CAVALLO ALESSANDRO
- U04, Floor: 1, Room: 1027
Biography
Alessandro Cavallo is Associate Professor of the academic sector GEO-09 (MINERAL GEORESOURCES AND MINERALOGIC-PETROGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURAL HERITAGE) since february 2022, formerly Researcher – Tenured Assistant Professor of the same academic sector (since December 2008). He got his degree in Geological Sciences at the University of Milan in 2001, and his PhD in Earth Sciences in 2005 at the University of Milan. From 2001 to 2005 he has been employed as technician in applied geology and geophysics studies.
In particular, he worked on:
- Research and characterization of Critical Raw Materials (CRM)
- Sustainable mining & circular economy
- Characterization of ore & industrial minerals
- Quarries and mines
- Recovery of tailings and mining wastes
- Dimension stones (stones, marbles and granites)
- Naturally-occurring asbestos (NOA)
- Industrial hygiene
- Construction and building materials (lime, cement, aggregates)
Participant of research unit in the PRIN 2010-11 "Mineralogical and physico-chemical characteristics of mineral fibers, reactivity and impact on human health". Collaboration in several national and international research projects: (INTERREG PIC-IIIA Val d'Ossola - Italy/Canton Ticino - Switzerland; INAIL-Direzione Regionale Lombardia, INAIL-Direzione Generale; INTERREG IIIA (Val d'Ossola - Italy/Canton Ticino - Switzerland O. S.M.A.T.E.R. - Osservatorio Subalpino Materiali Territorio Restauro; Universidad Nacional de Salta - Facultad de Ciencias Naturales (Argentina): relations between tectonics and volcanism along the Calama-Olacapato-El Toro tectonic line - Argentina; Fondazione Lombardia per l'Ambiente (FLA); Round Robin mining dumps Val d'Aosta; FIBERS: the UNIMORE research group on mineral fibres; CARIPLO ANTICARB project; CARIPLO A-FIRE project.
He has published more than 60 papers in national and international journals and has a Scopus h-index of 13.
He actively collaborates with several research institutions including University of Torino (Italy), University of Oulu (Finland), University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy), CNRS-IS Terre Université de Grenoble Alpes (France), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), Department of Geological Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara (Turkey), as well as scientific referee for commissioned research contracts with many private companies of the mining, quarrying, construction and environmental sector.
Scientific head of the SEM-EDS and XRD laboratory for the analysis of asbestos-containing materials, with accreditation from the Ministry of Health in accordance with Ministerial Decree 14/5/96 and the State-Regions agreement CSR 80 of 07/05/2015.
Publications
Corti, N., Bonali, F., Russo, E., Pasquarè Mariotto, F., Gudmundsson, A., Drymoni, K., et al. (2023). Dike-arrest vs dike-propagation and associated surface stresses: an example from the Younger Stampar eruption (13th century), Reykjanes Peninsula, SW Iceland. In Abstract EGU23 [10.5194/egusphere-egu23-7218]. Detail
Bosio, G., Gioncada, A., Malinverno, E., Coletti, G., Collareta, A., Mariani, L., et al. (2023). Miocene marine phosphogenesis along the Peruvian coast: origin and sedimentological significance of the Pisco Formation phosphorites. In 36th International Meeting of Sedimentology. June 12–16, 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Abstracts Book. Detail
Somigliana, A., Barbieri, P., Cavallo, A., Colombo, R., Consonni, D., Mirabelli, D. (2023). Lung asbestos fiber burden analysis: effects of the counting rules for legal medicine evaluations. INHALATION TOXICOLOGY, 35(11-12), 300-307 [10.1080/08958378.2023.2285789]. Detail
Di Capua, A., Miano, S., Campagnolo, D., Bonomo, S., Caruso, A., Carugati, G., et al. (2023). Multi-proxy signatures in deep-water fine-grained sediments: Inherited versus syn-sedimentary factors controlling sediment compositions within a foredeep basin (Paleogene Adriatic foredeep – Northern Italy). MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY, 157(November 2023) [10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106473]. Detail
Eslami, A., Grieco, G., Bussolesi, M., Ichiyama, Y., Lenaz, D., Skogby, H., et al. (2023). Co-occurrence of compositionally variable chromitites in the Sabzevar ophiolite, NE Iran. LITHOS, 446-447(June 2023) [10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107133]. Detail