Alessia Tagliaferri, PhD

Research Interests

• Multidisciplinary investigation of crustal processes integrating field geology, structural analysis, metamorphic petrology, geochronology, and numerical modelling.
• Geological mapping and field-based structural analysis.
• Deformation processes in metamorphic crystalline basement across scales, from regional tectonics to crystal-scale mechanisms.
• Interactions between mineral deformation and element redistribution during metamorphism and tectonic evolution.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

• Tagliaferri, A.*, Moulas, E., Schmalholz, S. M., & Schenker, F. L. (2025). Fast and spatially heterogeneous cooling rates at amphibolite‐facies conditions in the Lepontine Alps (Switzerland). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26, e2025GC012410. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GC012410
• Corvò, S.*, Maino, M., Langone, A., Schenker F. L., Tagliaferri, A., Perozzo, M., Casini, L., & Seno, S. (2024). Monazite and zircon U-(Th-)Pb dating reveal multiple episodes of HT metamorphism in the Cima Lunga unit (Central Alps): implications for the exhumation of high‐pressure rocks. International Journal of Geosciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-024-02425-7
• Tagliaferri, A.* (2023). Unravelling the heat budget of the Lepontine dome: interdisciplinary geological, petrological, thermodynamic and geochronological study of shear zones. Ph.D. thesis, supervisors: Schenker, F. L., Schmalholz, S. M.. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_61F5B9AED5125?siteLang=fr
• Tagliaferri, A.*, Schenker, F. L., Ulianov, A., Maino, M., & Schmalholz, S. M. (2023). Implications of new geological mapping and U-Pb zircon dating for the Barrovian tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Lepontine dome (Central European Alps). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24, e2022GC010772. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010772