Matteo Masotta

Education
2006 B.Sc. (cum laude) in Earth Sciences, Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
2008 M.Sc. (cum laude) in Geodynamics, Geophysics and Volcanology, Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
2012 Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)

Employment
2012-2015: Postdoc Researcher, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth (Germany)
2013-2015: Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
2016: Contract Researcher, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Rome, Italy)
2016-present: Researcher (RTD-b) at Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Pisa (Italy)

Awards
2008 Honour course for M.Sc degree (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
2012 SIMP award 2012 for best PhD thesis (Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology)

Research area
Experimental petrology, Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Volcanology

Classes
WGE-LM: Experimental petrology
GEO-L: Petrography
NAT-L: Mineralogy and Petrography
PhD Course: Experimental and analytical techniques in Earth Sciences

Relevant publications
- Masotta M., Pontesilli A., Mollo S., Armienti P., Nazzari M., Ubide T., Scarlato P. (2020) The role of undercooling during clinopyroxene growth in trachybasaltic magmas: Insights on decompression, cooling and recharge events at Mt. Etna volcano. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 268, 258-276
- Masotta M., Mollo S. (2019) A new plagioclase-liquid hygrometer specific to trachytic systems. Minerals 9, 375
- Masotta M., Laumonier M., McCammon C. (2018) Transport of melt and volatiles in magmas inferred from kinetic experiments on the partial melting of granitic rocks. Lithos (in press)
- Masotta M., Mollo S., Nazzari M., Tecchiato V., Scarlato P., Papale P., Bachmann O. (2018) Crystallization and partial melting of rhyolite and felsite rocks at Krafla volcano. Chem. Geol. 483, 603-618.
- Masotta M., Keppler H. (2017) A new hydrothermal moissanite cell apparatus for optical in-situ observations at high pressure and high temperature, with applications to bubble nucleation in silicate melts. Am. Mineral. 102, 2022-2031.
- Masotta M., Keppler H., Chaudhari A. (2016) Fluid-melt partitioning of sulfur in differentiated arc magmas and the sulfur yield of explosive volcanic eruptions. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 176, 26-43
- Masotta M., Keppler H. (2015) Anhydrite solubility in differentiated arc magmas. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 185, 79-102
- Masotta M., Ni H., Keppler H. (2014) In-situ observations of bubble growth in basaltic, andesitic and rhyodacitic melts. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 167, 976
- Masotta M., Mollo S., Freda C., Moore G.M., Gaeta M. (2013) Clinopyroxene-liquid thermometers and barometers specific for alkaline differentiated magmas. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 166, 1545-1561