Working experience and Education:
09.08.2023 Habilitation (venia docendi) at the University of Vienna in Petrography
since 01.09.2019 Scientist and Curator of the Rock Collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria, and since 06.2021 Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Austria.
01.09.2016 - 31.08.2019 FWF Elise-Richter Program, Shock metamorphic effects in plagioclase. PI: Lidia Pittarello, Dept. of Lithospheric Research, Universität Wien, Austria
31.10.2018 Italian Habilitation
01.04.2013 - 31.05.2016 BELSPO research grant, Curation and conservation of, and scientific research on Antarctic meteorites. PIs: Philippe Claeys, Vinciane Debaille, Analytical, Environmental, and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in collaboration with Université Libre de Bruxelles and Museum of Natural Sciences, Belgium
01.03.2010 - 28.02.2013 FWF research grant, Study of Drill Cores of the El'gygytgyn Meteorite Impact Crater. PI: Christian Koeberl, Dept. of Lithospheric Research, Universität Wien, Austria
01.01.2009-28.02.2010 Cariparo research grant, Revealing the secrets of an earthquake: physico-chemical constraints from a multidisciplinary study of exhumed faults. PIs: Giorgio Pennacchioni, Giulio Di Toro, Department of Geosciences, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
PhD in Earth Sciences (06.03.2009) Study of exhumed paleo-seismic faults as a gauge to estimate earthquake source parameters. Department of Geosciences, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy, Supervisors: Prof. G. Pennacchioni and Dr. G. Di Toro
Laurea (Ms equivalent) in Geological Sciences, summa cum laude (20.07.2004) Microstructural study of Arolla mylonites, Aosta Valley (Italy). Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy. Advisor: Prof. G. Pennacchioni
Diploma (Mm equivalent) in Organ and organ composition (22.09.2007) Conservatorium A. Steffani, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
Teaching activity
SS2025 Part of the course "Geology in politics and society", Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Austria
SS2025 280180 VU Meteorites are just rocks University of Vienna, Austria
SS2023 280110 VO Meteorites: rocks from other planetary bodies Dept. of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Austria
2021 Lecture at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy
2020 Lectures at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy
SS2020 450007 VU "Meteorites and impacts under the magnifier" Dept. of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Austria
2019 Lectures at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy
SS2018 450007 VU "Petrography of meteorites and shock metamorphism" Dept. of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Austria
2018 Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility, Lecture series "Meteorites: curation, classification, and origin" and "Impact cratering, a planetary process" School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, Italy
WS2017 The use of the U-stage in microstrucural analysis, within the course 280089 VU Microstructures in Gematerials, Dept. of Geodynamics and Sedimentology, University of Vienna, Austria
SS2017 450005 SE "Petrography of meteorites and shock metamorphism" Dept. of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Austria
05.2016 assistant during a field trip to the Ries crater, Germany
03.2016 "Shock metamorphism in rock forming minerals" UGent, Belgium
05.2014 "Impact cratering and shock metamorphism" UGent, Belgium
2007-2010 Sol-Fa, Music theory, and basic piano at CLAMAT, Abano T., Italy
Invited Lectures
28.01.2021 "Shock metamorphism in rock-forming minerals: an overview" University of Leicester, UK
25.02.2020 "Rock tales: catastrophes in the language of the deformation" Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
08.11.2019 "Shock metamorphism of plagioclase in nature and experiments" Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie, University of Vienna, Austria
18.02.2019 "Atmospheric entry and the formation of meteorite fusion crust: from nature to experiments" University of Glasgow, UK
11.04.2018 "Shock metamorphic effects in a common mineral: shocked plagioclase in nature and experiments" Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
14.06.2017 "Ballen silica in non-shock enviroment" Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
08.03.2016 "(Not only)Meteorites under a magnifying glass: from optical microscope to TEM" AMGC seminar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
16.03.2015 "Shock metamorphic effects in rock-forming minerals" Royal Holloway, London, UK
