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Dr. Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran

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Dr. Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry & Geophysics (BGI)


Professional background

2012 - present:Akademische Oberrätin, Bayerisches Geoinstitut
2004 - 2012:Akademische Rätin, Bayerisches Geoinsitut
2001 - 2004Sofja Kovalevskaja Awardee at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth
2000 - 2001:Marie Curie Fellow at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth
1997 - 1999:Post-doctoral Researcher at the Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, UK


Education

1997

Ph.D., Pavia


Awards and other responsibilities

2005

Mineralogical Society of America Award

2001"Sofja Kovalevskaja Award" (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) 
2000"Panichi" prize for outstanding young researchers (SIMP Società Italiana Mineralogia e Petrologia)
Dr. Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry & Geophysics (BGI)


  • Solid solutions and cation ordering
  • High-pressure and high-temperature crystallography
  • Elasticity of minerals and functional materials
  • Planetary ices
Dr. Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry & Geophysics (BGI)


Selected publications

2023

Wang, Lin; Liu, Zhaodong; Koizumi, Sanae; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Katsura, Tomoo
Aluminum Components in Bridgmanite Coexisting With Corundum and the CF-Phase With Temperature
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth volume 128 (2023) issue 1
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007279 ...

Valdivia Munoz, Pedro Antonio; Zandonà, Alessio; Kurnosov, Alexander; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Deubener, Joachim; Di Genova, Danilo
Are volcanic melts less viscous than we thought? The case of Stromboli basalt
in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology volume 178 (2023) issue 7
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007311 ...

Melai, Caterina; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Uenver-Thiele, L.; Kurnosov, Alexander; Chumakov, A. I.; Bessas, D.; Frost, Daniel J.
Compressibilities along the magnetite–magnesioferrite solid solution
in Physics and Chemistry of Minerals volume 50 (2023)
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007025 ...

Abeykoon, Sumith; Howard, Christopher; Dominijanni, Serena; Eberhard, Lisa; Kurnosov, Alexander; Frost, Daniel J.; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Terasaki, Hidenori; Sakamaki, Tatsuya; Suzuki, Akio; Ohtani, Eiji; Sano-Furukawa, Asami; Abe, Jun
Deuterium Content and Site Occupancy in Iron Sulfide at High Pressure and Temperature Determine ...
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth volume 128 (2023) issue 9
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007223 ...

2022

Pakhomova, Anna; Collings, Ines E.; Journaux, Baptiste; Petitgirard, Sylvain; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Huang, Dongyang; Ott, Jason; Kurnosov, Alexander; Hanfland, Michael; Garbarino, Gaston; Comboni, Davide
Host–Guest Hydrogen Bonding in High-Pressure Acetone Clathrate Hydrates : In Situ Single-Crysta ...
in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters volume 13 (2022) issue 7. - page 1833-1838
doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03911 ...

Satta, Niccolò; Grafulha Morales, Luiz Fernando; Criniti, Giacomo; Kurnosov, Alexander; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Speziale, Sergio; Marquardt, Katharina; Capitani, Gian Carlo; Marquardt, Hauke
Single-Crystal Elasticity of Antigorite at High Pressures and Seismic Detection of Serpentinize ...
in Geophysical Research Letters volume 49 (2022) issue 16
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007124 ...

Ehlers, Alix M.; Zaffiro, Gabriele; Angel, Ross J.; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Carpenter, Michael A.; Alvaro, Matteo; Ross, Nancy L.
Thermoelastic properties of zircon : Implications for geothermobarometry
in American Mineralogist volume 107 (2022) issue 1. - page 74-81
doi:10.2138/am-2021-7731 ...

2021

Huang, Rong; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; McCammon, Catherine; Miyajima, Nobuyoshi; Dolejš, David; Frost, Daniel J.
The composition and redox state of bridgmanite in the lower mantle as a function of oxygen fuga ...
in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta volume 303 (2021) . - page 110-136
doi:10.1016/j.gca.2021.02.036 ...

