The first "Inherit & Friends" meeting kicks off with Prof. Graham Pearson!

We are thrilled to announce that the inaugural Inherit & Friends meeting was a huge success! The Inherit & Friends workshop is an open forum meeting during which Inherit members and collaborators can present their latest research and discuss all-things diamonds including concepts, ideas, current research projects, and opportunities for internal and external collaboration. It was our honor to host Prof. Graham Pearson, one of the worlds foremost experts in diamond geology, at the first Inherit & Friends meeting held on March 13th at the Department of Geosciences, University of Padova.

The inaugural Inherit & Friends meeting. Top left to right: Fabrizio Nestola, Maxwell Day, Eduardo Novais Rodrigues, Francesca Innocenzi, Andrea Curtolo. Bottom left to right: Graham Pearson, Martha Pamato, Mattia La Fortezza, Davide Novella.

Team Inherit members Martha Pamato, Mattia La Fortezza, Francesca Innocenzi and Maxwell Day, and Inherit friends Fabrizio Nestola, Eduardo Novais Rodrigues and Andrea Curtolo gave talks about their latest research covering a variety of diamond-related topics. See an outline of the talks below.

Team Inherit:

Martha Pamato: Diamonds as the key to unravel the origin of Earth's water.

Mattia La Fortezza: Diffusivity of hydrogen in diamond via first-principles molecular dynamics simulations.

Francesca Innocenzi: Tracking sub-continental mantle metasomatism using unconventional stable isotopes.

Maxwell Day: Evolution of nitrogen and hydrogen defects in Type Ib + IaA diamonds.

Inherit Friends:

Fabrizio Nestola: New minerals in super-deep diamonds.

Eduardo Novais Rodrigues: Origin, age and depth of super-deep diamonds.

Andrea Curtolo: H2O and trace elements in diamond-hosted mineral inclusions and the nature of the diamond-forming agent.