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Date of birth: 12.08.1963 at Chirignago, Venice, Italian national
Education and Professional Career
2011 Full Professor of Petrography and Petrology, University of Padua (UniPD)
2001 Associate Professor of Petrography and Petrology, UniPD
1993 Lecturer in Petrography, UniPD
1992 PhD in Earth Sciences, UniPD
1987 Degree cum laude in Geological Sciences, UniPD
Research training Abroad
1997: 2 months at C.N.R.S., Clermont-Ferrand (France): experimental petrology
1993: 3 months at Dept. Geol. Geophys. Sci., Princeton, NJ (USA): fluid inclusion studies
1990-1991: 7 months stay at ETH-Zurich (CH): training during PhD
Scientific Activity
The research activity of Bernardo Cesare concentrates on:
- Low-Pressure – High-Temperature metamorphism and anatexis of metapelites
- Fluid-rock interactions during partial melting of graphitic pelites
- Mineralogical studies of High-Temperature minerals in metapelites
- Alpine Pressure-Temperature evolution the rocks south of the Tauern Window
- Alpine Geology
Scientific papers
62 papers (31 as first author), 52 of which in ISI-WoS, >800 citations, h-index: 17
3 volumes as (co)Editor
>90 presentations at congresses and workshops (65 international)
Full list at: www.geoscienze.unipd.it/~bernardo/bernardo/papers.html
Invited Contributions
Seminars at: Univ. Maryland (2011), Princeton, NJ (2011), Potenza (1998), Berlin (2002, 2010), Milan (2010), Parma (2003), Turin (2005), Granada (2001, 2006, 2011), ETH-Zurich (2002, 2007, 2012), Curtin, Perth (2012), Paris UPMC (2013)
Talks at GSA (Philadelphia, USA, 2006); AGU (San Francisco, USA, 2006); GSA (Portland, 2009), IMA (Budapest, 2010), Goldschmidt (Montreal, CA, 2012), Granulites and Granulites (Hyderabad, IN, 2013).
Talks at workshops ESF (Turku, FI, 1999); Euromargins (Bologna, 2006); IVSLA (Venice, 2009).
Lectures at advanced Schools: GNM (Ponza, 1997); GNP (Asiago, 1997; Pavia, 1998); SFMC-SIMP (Pavia, 2002); ISPET (Granada, E, 2004; Canberra, AU, 2005) EURISPET (Budapest, H, 2008); GAC-MAC (Quebec City, CA, 2008), Eurispet (Padova, 2010).
Expertise in Research Management
Coordinator of projects:
- Crustal Anatexis in Nature and Experiments, (1998-2000) funded by UniPD
- Subsolidus processes in rocks and materials (1999-2001) funded by C.N.R.
- Petrologic study of fluid-melt-rock interactions during the anatexis of graphitic metapelites (2005-2007) funded by MIUR
- Crustal Anatexis: Natural evidence, Experiments and Modelling (2008-2010) funded by MIUR
P.I. of the Project: Crustal Melting in the thinned margin of the Alboràn basin” within the WESTMED Euromargins Eurocore (2004-2006) funded by C.N.R. through ESF
Scientific Prizes
Prize "Oxilia", of SGI for the period 1989-1990
Prize "Bianchi", of SIMP for the period 1994-1995
Prize "Tartufari", of Accademia dei Lincei, 2012
Fellow, GSA from 2013
Organization of Scientific Meetings
Co-Convenor of symposia:
-Deciphering metamorphic processes, EUG10 (Strasbourg, 1999)
-Melting and the rheology of the crust and upper mantle: what significance for geodynamics?, IGC, Florence, 2004
-Volatiles in minerals and their petrologic implications”, Frontiers in Mineral Sciences (Cambridge, 2007)
Invited member at the ESF Workshop “Restite-melt and solid-vapour back reactions" (Turku, Finland, 1999)
Lecturer at "Working with Migmatittes", GAC-MAC "Quebec2008", Canada
Editorial Activity
Member of the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Metamorphic Geology from 2006
Associate Editor of European Journal of Mineralogy from 2013
Member of the Editorial Board of Periodico di Mineralogia (2004-2008)
Guest Editor (and Author) for the thematic issue ” When the Continental Crust Melts” of Elements (Aug, 2011)
Referee for: African J. Earth Sci., Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., Eur. J. Mineral., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, Geology, Geofluids, Geol. Mag., Geol. Mat. Res., Geophys. Res. Lett., Iranian J. Sci. Tech., Italian J. Geosci., J. Geol. Soc. London, J. Metam Geol., J. Petrology, Lithos, Mineralium Deposita, Phys. Chem. Earth., TerraNova.
