Biografie

2010

Post-doctoral fellow, University of Potsdam (Germany)

2009

PhD, University of Potsdam (Germany). PhD thesis: Tectonic and climatic forcing in orogenic processes: the foreland basin point of view, Alborz mountains, N Iran.

2003

Post graduate MSc in "geo-material characterization for the environment application", University of Ferrara and CNR “Institute of Sciences and Technology of Ceramic Materials (ISTEC)”, Faenza (Italy).

2002

MSc, University of Pisa (Italy). MSc thesis: Geology of high Molise: structural analysis of Monte Pagano area, Southern Apennine, Italy.

Forschung

I am interested in sedimentary basin evolution in response to tectonic and climatic processes using a multidisciplinary approach, which involves: sedimentary facies analysis, magnetostratigraphy, geochronology, sediment provenance studies, stable isotope geochemistry and low-temperature thermochronology.

Publikationen

Ballato, P., Uba, C. E., Landgraf, A., Strecker, M. R., Sudo, M., Stockli, D. F., Friedrich, A., and Tabatabaei, S. H, (2011), Arabia-Eurasia continental collision: insights from late Tertiary foreland-basin evolution in the Alborz mountains, northern Iran: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 106-131.

Ballato, P., Mulch, A., Landgraf, A., Strecker, M. R., Dalconi, M.C., Friedrich, A., and Tabatabaei, S. H,, (2010), Middle to late Miocene Middle Eastern climate from stable oxygen and carbon isotope data, southern Alborz mountains, N Iran: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 300, p. 125-138, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.09.043

Landgraf, A., Ballato, P., Strecker, M. R., Friedrich, A., Shahpasandzadeh, M., and Tabatabaei, S. H. (2009), Fault-kinematic and geomorphic observations along the North Tehran Thrust and Mosha Fasham Fault, Alborz mountains, Iran: implications for fault-system evolution and interaction in a changing tectonic regime: Geophysical Journal International, v. 177, p. 676-690, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04089.x.

Ballato, P., Nowaczyk N. R., Landgraf A., Strecker M. R., Friedrich A., and Tabatabaei S. H. (2008), Tectonic control on sedimentary facies pattern and sediment accumulation rates in the Miocene foreland basin of the southern Alborz mountains, northern Iran: Tectonics, v. 27, TC6001, doi:10.1029/ 2008TC002278.

Ballato, P., Cruciani, G., Dalconi, M. C., Fabri, B., and Macchiarola, M. (2005) Mineralogical study of historical bricks from the Great Palace of Byzantine Emperors in Istanbul based on powder X-ray diffraction data: European Journal of Mineralogy, v. 17, p. 777-784, doi: 10.1127/0935-1221/2005/0017-0777.