Huang, Rong; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; McCammon, Catherine; Miyajima, Nobuyoshi; Frost, Daniel J.
The Effect of Fe-Al Substitution on the Crystal Structure of MgSiO3 Bridgmanite
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth volume 126 (2021) issue 9
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006154 ...

Cassetta, Michele; Di Genova, Danilo; Zanatta, Marco; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Kurnosov, Alexander; Giarola, Marco; Mariotto, Gino
Estimating the viscosity of volcanic melts from the vibrational properties of their parental gl ...
in Scientific Reports volume 11 (2021)
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005825 ...

Beyer, Christopher; Kurnosov, Alexander; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Frost, Daniel J.
High-pressure and high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction of complex garnet solid sol ...
in Physics and Chemistry of Minerals volume 48 (2021)
doi:10.1007/s00269-021-01139-5 ...

Satta, Niccolò; Criniti, Giacomo; Kurnosov, Alexander; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Ishii, Takayuki; Marquardt, Hauke
High-Pressure Elasticity of δ-(Al,Fe)OOH Single Crystals and Seismic Detectability of Hydrous M ...
in Geophysical Research Letters volume 48 (2021) issue 23
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006115 ...

Criniti, Giacomo; Kurnosov, Alexander; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Frost, Daniel J.
Single-Crystal Elasticity of MgSiO₃ Bridgmanite to Mid-Lower Mantle Pressure
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth volume 126 (2021) issue 5
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005769 ...

Siersch, Nicki C.; Kurnosov, Alexander; Criniti, Giacomo; Ishii, Takayuki; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Frost, Daniel J.
The elastic properties and anisotropic behavior of MgSiO₃ akimotoite at transition zone pressur ...
in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors volume 320 (2021)
doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106786 ...

2020

Armstrong, Katherine; Siersch, Nicki C.; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Frost, Daniel J.; Yu, Tony; Wang, Yanbin
Equations of state, phase relations, and oxygen fugacity of the Ru-RuO₂ buffer at high pressure ...
in American Mineralogist volume 105 (2020) issue 3. - page 333-343
doi:10.2138/am-2020-7060 ...

Journaux, Baptiste; Brown, J. M.; Pakhomova, A.; Collings, Ines E.; Petitgirard, Sylvain; Espinoza, P.; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Vance, S. D.; Ott, J.; Cova, F.; Garbarino, Gaston; Hanfland, Michael
Holistic Approach for Studying Planetary Hydrospheres : Gibbs Representation of Ices Thermodyna ...
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets volume 125 (2020) issue 1
doi:10.1029/2019JE006176 ...

Grüninger, Helen; Liu, Zhaodong; Brauckmann, J. Ole; Fei, Hongzhan; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Martin, Thomas; Siegel, Renée; Kentgens, Arno P. M.; Frost, Daniel J.; Senker, Jürgen
Hydroxyl Defects and Oxide Vacancies within Ringwoodite-toward Understanding the Defect Chemist ...
in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C volume 124 (2020) issue 22. - page 12001-12009
doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c03016 ...

2019

Kerl, Carolin; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Planer-Friedrich, Britta
Iron plaque at rice roots : no barrier for methylated thioarsenates
in Environmental Science & Technology volume 53 (2019) issue 23. - page 13666-13674
doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b04158 ...

Grüninger, Helen; Liu, Zhaodong; Siegel, Renée; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Katsura, Tomoo; Senker, Jürgen; Frost, Daniel J.
Oxygen Vacancy Ordering in Aluminous Bridgmanite in the Earth's Lower Mantle
in Geophysical Research Letters volume 46 (2019) issue 15. - page 8731-8740
doi:10.1029/2019GL083613 ...

2018

Uenver-Thiele, Laura; Woodland, Alan B.; Miyajima, Nobuyoshi; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Frost, Daniel J.
Behaviour of Fe₄O₅–Mg₂Fe₂O₅ solid solutions and their relation to coexisting Mg–Fe silicates an ...
in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology volume 173 (2018)
doi:10.1007/s00410-018-1443-8 ...

