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Silvio Ferrero

Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche

Aggiornato 17-05-2024

POSIZIONE ATTUALE 

  • 2021 - oggi: Professore associato di Petrologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Universitá di Cagliari, Italia
  • Febbraio 2023 - Abilitazione a Professore di Prima Fascia

POSIZIONI PRECEDENTI

  • 2015 – 2021: Post-Doctoral Fellow (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG – Eigene Stelle). Institut für Geowissenschaften (formerly Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften), Universität Potsdam, Germania
  • 2014 – 2021: Guest Visiting Researcher Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions-und Biodiversitätsforschung, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germania
  • 2012 – 2015: Post-Doctoral Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow Universität Potsdam, Germania
  • 2010 – 2012: Ricercatore Post-Doc, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università di Padova, Italy. Supervisore: Bernardo Cesare.

EDUCAZIONE
2007 – 2010 Dottorando al Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università di Padova. Supervisori: B. Cesare, R.J. Bodnar (Virginia Tech), E. Salvioli-Mariani (Università di Parma).
2008 – 2009 Visiting Scholar al Fluid Research Lab - Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. Supervisore: R.J. Bodnar.
2003 – 2006 Laurea Magistrale (MA) in Scienze Geologiche, Università degli Studi di Torino. Supervisore: P. Rossetti.
2000 – 2003 Laurea (BA) Scienze Geologiche, Università degli Studi di Torino. Supervisore: A. Borghi.

FELLOWSHIPS
2020 – 2023 Research Fellowship (estensione di 3 anni) finanziata dal Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), presso l‘Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Germania. Titolo del progetto: Nanogranites in migmatites: deciphering the chemical differentiation in the continental crust (FE 1527/2-3).
2017 – 2020 Research Fellowship (estensione di 3 anni) finanziata dal DFG, presso lo stesso istituto. Titolo del progetto: Nanogranites in migmatites: deciphering the chemical differentiation in the continental crust (FE 1527/2-2).
2015 – 2017 Research Fellowship finanziata dal DFG, presso lo stesso istituto. Titolo del progetto: Nanogranites in migmatites: deciphering the chemical differentiation in the continental crust (FE 1527/2-1).
2012 – 2015 Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship presso lo stesso istituto. Titolo del progetto: A novel approach to identify unadulterated natural melt compositions: investigation of nanogranites.


ULTERIORI FONDI COLLEGATI A PROGETTI

  • 2023 Progetto "Deep fluid fluxes during mountain building processes". EDUC-SHARE initiative.
  • 2022-2023    Progetto Regione Sardegna "Integration of new geological data into the characterization of the Einstein Telescope (ET)  site of Sos Enattos, Sardinia, Italy"
  • 2020 – 2022 Progetto FE 1527/4-1 „Re-fertilizing the Earth´s mantle: crust-mantle interaction in (ultra)high pressure settings“. Investigatore principale: Silvio Ferrero (Totale ~130.000 €).
  • 2020 Supervisore per un Research stay for University Academics and Scientists di 3 mesi finaziato dal DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) assegnato alla Prof.sa M.TEDESCHI (University of Belo Horizonte, Brazil). Titolo del progetto: Nanogranitoids in zircons.
  • 2020 – 2022 Co-supervisore per una von Humboldt fellowship al Dr. G. Nicoli (Uni. Cambridge, UK). Progetto: „Carbon buffering in the continental crust“.


REVISORE
Giornali: Geology; Journal of Metamorphic Geology; Geological Society of America (GSA) Bulletin; American Mineralogist; Chemical Geology; Journal of Asian Earth Sciences; Mineralogy and Petrology; Geoscience Frontiers; Lithos; Island Arc; Precambrian Research; G3 - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
Libri: Canadian Mineralogical Association short courses (2020).


EDITORE

  • 2022 Guest editor per Special issue "Probing the Earth: Melt and solid inclusions as probes to understand nature. Editor(s): Elisabetta Rampone, Silvio Ferrero, Matteo Alvaro, and Ross Angel" on the European Journal of Mineralogy, in progress.
  • 2021 Associate Editor per Mineralogia, il giornale della Societá Mineralogica Polacca (http://www.mineralogia.pl)
  • 2019 Corresponding Editor per il libro intitolato FERRERO, S., LANARI, P., GONCALVES, P. & GROSCH, E. G. (eds) 2019. Metamorphic Geology: Microscale to Mountain Belts. Geological Society, London, Spec. Publ., 478, ISBN: 9781786204165.

