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PAOLO NIMIS

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Address

VIA G. GRADENIGO, 6 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498279161

QUALIFICATIONS AND JOB POSITIONS
• 1990 Four-year Degree (Laurea) with full honours in Geological Sciences (University of Padua).
• 1994 PhD in Earth Sciences (University of Padua).
• Jan 1995-Jan 1997 Post-doc scholarship at the Dept. of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Padua.
• Jan 1997-Jul 1997 Visiting Researcher with C.N.R. (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) scholarship at the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• Mar 1998-Nov 2006: Researcher in Mineral Resources at the Dept. of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Padua.
• Nov 2006-Nov 2012: Associate Professor in Mineralogy at the Dept. of Mineralogy and Petrology (now Dept. of Geosciences), University of Padua.
• Nov 2012-2022: Associate Professor in Mineral Resources at the Dept. of Geosciences, University of Padua.
• From May 2022: Full Professor in Mineral Resources at the Dept. of Geosciences, University of Padua.
LECTURING ACTIVITY
Since March 1998 lecturing activity (mineralogy, ore deposits, geochemistry and related topics) in several courses of the Schools of Sciences and Engineering (University of Padua).

RESEARCH
• Thermobarometry of mafic and ultramafic rocks and diamonds, geochemistry of mantle rocks, and their relationships with the diamond-potential of kimberlites.
• Mafic-ultramafic-hosted volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in ancient and present-day seafloor settings.
• Metallogeny of Cu in the Alpine and neighbour regions and archaeometric implications.
Author of over 100 scientific publications, of which 81 full papers on impacted journals (3182 total citations, H-Index 27, as of May 5th 2022, Scopus).
Author of 7 invited talks at international congresses/workshops and of 3 invited talks at national congresses/workshops.

Other activities:
• Member of the Council of the Doctorate School in Earth Science, University of Padua.
• Member of the organising committee of the International School “Diamonds, the mantle petrologist's best friends”, Bressanone (21–26/02/2011).
• Founder member of the Diamond and Mantle Geodynamics of Carbon Consortium (DMGC) affiliated to the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO).

Notices

Publications

Selected publications

Mantle and Diamonds:
Nimis P (2022) Pressure and temperature data for diamonds. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 88: 533–566, doi: 10.2138/rmg.2022.88.10
Nimis P, Preston R, Perritt SH, Chinn IL (2020) Diamond’s depth distribution systematics. Lithos 376–377: 105729
Nimis P, Nestola F, Schiazza M*, Reali R, Agrosì G, Mele D, Tempesta G, Howell D, Hutchison M, Spiess R (2018) Fe-rich ferropericlase and magnesiowüstite inclusions reflecting diamond formation rather than ambient mantle. Geology, 47:27–30
Nestola F, Nimis P, Angel RJ, Milani S, Bruno M, Prencipe M, Harris JW (2014) Olivine with diamond-imposed morphology included in diamonds. Syngenesis or protogenesis? Int. Geol. Rev. 56: 1658-1667
Shirey SB, Cartigny P, Frost DJ, Keshav S, Nestola F, Nimis P, Pearson DG, Sobolev NV, Walter MJ (2013) Diamonds and the Geology of Mantle Carbon. In R.M. Hazen, A.P. Jones and J.A. Baross, Eds., Carbon in Earth, Rev. Mineral. Geochem. 75: 355-421
Nimis P, Grütter H (2010) Internally consistent geothermometers for garnet peridotites and pyroxenites. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 159: 411-427

Ore deposits
Toffolo L, Nimis P, Tret’yakov GA, Melekestseva IYu, Beltenev VE (2020) Seafloor massive sulfides from mid-ocean ridges: exploring the causes of their geochemical variability with multivariate analysis. Earth Science Reviews, 201: 102958
Artioli G, Canovaro C, Angelini I, Nimis P (2020) LIA of prehistoric metals in the Central Mediterranean area: a review. Archaeometry 62 (Suppl. 1): 53–85
Melekestseva IYu, Maslennikov VV, Tret’yakov GA, Nimis P, Beltenev VE, Rozhdestvenskaya II, Maslennikova SP, Belogub EV, Danyushevsky L, Large R, Yuminov AM, Sadykov SA (2017) Gold- and silver-rich massive sulfides from the Semenov-2 hydrothermal field, 13°31.13´ N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge: A case of magmatic contribution? Economic Geology 112: 741–773
Toffolo L, Nimis P, Martin S, Tumiati S, Bach W (2017) The Cogne magnetite deposit (Western Alps, Italy): a Late Jurassic seafloor ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal system? Ore Geology Reviews 83: 103–126
Melekestseva IYu, Zaykov VV, Nimis P, Tret'yakov GA, Tessalina SG (2013) Cu–(Ni–Co–Au)-bearing massive sulfide deposits associated with mafic–ultramafic rocks of the Main Urals Fault, South Urals: Geological structures, ore textural and mineralogical features, comparison with modern analogs. Ore Geol. Rev. 52: 18-36
Nimis P, Omenetto P, Giunti I, Artioli G, Angelini I (2012) Lead isotope systematics in hydrothermal sulphide deposits from the central-eastern Southalpine (northern Italy). Eur. J. Mineral. 24: 23-37
Nimis P, Omenetto P, Buschmann B, Jonas P, Simonov VA (2010) Geochemistry of igneous rocks associated with ultramafic–mafic-hosted Cu (Co, Ni, Au) VMS deposits from the Main Uralian Fault (Southern Urals, Russia). Mineral. Petrol. 100: 201-214
Nimis P, Zaykov VV, Omenetto P, Melekestseva IY, Tesalina SG, Orgeval J-J (2008) Peculiarities of some mafic-ultramafic- and ultramafic-hosted massive sulfide deposits from the Main Uralian Fault Zone, southern Urals. Ore Geol. Rev. 33: 49-69
Herrington R, Maslennikov V, Zaykov V, Seravkin I, Kosarev A, Buschmann B, Orgeval J-J, Holland N, Tesalina S, Nimis P, Armstrong R (2005) 6: Classification of VMS deposits: Lessons from the South Uralides. Ore Geol. Rev. 27: 203-237

Research Area

- Thermobarometry of mafic and ultramafic rocks and diamonds, geochemistry of mantle rocks, and their relationships with the diamond-potential of kimberlites.
- Mafic-ultramafic-hosted volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in ancient and present-day seafloor settings.
- Metallogeny of Cu in the Alpine and neighbour regions and archaeometric implications.

Thesis proposals

Geological survey of the Zn, Pb, Cu sulfide mine of Cinquevalli (Valsugana, TN) for the purpose of its touristic and cultural valorization.