Reviewing of Research Projects
Referee for: CIVR, European Science Foundation, MIUR-PRIN, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Romanian National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Università di Siena, progetti di Ateneo
Training of Research
Director of the PhD School in Earth Sciences at the UniPD (2004-2007)
Coordinator of the FP6 Marie Curie Series of Events "EURISPET" - European Intensive Seminars of Petrology (www.eurispet.eu)
Coordinator of the ISPET project (MIUR Interlink) for international teaching of metamorphic petrology at PhD level
Organiser of 11 international intensive Seminars in petrology in the period 2003-2010
Supervisor of 3 PhD and 4 postDocs
Activity as Microphotographer
As an amateur photographer with artistic intent, his rock photomicrographs have been displayed in photo galleries, at mineralogical and scientific exhibits and in Natural Sciences Museums in Italy, France, Germany, Hungary and USA, and published in photographic and popular magazines, and in geological journals. He won the MicroGeo2008 photo contest of the Russian Mineralogical Society, the 2nd and 3rd place at the 2008-9 Art in Crystallography Prize of the American Crystallographic Association, and the 9th place at Nikon Small World contest 2009.
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Lavori Scientifici Pubblicati:
Bartoli, O., Tajčmanová L., Cesare, B., Acosta-Vigil, A. (2013) Phase equilibria constraints on melting of stromatic migmatites from Ronda (S Spain): insights on the formation of peritectic garnet. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, in press.
Bartoli, O., Cesare, B., Poli, S., Acosta-Vigil, A., Esposito R., Turina A., Bodnar, R.J., Angel R.J., Hunter J. (2013) Nanogranite inclusions in migmatitic garnet: behavior during piston-cylinder remelting experiments. Geofluids (in press)
Ferri F., Gibert B., Violay M. and Cesare B. (2013) Electrical conductivity in a partially molten crust from measurements on metasedimentary enclaves. Tectonophysics, 586:84 - 94
Bartoli, O., Cesare, B., Poli, S., Bodnar, R.J., Acosta-Vigil, A., Frezzotti, M.L. and Meli S. (2013) Recovering the composition of melt and the fluid regime at the onset of crustal anatexis and S-type granite formation. Geology, 41:115-118.
Acosta-Vigil A., Buick I., Cesare B., London D., Morgan VI G.B. (2012) The extent of equilibration between melt and residuum during regional anatexis and its implications for differentiation of the continental crust: a study of partially melted metapelitic enclaves. Journal of Petrology, 53, 1319-1356.
Ferrero, S., Bartoli, O., Cesare, B., Salvioli-Mariani, E., Acosta-Vigil, A., Cavallo, A., Groppo, C. & Battiston,S. (2012) Microstructures of melt inclusions in anatectic metasedimentary rocks. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 30, 303-322.
Sawyer, E.W., Cesare, B. & Brown M. (2011) When the continental crust melts. Elements, 7, 227-232.
Holness, M.B., Cesare, B. & Sawyer, E.W. (2011) Melted rocks under the microscope: microstructures and their interpretation. Elements, 7, 245-250.
Satish-Kumar M., Yurimoto H., Itoh S., Cesare B. (2011) Carbon isotope anatomy of a single graphite crystal in a metapelitic migmatite revealed by high-resolution SIMS analysis. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 162, 821-834.
