Vita
Research Interests:
I am a cosmochemist interested in understanding the conditions of formation and chronology of the first objects in the early solar system (e.g., chondrules). I am studying meteorites, formed at the beginning of our solar system at around 4.56 billion years ago, by combining petrological observations and isotopic analyses. I am mainly performing mass spectrometry, such as secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry either with solutions (MC-ICP-MS) or laser ablation (LA-MC-ICP-MS/MS).
Education and Employment:
Since 2023: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany.
2019-2023: PhD thesis in cosmochemistry (geosciences), Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
2017-2019: Master of Sciences in Earth sciences, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
2015-2019: Engineering degree, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy, Nancy, France.
Selected Publications:
(1) Piralla M., Villeneuve J., Schnuriger N., Bekaert D. V. & Marrocchi Y. (2023) A unified chronology of solar system formation. Icarus 394, 115427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115427
(2) Piralla M., Villeneuve J., Jacquet E., Batanova V. & Marrocchi Y. (2021) Conditions of chondrule formation in ordinary chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 313, 295–312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.08.007
(3) Piralla M., Tartèse R., Marrocchi Y. & Joy K. H. (2021) Apatite halogen and hydrogen isotope constraints on the conditions of hydrothermal alteration in carbonaceous chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 56 (4), 809–828. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13639
(4) Piralla M., Marrocchi Y., Verdier-Paoletti M. J., Vacher L. G., Villeneuve J., Piani L., Bekaert D. V. & Gounelle M. (2020) Primordial water and dust of the Solar System: Insights from in situ oxygen measurements of CI chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 269, 451–464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.10.041