COMMISSIONI DI VALUTAZIONE

  • 2023 Membro di commissione di dottorato, Università di Padova, Italy
  • 2020 Valutatore di progetti scientifici per la Czech Science Foundation
  • 2019 Valutatore di progetti scientifici per la Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • 2018 Membro di commissione di dottorato, Università di Torino, Italy
  • 2015 Valutatore di progetti scientifici per ETH, Svizzera

SUPERVISIONE DI STUDENTI E RICERCATORI POSTDOC

  • 2023 – 2026 Co-supervisione del lavoro di dottorato di Kerstin Gresky (Potsdam Universitaet, Deutschland). Titolo: „Investigation of anatectic melt inclusions to unravel the chemical differentiation of the continental crust.“
  • 2020 – 2022 Supervisione di un ricercatore post-doc per il progetto FE 1527/4-1 „Re-fertilizing the Earth´s mantle: crust-mantle interaction in (ultra)high pressure settings“.
  • 2016 – 2019 Co-supervisione del lavoro di dottorato di Alessia Borghini. Titolo: „Melt inclusions in mafic rocks as witnesses of metasomatism in the bohemian massif“.
  • 2019 – 2020 Supervisione tesi magistrale di Rico Fuchs. Titolo: „Microanalytical investigation of nanogranitoids in Variscan eclogite: implications for crust-mantle interaction"
  • 2018 – 2020 Supervisione tesi magistrale di Iris Wannhoff. Titolo: „Melt inclusion investigation reveals first evidence for partial melting in giant garnets of Gore Mountain (Adirondacks, USA)“.
  • 2018 Co-supervisione/collaborazione tesi magistrale di Pawel S?upski. Titolo: „Former melt inclusions in garnets from granulites of the Góry Sowie Block, NE Bohemian Massif. Istituto principale: AGH, Krakow, Poland“.
  • 2017 Supervisione tesi trienniale di Iris Wannhoff. Titolo: „Evidence for fluid-melt immiscibility during partial melting in the Oberpfalz migmatites, Moldanubian Zone (Bohemian Massif)“.

ATTIVITÁ DI INSEGNAMENTO PRESSO UNI CAGLIARI

  • 2023/2024 Corso laurea triennale "Petrografia Applicata". 6 crediti.
  • 2022/2023 Corso laurea magistrale "Evoluzione Crostale". 6 crediti
  • 2022/2023 Corso laurea triennale "Petrografia Applicata". 6 crediti.
  • 2022 Workshop "Lo studio di inclusioni di fluido e fuso come strumento di investigazione dei processi geologici profondi".

ATTIVITÁ DI INSEGNAMENTO PRESSO UNI POTSDAM

  • 2020 Corso di master online “Petrology and Evolution of the continental crust”
  • 2019 Corso di master “Petrology of the lower crust”
  • 2015 - Oggi Workshops “Fluids and geological processes: fluid inclusions investigation”
  • 2019 Short course “Petrology of the lower crust”, 3-5 giugno, for international PhD and PostDoc students.

TRAINING PER INSEGNAMENTO UNIVERSITARIO
2019-2021 International Teaching Professionals (ITP) program offerto dalla Potsdam Graduate School.

ABILITAZIONI
2023 Abilitazione scientifica nazionale, Professore prima fascia, Italia

2017 Abilitazione scientifica nazionale, Professore seconda fascia, Italia

ORGANIZZAZIONE DI CONFERENZE SCIENTIFICHE

  • 2024 European Mineralogical Conference - Dublin, Ireland, 18-22 August 2024. Main convener of session ""One drop at a time: fluid, melt and multiphase inclusions as a tool to unravel geological processes".
  • 2015 – Oggi Main convener e co-convener di molteplici sessioni GMPV alla General Assembly EGU, Vienna (Austria). Titolo delle varie sessioni: Garnet, the ultimate tool in petrology (2023); Garnet, an invaluable mineral in basement geology (2022); Peering into the past: the power of microstructures to unravel metamorphic and igneous processes (2019); Microstructures as an interpretative tool in igneous and metamorphic petrology (2018); Progress in Metamorphic Geology: Multi-scale Model Testing from Minerals to Tectonic Plates (2018); Progress in Metamorphic Geology: Petrochronology (2017); Progress in Metamorphic Geology: From Ultrahigh-temperature Terrains to Subduction Zones (2016); Contributions to Metamorphic Geology (2015).
  • 2021 Co-convener alla European Mineralogical Conference, Krakow (Polonia), rimandata al settembre 2020. Titolo sessione: Are inclusions petrologists’ best friends?
  • 2020 Co-convener al Fall meeting American Geological Union (AGU). Titolo sessione: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Investigating Crustal Processes.
  • 2019 – Oggi Science officer della divisione GMPV per la General Assembly della European Geological Union (EGU).
  • 2016 Main Convener “Microscale is the key: microstructural and microchemical studies of metamorphic processes to unravel compositional and geodynamic evolution of the Earth”, 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, Sudafrica.
  • 2016 Co-convener “Host–Inclusions system in geosciences: new methods and applications”, European Mineralogical Conference, Rimini, Italia.