Cesare, B., Acosta-Vigil, A., Ferrero, S. and Bartoli, O. (2011) Melt inclusions in migmatites and granulites. In: (Eds.) Marnie A. Forster, and John D. Fitz Gerald, The Science of Microstructure - Part II, Journal of the Virtual Explorer, Electronic Edition, ISSN 1441-8142, volume 40, paper2.
Ferrero S., Bodnar R.J., Cesare B., Viti C. (2011) Re-equilibration of primary fluid inclusions in peritectic garnet from metapelitic enclaves, El Hoyazo, Spain. Lithos, 124, 117-131.
Cesare, B. and Acosta-Vigil, A. (2011) Using melt inclusions for understanding crustal melting processes. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology, 355-359.
Spiess, R., Cesare, B., Mazzoli C., Sassi R. e Sassi F.P. (2010) The crystalline basement of the Adria micro-plate in the Eastern Alps: a review of the palaeostructural evolution from the Neoproterozoic to the Cenozoic. Rendiconti Lincei, 21, S31-S50.
Cesare, B., Mazzoli C., Sassi, R., Spiess R. e Sassi F.P. (2010) Beauty and complexity of metamorphism: case studies from the frontal part of the Adria Micro-plate. Rendiconti Lincei, 21, S73-S94.
Acosta-Vigil A., Buick I., Hermann J., Cesare B., Rubatto D., London D., Morgan VI G.B. (2010) Mechanisms of Crustal Anatexis: a Geochemical Study of Partially Melted Metapelitic Enclaves and Host Dacite, SE Spain. Journal of Petrology, 51, 785-821.
Cesare, B., Mazzoli C., Sassi, R., Spiess R. e Sassi F.P. (2009) Petrogenetic processes in the middle crust of the Eastern Alps. Rendiconti online Soc. Geol. It., 9, 18-20.
Spiess, R., Cesare, B., Mazzoli C. e Sassi R. (2009) The crystalline basement of the Adria micro-plate. Rendiconti online Soc. Geol. It., 9, 60-63.
Della Ventura G., Bellatreccia F., Cesare B., Harley S. and Piccinini M. (2009) FTIR microspectroscopy and SIMS study of water-poor cordierite from El Hoyazo, Spain: Application to mineral and melt devolatilization. Lithos, 113, 498-506.
Cesare B., Ferrero S., Salvioli-Mariani E., Pedron D. e Cavallo A. (2009) Nanogranite and glassy inclusions: the anatectic melt in migmatites and granulites. Geology, 37, 627-630.
Lavina B., Cesare B., Álvarez-Valero A.M., Uchida H., Downs R.T., Koneva A., Dera P. (2009) Closure temperatures of intracrystalline ordering in anatectic and metamorphic hercynite, Fe2+Al2O4. American Mineralogist, 94, 657-665.
Tajcmanova L., Connolly JAD, Cesare B. (2009) A thermodynamic model for titanium and ferric iron solution in biotite. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27, 153-165
Perini G., Cesare B., Gómez-Pugnaire M.T., Ghezzi, S., Tommasini S. (2009) Armouring effect in decoupling Sr-Nd isotopes during disequilibrium crustal melting: the case study of frozen migmatites from El Hoyazo and Mazarrón, SE Spain. European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 117-131.
Cesare B., Rubatto D., Gómez-Pugnaire M.T. (2009) Do extrusion ages reflect magma generation processes at depth? An example from SE Spain. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 157, 267-279.
Acosta-Vigil, A., Buick, I., Hermann, J., Cesare, B. and Rubatto D. (2008) Mechanisms and kinetics of crustal anatexis from a LA-ICP-MS study of partially melted metapelitic enclaves and host El Hoyazo dacite, SE Spain. Geotemas, 10, 1369-1372. (ISSN: 1567-5172)
Cesare B. (2008) Crustal melting: working with enclaves. Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course 38, Quebec City, Quebec, p. 37-55.