14.11.2014 "Meteorite curation at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences" Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, Brussels, Belgium
29.10.2014 "Small scale comminution and localised melting in impact events" Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
07.08.2012 “A garnet's tale: amphibolite-facies pseudotachylytes in metagabbro and felsic mylonite in the Ivrea Zone” GFZ Potsdam, Germany
05.10.2011 “New microstructures from impact craters in basalt" Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
05.05.2010 “A tale of two pseudotachylytes" Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
22.04.2010 “A tale of two pseudotachylytes" Erdwiss. Kolloquium, University of Vienna, Austria
Awards
2018 Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility
2015 FWF Elise-Richter Program
2014 FWO travel grant for the SIMS training course
2010-2013 Post-doctoral grant by FWF
2011 ICDP training course
2009-2010 Post-doctoral grant by Cariparo
2008 student travel grant by the Geological Society of London for the meeting: Fault Zones
2005-2008 PhD university grant
Memberships
since 2005 GIGS (Gruppo Italiano Geologia Strutturale)
2005-2010 AGU (American Geophysical Union)
2014-2017 Geochemical Society
since 2015 Meteoritical Society
since 2020 Österreichische Mineralogische Gesellschaft (ÖMG), member board since 2021
since 2025 European Geological Union (EGU)
2020-2021 Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrografia (SIMP)
Conference organisation / chairing activity
2024 Member of the scientific committee of the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Brussels, Belgium
2021 Member of the technical scientific committee of the MedGU (Mediterranean Geological Union), Istanbul, Turkey
2020 Convener of the session The cosmic challenge: from interplanetary dust to the bricks of life at the 90th Meeting of the Italian Geological Society, Trieste, Italy
2019 Member of the Organizing Scientific Committee of the Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI Conference, Brasilia, Brazil
2018 Chair of a session on Antarctic Meteorites at the Joint Polar Science and Hayabusa Symposium, Sagamihara, Japan
2014 Chair of the session Shock processes recorded in terrestrial and planetary samples at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Chairing Casablanca, Morocco
2014 Chair of a session on Antarctic Meteorites at the 5th Polar Science Symposium, Tachikawa, Japan
Selected training courses
2024
XRD Training, D. Becker, Bruker, Karlsruhe, Germany
Strahlenschutz (Radio protection) at the Seibersdorf Academy
2021
EBSD, G. Nolze, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und Prüfung, Berlin, Germany (online)
2015
Texture analysis and orientation imaging, R. Heilbronner, H. Stünitz, G. Pennock, M. Drury, R. Kilian, University of Basel, Switzerland
2014
Introduction to SIMS, M. Wiedenbeck, GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
Training to μ-XRF, R.Tagle, VUB, Belgium
Visiting scientist at the National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan
2013
Visiting scientist at the National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan
2012
Rheology of Geomaterials, G. Dresen (GFZ, Potsdam), Dept. of Lithospheric Research, Vienna (A)
2011
ICDP (International Continental Drilling Program) training course, Geozentrum, Windischeschenbach (D)
Introduction to volcanology and volcanic textures, C. Breitkreuz, Bergakademie, Freiberg (D)
2010
courses on TEM, SEM, FIB, and EBSD, R. Wirth (GFZ, Potsdam), S. Zaefferer (Max-Planck-Institut, Duesseldorf), and R. Abart, Dept. of Lithospheric Research, Vienna (A)
2009
Combination of geological and petrological data with numerical thermomechanical experiments in order to investigate geodynamic problems, Taras Gerya (ETH, Zurich), Internat. Pialli School, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Perugia (I)
2006
Fabric quantification, J. Kruhl, A. Gerik, and M. Peternell, Techische Universität Muenchen (D)
Structural analysis of the Lago di Neves area (South Tyrol), G. Pennacchioni (Univ. Padova) and N. Mancktelow (ETH, Zurich), International Pialli School, Field course, Rifugio Porro (I)
Mechanics of earthquakes, S. Miller (Univ. Bonn), International Pialli School 2006, Dept. of Earth Science, Perugia (I)
Micro-images application to the study of materials and rocks, G. Godard (PGP, Paris), Dept. of Mineralogy, Padova
Dynamics of the Lithosphere, MYRESII, Meeting of Young Researcher in Earth Science, Verbania (I)
2005
Fluids in metamorphic rocks, V ISPET (International Seminars in Petrology), Certosa di Pontignano, Siena (I)
2004
Image analysis in Earth sciences and optical orientation imaging, R. Heilbronner, Dept. of Geology, Basel (CH)