Carmela Vaccaro

Carmela Vaccaro is Associate Professor in ‘Mining Georesources and Mineralogical Petrographical Applications to Environment and Cultural Heritage’ at the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences-Ferrara University. She is involved in research topics regarding the petrology/petrography of magmatic associations and research activities on applied geochemistry and applied petrography: a) archaeometric studies for characterizing the building materials and the damaging products to define the provenance of the raw materials and investigate possible restorations actions; b) projects on desertification problems in the Mediterranean area and evaluation of water quality; c) projects related to chemical-mineralogical characterization of soils and fluvial sediments; d) projects on food traceability.