Minerals — Journal Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Endowed Pevehouse Chair, Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1053, USA
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Interests: laser ablation ICP-MS; automated SEM; accessory mineral geochronology; mineral geochemistry; ore mineralogy; shale mineralogy
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Minerals: Fundamentals and Frontiers in Mineralogy
Special Issue in Minerals: Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Mineral Science

Associate Editor
Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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Interests: mineralogy; crystallography; powder diffraction; single-crystal diffraction; crystal chemistry

Associate Editor
Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Interests: carbonatites; deep carbon mineralogy; rare earth minerals; shocked minerals; impact deposits; alkaline igneous rocks; igneous layered intrusions; diamond

Former Editor-in-Chief
Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 103A Hosler Building, State College, PA 16802, USA
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Interests: mine safety and health; risk management; underground mining; coal mining methods and management
* Editor-in-Chief of Minerals from 2010 until January 2013.
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Minerals: Safety & Health in Mining

Former Editor-in-Chief
Department Earth & Environmental Sciences PC 344, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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Interests: oxide and sulfide minerals and related ore deposits [especially Fe, Fe-Ti, Mn, Cr]; PGEs; gem stones [especially diamonds]; deep Earth mantle mineralogy
* Editor-in-Chief of Minerals from 2013 until March 2016

Departament d'Enginyeria Minera, Industrial i TIC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08242 Manresa, Spain
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Interests: ore deposits; quantitative mineralogy; geometallurgy; mineral processing; mineral liberation (liberation degree); advanced mineralogical characterisation equipment
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Minerals: Mineral Liberation

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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Interests: thermofluids; mine ventilation; CFD in mining; fibre optic sensing; gas management systems
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Minerals: Advanced Underground Mine Ventilation and Monitoring Systems
Special Issue in Sensors: Photonic Crystal Fiber Gas Sensor

Department of Earth Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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Interests: petrology, geochemistry and mineralogy of mantle-derived rocks
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Minerals: Petrology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Mantle as Tools to Read Messages from the Earth’s Interior

Departamento de Química, Universidad de Navarra, 31009 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
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Interests: cultural heritage; archaeometry; pigments; mortars; XRD; SEM; IR and Raman spectrocopies

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, 50121, Florence, Italy
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Interests: aperiodic crystals; coordination chemistry; crystal chemistry; phase transitions; sulfides; sulfosalts; structural chemistry; determination of structure; twinning; x-ray diffraction
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Topical Collection in Minerals: New Minerals

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 02044 Espoo, Finland
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Interests: terrestrial deep biosphere; nitrogen cycling; sulfur metabolism; methane; Fennoscandian Shield; microbial ecology; microbial metabolism; fungi; archaea; mines; bioleaching
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Geosciences: Terra Incognita—Microbial Processes and Interactions in the Deep Biosphere

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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Interests: nonsulfide Zn-Pb deposits; MVT and SEDEX deposits; Bauxite and Ni-laterite deposits
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Minerals: Geology and Mineralogy of Zn-Pb Nonsulfide Deposits

Geosciences Environnement Toulouse, French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS, 31400 Toulouse, France
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Interests: experimental petrology; magmatic processes of melt-rock and magma-rock interactions; chromitite ore deposits; trace element and isotope geochemistry; microanalysis of minerals and mineral-hosted inclusions; microanalysis by laser ablation-ICP-MS; EPMA; SIMS

Executive Director of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum and Professor of Geology, Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
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Interests: economic geology; geochemistry, petrology, Precambrian geology and environmental geochemistry of mine wastes
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Minerals: Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Hydrothermal Metallic Mineral Deposits

Earth Sciences Department, Géosciences Montpellier, UMR-CNRS 5243 - Univ. Montpellier II, 34095 Montpellier, France
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Interests: geochemistry; absolute geochronology; subduction geodynamics; lithosphere-asthenosphere interaction; sources; processes; ages