Our PhD student Mattia Mazzucchelli has been
awarded the “PhD student award 2016” by the International Mineralogical
Association (IMA).
Since 2016, IMA inaugurated its PhD Student
Award, aimed at supporting outstanding students in mineralogy and related
disciplines by providing them with the opportunity to present their research at
an international level (see Elements, vol. 12, p. 133).
In 2016, three students
have been selected by the IMA Council on the basis of their merits and achievements,
and sponsored to present their research at the European Mineralogical
Conference (EMC 2016) held in Rimini, Italy.
Along with Mattia Mazzucchelli the
recipients are Petra Jakubová from Masaryk University
(Brno, Czech Republic) and Liene Spruzeniece from Macquarie University (Sydney,
Australia).
Mattia presented
in Rimini an oral contribution where he showed how numerical modeling (Finite
Element Modeling) can be applied to understand the complex elasticity of
mineral inclusions entrapped in Ultra High Pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks,
expanding the current limits of elastic geobarometry.
