Professore Ordinario – Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra | Tel.: 050 2215791 – Email: luigi.folco@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"87888","unipi-persone-nome":"Luigi","unipi-persone-cognome":"Folco","unipi-persone-email":"luigi.folco@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"Luigi Folco,(PhD) Fellow of the Meteoritical Society
\r\nRome (Italy), 21.09.1965; married, father of two
\r\nORCID ID# 0000-0002-7276-3483
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\r\nCURRENT POSITION
\r\nLuigi Folco, PhD (Open University, UK), is full professor of petrography and petrology of planetary materials at the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universit\u00e0 di Pisa, Italy. Here he teaches Planetary Geology, Cosmochemistry and Geowriting, and chairs the Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze e Tecnologie Geologiche MSc programme.
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\r\nAWARDS
\r\nFellow of the Meteoritical Society (2024)
\r\nMain Belt 7006 Folco asteroid, International Astronomical Union (2006)
\r\nCarlo Minguzzi prize, Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (2006)
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\r\nAREAS OF RESEARCH
\r\nIntegrating mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic analyses coupled with field work carried out in Europe, Africa, Australia and Antarctica for over 30 years, Luigi\u2019s research interests have focused on:
\r\n1)\tThe cosmochemistry of planetary materials (meteorites, micrometeorites and planetary samples recovered from space missions), to explore the origin and evolution of the Solar System, extend the inventory of the Solar System's composition, and estimate the flux of the extraterrestrial material to Earth.
\r\n2)\tThe geology of impact craters and geochemistry of impactites, to contribute to the understanding of the impact cratering process in the Solar System and the collisional history of our planet.
\r\n3)\tThe search for meteorites in hot and cold deserts.
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\r\nRESEARCH PROJECTS
\r\nPI of the \"Cosmic Dust II: Cosmochemistry and Space Tweezers Technologies for Space Science and Exploration\" project (PRIN2022 Program of the Italian MUR), national coordinator of the \u201cAnalyses of extraterrestrial materials\u201d task within the SpaceItUp! Program (ASI-MUR funded, exPE15 PNRR), and member of the science committee for the realization of the Italian national Astromaterials Curation Facility.
\r\nMember of one of the 40 research groups worldwide working on samples from asteroid 162173 Ryugu, recently returned by the JAXA Hayabusa 2 space mission.
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\r\nPreviously PI of a number of national and international projects including:
\r\n\"Antarctic Meteorites\" for the search for meteorites in Antarctica funded by the Italian National Antarctic Research Programme (PNRA) in 2009, 2013 and 2016; the \"Cosmic Dust\u201d (PRIN2015 Program of the Italian MUR) 2015; the \u201cGeology and geophysics of Kamil Crater, Egypt\u201d project funded by MAECI under the programme Research Projects of Great Relevance MAECI-PGR in 2013 and 2014.
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\r\nPreviously partner coordinator of international projects fostering planetary science in Europe and Africa, including the EC funded H2020 \"EURO-CARES - European Curation of Astromaterials Returned from Exploration of Space\" and MCA-RTN FP6 ORIGINS as, and \"Africa Initiative for Planetary and Space Sciences\".
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\r\nLeader of 10 Antarctic expeditions for the search for meteorites within PNRA and 4 in the Sahara for the search for meteorites and impact craters, since 1993.
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\r\nRESEARCH LABORATORIES
\r\nManager of the (E)SEM-FEG and FIB-SEM-FEG electron microscopy analytical laboratories of the Centro per la Integrazione della Strumentazione dell\u2019Universit\u00e0 di Pisa (CISUP).
\r\nManager of the \u201cMicroprep lab\u201d at the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universit\u00e0 di Pisa.
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\r\nSERVICES (International)
\r\nBarringer Medal Award committee, Meteoritical Society (2025 \u2013 2028).
\r\nNomenclature Committee and Associate Editor of the Meteoritical Bulletin, Meteoritical Society (2003 \u2013 2008).
\r\nCouncilor, Meteoritical Society (2009 \u2013 2014).
\r\nScientific Advisory Committee, Africa Initiative for Planetary Science, AFIPS, (2018 \u2013).
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\r\nBIBLIOMETRY
\r\n150 papers published in international scientific journals with IF (including 7 journal covers) and five book chapters. WOS H-index = 38.
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\r\nSOCIETIES
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