Enrico Mugnaioli

Biography

Enrico Mugnaioli attended university studies at the Department of Earth Science of the University of Siena (Italy). During the PhD, he worked on Electron Crystallography applied to Mineralogy, with particular regard to structure characterization of asbestos. From October 2007 to February 2014 he was employed as Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre of Electron Microscopy of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, where he collaborated with several public and private Research Institution providing TEM expertize. At the same time he contributed in the development of tomographic methods for the acquisition of electron diffraction data from single nanocrystals, providing a substantial contribution for the emerging of automated electron diffraction tomography (ADT or EDT) technique. Using ADT, he performed structure determination of new nanocrystalline phases, among which nanoparticles, synthetic materials and minerals available only in polyphasic and/or polytypic nanocrystalline assembles, pharmaceutics and other organic compounds, biomineralizations sampled inside stained tissues. Since 2010 he worked in the proposal and realization of a project dedicated to the structure characterization of nanocrystalline porous materials by ADT. In 2013 he got an Italian national grant FIR for the project Exploring the Nanoworld, coordinating two research units located respectively in Siena and Pisa Universities. The project is dedicated to the crystallographic and isotopic characterization of nanocrystalline materials of geological, extra- terrestrial and synthetic origin. Since March 2014 he is employed as Researcher at the Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Science of the University of Siena thanks to the founding of the project

Research Interest

Research activities revolves around Mineralogy.