Mercoledì 14.30 -> 17.30
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G.O. Lepore has been interested in the study of the crystal-chemical characteristics of minerals and inorganic phases since the beginning of his scientific career. He obtained his bachelor degree with a dissertation on the crystal-chemical modifications occurring in ilvaite upon annealing at increasing temperatures. During his master, he spent a period in the mineralogy section of the Natural History Museum of London (funded by the Erasmus-placement program) under the supervision of M. D. Welch, with whom he performed studies on the structural characterization of parkinsonite. His master dissertation was centred on the structural and chemical characterization of members of the polysomatic series epidote-törnebohmite. At the beginning of his PhD, following a visit at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut (Universität Bayreuth) under the supervision of T. Boffa Ballaran, he studied the high pressure behaviour of As sulphides and weberite-type compounds. He later focused on the crystal chemistry of the mica supergroup, mainly on the relationship between structural details and crystallisation conditions. After his PhD, he worked as a beamline scientist at “LISA”, the Italian CRG beamline at ESRF, managed by F. d’Acapito. During this period he participated to the assembly of the new beamline and started investigating local atomic arrangements of elements in minerals, natural glasses and technologically relevant materials. Since 2020 he is working as a researcher in mineralogy at DST-UNIFI.
G. O. Lepores's main interests include the crystal structure and crystal chemistry of natural and synthetic inorganic phases. Structure, local ordering, and incorporation mechanisms of diluted elements in minerals and in materials of environmental and technological relevance. Employed techniques are: SC-XRD, XAS, microanalysis (EMPA), microscopy (SEM, TEM).