11 Facts About Luca Bindi

Luca Bindi was born on 1971 and is an Italian geologist.

Luca Bindi holds the Chair of Mineralogy and Crystallography and is the Head of the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Florence.

Luca Bindi is a research associate at the Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse of the National Research Council.

Luca Bindi has received national and international scientific awards including the 2015 President of the Republic Prize in the category of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences.

Luca Bindi is the Italian scientist who has contributed to the description of the highest number of new minerals and is among the top ten researchers in the world for the number of new mineralogical species described.

Luca Bindi has numerous international collaborations, especially with Princeton University, Harvard University, and the California Institute of Technology.

Luca Bindi is very well known for his studies on the complexity of mineral structures integrating mineralogy with the most-advanced fields of crystallography.

In July 2020, on the basis of an anonymous report, the Florence edition of national newspaper La Repubblica wrote that Professor Luca Bindi took up portions of the text of his program as candidate for the position of Head of the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Florence.

La Repubblica reported that Professor Luca Bindi said that it was only a provisional, unofficial document, which would have been discussed with all the members of the department in case he was elected.

Further, Luca Bindi commented that he had carefully read many election programs of candidates for the position of Director of the Department, precisely to learn and be stimulated by the initiatives planned for other departments so as to find ideas to be taken up and possibly improved in his department.

On July 27,2020, Luca Bindi was elected as Head of the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Florence.