Curriculum
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Nationality: Italian
Date of birth: 23/11/1974
CURRENT POSITION
01/02/2021 Associate Professor of Mineralogy at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara (Italy)
10/04/2017 Habilitation to full professorship in the 04/A1 field (Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, Volcanology, Earth Resources and applications)
10/09/2020 Winner of a public selection of a full professor position at the Dept. of Physics and Earth Sciences of the University of Ferrara (Italy)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2017-2021 Associate Professor of Mineralogy at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence (Italy)
2014-2017 Tenure-track researcher in Mineralogy at the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Florence (Italy)
2012-2014 Contract researcher in Mineralogy at the Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Florence (Italy)
2007-2012 Contract researcher in Environmental Mineralogy at the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Florence (Italy)
2003-2007 Post-doc position at the Natural Hystory Museum, University of Florence
EDUCATION
28/6/1999 Master “laurea” degree in Chemistry at the University of Florence (Italy)
19/12/2003 PhD degree in Earth Sciences at the University of Florence (Italy)
LANGUAGE
- Italian: Native
- English: Fluent
- French: Scholar
- German: scholar, read
MEMBERSHIP
SIMP (Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology), GIRSE (Italian Group of Electron Spin Resonance), SGI (Italian Geological Society)
SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
The research interests deal with several activities involving the crystal chemistry of minerals and synthetic materials. These studies are carried out by coupling conventional physical methods in mineralogy and solid state sciences (XRPD, electron microscopy, EDS/WDS microanalysis) and advanced spectroscopic methods as: EPR, XAS (@ ESRF, Grenoble), Mössbauer (@ Univ. Salzburg), SQUID magnetometry.
Recent research lines deal with the health effects of dispersion in air of solid pollutants (crystalline silica, asbestos, urban dusts), environmental effects in As-contaminated lands, the synthesis and characterisation of minero-mimetic materials (quaternary sulfides) for the realisation of new nanostructured devices for solar energy conversion. In the last years, he dedicated also effort in the study of the technological answer to the limited availability of the georesources.
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Since 2010 entrusted of teaching courses in Mineralogy, Environmental Mineralogy, and Earth Resources and in the master degree in Earth Sciences; since 2017 entrusted of a course of Laboratory of Mineralogy in the bachelor degree in Earth Sciences; since 2018 collaborates also to the Mineralogy course in the bachelor degree in Technologies for Conservation and Restoration.
Tutor, or co-tutor of more than 28 Thesis projects in Earth Sciences, Chemistry, Cultural Heritage and Biology. Co-tutor of two Phd Students in Chemistry and Tutor of a PhD student in Earth Sciences. Since 2014, entrusted of several short courses for the Pegasus PhD at the Universities of Florence, Pisa and Siena (Italy).
Member of the Panel for the final examination of the PhD in Earth Sciences, XXVI e XXVII cycles.
Lecturer at the National Schools of Electron Spin Resonance, Sogesta (Urbino), 18-25 September 2003 and Florence, 23-30 September 2009, and of Mineralogy GNM “Physical properties of minerals: how and why to dive into their knowledge”, Bressanone, 12-15 February 2018.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GRANTS
2017 Univ. Florence (Peer Reviewed selection for young researchers) - Magnetically enhanced Hybrid ARchitectures for Photovoltaics (MagHARPs)”
2013 POR CREO FESR action 1.3.B “Aiuti alle PMI per l’acquisizione di servizi qualificati” – ECOSOL - Research on the development of green syntheses of technological multinary sulfides
2013 Health Agency of Florence – Spectroscopic characterisation of the airborne SLC dusts in artificial stone
2012 Gabbrielli Technology – Research on the development of a reactor for synthesis of technological multinary sulfides
2011 Health Agency of Florence – Spectroscopic characterisation of the airborne SLC dust in urban particulate
2010 Health Agency of Florence – Spectroscopic characterisation of the airborne SLC dust in occupational settings
PRIN 2010/11 Interazione fra minerali e biosfera: conseguenze per l'ambiente e la salute umana
PRIN 2008 Reazioni mineralogiche di rilevanza ambientale per la mobilità di elementi ecotossici
2007 Health Agency of Florence – Spectroscopic characterisation of the bulk SLC in occupational settings
2006 CSPO (Centre for the oncologic study and prevention) – Microanalytical investigation of the airborne dusts in the Florence’s hospital.
PRIN 2006 Mineralogia delle fasi responsabili della mobilizzazione e rimozione di elementi contaminanti nelle aree minerarie
PRIN 2004 Mineralogia delle fasi responsabili della mobilizzazione e rimozione dell'arsenico: implicazioni ambientali
PRIN 2003 Cristallochimica dei minerali metalliferi
PRIN 2001 Cristallochimica dei minerali metallici e loro alterazione
PRIN 1999 Cristallochimica delle specie minerali: uso di tecniche avanzate per una moderna sistematica
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACKNOWLEGMENTS
2002 Marie Curie Fellow award at the Training Site in Advanced Microanalysis of Earth Materials (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Manchester - UK)
2002 Invited speaker at the First Russian-Italian Joint Workshop”, Mosca (Russia)
2006 Mentioned at the Premio Ugo Panichi, by SIMP
2007 Invited speaker at the GHMFL User Meeting, CNRS, Grenoble, France)
2007-2010 Executive Board member of the GIRSE.
