Bernardo Cesare, born in 1963 in Chirignago, geologist, is associate Professor of Petrography at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padova (Italy).
His scientific interests include mineralogy, metamorphism and melting of rocks, the origin of granitic magmas and the geology of Alps. In his scientific publications he uses photomicrographs and macrophotographs to describe the subjects of study and their morphological features.

He is the coordinator of the European Intensive Seminars of Petrology for PhD students (www.eurispet.eu).

He is also an amateur photographer with artistic intent, and his rock photomicrographs have been displayed in art galleries of Venice (1998) and Milan (1999), at mineralogical and scientific exhibits in Perugia (2004) and Munich (2007), in Natural Sciences Museums in Paris (2004) Pordenone (2006) Padova (2008) and published in photographic (Il Fotografo, 2000) and popular (Airone, 2000) magazines, as well as in geological (cover photo in Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2006; Elements, 2008) and microscopic journals (infocus Magazine).

In 2009 the starts the MicROCKScopica - Rock Art project, and the collaboration with Visuals Unlimited.

AWARDS
2008: Best non-russian photo at "MicroGeo2008" of the Russian Mineralogical Society
2009: Second and Third place at the 2008-9 "Art in Crystallography Prize" of the American Crystallographic Association
2009: ninth place plus image of distinction at Nikon Small World contest

CONTACT
Bernardo Cesare
Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Universita' di Padova
Via Giotto,1, I-35137 PADOVA     ITALY
Tel: ++39-049-8272019    Fax: ++39-049-8272010
email: bernardo.cesare@unipd.it