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Name: Alberta
Surname: Silvestri
Place and date of birth: Ischia (NA, Italy), 24th December 1974
Citizen: Italian

Current position: Associate Professor in “Mineral Georesources and Minero-petrographycal Applications to Environment and Cultural Heritage”.
Institution: University of Padova (Italy), Department of Geosciences, via G. Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova (Italy); alberta.silvestri@unipd.it

ORCID id: 0000-0001-9747-3194

(a) EDUCATION
a.1 Degree (B.S. and M.S.) in “Geological Sciences” at the University of Padova in 2000.
a.2 Ph.D. in “Earth Sciences”, University of Padova in 2004. Title of PhD thesis: “The archaeometry of Roman and Medieval glass: bulk characterisation and alteration processes. Raw materials for Roman glass: an experimental study”. Supervisor: prof. Gianmario Molin.

(b) CAREER
b.1 Post-doctoral fellowship (June 2004-May 2006) at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology of University of Padova.
b.2 Research contract at the Department of Geosciences of University of Padova from June 2006 to October 2008.
b.3 Assistant professor in “Mineral Georesources and Minero-petrographycal Applications to Environment and Cultural Heritage” at the Department of Geosciences (University of Padova, Italy) from November 2008 to September 2017.
b.4 Associate professor in “Mineral Georesources and Minero-petrographycal Applications to Environment and Cultural Heritage” at the Department of Geosciences (University of Padova, Italy) since 1th October 2017.

(c) SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
The research activity of Alberta Silvestri falls within mineralogical-petrographical applications for cultural heritage, with a focus on archaeometric study of glass and other vitreous materials. In detail, the following research topics are carrying out:
c.1 Archaeometric studies of archaeological and historical-artistic glass (vessels, stained glass, glazes), mainly Roman and Medieval in age.
c.2 Archaeometric studies of mosaic glass tesserae, with particular attention to chemico-mineralogical characterisation of crystalline phases identified within glassy matrix.
c.3 Minero-petrographical studies on raw materials for ancient glass production.
c.4 Isotopic investigations (oxygen, strontium, neodymium) on ancient glass and possible raw materials.
c.5 Alteration processes of archaeological glass in various conservation environments.

(d) OTHER
d.1 Winner of the A.I.Ar. (Associazione Italiana di Archeometria) Award “Salvatore Improta” for young researcher in archaeometry (year 2007).
d.2 Member of the teaching staff of PhD course in “History, Critical and Preservation of Cultural Heritage” of the University of Padova since January 2008.
d.3 Associate Editor of the “Journal of Cultural Heritage”, ISI journal edited by Elsevier.
d.4 Guest Editor of the special issue “Crystals and minerals in glass” of “Minerals”, international open access journal edited by MDPI.
d.5 Reviewer for the following international ISI journals: Archaeometry, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, European Journal of Mineralogy, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, Journal of Cultural Heritage, Microchemical Journal, Microchimica Acta, Minerals, Scientific Reports.
d.6 Member of A.I.Ar. (Associazione Italiana di Archeometria).
d.7 Member of A.I.H.V. (Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre).
d.8 Member of S.I.M.P. (Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia).

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Area di ricerca

Alberta Silvestri svolge attività di ricerca nel campo delle applicazioni mineralogico-petrografiche per i beni culturali, con particolare interesse per lo studio di beni archeologici e storico-artistici di natura vetrosa. In dettaglio, sviluppa le seguenti tematiche:
a) Caratterizzazione archeometrica di vetri di interesse archeologico e storico-artistico.
b) Caratterizzazione chimico-mineralogica di materie prime per vetro.
c) Indagini isotopiche su vetri e possibili materie prime.
d) Parametrizzazione dei processi di alterazione del vetro.
e) Studio delle tecnologie di produzione delle invetriature su ceramiche antiche.
Tali studi sono affrontati con i metodi propri delle indagini mineralogiche, petrografiche, geochimiche e cristallochimiche a cui, per la peculiarità del materiale indagato, sono state associate metodiche di tipo statistico.

ENGLISH
The research activity of Alberta Silvestri falls within mineralogical-petrographical applications for cultural heritage, with a focus on archaeometric study of glass and other vitreous materials. As ancient glass results from the melting of natural raw materials and commonly show signs of deterioration due to prolonged environmental exposure, the scientific background of Earth Sciences appears to be the most suitable to solve archaeometric problems related to source, type and provenance of raw materials, to the reconstruction of production technologies, and to alteration processes. In detail, the following research topics are carrying out by Alberta Silvestri:
c.1 Archaeometric studies of archaeological and historical-artistic glass (vessels, stained glass, glazes), mainly Roman and Medieval in age.
c.2 Archaeometric studies of mosaic glass tesserae, with particular attention to chemico-mineralogical characterisation of crystalline phases identified within glassy matrix.
c.3 Minero-petrographical studies on raw materials for ancient glass production.
c.4 Isotopic investigations (oxygen, strontium, neodymium) on ancient glass and possible raw materials.
c.5 Alteration processes of archaeological glass in various conservation environments.

These studies are mainly carried out by using mineralogical, petrographic, geochemical and crystal-chemical analytical techniques which, due to the specific features of the material investigated, statistical methods have been also associated to.

The scientific activity of Alberta Silvestri is documented by 47 papers in international ISI journals (with 1341 citations, and h-index equal to 23, according to Scopus in date 14th March 2023) and 30 book chapters and conference proceedings (please, see details in list of publications).
76 abstracts were also submitted to international and national congresses.