INVITED TALKS E WORKSHOPS IN MEETINGS INTERNAZIONALI

  • 2024 Invited Speaker at the Vibrational Spectroscopy meets Geoscience (GeoVibrS), Villa del Grumello (Lake of Como, Italy), June 24th – 28th  2024
  • 2022 Invited expert at the Advanced Training Programme on "Granites and related rocks", Kumaun University, Nainital, India (5-15 settembre 2022).
  • 2020 Solicited talk, General Assembly EGU 2020 “Strange polymorphs and where to find them: a melt inclusion story“.
  • 2018 Invited talk, Goldschmidt 2018 “Mineral growth and metastability phenomena in melt inclusions from metamorphic rocks”.

BORSE DI STUDIO E PREMI

  • Premio S.I.M.P. (Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia) per la migliore tesi di dottorato del 2010.
  • Borsa di Studio della Fondazione “A. Gini” per sovvenzionare periodi di ricerca all’ estero, 2008/2009.
  • Premio “Professor Ugo Pognante” 2007 per tesi magistrali in petrologia sull’ orogene Alpino-Himalayano.

APPARTENENZA A SOCIETÁ SCIENTIFICHE

  • Dal 2010 – Membro E.G.U. (European Geosciences Union)
  • Dal 2007 – Membro S.I.M.P. (Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia)

SEMINARIO “Tiny tools for big tasks: the contribution of nanogranites and fluid inclusions studies to understanding crustal melting”

  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 18-22 marzo 2024

  • Charles University, Prague, 18-19 ottobre 2023

  • Freie Universitaet, Kolloquium - 17 novembre 2022

  • Petrochronics, 26 agosto 2021 (video disponibile al link https://youtu.be/a08M_GywBkg)
  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Febbraio 2019
  • Talks in Vienna. Graz, Leoben and Innsbruck su invito della, e sovvenzionati dalla, Mineralogical Society of Austria, Aprile 2018.
  • Universität Bern, Svizzera. Marzo 2018
  • Université Paris-Diderot, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Gennaio 2017.
  • AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow (Polonia), Graduate students programme. Dicembre 2016;
  • Università di Bologna (Italia). Marzo 2016;
  • GeoForschung Zentrum-Potsdam (Germania). January 2016;
  • Yale University (US), PhD students programme. Novembre 2015;
  • Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germania). Aprile 2015;
  • Charles University, Prague (Repubblica Ceca). Novembre 2014;
  • Stellenbosch University & Uni. of Witwatersrand (Sudafrica). Augusta 2014;
  • The Open University, Milton Keynes (UK). Marzo 2014.

