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CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM Name: Paolo Ballirano Nationality: Italian Born: 2 November 1964, Roma, Italy Degrees: "Laurea in Scienze Geologiche, cum laude" Università di Roma "La Sapienza", July 1990 "Doctor of Philosophy": Earth Sciences. Università di Roma "La Sapienza", September 1994 "Crystal chemistry of cancrinite-group minerals". Fellowships: • June 1991. Winner of the competition for a ministerial three years project (Ph.D. Grant "Earth Sciences" University of Roma "La Sapienza"). • June 1991. Winner of the competition for a ministerial three years project (Ph.D. Grant "Chemical Sciences" University of Roma "La Sapienza"). • July 1991. Option for Ph.D. Grant "Earth Sciences" University of Roma "La Sapienza". • May 1992. NATO Travel Grant. International School of Crystallography: Modern Perspective in Inorganic Crystal Chemistry. • June 1994. Prize of the Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia (Italian Society of Mineralogy & Petrology; S.I.M.P.) for the best Italian Ph.D. thesis of the year. • December 1997. Travel Grant. European Mineralogical Union. Modul'97. • September 1998. Ugo Panichi prize, Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia (Italian Society of Mineralogy & Petrology; S.I.M.P.) as the best Italian young researcher in the mineralogical field 1996-1998. • June 2003. NATO Travel Grant. International School of Crystallography: High Pressure Crystallography. Career: • September 1991-May 1992. Visiting Scientist at the Depts. of Geology and Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA (Prof. Peter R. Buseck) • November 1994-November 1996. Post Doc Position at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, V. S.Maria 53, Pisa, I-56126 (Prof. Stefano Merlino). • December 1996-October 1998. Research contracts with the Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Roma "La Sapienza", P.le Aldo Moro 5, Roma, I-00185. • October 1998-March 1999. Head of the X-ray diffraction Lab. CTG S.p.A. Italcementi group, V.Camozzi 124, Bergamo, I-24121. • March 1999-January 2005. Researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Roma "La Sapienza", P.le Aldo Moro 5, Roma, I-00185. • July 2002. Get the suitability for the Associate Professor position at the national competition held in Palermo III session 2001 GEO/06. • January 2005. Becomes Associate Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Roma "La Sapienza", P.le Aldo Moro 5, Roma, I-00185. Memberships: • January 1992-present. Member of the Mineralogical Society of America (M.S.A.). • January 1992-present. Member of the Mineralogical association of Canada (M.A.C.). • January 1992-December 1995. Member of the Microscopy Society of America (M.S.A.). • June 1994-present. Member of the Associazione Italiana di Cristallografia (Italian Association of Crystallography; AIC). • May 1997-present. Active Member of the International Center for Diffraction Data (I.C.D.D.). |