Myhill, Robert; Ojwang, Dickson O.; Ziberna, Luca; Frost, Daniel J.; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Miyajima, Nobuyoshi
Correction to: On the P–T–fO₂ stability of Fe₄O₅, Fe₅O₆, and Fe₄O₅-rich solid solutions ...
in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology volume 173 (2018)
doi:10.1007/s00410-017-1426-1 ...

Buchen, Johannes; Marquardt, Hauke; Schulze, Kirsten; Speziale, Sergio; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Nishiyama, Norimasa; Hanfland, Michael
Equation of State of Polycrystalline Stishovite Across the Tetragonal-Orthorhombic Phase Transi ...
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth volume 123 (2018) issue 9. - page 7347-7360
doi:10.1029/2018JB015835 ...

Buchen, Johannes; Marquardt, Hauke; Speziale, Sergio; Kawazoe, Takaaki; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Kurnosov, Alexander
High-pressure single-crystal elasticity of wadsleyite and the seismic signature of water in the ...
in Earth and Planetary Science Letters volume 498 (2018) . - page 77-87
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.06.027 ...

Schulze, Kirsten; Marquardt, Hauke; Kawazoe, Takaaki; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; McCammon, Catherine; Koch-Müller, Monika; Kurnosov, Alexander; Marquardt, Katharina
Seismically invisible water in Earth's transition zone?
in Earth and Planetary Science Letters volume 498 (2018) . - page 9-16
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.06.021 ...

Ishii, Takayuki; Uenver-Thiele, Laura; Woodland, Alan B.; Alig, Edith; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana
Synthesis and crystal structure of Mg-bearing Fe9O11 : New insight in the complexity of Fe-Mg o ...
in American Mineralogist volume 103 (2018) issue 11. - page 1873-1876
doi:10.2138/am-2018-6646 ...

Schulze, Kirsten; Pamato, Martha Giovanna; Kurnosov, Alexander; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Glazyrin, Konstantin; Pakhomova, Anna S.; Marquardt, Hauke
High-pressure single-crystal structural analysis of AlSiO₃OH phase egg
in American Mineralogist volume 103 (2018) issue 12. - page 1975-1980
doi:10.2138/am-2018-6562 ...

2017

Asscher, Yotam; Dal Sasso, Gregorio; Nodari, Luca; Angelini, Ivana; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Artioli, Gilberto
Differentiating between long and short range disorder in infra-red spectra : on the meaning of ...
in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics volume 19 (2017) issue 32. - page 21783-21790
doi:10.1039/C7CP03446F ...

Buchen, Johannes; Marquardt, Hauke; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Kawazoe, Takaaki; McCammon, Catherine
The equation of state of wadsleyite solid solutions : Constraining the effects of anisotropy an ...
in American Mineralogist volume 102 (2017) issue 12. - page 2494-2504
doi:10.2138/am-2017-6162 ...

Grüninger, Helen; Armstrong, Katherine; Greim, Dominik; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Frost, Daniel J.; Senker, Jürgen
Hidden Oceans? : Unraveling the Structure of Hydrous Defects in the Earth's Deep Interior
in Journal of the American Chemical Society volume 139 (2017) issue 30. - page 10499-10505
doi:10.1021/jacs.7b05432 ...

Pakhomova, Anna S.; Ismailova, Leyla; Bykova, Elena; Bykov, Maxim; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Dubrovinsky, Leonid
A new high-pressure phase transition in clinoferrosilite : In situ single-crystal X-ray diffrac ...
in American Mineralogist volume 102 (2017) issue 3. - page 666-673
doi:10.2138/am-2017-5853 ...

Liu, Zhaodong; Nishi, Masayuki; Ishii, Takayuki; Fei, Hongzhan; Miyajima, Nobuyoshi; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Ohfuji, Hiroaki; Sakai, Takeshi; Wang, Lin; Shcheka, Svyatoslav; Arimoto, Takeshi; Tange, Yoshinori; Higo, Yuji; Irifune, Tetsuo; Katsura, Tomoo
Phase Relations in the System MgSiO₃-Al₂O₃ up to 2300 K at Lower Mantle Pressures
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth volume 122 (2017) issue 10. - page 7775-7788
doi:10.1002/2017JB014579 ...

