Open questions on carbonaceous matter in meteorites Every year several tons of extraterrestrial material reach Earth’s surface but only a fraction of it ends up in the hands of geoscientists. In their recently published comment, Oliver...
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Our former postdoc Joseph P. Gonzalez funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) has been appointed by The New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) Office of Cultural Education as a Museum Scientist in mineralogy and...
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Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research to Oliver Christ Congratulations to our postdoctoral fellow Oliver Christ that has been awarded the Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research! We wish you the best for your research!!...
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Watch the video of the talk given by Giulia Mingardi at the “3MT 2024 Edition @UniPv”
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Come and see us at EGU 2024 in Wien!! Here below a list of the oral presentations by our researchers: Monday 15th April 2024 14:55: EGU24-2301 – What can we learn from X-ray diffraction and seismic velocities across the alpha-beta quartz...
Read more Giulia Mingardi is the winner of the “3MT 2024 Edition @UniPv” The 3MT is an academic competition that challenges PhD students to describe their research to a general audience in English in less than three minutes. The Three Minute...
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First evaluation of stiff-in-soft host–inclusion systems We all have been habit to work and think about inclusions being preserved by their very stiff host. But have you ever wondered what would happen when a stiff inclusion has been entrapped...
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Vibrational spectroscopic techniques are becoming increasingly available and fundamental for the investigation of Earth’s and planetary materials at the microscale in situ as they allow preserving the pristine nature of the sample while carrying...
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