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Biography
I am an experimental igneous petrologist with an interest in the composition and melting behaviour of the mantle. My interests include the role volatile elements play in the deep Earth, and how these volatiles can ultimately affect the mobility of base and precious metals during mantle melting. I have applied these results to magmatic sulfide deposits with the aim to broaden our understanding of processes that lead to ore genesis from diverse mantle components.
I completed my Ph.D at University College London in 2019, before moving to Sydney Australia to take up a postdoctoral fellowship at Macquarie University. I joined the University of Western Australia as a lecturer and researchers in igneous petrology and geochemistry in 2024.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, 2019, The grain growth kinetics of spinel in the mantle, University College London
Award Date: 30 Dec 2019
Geosciences, MSci, Royal Holloway University of London
Award Date: 15 Jul 2015
Research expertise keywords
- Geochemistry
- Mantle
- experimental petrology
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Mantle sources of kamafugitic magmas: Insights from partial melting experiments on phlogopite clinopyroxenite and clinopyroxene glimmerite
Innocenzi, F., Ezad, I. S., Ronca, S., Agostini, S., Lustrino, M., Shcheka, S. & Foley, S. F., 2026, In: Mineralogical Magazine. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Unveiling the metallogenic continuum of an Archean craton
Demmer, M., Ezad, I. & Fiorentini, M., 18 Feb 2026, In: Nature Communications. 17, 13 p., 1798.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Experimental observations of CaSiO3-CaTiO3 perovskites: implications for Ca-rich inclusions observed in sub-lithospheric diamonds
Thomson, A. R., Crichton, W. A., Siersch, N. C., Ezad, I. S., Dobson, D. P. & Brodholt, J. P., Jun 2025, In: Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. 52, 2, p. 1-14 14 p., 19.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hydrous minerals are sinks for first row transition elements in the mantle: An experimental partitioning study
Ezad, I. S., Shea, J. J. & Foley, S. F., 5 Sept 2025, In: Chemical Geology. 690, 15 p., 122883.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Melting of amphibole-apatite-rich metasomes in the continental mantle and comparison of melt compositions with natural igneous rocks
Foley, S. F., Ezad, I. S., Shu, C. & Förster, M. W., May 2025, In: Lithos. 500-501, p. 1-22 22 p., 107976.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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