14.04.2026
On 9–13 February 2026, scientists gathered at the Lorentz Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands, to explore past and present conditions for habitability on Venus. The workshop assessed the current state of knowledge on the coevolution of the planet’s surface, interior, and atmosphere, and evaluated how
Speakers: Dr. Giancarlo Davoli, Dr. Fabio La Valle, Dr. Giovanni Scrofani - ENI Italia. | Tuesday 14 April 2026 | 4,30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom - Introduction: Prof. Giulio Di Toro (Dipartimento di Geoscienze)
14.04.2026
GEMS (Geoscience for Energy) is Eni’s advanced training program aimed at young graduates who are capable of tackling the challenges of energy and georesources. The program includes lectures delivered in English by Eni experts and international faculty. It lasts 9 months and takes place at Eni
Speaker: Dr. Simon Schorn - Institute of Geosciences & Mainz Institute of Multiscale Modeling, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. | Tuesday 31 March 2026 | 4,30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom
31.03.2026
Reactions involving latent heat exchange are fundamental in driving the dynamics of metamorphic processes. While prograde dehydration and melting drastically increase the effective heat capacity by over an order of magnitude, retrograde hydration and melt crystallization generate transient heat
20.03.2026
The University of Padua, within the cooperation agreement for the issuance of a double degree in Geophysical Sciences, announces a call for applications for no. 5 mobility places for 1 semester, up to a maximum of 9 months/student. Such mobility places are reserved for students currently enrolled in
Speaker: Prof. Suzette Timmerman – Institut für Geologie, Universität Bern, Switzerland | Tuesday 24 March 2026 | ore 16,30 - Arduino Classroom
24.03.2026
In high temperature systems, reactions with fluid can result in resetting the formation age. Particularly for diamonds, where diamond formation age dating is done by analyses of its mineral inclusions, a fluid film at the interface of the mineral inclusion and diamond can result in resetting the age
Speleologist Francesco Sauro, researcher at the Department of Geosciences with extensive experience from missions around the world, is currently in Guyana leading an international, multidisciplinary team to the remote tepui mountains along the Kurupung River. The expedition aims to conduct a
Speaker: Dr. Mirko Musa, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland | Tuesday 17 March 2026 | 4,30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom
17.03.2026
Sediment transport and river morphodynamics are among the most complex and least understood challenges in civil engineering and Earth sciences. While the ambition to control them may seem like wishful thinking, it has long driven scientific and engineering progress, from erosion mitigation and flood
Speaker: Prof. Edoardo A.C. Costantini CNR-IBE - Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences Department, Sesto Fiorentino | Tuesday 10 March 2026 | 4,30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom
10.03.2026
The presentation examines how soil properties and geology shape terroir and wine quality at different scales. Terroir is defined as the unique combination of environmental and human factors influencing wine quality. Key soil properties—such as texture, stoniness, drainage, color, water and nutrient
Speaker: Prof. Frank E. Brenker – Schwiete Cosmochemistry Laboratory, Goethe University, Frankfurt | Thursday 5 March 2026 | 4,30 p.m. - Classroom 1F
05.03.2026
Habitable Earth seems a rather unique place in our Solar System. Comparing processes like plate tectonics at different planetary bodies will help to better understand mechanism on our home planet.Although some moons of Jupiter show evidence for icy plate tectonic processes, recent plate tectonics
26.02.2026
The Department of Geosciences marked the retirement of Professor Cristina Stefani with a well-attended ceremony celebrating her long-standing contribution to research, teaching and academic leadership.The event opened with institutional remarks by the Director, Professor Nicola Surian, who
Speaker: Prof. Katherine B. Lininger – Geography Department, University of Colorado Boulder (USA) | Tuesday 3 March 2026 | 4,30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom
03.03.2026
River corridors (channels and floodplains) are active components of the carbon cycle, transporting, transforming, and storing carbon. However, the details of how carbon is partitioned and stored in river corridors are still relatively unexplored. In this seminar, I provide examples of how geomorphic
Speaker: Prof. John Long - College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide (South Australia) | Thursday 19 February 2026 | 3,30 p.m. - Classroom 1F
19.02.2026
Chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and holocephalans) originated around 465 million years ago, but their fossil record is very scant for the first few tens of millions of years. They survived all 5 of Earth's mass extinction events, but they haven't always had it easy. Their origin story (Ordovician
Speaker: Dr. Yves Marrocchi - Director of the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG-CNRS, France) | Tuesday 24 February 2026 | 4,30 p.m. - Arduino Classroom
24.02.2026
Meteorites provide key insights on the evolution of the solar system. The recent discovery of a fundamental isotopic dichotomy between non-carbonaceous (NC) and carbonaceous (C) meteorites attests that the solar system was divided by a physical barrier into two distinct reservoirs. However, the
18.01.2026
Last September, a tragic accident during a work mission in Alaska claimed the life of Riccardo Pozzobon, planetary geologist, researcher at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua, and collaborator with the European Space Agency as an astronaut instructor.Alongside his scientific
13.01.2026
Short-duration extreme rainfall events play a critical role in triggering flash floods and debris flows, yet they remain among the most challenging phenomena to analyse and project under climate change. These issues are the focus of an award-winning study co-authored by Francesco Marra, Associate