Uenver-Thiele, Laura; Woodland, Alan B.; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Miyajima, Nobuyoshi; Frost, Daniel J.
Phase relations of Fe-Mg spinels including new high-pressure post-spinel phases and implication ...
in American Mineralogist volume 102 (2017) issue 10. - page 2054-2064
doi:10.2138/am-2017-6119 ...

Kawazoe, Takaaki; Ohira, Itaru; Ishii, Takayuki; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; McCammon, Catherine; Suzuki, Akio; Ohtani, Eiji
Single crystal synthesis of δ-(Al,Fe)OOH
in American Mineralogist volume 102 (2017) issue 9. - page 1953-1956
doi:10.2138/am-2017-6153 ...

Milani, Sula; Angel, Ross J.; Scandolo, Lorenzo; Mazzucchelli, Mattia L.; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Klemme, Stephan; Domeneghetti, Maria C.; Miletich, Ronald; Scheidl, Katharina S.; Derzsi, Mariana; Tokár, Kamil; Prencipe, Mauro; Alvaro, Matteo; Nestola, Fabrizio
Thermo-elastic behavior of grossular garnet at high pressures and temperatures
in American Mineralogist volume 102 (2017) issue 4. - page 851-859
doi:10.2138/am-2017-5855 ...

Siersch, Nicki C.; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Uenver-Thiele, Laura; Woodland, Alan B.
Compressibility and high-pressure structural behavior of Mg₂Fe₂O₅
in American Mineralogist volume 102 (2017) issue 4. - page 845-850
doi:10.2138/am-2017-5837 ...

Kurnosov, Alexander; Marquardt, Hauke; Frost, Daniel J.; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Ziberna, Luca
Evidence for a Fe³⁺-rich pyrolitic lower mantle from (Al,Fe)-bearing bridgmanite elasticity dat ...
in Nature volume 543 (2017) issue 7646. - page 543-546
doi:10.1038/nature21390 ...

Uenver-Thiele, Laura; Woodland, Alan B.; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Miyajima, Nobuyoshi; Frost, Daniel J.
Phase relations of MgFe₂O₄ at conditions of the deep upper mantle and transition zone
in American Mineralogist volume 102 (2017) issue 3. - page 632-642
doi:10.2138/am-2017-5871 ...

Ishii, Takayuki; Sinmyo, Ryosuke; Komabayashi, Tetsuya; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Kawazoe, Takaaki; Miyajima, Nobuyoshi; Hirose, Kei; Katsura, Tomoo
Synthesis and crystal structure of LiNbO₃-type Mg₃Al₂Si₃O₁₂ : A possible indicator of shock con ...
in American Mineralogist volume 102 (2017) issue 9. - page 1947-1952
doi:10.2138/am-2017-6027 ...

2016

Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Pakhomova, Anna S.; Kurnosov, Alexander
Deformation of single crystals of water ice VI
in Acta Crystallographica Section A volume 72 (2016)
doi:10.1107/S2053273316095760 ...
30th European Crystallographic Meeting 2016, Basel, Switzerland

Myhill, Robert; Ojwang, Dickson O.; Ziberna, Luca; Frost, Daniel J.; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Miyajima, Nobuyoshi
On the P-T-fO₂ stability of Fe₄O₅, Fe₅O₆ and Fe₄O₅-rich solid solutions
in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology volume 171 (2016)
doi:10.1007/s00410-016-1258-4 ...

Pamato, Martha Giovanna; Kurnosov, Alexander; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Frost, Daniel J.; Ziberna, Luca; Giannini, Mattia; Speziale, Sergio; Tkachev, Sergey N.; Zhuravlev, Kirill K.; Prakapenka, Vitali B.
Single crystal elasticity of majoritic garnets : Stagnant slabs and thermal anomalies at the ba ...
in Earth and Planetary Science Letters volume 451 (2016) . - page 114-124
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.019 ...

