Dr. Tiziana Boffa Ballaran

• 1967
  Born
  
  
  1982 – 1986
  Liceo Scientifico "A. Avogadro", Biella, Italy
  
  

• 1986
  Maturita' scientifica (A-levels) 60/60
  
  

• 1987 – 1993
  Laurea (undergraduate degree) in chemistry, University of Pavia, Italy (110/110)
  
  

• 1991
  Erasmus Programme, University of Aveiro, Portugal (6 months)
  
  

• 1992
  Erasmus Programme, University of Aarhus, Denmark (6 months)
  
  

• 1993
  TEMPUS Programme, University of Wroclaw, Poland (3 months)
  
  

• 1993 – 1996
  Doctorate in mineralogy and crystallography, University of Pavia
  
  

• 1997 – 1999
  Post-doctoral research associate, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
  
  

• 2000 – 2001
  Marie Curie individual fellowship, Bavarian Geoinstitute, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  
  

• 2001 – 2004
  Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, Bavarian Geoinstitute, Bayreuth
  
  

• Since 2004
  Academic councillor, Bavarian Geoinstitute, University of Bayreuth
  
  

• Boffa Ballaran, T. et al.: The structure of a super-aluminous version of the dense hydrous magnesium silicate phase D. In: American Mineralogist 95, 2010. pp. 1113-1116.

• Gavrilenko, P., Boffa Ballaran, T., Keppler, H.: The effect of Al and water on the compressibility of diopside. In: American Mineralogist 95, 2010. pp. 608-616.

• Boffa Ballaran, T. et al.: High-pressure ferroelastic phase transition in aluminosilicate hollandite. In: Physical Review B 80, 2009. p. 214104.

• Saikia, A., Boffa Ballaran, T., Frost, D.J.: The effect of Fe and Al substitution on the compressibility of MgSiO3 perovskite determined through single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 173, 2009. pp. 153-161.

• Nestola, F., Boffa Ballaran, T., Ohashi, H.: The high-pressure C2/c-P21/c phase transition along the LiAlSi2O6-LiGaSi2O6 solid solution. In: Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 35, 2008. pp. 477-484.

• Boffa Ballaran, T., Trønnes, R.G., Frost, D.J.: Equation of state of CaIrO3 perovskite and post-perovskite phases. In: American Mineralogist 92, 2007. pp. 1760-1763.

• Bromiley, F. et al.: Order and miscibility in the otavite-magnesite solid solution. In: American Mineralogist 92, 2007. pp. 829-836.

• Boffa Ballaran, T., Woodland, A.B.: Local structure of ferric iron-bearing garnets deduced by IR-spectroscopy. In: Chemical Geology 225, 2006. pp. 360-372.

• Life fellow, Mineralogical Society of America

• Societa' Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia

• American Geophysical Union

Other activities and achievements/family

• Three children

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