Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9724-6837
I am fascinated by the Earth’s crust–mantle boundary, how fluids interact with rocks, how sulphides and metals move through the lithosphere, and how ultramafic rocks can store carbon or generate hydrogen.
I was site manager for the ICDP-DIVE drilling project in northern Italy, where we drilled two boreholes into the lower continental crust of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone.
These days, I divide my time between studying sulphide mobility in the lower crust and serpentinisation along tectonic structures, exploring deep Earth processes with important implications for critical raw materials and future energy systems.
Academic background:
- 2018-2022: PhD with honors in Earth Sciences at University of Trieste - “The interaction between K-rich melts and mantle minerals in Fernando de Noronha (Brazil) mantle xenoliths: a 3D X-ray computed microtomography and geochemical study”.
- 2022-2024: Site Manager for the ICDP-DIVE drilling project.
- 2025-present: Humboldt fellow at JGU Mainz.