PUBBLICAZIONI

  1. Angel, R.J., Alvaro, M., and Ferrero, S., (2024). A brief history of solid inclusion piezobarometry. European Journal of Mineralogy, 36, 411–415, 2024 https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-411-2024.
  2. Ferrero, S., Borghini, A., Remusat. L., Nicoli, G., Wunder, B., and Braga, R., (2023). H2O and Cl in deep crustal melts: the message of melt inclusions in metamorphic rocks. European Journal of Mineralogy, 35, 1031–1049, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-1031-2023.
  3. Borghini, A., Ferrero, S., O’Brien, P.J., Wunder, B., Tollan, P. Majka, J., Fuchs, R. and Gresky, K, (2023). Halogen-bearing metasomatizing melt preserved in near ultra-high pressure (UHP) eclogites of Pfaffenberg, Bohemian Massif. European Journal of Mineralogy, accepted.
  4. Borghini, A., Nicoli, G., Ferrero, S., O’Brien, P.J., Laurent, O., Remusat, L., Borghini, G., and Milani, S., (2023). The role of continental subduction in mantle metasomatism and deep carbon cycle revealed by melt inclusions in UHP eclogites. Science Advances, in press.
  5. Wannhoff, I., Ferrero, S., Borghini, A., Darling, R., and O´Brien, P.J., (2022). First evidence of dmisteinbergite (CaAl2Si2O8 polymorph) in high grade metamorphic rocks. American Mineralogist, 107, 2315–2319, DOI: 10.2138/am-2022-8505.
  6. Nicoli, G., Borghini, A. and Ferrero, S. (2022). The carbon budget of crustal reworking during continental collision: Clues from nanorocks and fluid inclusions. Chemical Geology, 608, 121025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121025.
  7. Nicoli, G., Gresky, K. and Ferrero, S. (2022). Mesoarchean melt and fluid inclusions in garnet from the Kangerlussuaq basement, Southeast Greenland. Mineralogia, 53, 1-9, DOI: 10.2478/mipo-2022-0001.
  8. Wang, J., Su, B-X, Chen, C., Ferrero,S., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K.,  Sakyi, P.A., Yang, Y-H. and Dharmapriya, P., L. (2021) Crustal derivation of the ca. 475-Ma Eppawala carbonatites in Sri Lanka. Journal of Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egab075.
  9. Ghignone, S. , Sudo, M., Balestro, G., Borghi, A., Gattiglio, M., Ferrero, S. and van Schijndel, V. (2021) Timing of exhumation of meta-ophiolite units in the Western Alps: New tectonic implications from 40Ar/39Ar white mica ages from Piedmont Zone (Susa Valley). Lithos, 404–405, 106443, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106443.
  10. Ferrero, S., Wannhoff, I., Laurent, O., Yakymchuk, C., Darling, R., Wunder, B., Borghini, A., and O´Brien, P.J. (2021) Embryos of TTGs in Gore Mountain garnet megacrysts from water-fluxed melting of the lower crust. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 569, 117058, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117058.
  11. Nicoli, G. & Ferrero, S. (2021): Nanorocks, volatiles and plate tectonics. Geoscience Frontiers, 12, 101188.
  12. Ferrero, S., Ague, J.J., O’Brien, P.J., Wunder, B., Remusat, L., Ziemann, M.A., Axler, J. (2021): High pressure, halogen-bearing melt preserved in ultra-high temperature felsic granulites of the Central Maine Terrane, Connecticut (US). American Mineralogist, 106, 1225–1236, DOI: doi.org/10.2138/am-2021-7690.
  13. Gianola, O., Bartoli, O., Ferri, F., Galli, A., Ferrero, S., Capizzi, L.S., Liebske, C., Remusat,. L., Poli, S., Cesare, B. (2021): Anatectic melt inclusions in ultra-high temperature granulites. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 39, 321–342, DOI: doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12567.
  14. Ferri, F., Cesare, B., Bartoli, O., Ferrero, S., Palmeri, R., Remusat, L., Poil, S. (2020): Melt inclusions at MT. Edixon (Antarctica): Chemistry, petrology and implications for the evolution of the Lanterman range. Lithos, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105685.
  15. Borghini, A., Ferrero, S., O'Brien, P.J., Laurent, O., Günter, C., Ziemann, M.A. (2019): Cryptic metasomatic agent measured in situ in Variscan mantlerocks: Melt inclusions in garnet of eclogite, Granulitgebirge,Germany. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, doi:10.1111/jmg.12519.
  16. Lanari, P., Ferrero, S., Goncalves, P., Grosch, E.G. (2018): Metamorphic Geology: Progress and Perspectives. In: Ferrero, S., Lanari, P., Goncalves, P. & Grosch, E.G. (eds) Metamorphic Geology: Microscale to Mountain Belts. Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 478.
