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FABRIZIO NESTOLA
Position
Professore Ordinario
Structure
Address
VIA G. GRADENIGO, 6 - PADOVA
Telephone
0498279160
ACADEMIC RECORD
Fabrizio Nestola is Head of Department of Geosciences since October 1st, 2018 where since 2015 is Full Professor of Mineralogy. He was Associate Professor of Mineralogy between 2010 and 2015 and permanent Researcher between 2006 and 2010 at University of Padova. Between 2004 and 2006, he was post-doc at the Virginia Tech of Blacksburg and between 2003 and 2004 he got an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship at Bayerisches Geoinstitut of Bayreuth (Germany). Between 2000 and 2003 he was at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia as Ph.D. student in Mineralogy. He graduated in Geological Sciences at University of Torino in 1999
MAIN INSTITUTIONAL SERVICES
Beyond to the Department heading, Prof. Nestola is member of the Academic Senate since November 2019. Between 2015 and 2018, he was Coordinator of the Ph.D. Programme in Earth Sciences and since 2017 member of the board of the Scuola Galileiana
POST-DOC, PH.D., MASTER AD BACHELOR THESIS SUPERVISIONS
- > 50 Master and Bachelor theses
- 8 post-docs
- 4 Ph.D.s
BIBLIOMETRIC INDICES (www.scopus.com)
Publications: 332
Total citations: 7000
H-index: 38
Annual average citations between 2015 and 2019: 555
SCIENTIFIC SERVICES
2014 - 2017: Board member of the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology
2015 - 2017: Associate Editor for “Frontiers in Earth Sciences”
2015-2017: Associate Editor for “European Journal of Mineralogy”
Since 2016: Associate Editor for “American Mineralogist”
Since 2020: Membro dell'Advisory Board della rivista Physics and Chemistry of Minerals
- Reviewer for more than 30 international peer-review journals
- Reviewer for different research national agencies
MAIN RESAERCH FUNDS AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
2020 - 2021: PRNA 2018. Total fund: € 58,200 (codice: PNRA18_00247 – A)
2013 - 2018: “European Research Council Starting Grant, IDEAS”. Total fund: € 1,423,000 (codice: 307322)
2006 - University Project. Total fund: € 36,000 (codice: CPDA062139/06)
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
- 2010: “Medal for the Excellence in Research”, EMU
- 2019: “Humboldt Research Award”, AvH Foundation
NAZIONAL AWARDS
- 2003: “Ph.D. Thesis Award”, Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology
- 2011: “Mario Nardelli Award”, Italian Association of Crystallography
- 2016: “Maria Teresa Messori Roncaglia e Eugenio Mari", National Academy of Lincei at the presence of the President of the Italian Republic
ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS
Prof. Nestola organized more than 30 scientific sessions at national and international conferences and five international schools (2008, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2018)
Notices
Teachings
- MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY, AA 2024 (SCQ3102454)
- ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY, AA 2023 (SCP4065427)
- ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY, AA 2023 (AVP3054113)
- MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY, AA 2023 (SCQ3102454)
- ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY, AA 2022 (AVP3054113)
- ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY, AA 2022 (SCP4065427)
- MINERALOGY, AA 2022 (SC16106130)
- MINERALOGY, AA 2021 (SC16106130)
- MINERALOGY, AA 2020 (SC16106130)
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY METHODS, AA 2019 (SCN1036816)
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY METHODS, AA 2018 (SCN1036816)
- CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND MINERAL PHYSICS, AA 2017 (SCP6075484)
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY METHODS, AA 2017 (SCN1036816)
- CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND MINERAL PHYSICS, AA 2016 (SCP6075484)
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY METHODS, AA 2016 (SCN1036816)
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY METHODS, AA 2015 (SCN1036816)
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY METHODS, AA 2014 (SCN1036816)
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY METHODS, AA 2013 (SCN1036816)
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY METHODS, AA 2013 (SCN1036816)
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY METHODS, AA 2012 (SCN1036816)
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY METHODS, AA 2011 (SCN1036816)
Research Area
Prof. Nestola mainly worked on extreme conditions mineralogy investigating the elastic properties and the evolution of the crystal structure under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions of the main Earth’s mantle minerals. The main techniques he used are diffraction (single-crystal and powder), Raman spectroscopy and electron microscopy. Recently, Prof. Nestola applied the same mineralogical methods to the analysis of inclusions in natural diamonds with the aim to determine the conditions of their formation. Finally, he obtained a research fund to investigate the carbon-bearing phases in Antarctic meteorites
Thesis proposals
- Mineral inclusions in natural diamonds
- Carbon phases in meteorites
- New mineralogical species