FREZZOTTI MARIA LUCE

Role
Full Professor  
Academic disciplines
Petrology (GEOS-01/B)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
MINERALOGY, PETROLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY, VOLCANOLOGY, GEORESOURCES AND APPLICATIONS (04/GEOS-01)
Email
[email protected]
Office phone
0264482056
Room:
  • U04, Floor: 1, Room: 1038

Publications

  • Maffeis, A., Frezzotti, M., Esposito, R., Malusa, M., Aiuppa, A., Rizzo, A., et al. (2026). Carbon enrichment processes in the oceanic upper mantle preserved in peridotites from Sal Island (Cape Verde). GEOSCIENCE FRONTIERS, 17(1) [10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102179]. Detail

  • Maria Lo Forte, F., Rizzo, A., Aiuppa, A., Libardo Sandoval Velasquez, A., Romano, P., Maffeis, A., et al. (2026). Carbon isotopes in OIB Mantle source [Banca dati] [10.5880/fidgeo.2026.110]. Detail

  • Ostorero, L., Esposito, R., Bouilhol, P., Ballato, P., Müller, V., Frezzotti, M., et al. (2025). Iranian Neo-Tethyan magmas as a significant CO2 source during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum. LITHOS, 514-515(15 November 2025) [10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108216]. Detail

  • Ostorero, L., Esposito, R., Bouilhol, P., Ballato, P., Müller, V., Frezzotti, M., et al. (2025). Iranian Neo-Tethyan Magmas as a Significant Co2 Source During the Middle Eocene Climate Optimum [Altro] [10.2139/ssrn.5118124]. Detail

  • Maffeis, A., Frezzotti, M., Connolly, J., Castelli, D., Ferrando, S. (2024). Sulfur disproportionation in deep COHS slab fluids drives mantle wedge oxidation. SCIENCE ADVANCES, 10(12) [10.1126/sciadv.adj2770]. Detail

Full list

Research projects

PNRR per la Missione 4, componente 2 Investimento 1.1- Avviso 104/2022 | CRUStal CArbon: exploring the role of the crust in the C cycle (CRUSCA)
Year: 2022
Call: Bando PRIN 2022
Grantors: MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA (MUR)
Mineral/fluid inclusions in diamonds as tracers of volatile budgets and processes in the mantle
Year: 2021
Call: FAQC 2021 - terza finestra
Grantors: Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA
FluidNET-Fluids driving the evolution of the continental crust: influence of pathway networks, fluxes, and time scales
Year: 2020
Call: Innovative Training Networks
Grantors: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Carbon cycling and Earth control on the livable planet: connecting deep key carbon sources to surface CO2 degassing by transfer processes - Connect4Carbon
Year: 2017
Call: PRIN 2017
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA
FREZZOTTI-Fondo per il finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca
Year: 2017
Call: FFABR 2017
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA - UFFICIO I - Bilancio e Contabilita'. Coordinamento staff della Direzione

Awards

Awards

  • Medaglia d'Oro per le Scienze Fisiche e Naturali dell’Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, 2019

Scientific fellowships

  • Fellow - Mineralogical Society of America, 2015

Editorial boards

  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT, 2020
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - HELIYON, 2018 - 2021
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - LITHOS, 2017
  • Direttore di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, 2009 - 2018
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY, 1998 - 2004

Research and teaching assignments

  • Attivita' didattica - Ph. D. Course "fluids in the Earth" with R.J. Bodnar, L. Danuychevsky, J.D. Webster - Nanjing University, 2014
  • Attivita' didattica - Course "Fluids in the Earth" - Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, 2016
  • Professore a contratto - Insegnamenti: Igneous Petrology e Volcanology - VU University Amsterdam, 1996 - 1997
  • Ricercatore all estero - VU University Amsterdam, 1990 - 1992

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program chair - "Carbon Forms Path and Processes"(Italia), 2017
  • Program chair - ECROFI - European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions, 2005