Cesare, B., Satish-Kumar, M., Cruciani, G., Pocker, S., Nodari (2008) Mineral chemistry of Ti-rich biotite from pegmatite and metapelitic granulites of the Kerala Khondalite Belt (SE India): Petrology and further insight into titanium substitutions. American Mineralogist, 93, 327-338
Alvarez-Valero A.M., Cesare B., Kriegsman L. (2007) Formation of spinel-cordierite-feldspars-glass coronas after garnet in metapelitic xenoliths. Reaction modelling and geodynamic implications. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 25, 305-320.
Ferri, F., Burlini, L., Cesare, B., Sassi R. (2007) Seismic properties of lower crustal xenoliths from El Hoyazo (SE Spain): experimental evidence up to partial melting. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 253; 239-253.
Acosta-Vigil A., Cesare B., London D., Morgan G.B.VI (2007) Microstructures and composition of melt inclusions in a crustal anatectic environment: the metapelitic enclaves within El Hoyazo dacites, SE Spain. Chemical Geology, 237, 450-465.
Cesare B., Maineri C., Baron Toaldo A., Pedron D. and Acosta Vigil A. (2007) Immiscibility between carbonic fluids and granitic melts during crustal anatexis: a fluid and melt inclusion study in the enclaves of the Neogene Volcanic Province of SE Spain. Chemical Geology, 237, 433-449.
Tarolli, P., Borga, M., Cesare, B., Zanon, F., Tollardo, M., Macconi P.P. (2006) Innesco di frane superficiali durante eventi di precipitazione brevi ed intensi in zone alpine. Quaderni di Idronomia Montana, 26, 95-112.
Alvarez-Valero A.M., Cesare B., Kriegsman L. (2005) Formation of elliptical garnets in a metapelitic enclave by melt-assisted dissolution and reprecipitation. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 23, 65-74.
Cesare B., Meli S., Nodari L., Russo U. (2005) Fe3+ reduction during biotite melting in graphitic metapelites: another origin of CO2 in granulites. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 149, 129-140.
Clarke, D.B., Dorais, M., Barbarin, B., Barker, D., Cesare, B., et al. (2005) Occurrence and Origin of Andalusite in Peraluminous Felsic Igneous Rocks. Journal of Petrology, 46, 441-472.
Frezzotti M.L., Cesare B. and Scambelluri M. (2004) Fluids at extreme P-T metamorphic conditions: the message from high-grade rocks. Periodico di Mineralogia, vol. 73, 209-219.
Sassi F.P., Cesare B., Mazzoli C., Peruzzo L., Sassi R. and Spiess R. (2004) The crystalline basements of the Italian eastern Alps: a review of the metamorphic features. Periodico di Mineralogia, vol. 73, 23-42.
Mazzoli C.; Sassi R.; Burlini L.; Cesare B.; Peruzzo L.; Spiess R.; Sassi F.P. (2003). The abundance of 55 elements and petrovolumetric models of the crust in the Aurina and Pusteria valleys (site 4). In F.P. Sassi (Ed.) The abundance of 55 elements and petrovolumetric models of the crust in 9 type areas from the crystalline basements of Italy, with some geophysical and petrophysical data. Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Scritti e Documenti, vol. 32 pp. 197-251.
Burlini L.; Cesare B.; Mazzoli C.; Meli S.; Peruzzo L.; Sassi R.; Spiess R.; Sassi F.P. (2003). Standardized operational procedures for the project "Composition and evolution of the continental crust, with special regard to the Italian crystalline basements". In F.P. Sassi (Ed.) The abundance of 55 elements and petrovolumetric models of the crust in 9 type areas from the crystalline basements of Italy, with some geophysical and petrophysical data. Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Scritti e Documenti, vol. 32 pp. 23-34.
Cesare B., Gomez-Pugnaire M.T., Rubatto D. (2003) Residence time of S-type anatectic magmas beneath the Neogene Volcanic Province of SE Spain: a zircon and monazite SHRIMP study. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 146: 28–43.