Ismailova, Leyla; Bykova, Elena; Bykov, Maxim; Cerantola, Valerio; McCammon, Catherine; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Bobrov, Andrey; Sinmyo, Ryosuke; Dubrovinskaia, Natalia; Glazyrin, Konstantin; Liermann, Hanns-Peter; Kupenko, Ilya; Hanfland, Michael; Prescher, Clemens; Prakapenka, Vitali B.; Svitlyk, Volodymyr; Dubrovinsky, Leonid
Stability of Fe,Al-bearing bridgmanite in the lower mantle and synthesis of pure Fe-bridgmanite
in Science Advances volume 2 (2016) issue 7
doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600427 ...

Chantel, Julien; Manthilake, Geeth; Frost, Daniel J.; Beyer, Christopher; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Jing, Zhicheng; Wang, Yanbin
Elastic wave velocities in polycrystalline Mg₃Al₂Si₃O₁₂-pyrope garnet to 24 GPa and 1300 K ...
in American Mineralogist volume 101 (2016) issue 4. - page 991-997
doi:10.2138/am-2016-5335 ...

2015

Pamato, Martha Giovanna; Myhill, Robert; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Frost, Daniel J.; Heidelbach, Florian; Miyajima, Nobuyoshi
Lower-mantle water reservoir implied by the extreme stability of a hydrous aluminosilicate
in Nature Geoscience volume 8 (2015) issue 1. - page 75-79
doi:10.1038/ngeo2306 ...

Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Uenver-Thiele, Laura; Woodland, Alan B.
Complete substitution of Fe²⁺ by Mg in Fe₄O₅ : The crystal structure of the Mg₂Fe₂O₅ end-member ...
in American Mineralogist volume 100 (2015) issue 2-3. - page 628-632
doi:10.2138/am-2015-5138 ...

2014

Glazyrin, Konstantin; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Frost, Daniel J.; McCammon, Catherine; Kantor, Anastasia P.; Merlini, Marco; Hanfland, Michael; Dubrovinsky, Leonid
Magnesium silicate perovskite and effect of iron oxidation state on its bulk sound velocity at ...
in Earth and Planetary Science Letters volume 393 (2014) . - page 182-186
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.01.056 ...

2012

Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Kurnosov, Alexander; Glazyrin, Konstantin; Frost, Daniel J.; Merlini, Marco; Hanfland, Michael; Caracas, Razvan
Effect of chemistry on the compressibility of silicate perovskite in the lower mantle
in Earth and Planetary Science Letters volume 333-334 (2012) . - page 181-190
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.029 ...

Kupenko, Ilya; Dubrovinsky, Leonid; Dubrovinskaia, Natalia; McCammon, Catherine; Glazyrin, Konstantin; Bykova, Elena; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Sinmyo, Ryosuke; Chumakov, Aleksandr I.; Potapkin, Vasily; Kantor, Anastasia; Rüffer, Rudolf; Hanfland, Michael; Crichton, Wilson A.; Merlini, Marco
Portable double-sided laser-heating system for Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction exp ...
in Review of Scientific Instruments volume 83 (2012)
doi:10.1063/1.4772458 ...

2010

Dubrovinsky, Leonid; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Glazyrin, Konstantin; Kurnosov, Alexander; Frost, Daniel J.; Merlini, Marco; Hanfland, Michael; Prakapenka, Vitali B.; Schouwink, P.; Pippinger, Thomas; Dubrovinskaia, Natalia
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction at megabar pressures and temperatures of thousands of degrees
in High Pressure Research volume 30 (2010) issue 4. - page 620-633
doi:10.1080/08957959.2010.534092 ...

Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana; Frost, Daniel J.; Miyajima, Nobuyoshi; Heidelbach, Florian
The structure of a super-aluminous version of the dense hydrous-magnesium silicate phase D
in American Mineralogist volume 95 (2010) issue 7. - page 1113-1116
doi:10.2138/am.2010.3462 ...

Dr. Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry & Geophysics (BGI)


Dr. Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran

University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth

Phone: +49 (0) 921 / 55-3738
E-mail: Tiziana.Boffa-Ballaran@Uni-Bayreuth.de
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