Biografie

2002

Msc in Geology (110/110 with honors) - Università FEDERICO II, Naples (Italy)

Nov 2002 – Nov.2005

Researcher associate (PhD project), Università Federico II di Napoli : “Integrate stratigraphy (bio and chemostratigraphy) of the Upper Cretaceous shallow-water carbonates of southern Apennines (Italy).”

March 2006 – Jan 2007

Researcher associate (PhD project), Università Federico II di Napoli : “Integrate stratigraphy (bio and chemostratigraphy) of the Upper Cretaceous shallow-water carbonates of southern Apennines (Italy).”

March 2007 – May 2008

Carbonate Sedimentologist, Oolithica Geoscience Ltd, Cheltenham, U.K.

June 2008 – Present

Researcher associate, Dept of Earth and environmental science Potsdam University.

Forschung

Chemostratigraphy (Sr ,C and O ) for regional to global correlation

Sedimentary geochemistry   

Biostratigraphy, sedimentology, ciclostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of carbonate platforms.

Carbonate diagenesis

Relation between carbonate platform facies,biota and paleoceanographic/paleoclimatic events (with emphasis on Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events, OAEs).

Applied sedimentology for characterization of hydrocarbon reservoir rocks

Carbonate petrophysics. Core description and log interpretation.

Palaeo-oceanographic reconstruction using chemical palaeo-proxies in biotic calcite

Lehre

Petroleum geology (winter semester)

Introduction to Sedimentary petrology (winter semester)

Advanced Sedimentary petrology (Summer Semester)

Event in Earth hystory (winter semester)

Previous Teaching:

Regional Petroleum Geology (summer semester 2010)

Sedimentary sistem and Stratigraphy (summer semester 2009 & 2010)

Leader of field trips (Egypt, Italy)

Tutor of IBA project (Imperial Barrel Award, a competition organised by AAPG) in 2009

Publikationen

Vicedo V., Caus E. and Frijia G., (in press)-Late Cretaceous alveolinaceans (larger foraminifera) of the Caribbean paleobioprovince and their stratigraphic distribution.Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

Boix C., Frijia G.,Vicedo V., Bernaus J.M., Di Lucia M. , Parente M. and Caus E. (2011)-"Larger Foraminifera distribution and strontium isotope stratigraphy of the La Cova limestones (Coniacian?Santonian, "Serra del Montsec", Pyrenees, NE Spain)". Cretaceous Research. Doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.05.009

Vicedo V., Frijia G., Parente M. & Caus E. (2011)- The late Cretaceous genera Cuvillierinella, Cyclopseudedomia and Rhapydionina (Rhapydioninidae, Foraminiferida) in shallow water carbonates of Pylos (Peloponnese, Greece): differences and similarities. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v.41, no.2, p 167-181

  Parente M, Frijia G., Di Lucia M. (2010) Comment on "Sea-level control on facies architecture in the Cenomanian-Coniacian Apulian margin (Western Tethys): A record of glacio-eustatic fluctuations during the Cretaceous greenhouse?" by Galeotti S., Rusciadelli G., Sprovieri M., Lanci L., Gaudio A., Pekar S., 2009. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 276, 196-205." Palaeo,Palaeo,Palaeo, v293, pp 255–259.

 Frijia G. & Parente M.(2008)- Reticulinella kaeveri CHERCHI, RADOIČIĆ & SCHROEDER: a marker for the middle-upper Turonian in the shallow-water carbonate facies of the periadriaticArea. In: Geology and Paleontology of the peri-adriatic area: a tribute to Rajka Radoicic. Boll.Soc.Geol.It. (Ital.J.Geosci.), v. 127, N. 2 , pp. 275-284.

Frijia G. & Parente M.(2008)- Strontium isotope stratigraphy in the upper Cenomanian shallow-water carbonates of southern Apennines: Short-term perturbations of marine 87Sr/86Sr during the oceanic anoxic event 2, Palaeo,Palaeo,Palaeo, v261, pp 15–29.

 Parente M, Frijia G., Di Lucia M., Jenkyns H. C., Richard G. Woodfine R. G & Barboncini F. (2008)-Stepwise extinction of larger foraminifera at the Cenomanian–Turonian boundary: a shallow2 water perspective on nutrient fluctuations during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (Bonarelli Event).Geology. Geology, v36,no 9, pp. 715-718;doi:10.1130/G24893A.1

 Galluccio L., Frijia G., Iannace A., Mazzoli S., Parente M., Vitale S.,Giorgioni M.  & D’Amore M. (2008)- Diagenesis and petrophysics of dolomite in the “Middle” Cretaceous of the Sorrento Peninsula (Southern Apennines). Rendiconti online Soc. Geol. It., Vol. 2, 79-84

 Steuber T., Parente M.,Hagmaier M.,Immenhauser A., van der Kooij B. & Frijia G. (2007)- Latest Maastrichtian species-rich rudist associations of the Apulian Margin of Salento ( S Italy) and the Ionian Islands (Greece). In: “Cretaceous Rudists and Carbonate Platforms: Environmental Feedback”. SEPM, Special publication, v 87, pp 151-157.

 Parente M., Frijia G. & Di Lucia M. (2007)- Carbon-isotope stratigraphy of Cenomanian–Turonian platform carbonates from the southern Apennines (Italy): a chemostratigraphic approach to the problem of correlation between shallow-water and deep-water successions. Journal of the Geological Society, London, v 164, pp. 609–620.

 Frijia G., Parente M. & Iannace A. (2005) - Thermal maturity of the Southern Apenninic  Platform Unit (Southern  Italy): constraints from Rock-Eval Pyrolysis T_max data. Atti Ticinensi di Scienze della Terra, serie speciale, 10, 95-98, 2 figg., 1 tab.

Internal reports for industry:

Toland C. & Frijia G. (2007)-Stratigraphy and structural evolution of Whabah Anticline.

 Frijia G. & Sbarra R. ( March 2008.)–Microfacies characterisation of the Lower and Upper Cretaceous of the West Bukha, Henjam and Khasab area.

 Frijia G, Toland C.& Sbarra R(May 2008)- Stratigraphy, sedimentology and reservoir geology of the Saleh field, off-shore Oman .

 Frijia G. (June 2009)- Carbon isotope stratigraphy of shallow water carbonates of Sarvak Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Chenareh River Gorge (Iran)