Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

Dec 2025 -
Akademischer Rat auf Zeit (non-tenured assistant professor)
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität LMU (Munich, Germany)
Oct 2025 -
Nov 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität LMU (Munich, Germany)
Nov 2023 -
Sep 2025
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Science (Washington, DC, USA)
Oct 2019 -
Oct 2023
Research Associate
Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth (Bayreuth, Germany)

Academic Education

Oct 2019 -
Jul 2023
Dr. rer. nat.
Doctoral Programme in Experimental Geosciences
Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth (Bayreuth, Germany)
Thesis: Constraining the chemical and mineralogical composition of the Earth's lower mantle through high-pressure crystallography and mineral elasticity.
Grade: 0.0 (summa cum laude)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Frost, Dr. Tiziana Boffa Ballaran
Oct 2017 -
Sep 2019
M.Sc.
Master of Science in Experimental Geosciences
Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth (Bayreuth, Germany)
Thesis: Seismic wave velocities in the middle of the Earth's lower mantle.
Grade: 1.0 (with distinction)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Frost, Dr. Tiziana Boffa Ballaran
Oct 2014 -
Jul 2017
B.Sc.
Bachelor of Science in Geological Science
Department of Geosciences, University of Padua (Padua, Italy)
Thesis: Elastic Geobarometry: the role of the geometry of the host-inclusion system investigated through Finite Element Modelling.
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Supervisors: Prof. Fabrizio Nestola, Dr. Mattia L. Mazzucchelli

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

Nov 2023 -
Oct 2025
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowship
Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Science (Whashington, DC, USA)
Projects: effect of redox conditions on the phase equilibria of basalt in the lower mantle; incorporation mechanism, local structure and quantification of H in Al-bearing stishovite.
PI: Giacomo Criniti
Mentors: Dr. Michael J. Walter, Dr. Yingwei Fei
2025 Premio Tesi di Dottorato (Best Ph.D. Thesis)
Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP)
2023 EMPG-XVIII Best Poster Award
18th International Symposium on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry (EMPG-XVIII), Milan, Italy, 12-15 Jun 2023
2022 John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award
American Geophysical Union, Mineral and Rock Physics Section