)
Awards:
* “OPTIME” award for the best MSc students at the
Univertità di Torino in 2003
* “Ugo Pognante“ award for the best MSc thesis on the
Alpine-Himalayan orogen in 2003
* “Erasmus” scholarship in 2000
* “EDISU” scholarship in 1997 and 1998
* “Agnelli” scholarship in 1997
* “M. Cignetti” scholarship in 1992 and 1993
Editorial Experience:
2010: Chief editor of the Journal of Virtual Explorer vol.36,
entitled: “The Geology of Italy"
(link: http://www.virtualexplorer.com.au/journal/2010/36)
2004: Chief editor of the Journal of Virtual Explorer vol.16,
entitled: “Evolution of the Western Alps: insights from metamorphism,
structural geology, tectonics and geochronology” (link:
http://virtualexplorer.com.au/journal/2004/16/)
Teaching experience:
-2004: demonstrator for the “Geology 1” course, at the Department
of Earth and Marine Sciences (Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia)
-2003: demonstrator at the “Reading Rocks” course, held by Prof. Gordon Lister at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)
Selection of post-grad courses:
2008
-Agorà Summer School on Science Communication ( link)
-ISES Summer School in Tectonic Exhumation (Colorado College, Colorado Springs, USA)
2005
-4th ISPET (International Seminars of Petrology):”Advanced analytical
and experimental techniques in petrology” (RSES, Australian National
University, Canberra, Australia)
2004
-“Graduate teaching programme”. This course aims at familiarizing
post-graduate students with teaching techniques in order to prepare
them to teach at university level.
- 3rd ISPET (International Seminars of Petrology): ”HP and UHP metamorphism in subduction zones”, hosted in Padova.
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Curriculum Vitae 
