PREVIOUS POSITION
2016 - POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA - (TECLA) PONO3PE 00214 1/6 CUP: E92I14001570005
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
2017-2018: EU PROJECT HORIZON 2020 NANO-CATHEDRAL (HTTP://WWW.NANOCATHEDRAL.EU/).
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR IN NATIONAL PROJECT
2018-2020 PI FOR PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI ATENEO - PROJECT NO PRA_2018_41
OTHER NATIONAL PROJECTS
Local Coordinator - PRIN 2017 Project
Partecipation to the project AGM FOR CUHE - PNR 2015-2020 (D.D. N. 1735 DEL 13/07/2017)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR IN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES AT INTERNATIONAL FACILITIES
2018-2019: CO-PI AT SOLEIL AT PUMA BEAMLINE. PROPOSAL 20180090. PI: A. GIANONCELLI. 13-17/02/2019
2018: PI AT ELETTRA (TRIESTE, ITALY) - MCX BEAMLINE - EX. NO. 20180263. 27/11 01/12/2018
2018: PI AT LLB, SACLAY, FRANCE - IMAGINE BEAMILE. EX. NO.: 347. 18-23 JUNE 2018
2018: PI AT ELETTRA (TRIESTE, ITALY) - TWINMIC BEAMLIN. EX. NO.: 20175496. 5-11 MARCH 2018
EDUCATION
2016 - PH.D. CUM LAUDE IN EARTH SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA (ITALY)
2012 - POST-GRADUATE COURSE SCUOLA DI ALTI STUDI IN ECONOMIA DEL TURISMO CULTURALE, FONDAZIONE EDOARDO GARRONE
2012 - M.A. IN EARTH SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA. 110/110 CUM LAUDE
2009 - B.A. APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES FOR CULTURAL HERITAGES, UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA. 110/110 CUM LAUDE
EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH TOPICS
THIN SECTION ANALYSIS (OM); SEM-EDS; XRD; XRF AND PXRF; ICP-MS AND LA-ICP-MS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; FT-IR SPECTROSCOPY; MERCURY INTRUSION POROSIMETRY (MIP); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE (NMR) AND PORTABLE NMR; µ-CT; NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY AND TOMOGRAPHY; SMALL ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING (SANS); 3D SURFACE DIGITAL IMAGING.
ARCHAEOMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION OF ANCIENT CERAMICS, PLASTERS AND MORTARS, PIGMENTS AND WALL PAINTINGS, GLASS, GEMS AND JEWELRY COLLECTIONS. NATURAL BUILDING STONES: POROSITY MODELING; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; NON DESTRUCTIVE AND NON INVASIVE METHODS; LABORATORY TESTS FOLLOWING STANDARD RECOMMENDATIONS (UNI, UNIEN, NORMAL). NANOTECHNOLOGIES FOR CULTURAL HERITAGES
AWARDS AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT
2016 - NATIONAL PRIZE SIMP FOR THE BEST DOCTORAL THESIS IN MATERIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES.
2015 - RESEARCH GRANT - REGIONE SICILIANA - PROGRAM MISURA 3
2015 - NATIONAL PRIZE ANGELO BIANCHI SIMP
2013 - FINANCIAL SUPPORT SPORTELLO GIOVANI AIAR FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESEARCH PROJECT ABROAD.
2011 - 1ST INTERNATIONAL AWARD - UNIVERSITY FESTIVAL OF ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SIRACUSA, ITALY.
SCOLARSHIPS
2017 - SHORT COURSE: MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, DELFT (NETHERLANDS) MAY 12 2017.
2014 - GD-SISN SCHOOL - NEUTRON APPLICATIONS. SAN GIOVANNI IN VALLE AURINA (BZ, ITALY) AND ILL GRENOBLE (FRANCIA), 13-22/09/2014.
2014 - GABEC&GNM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL 2014 CATANIA-SIRACUSA, 1-4/07/2014.
2011 - ADVANCED COURSE IN RESTORATION OF ANCIENT BOOKS, CAIRO (EGYPT), 9-13 JANUARY 2011.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
2018: Invited professor ERASMUS+ STA 4-6/10/2018. Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
2018: Guest lecturer at Microscopic techniques to study mineral materials in cultural heritage 24 28/09/2018, Wien, Austria.
2018: Convener for the scientific session Geosciences for Cultural Heritages at the Congresso congiunto SGI-SIMP 2018, Catania, 12 14/09/2018
2018: Invited professor ERASMUS+ STA University of Montaigne-Bordeaux, IRAMAT Lab. (France). 11-13/04/2018
2018: Member of the Organizing Committee for the XIII GeoRaman International Conferences, Catania, 10-14 June 2018.
2017: Invited professor. ERASMUS+ STA. Gent Dept. of Chemistry (Belgium). 28-29 September 2017.
2016: Organizer support for the 2nd European Mineralogical Conference EMC 2016 (Rimini, Italy 11 - 15 September 2016).
2016: Invited speaker at the Dept. of Chemistry of the Univ. of Parma for for seminars, 26.10.2016.
2016: Invited speaker at the Dept. of Chemistry of the Univ. of Parma for seminars, 26.05.2016
2015: Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committee for the National