  17. Carvalho, B. B., Bartoli, O. , Ferri, F. , Cesare, B. , Ferrero, S. , Remusat, L. , Capizzi, L. S., Poli, S. (2018): Anatexis and fluid regime of the deep continental crust: new clues from melt and fluid inclusions in metapelitic migmatites from Ivrea Zone (NW Italy). Journal of Metamorphic Geology, doi:10.1111/jmg.12463
  18. Berkesi, M., Czuppon, G., Szabó, C., Kovács, I., Ferrero, S., Boiron, M-C., Peiffert, C., (2018): Pargasite in fluid inclusions of mantle xenoliths from northeast Australia (Mt. Quincan): Evidence of interaction with asthenospheric fluid. Chemical Geology, in Press, doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.06.022.
  19. Borghini, A., Ferrero, S., Wunder, B., Laurent, O., O’Brien, P.J., Ziemann, M.A. (2018): Granitoid melt inclusions in orogenic peridotite and origin of garnet clinopyroxenite. Geology, doi.org/10.1130/G45316.1.
  20. Ferrero, S., O´Brien, P.J., Borghini, A., Wunder, B., Wälle, M., Günter, C., Ziemann, M.A. (2018): A treasure chest full of nanogranitoids: an archive to investigate crustal melting in the Bohemian Massif. Submitted In: FERRERO, S., LANARI, P., GONCALVES, P.&GROSCH, E. G. (eds) Metamorphic Geology: Microscale to Mountain Belts.Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478.
  21. Ferrero, S. & Angel, R.(2018): Micropetrology: are inclusions in minerals grains of truth?. Journal of Petrology, 1–30, doi: 10.1093/petrology/egy075.
  22. Ferrero, S., Godard, G., Palmeri, R., Wunder, B., Cesare, B. (2018): Partial melting of ultramafic granulites from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica: constraints from melt inclusions and thermodynamic modeling. American Mineralogist 103, 610-622. 
  23. Ferrero, S., Wunder, B., Ziemann, M.A., Wälle, M., O´Brien P.J., (2016): Carbonatitic and granitic melts produced under conditions of primary immiscibility during anatexis in the lower crust. Earth Planetary Science Letters 454, 121–131.
  24. Bartoli, O., Acosta-Vigil, A., Ferrero, S., Cesare, B. (2016): Granitoid magmas preserved as melt inclusions in high-grade metamorphic rocks. American Mineralogist, dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2015-5541.
  25. Ferrero, S., Ziemann, M.A., Angel, R., O´Brien P.J., Wunder, B. (2016): Kumdykolite, kokchetavite and cristobalite crystallized in nanogranites from felsic granulites, Orlica-Snieznik Dome (Bohemian Massif): not an evidence for ultrahigh pressure conditions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 171, 3. DOI 10.1007/s00410-015-1220-x.
  26. Cesare, B., Acosta-Vigil, A., Bartoli, O., Ferrero, S. (2015): What can we learn from melt inclusions in migmatites and granulites? Lithos, 239, 186–216.
  27. Ferrero, S., Wunder, B., Walczak, K, O´Brien, P.J., Ziemann, M. (2015): Preserved near-UHP melt from continental crust subducted to mantle depths. Geology, 43, 447-450.
  28. Ferrero, S., Braga, R., Berkesi, M., Cesare, B., & Laridhi Ouazaa, N., 2014. Production of metaluminous melt during fluid-present anatexis: an example from the Maghrebian basement, La Galite Archipelago, central Mediterranean. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, DOI:10.1111/jmg.12068.
  29. Ferrero, S., Bartoli, O., Caesar, B., Salvioli-Mariani, E., Acosta-Vigil, A., Horse, A., Groppo, C. and Battiston, S. (2012): Microstructures of melt anatectic inclusions in metasedimentary rocks. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 30 , 303-322.
  30. Cesare, B., Acosta-Vigil, A., Ferrero, S. and Bartoli, O. (2011): Melt inclusions in migmatites and granulites. In: The Science of Microstructure - Part II, Journal of the Virtual Explorer, Eds. M.A. Forster, and John D. Fitz Gerald, Electronic Edition, ISSN 1441-8142, 38, paper 2.
  31. Ferrero, S., Bodnar, R.J., Cesare, B. and Viti, C. (2011): Re-equilibration of primary fluid inclusions in peritectic garnet from metapelitic enclaves, El Hoyazo, Spain. Lithos, 124, 117–131.
  32. Cesare, B., Ferrero, S., Salvioli-Mariani, E., Pedron, and D. Cavallo, A. (2009): Nanogranite and glassy inclusions: the anatectic melt in migmatites and granulites. Geology   37 , 627-630.
  33. Rossetti, P. & Ferrero, S. (2008): The Zn–Pb deposits of Casario (Ligurian Alps, NW Italy): late Palaeozoic sedimentary–exhalative bodies affected by the alpine metamorphism. Geodinamica Acta 21,117-137.

Miscellaneous (about my work with anatectic melt inclusions)

  • Matthias Zimmermann, Set in stone. Portal Knowledge 2, 2013 universitäat Potsdam.
  • Lilo Berg, Brief Enquires: What´s really going on down there, Mr. Ferrero? Humboldt Kosmos, 101-2013.

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