Minerals

Dr. Frank Wendler

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Department of Materials Science, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Dr.-Mack-Strasse 77, 90762 Fürth, Germany
Interests: modelling and simulation; multiscale modeling; hydrothermal; growth; rock vein sealing; partially molten rocks; micromagnetism; displacive phase transitions

Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Wenk

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Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Interests: mineralogy; crystallography; mineral physics; texture; anisotropy

Prof. Dr. Anthimos Xenidis

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School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece
Interests: processing; metallurgy; geochemistry; environmental technologies for waste treatment; contaminated soils and groundwater; risk assessment
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Prof. Dr. Xianming Xiao

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School of Energy Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Interests: shale reservoir; nanopore system in shale; thermal maturation; petroleum inclusion; petroleum geology and geochemistry
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Prof. Dr. Paris Xypolias

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Lab of Structural Geology and Tectonics, Department of Geology, University of Patras, Patras Uni Campus, GR26500 Patras, Greece
Interests: ductile deformation; shear zones; vorticity analysis; strain analysis; dynamic recrystallization; crystallographic preferred orientation; exhumation of high-pressure rocks; fabric-forming amphiboles in high-pressure rocks; Blueschists; Eastern Mediterranean Tectonics

Prof. Dr. Xiaoyong Yang

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CAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and Environments, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Interests: mineral deposits; application of high-purity quartz
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Dr. Johan Yans

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Department of Geology, University of Namur, 5000 Namur, Belgium
Interests: supergene ores; weathering; saprolite; laterite; critical metals; chemostratigraphy

Prof. Dr. Tuncel M. Yegulalp

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Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Henry Krumb School of Mines, Columbia University, 500 West 120th St., New York, NY 10027, USA
Interests: mining engineering/operations research; statistics; carbon capture; zero emission power plants; methane hydrates
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Prof. Dr. Federica Zaccarini

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Geosciences Programme, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Tungku Link, Gadong BE 1410, Brunei Darussalam
Interests: mineralogy; electron microprobe analyses; ultramafic rocks; ore minerals; geochemistry; ophiolite
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Prof. Dr. Lifei Zhang

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MOE Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: metamorphic geology; subduction-zone metamorphism; HP-UHP metamorphic rocks; metamorphic and deep carbon cycle; orogenic belt and metamorphism

Prof. Dr. Jia-Xi Zhou

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Key Laboratory of Critical Minerals Metallogeny in Universities of Yunnan Province, School of Earth Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China
Interests: MVT Pb-Zn deposits; carbonate minerals U-Pb dating; ore deposit geochemistry; critical metals; ore prospecting
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Prof. Dr. Yongzhang Zhou

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School of Earth Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Interests: big data mining, machine learning and mathematical geoscience; ore deposit-related geochemistry
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Dr. Luca Aldega

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, P. Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: clay minerals; diagenesis and very low-grade metamorphism of shales; X-ray diffraction; mixed layer illite-smectite; dating of synkinematic minerals; thermal evolution of sedimentary successions; burial and exhumation history of fold-and-thrust belts; basin analysis; thermal modelling

Prof. Dr. Evgeny V. Alekseev

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Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52428 Jülich, Germany
Interests: crystal structure; mineral-like materials; uranium; thorium; crystallography

Dr. Paul Alexandre

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Department of Geology, Brandon University, John R. Brodie Science Centre, 270 18th Street, Brandon, MB R7A 6A9, Canada
Interests: mineral chemistry; ore mineralogy; sulfide minerals; metallogeny; geochemistry
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Prof. Dr. Pedro Álvarez-Lloret

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Department of Geology, University of Oviedo, 33005 Oviedo, Spain
Interests: biomineralization; crystallography; biomimetic materials; phosphate minerals; bone and teeth
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Dr. Alexandre V. Andronikov

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Division of Geochemistry and Laboratories, Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 15200 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: igneous petrology; mantle geochemistry; mantle xenoliths; bulk-rock and mineral geochemistry; non-traditional stable isotopes in aquatic and non-aquatic systems; ICP-MS analysis

Dr. Juan Antelo

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Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: environmental chemistry; soil science; organic compounds
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Prof. Dr. Shoji Arai

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Department of Earth Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan
Interests: mantle petrology; ophiolite genesis; chromite ore genesis; geochemistry and mineralogy of mantle-derived rocks
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Dr. Afshin Asadi

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EnvoGéotechnique Ltd., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: geotechnical engineering with an environmental approach; sustainable soil stabilisation; environmental geotechnology
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Dr. Dan Asael

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Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Interests: stable isotopes; non-traditional stable isotopes; isotopic systems; sedimentary geological systems
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Dr. Richard D. Ash

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Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MA 20742, USA
Interests: cosmochemistry; chondrites; achondrites; iron meteorites; the early Solar system; trace elements; radiogenic and stable isotopes; laser ablation ICP-MS

Dr. David Banks

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School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Interests: geochemistry of crustal fluids; metallic mineralization; gold
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Prof. Dr. Shenxu Bao

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School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: outfield-intensified hydrometallurgy; separation and purification; treatment of industrial wastewater; comprehensive utilization of solid wastes
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Prof. Dr. Luis Barbero

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School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real Cádiz, Spain
Interests: UAV in environmental research; submarine groundwater discharge; radiogenic isotope geochemistry
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Prof. Dr. Fernando Bea

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Department of Mineralogía y Petrología, Campus Fuentenueva, University of Granada, 18002 Granada, Spain
Interests: granite petrogenesis; crustal geochemistry; accessory minerals as petrogenetic markers; thermal modelling of lithospheric processes; isotope geology; zircon studies; geochronology; SHRIMP analysis

Prof. Dr. Jaume Bech

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Faculty of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: pedology; environmental pollution; soil pollution around mines; geochemistry; soil chemistry; environmental remediation; soil characterization; soil remediation; phytoremediation; potentially harmful elements; pollution and remediation; history of soil science
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Prof. Dr. Megan Becker

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Centre for Minerals Research, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, 7700 Cape Town, South Africa
Interests: geometallurgy; process mineralogy; applied mineralogy; environmental mineralogy and sustainability

Prof. Dr. Paul Bédard

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Sciences de la Terre, LabMaTer, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC G7H 2B1, Canada
Interests: rare earth deposits; niobium deposits; carbonatite; reference materials; handheld XRF; quantitative petrography

Dr. Andrey Bekker

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1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
2. Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa
Interests: African geology; The Great Oxidation Event; banded iron formations (BIFs); chemostratigraphy
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