Irene Cornacchia
| First Name | Irene |
|---|---|
| Last Name | Cornacchia |
| Unit | Pisa |
| irene.cornacchia(at)igg.cnr.it | |
| Role | Researcher |
| Research Gate link | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Irene_Cornacchia |
| Google Scholar link | https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it&user=rA54XzgAAAAJ |
| Scopus link | https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56189981300 |
EDUCATION
- 23/03/2012: Bachelor degree in Geology (Sapienza University of Rome)
- 17/07/2014: Master degree in Exploration Geology (Sapienza University of Rome)
- 21/02/2018: PhD in Earth Sciences at the Doctoral School “Vito Volterra” (Sapienza University of Rome)
- 10/2018-11/2019: Postdoc at the GeoZentrum Nordbayern (Friedrich-Alexander University di Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germania)
- 28/11/2019-present: Researcher at IGG-CNR Pisa
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
- Facies and microfacies analyses of marine carbonates for paleoenvironment reconstructions
- Cenozoic C-isotope stratigraphy to identify the response of shallow-water carbonate systems to global C-cycle perturbations
- Sr and Nd isotopic analyses for paleoceanographic reconstructions and to discriminate the complex relationship between global climatic changes and regional controlling factors on carbonate production.
ATTIVITA' E RESPONSABILITA' PROFESSIONALI
Leader of the project: “La risposta dei sistemi carbonatici del Mediterraneo Centrale alle perturbazioni cenozoiche del ciclo del carbonio [Central Mediterranean carbonate systems response to the Cenozoic carbon cycle perturbations”. Funded by the Sapienza University of Rome, February 2019-August 2019. The project has been carried out at the GeoZentrum NordBayern, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen (Germany).
Leader of the project: “Unravelling the Miocene oceanographic control on the carbon cycle dynamics in the Central Mediterranean”. Funded by the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen (Germany), october 2018- january 2019. Funding were made available within the Programme to realize equal opportunities for women in research and teaching.
Leader of the project for young researchers "Avvio alla Ricerca" funded by Sapienza, University of Rome, 2016. Title of the project: "Sr isotope composition of the Miocene central Mediterranean carbonate successions and paleoceanographic implications".
Leader of the project "Dating the Monterey event in the Central Mediterranean shallow-water record: the Latium-Abruzzi Platform case study", within the Synthesys Framework, performed at the Geochemistry laboratory of the Natural History Museum of Stockholm (SE-TAF). Funding to SYNTHESYS is made available by the European Community – Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 "Capacities" Specific Programme.
Winner of the “IAS Post Graduate Grant Scheme” 2015. Title of the project: “The impact of isotopic events on the central Mediterranean carbonate successions between the late Eocene and middle Miocene”.
Lecturer within the “Flügel Course 2019, the International Course on Carbonate Microfacies” (two 1-week courses) organised by Prof. Dr. Axel Munnecke of the GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen (Germany).
Second tutor for 1 Bachelor Thesis in Geology at the Earth Sciences Department of the Sapienza, University of Rome.
Second tutor for 3 Master Thesis in Exploration Geology at the Earth Sciences Department of the Sapienza, University of Rome (Italy).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Cornacchia, I., Brandano, M., Raffi, I., Tomassetti, L. and Flores, I. (2018). The Eocene–Oligocene transition in the C-isotope record of the carbonate successions in the Central Mediterranean. Global and Planetary Change, 167, 110-122.
- Cornacchia, I., Agostini, S. and Brandano, M. (2018). Miocene Oceanographic Evolution based on the Sr and Nd Isotope Record of the Central Mediterranean. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33(1), 31-47.
- Cornacchia, I., Andersson, P., Agostini, S., Brandano, M. and Di Bella, L. (2017). Strontium stratigraphy of the upper Miocene Lithothamnion Limestone in the Majella Mountain, central Italy, and its palaeoenvironmental implications. Lethaia, 50(4), 561-575.
- Brandano, M., Cornacchia, I., Raffi, I., Tomassetti, L. and Agostini, S. (2017). The Monterey Event within the Central Mediterranean area: the shallow-water record. Sedimentology, 64(1), 286-310.
- Brandano, M., Cornacchia, I., Raffi, I. and Tomassetti, L. (2016). The Oligocene-Miocene stratigraphic evolution of the Majella carbonate platform (Central Apennines, Italy). Sedimentary Geolology, 333, 1-14.