Dr. Alessandro Decarlis obtained a MD in Geology and a PhD in Earth Sciences at Pavia University (I). During his postdoc fellowships, he moved to the Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre in Strasbourg (F) as a CNRS researcher and to Turin University (I). At present, Alessandro is Assistant Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi (UAE). Alessandro is a field-oriented geologist with a special interest in the interaction between sedimentation and tectonics and in the structure and evolution of rifted margins.
2022-2026 CIRA Grant, UAE. New approaches to assess thermal evolution in sedimentary basins: towards integration of source rock Raman spectroscopy assisted by machine learning and carbonate thermo-chronometry by Δ47/U-Pb.”Andrea Ceriani (PI) and Alessandro Decarlis (CoI).
2022-2024: Khalifa University/ADNOC project agreement: “Textural and compositional characterization of surficial sand deposits for potential use as proppant.” ; Andrea Ceriani (PI) and Alessandro Decarlis (CoI).
2022-2024: Khallifa Uninversity/ADNOC project agreement: “Low cost permanent Co2 storage via subsurface mineralization”; Alessandro Decarlis (PI) and Andrea Ceriani (CoI).
My research evolved from basin analysis related to various tectonic stages of the European Alps, to the understanding of the sedimentary architecture related to the crustal structure during the rifting stage. With this latter approach, observations in the field and in seismic sections are joined to contribute to unravel mechanisms involved into deep tectonic processes. I consider up- and down-scaling from field to seismic observations and the ability to integrate key-geological observations into a larger framework as the most important contribution of my research.
