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FMARS-10 Crew Biographies
Tiziana Trabucchi
 Tiziana Trabucchi was born in Milan, Italy. She is a geology student at the University of Pavia. During the years she has worked for a geotechnical company based in Milan by collecting inclinometric data in various locations, she has also worked as a volounteer in the petrographic division of the Natural History Museum of Milan where she has helped for a few years in completing the classification of thin sections; in addition to this she also participated to some palaeontological excavations conducted in the mountains of Lombardia where a lot of fossils belonging to the triassic period were found . In Milan she attended a diagnostic for building restoration course and after that she participated to two stages organized by a company involved in the same field; she went on working for this company by conducting a series of studies and analysis to understand the degradation of the natural materials used in the construction of some ancient Italian monuments. She then followed her husband Marco to the Flemisch part of Belgium where they lived for three years; during this period of time she took a course on diamond grading and identification in Antwerp, the diamond trading world capital. She is fascinated (beside the possibility of discovering life outside our planet and its historical, philosophical and theoretical consequences), by the study of planetary inorganic materials and by the idea that with space exploration new materials could be discovered and this would then lead to new technological advances. She likes a lot travelling around the world, she loves music, animals, she is intrigued by the restoration of historical houses where she also takes care of their interior design, last but not least she is a passionate reader of Stephen J. Gould books. |