2007-present PI or co-proposer of more than 28 experiments at synchrotron light sources (XAS, PXRD, XRF, SXRD, FEXRAV), some of them under non-ambient conditions, as in situ and/or operando modes.
2008 Invited speaker at the Materials Sciences and Physics Department at Salzburg (Austria)
2008 Member of the Scientific Committee of the IX National GIRSE meeting, Giovinazzo, 27-30 September
2008 Member of the panel of the Ulderico Segre Prize
2009 Member of the Scientific Committee of the V National GIRSE school, Firenze, 23-30 September
2009 entrusted by Canada Council for the Arts as Reviewer for a Killam Research Fellowship in Mineralogy
2010 Invited speaker at the workshop “Rischio Amianto: Esperienze a Confronto”, Pisa, Italy
2010 Member of the Scientific Committee of the X National GIRSE meeting, Rimini, 23-26 September
2010-2014 Vice-Chair of the Subcommission for Mineral Spectroscopy dell’International Mineralogical Association (IMA). Then, member until present days.
2011 Member of the Scientific Committee of the workshop “Giornata di studi su Silice Libera Cristallina (SLC): esperienze condivise tra ricerca applicata e prevenzione”, Firenze, 20 May
2012 Advisor for the activation of an Helmholtz Research School (PhD training programme) at: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus (BTU), Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Humboldt Universität Berlin (HUB), Technische Universität Berlin (TUB).
2012 Session Co-Chair at the ICTMC 18 – International Conference on Ternary and Multinary Compounds, Salzburg (Austria), 27-31 August 2012
2013 Session Co-Chair at the EUROMAT 2013, Sevilla (Spain) 8-13 Septembre 2013
2014 Session Co-Chair at the MSE 2014 Darmstadt (Germany), 23-25 September
2014 Co-Author of the “Report on the activity of the GILDA-CRG beamline, 2009-2013”.
2014 Invited speaker at the National NIS meeting "La Silice Libera Cristallina: fra dibattito scientifico e buone prassi", Roma, Italy
2014-2016 Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Novel Thin Film Materials for Photovoltaic Applications" published on Coatings
2014-present Attended the activities of the NIS (Network Italiano Silice).
2014-2016 Co-author of the Nuove Linee Guida NIS sul rischio Silice.
2015-2016 Delegate in the operative group of the DST during VQR 2011-2014.
2015-2019 Officer, entrusted by CNR President, of the panel for the attribution of beamtime at the beamline LISA c/o ESRF (Grenoble, France).
2015 Member of the Organising Committee of the National SIMP-AIV-SoGeI-SGI joint meeting, Florence, 2-4 September
2015 Session Co-Chair at the National SIMP-AIV-SoGeI-SGI joint meeting, Florence, 2-4 September
2015 Member of the Organising Committee of the International ECMS 2015 meeting, Rome, 9-11 September
2016 Guest Editor of the volume “The 8th European Conference on Mineralogy and Spesctroscopy”, published on European Journal of Mineralogy
2016 Session Co-Chair at the MSE 2016 Darmstadt (Germany), 27-29 September.
2016 Member of the Scientific Committee of the workshop “Silice e Amianto: attualità delle conoscenze scientifiche e del territorio”
2017-2019 Representative of the Geochemistry, Earth Resources, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology Section of the DST, and member of the Departmental board. 2017 Membro del gruppo di Lavoro presso il DST per la stesura del Progetto per la selezione dei Dipartimenti di eccellenza da parte del MIUR
2018 Organiser and Lecturer at the International School “Diagnostic and survey of architectonical and archaeological heritage”, Sheikh Zayed City, Cairo (Egypt), 7-14 April
2018 organiser of the workshop “Amianto: un fantasma del passato o una sotria infinita”, 18 June, Firenze
2018 Session Co-Chair at the SGI SIMP 2018 joint meeting, 12-14 Settembre, Catania
2020 Session Co-Chair at the MSE 2014 Darmstadt (Germany), 23 al 25 Settembre 2014.
PUBLICATION SCORES AND METRICS
Since 2000, FDB authored of more than 100 full-length articles, most of them (90) published in International Peer Reviewed Journals of the ISI circuit. Moreover, he published more than 150 abstracts and extended abstracts in conference proceedings. At January 2021, FDB earned an average IF of 3.480, a 21 h-factor, and a total of 1446 citations (source: Scopus); according to WOS, the h-factor is 20 and the total cites are 1309. FDB also authored 12 chapters in book and proceedings of national and international relevance, and he is reviewer for more than 35 international peer reviewed ISI journals.
