PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2000-present Professor of Petrology, School of Science and Technology, Geology Division, University of Camerino, Italy
2011-present Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America
1998-1999 Associate Professor of Geochemistry & Volcanology, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Camerino, Italy
1996-1998 Reader, Bristol University, Geology Department, Bristol, UK
1995-1996 Nuffield Foundation Research Fellow
1990-1996 Lecturer, Bristol University, Geology Department, Bristol, UK
1988-1990 Researcher, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, FRG
1986-1988 Research Associate in Experimental Petrology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA
1980 to 1985 Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
EDUCATION:
PhD in Geology, 1986, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Scientific Panel and Program Committee – American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Volcano-Climate interactions (2001-2002)
Scientific Panel – organization for 32nd International Geologic Congress, Firenze 2004 (2002-2004)
Mineralogical Society of America Awards Committee, 1999
Scientific Advisory Council, CNR Institute of Geochronology and Isotope Geology, Pisa, 1998-2001
Scientific Advisory Council, CNR Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources, 2002-2005
Scientific Review Panel, EU Geochemical Facility, Bristol University, 1998-2002
Editorial Board, Bulletin of Volcanology, 1996-2004
Editorial Board, Periodico di Mineralogia, 1998-2006
Editorial Board, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal research, 2001-2003
Editorial Board, Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 2013-present
Guest Editor, Chemical Geology Special Issue - Degassing of the Earth, 1997
NERC Scientific Services Review Panel, 1997
Grant proposal reviewer for NSF, NERC, Swiss National Science Foundation, European Science Foundation
Manuscript reviewer for Nature, Science, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, Journal of Petrology, Geophysical Research Letters, J. Geophys. Res., American Mineralogist, Mineralogical Magazine,
Coordinator, Teaching committee in Geology, Camerino (BS, MS degrees) (2004-2006)
Coordinator, PhD program in Earth Science, University of Camerino (from 2007)
TEACHING
Teaching in Igneous Petrology, Geochemistry, Volcanology