Cesare B., Marchesi C., Hermann J. and Gomez-Pugnaire M.T. (2003) Primary melt inclusions in andalusite from anatectic graphitic metapelites: Implications for the position of the Al2SiO5 triple point. Geology, 31, 7, 573-576.
Cesare B., Cruciani G. and Russo U. (2003) Hydrogen deficiency in titanium-rich biotite from anatectic metapelites (El Joyazo - SE Spain): implications for high-temperature petrogenesis American Mineralogist, 88, 583-595.
Cesare B., Gomez-Pugnaire M.T., Sanchez-Navas A. Grobety B. (2002) Andalusite - sillimanite replacement (Mazarrón - SE Spain): microstructural and TEM study. American Mineralogist, 87, 433-444.
Cesare B. Marchesi C. Connolly J.A.D. (2002) Growth of myrmekite coronas by contact metamorphism of granitic mylonites in the aureole of Cima di Vila (eastern Alps - Italy). Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 203-213.
Cesare B. Rubatto D., Hermann J. Barzi L. (2002) Evidence for Late Carboniferous subduction-type magmatism in mafic-ultramafic cumulates of the SW Tauern Window (Eastern Alps). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 142, 449-464.
Cesare B., Poletti E., Boiron M-C. Cathelineau M. (2001) Alpine metamorphism and veining in the Zentralgneis Complex of the SW Tauern Window: a model of fluid-rock interactions based on fluid inclusions. Tectonophysics, 336, 121-136.
Cesare B. Gomez-Pugnaire M.T. (2001) Crustal melting in the Alborán domain: constraints from the xenoliths of the Neogene Volcanic Province. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A, 26/4-5, 255-260.
Cesare B. (2000) Incongruent melting of biotite to spinel in a quartz-free restite at El Joyazo (SE Spain): Textures and reaction characterization. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 139: 273-284.
Cesare B. (1999) Multi-Stage pseudomorphic replacement of garnet during polymetamorphism: 2. algebraic analysis of mineral assemblages. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 17, 735–746.
Cesare B. (1999) Multi-Stage pseudomorphic replacement of garnet during polymetamorphism: Microstructures and their interpretation. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 17, 723–734.
Cesare B. Maineri C. (1999) Fluid-present anatexis of metapelites at El Joyazo (SE Spain): constraints from raman spectroscopy of graphite. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 135, 41-52.
Pennacchioni G. Cesare B. (1997) Ductile-brittle transition in pre-Alpine amphibolite facies mylonites during evolution from water-present to water-deficient conditions (Mont Mary nappe, Italian Western Alps). Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 15, 777-791.
Cesare B., Salvioli Mariani E., Venturelli G. (1997) Crustal anatexis and melt extraction in the restitic xenoliths at El Joyazo (SE Spain). Mineralogical Magazine, 61. 15-27.
Cesare B. (1995) Graphite precipitation within C-O-H fluid inclusions: closed-system chemical and density changes, and thermobarometric implications. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology,122, 25-33.
Cesare B. Hollister L.S. (1995) Andalusite-bearing veins at Vedrette di Ries (Eastern Alps - Italy): fluid phase composition based on fluid inclusions. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 13, 687-700.
Cesare B. and Grobety B. (1995) Epitaxial replacement of kyanite by staurolite: a TEM study of the microstructures. American Mineralogist, 95, 78-86.
Cesare B. (1994) Synmetamorphic veining: origin of andalusite-bearing veins in the Vedrette di Ries contact aureole, Eastern Alps, Italy. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 12, 643-653.
Cesare B. (1994) Hercynite as the product of staurolite decomposition in the contact aureole of Vedrette di Ries, eastern Alps, Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 116, 239-246.
Connolly J. and Cesare B. (1993) C-O-H-S fluid composition and oxygen fugacity in graphitic metapelites. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 11, 379-388.
