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Daniela Rubatto is an award winning Professor and QEII Fellow and Associate Director High Degree Research at ANU Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Her areas of interest and expertise are in isotope geochemistry, igneous and metamorphic petrology, mineralogy and crystallography, tectonics, inorganic geochemistry, geochronology and geochemistry.
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Education
Daniela Rubatto was born in Italy and moved to Australia more than 15 years ago after obtaining a master's degree in Geological Sciences at the University of Torino, Italy in 1994, and a PhD at the Institute for Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources, ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 1998.
Career
Following her time overseas, where she gained her passion for mountains, Rubatto and her partner Joerg Hermann moved to Australia to continue their research in earth sciences at the Australian National University. At ANU, she has held the positions of Postdoctoral Fellow, RSES, ANU 1998–2002, APD-Fellow, Dep. of Geology, ANU 2002–2004, QEII Fellow, RSES, ANU 2005–2010, Associate Professor RSES, ANU 2010–present and QEII Fellow, RSES, ANU 2011–present.
In her research she combines geochronology with trace element geochemistry and petrology in studying the behaviour of accessory minerals during metamorphism, particularly at high pressure and temperature. This research has integrated advanced analytical methods (e.g. SHRIMP ion microprobe) with experimental petrology and field studies to investigate rates of metamorphic processes, mountain building and the migration of fluids in the crust.
Rubatto has many publications to her name.
Honours and awards
In 1994 Rubatto was awarded a First-class degree in geological science, and in 1998 a ETH medal for outstanding PhD thesis. She won the J G Russell Award from the Australian Academy of Science, Canberra in 2005, and then in 2009, the Dorothy Hill Award from the Australian Academy of Science. In 2010 she won the Top Supervisor Award from the ANU, Canberra.
Professor Rubatto has been awarded many scholarships. In 1998–1999 she received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to work at RSES, ANU. This was followed in 2000–2002 with a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Institutes of Advanced Studies at RSES, ANU. After this was an ARC-Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship at RSES, ANU, 2002–2004, then in 2005–2009, an ARC-Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship at RSES, ANU. The latest scholarship is her second ARC-Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship at RSES, ANU, 2011–2015.