Geologist with a passion for applied mineralogy and building materials — from cultural heritage preservation to modern construction innovations and future space applications. Currently Research Fellow at CISAS, University of Padova.
Born in 1994, I realized at 16 that I wanted to devote myself to studying rather than my two other youthful passions: karate and saxophone. Considered myself a "complete time waster" until 21, then I decided to apply my talent for geology in the direction of mineralogy.
My journey includes a Marie Curie doctorate at the University of Granada (SUBLime project), where I focused on self-cleaning lime-based materials through biomimetic approaches, studying amorphous-crystalline transitions and surface modifications. Now I'm a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CISAS, working within the "Space It Up" project funded by ASI and MUR, characterizing terrestrial analogues and lunar regolith simulants for extraterrestrial construction.
I live in Padova, stubbornly following bizarre ideas such as reviving the cult of calcite and its pillars, and pushing to understand other planets because one is not enough. A devoted Inter Milano supporter. Convinced that pasta was the greatest leap in human progress until the Internet. My neighbors wish I didn't play vinyls with peculiar tastes.
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Two seasons of obsession, tension, and Nerazzurri glory — documented with the same rigor I reserve for thin sections.
Read moreWhat does it mean to photograph the Earth from the Moon's distance? A reflection on Artemis II's images as humanity's new self-portrait.
Read moreNew paper in Materials Today Advances — because if you want to build on the Moon, you might as well start with a volcano.
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