Cesare B. (1992) Contact metamorphism of pelitic rocks in the aureole of the Vedrette di Ries intrusion (eastern Alps - Italy) Riassunto Tesi di Dottorato, Plinius (Suppl. It. European Journal of Mineralogy), 7, 37-42
Cesare B. (1992) Metamorfismo di contatto di rocce pelitiche nell'aureola di Vedrette di Ries (Alpi Orientali, Italia). Atti Ticinensi di Scienze della Terra, 35; 1-7.
Canepa M., Castelletto M., Cesare B., Martin S. e Zaggia L. (1990): The Austroalpine Mont Mary nappe (Italian Western Alps). Memorie di Scienze Geologiche, 42, pp. 1-17
Cesare B., Martin S. e Zaggia L. (1989): Mantle peridotites from the Austroalpine Mont Mary nappe (Western Alps). Schweizerische Mineralogische and Petrographische Mitteilungen, 69, pp. 61-69
Field Trip Guides
Cesare B., Fioretti A. and Rosenberg C. (2004) The periadriatic intrusion of Vedrette di Ries - Rieserferner (eastern Alps): petrology, emplacement mechanisms and contact aureole. 32nd IGC, B17 Field Trip Guide Book. Published by APAT – Italian Agency for the Environmental Protection and Technical Services - Via Vitaliano Brancati, 48 - 00144 Roma – Italy, 36pp.
Guide e Carte Geologiche:
Cesare B., Mazzoli C., Meli S., Peruzzo L., Sassi R., Spiess R. e Zane A. (1997) Carta dei Basamenti Cristallini della Provincia di Bolzano alla scala 1:50.000
Cesare B., Fioretti A.M., Rosenberg C. (2004) The periadriatic intrusion of Vedrette di Ries - Rieserferner (eastern Alps): petrology, emplacement mechanism and contact aureole. B17 Field Trip Guide, International Geological Congress, Florence.
Peloso L., Cesare B. (2008) Vedrette di Ries - Magmatismo, metamorfismo e morfologia glaciale in un itinerario di alta quota. Agenda del Comitato Scientifico C.A.I., mese di Settembre. 14 pp.
Cesare B., Keim L., Mair V., Mazzoli C., Meneghel M., Moretti A., Peruzzo L., Sassi R. & Spiess R. (in stampa) Note illustrative della Carta Geologica d’Italia alla scala 1:50.000 Foglio 009 - Anterselva.
Cesare B., Peloso L. (2010) Vedrette di Ries - Un anello tra rocce magmatiche, metamorfiche e ghiacciai. Via Geoalpina
Tesi di Dottorato
Cesare B. (1992) Metamorfismo di contatto di rocce pelitiche nell'aureola di Vedrette di Ries (Alpi Orientali, Italia). Tesi per il conseguimento del titolo di Dottorato in Scienze della Terra (IV Ciclo), 106 pp.
Testi di Seminari
Connolly J. and Cesare B. (1993) Phase diagrams for graphitic rocks. VII Summer School on Earth and Planetary Sciences "Quantitative phase diagram applications in earth material sciences". Siena, Novembre 1993 Lecture Notes, 25 pp.
Cesare B. (1997) Minerogenesi Metamorfica, II. Il metamorfismo di contatto. Scuola di Mineralogia "La minerogenesi". Appunti delle Lezioni, Ponza, 16-20/6/1997. 182-192.
Cesare B. (1998) Anatessi crostale e genesi di magmi granitici: evidenze negli xenoliti metapelitici di El Joyazo (Spagna Meridionale). 2a Scuola del Gruppo Nazionale di Petrografia "Metodologie e modellizzazioni nella moderna petrologia Magmatica" Asiago, 15-19/6
Cesare B. (1998) Gas e fluidi sopracritici in ambienti naturali e sperimentali. 3a Scuola del Gruppo Nazionale di Petrografia "Processi subsolidus nelle rocce e nei materiali", Pavia, 14-18/10
Fotomicroscopia
Cesare B. (2009) 100 natural, 100% synthetic. Infocus, proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 14, 44-75.
Cesare B., Pinna M. (2009) Meraviglie di roccia. National Geographic Italia, 12, 24.