Education

• Ph.D., Crystallography, Université de Lorraine, France, 2014.

Research Topics

• Radiation damage in aggregate minerals
• Mineral dissolution

Recent Publications with LCC

• Pignatelli, I.; Kumar, A.; Bauchy, M.; Sant, G. Topological control on silicates’ dissolution kinetics. Langmuir 2016, 32, no. 18, 4434-4439.
• Pignatelli, I.; Kumar, A.; Alizadeh, R.; Le Pape, Y.; Bauchy, M.; Sant, G. A dissolution-precipitation mechanism is at the origin of concrete creep in moist environments. The Journal of chemical physics, 2016, 145(5), 054701.
• Pignatelli, I.; Kumar, A.; Field, K. G.; Wang, B.; Yu, Y.; Le Pape, Y.; Bauchy, M.; Sant, G. Direct experimental evidence for differing reactivity alterations of minerals following irradiation: the case of calcite and quartz. Scientific reports, 2016, 6, 20155.