address
Dipartimento di Geoscienze
Via Gradenigo 6
I-35131 Padova - Italy

tel: +39-049-827 9162
port: +39 3347151241
fax: +39-049-827 9111

CIRCe secretary: tel: +39-049-827 9166

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Teaching

• Environmental Mineralogy: access to the HTC course notes (limited access)
• Struttura dei solidi/Cristallografia: notes and material (limited access)
• International Master course on "Applied sciences to cultural heritage materials and sites" (ASCH)
  

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research:

• cements (CIRCe center)
• mineralogy
• crystallography
• materials science
• archaeometry (AAcP: Alpine Archaeocopper Project)
• IUCr CrysAC commission (CrysAC website)
  

Recent books:

Scientific methods and cultural heritage
(Oxford University Press) 2010

Fundamentals of crystallography (3rd Edition)C. Giacovazzo (ed.)(Oxford University Press) 2011

Catalogo Mostra CRISTALLI! 2014

Recent books:

Synchrotron radiation - Basics, methods and applications. S. Mobilio, C. Meneghini (eds.)
(Springer) 2015

Earth Sciences for cultural heritage
G. Artioli, S. Quartieri (eds.)
Elements, Feb 2016

Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology
A.S. Gilbert (ed.)(Springer) 2017,2020

Recent books:

Archaeological soil and sediment micromorphology
C. Nicosia, G. Stoops (eds.)(Wiley) 2017

Cementitious materials
H. Poellmann (ed.)(De Gruyter) 2017

Argenti di Marengo-Contesto e materiali
E. Micheletto, M. Venturino (eds.)(LineLab) 2017

Recent books:

Conservation of the architectural surfaces in the Tablinum of the House of the Bicentenary, Herculaneum. Project report. Phase I. L. Rainer, K. Graves, S. Maekawa, M. Gittins, F. Piqué (eds.)(GCI) 2017

The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. S. Lopez Varela (ed.)(Wiley) 2019

Concrete: Case Studies in Conservation Practice. Conserving Modern Heritage Series. Croft C., Macdonald S., Ostergren G (eds.)(GCI) 2019

International Tables for Crystallography. Volume H: Powder Diffraction. Gilmore C.J., Kaduk J.A., Schenk H. (eds.)(IUCr) 2019

The contribution of mineralogy to cultural heritage. EMU Notes in Mineralogy Vol. 20. Artioli G., Oberti R. (eds.)(EMU) 2019

Smart nanoconcretes. Liew M.S. et al. (eds.)(Elsevier) 2020

Comics & Science “The crystal issue” 2021

Cole D.R., Ross N.L. (eds.) Exploring Earth and Planetary Materials with Neutrons. Elements June 2021

Salvadori M., Bernard E., Zamparo L., Baggio M. (eds.) “Beyond forgery – Collecting, authentication and protection of cultural heritage” (Padova University Press) 2022

Tribaudino M., Vollprecht D., Pavese A. (eds.) Proceedings of the EMU School 2022 on “Minerals and waste recovery: An Anthropocene tale”. (Springer Nature) 2023

Encyclopedia of Archaeology. E. Nikita, T. Rehren (eds.)(Academic Press) 2024