In Honor of Nobel Laureate Dr. Rudy Marcus
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Dr. Florian Kongoli holds 3 degrees: a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science/University of Montreal, Canada and a Doctor of Science Degree/Tohoku University, Japan. Since 1996 he is CEO of FLOGEN Technologies Inc.,(www.flogen.com) a Sustainable High Tech applied research institute
Gilberto Artioli is a professor of mineralogy, crystallography and materials science at the University of Padova. He received a Laurea Degree from the University of Modena and a PhD from the University of Chicago. His interests focus on mineralogy, crystallography and materials science. His scientific expertise encompasses the use of combined techniques, including those based at large scale facilities, for the investigation of complex materials, including natural and industrial materials. His recent interests concern the application of advanced characterization techniques to cultural heritage materials and processes.
Barbara L Dutrow, 68, is currently the Gerald Cire & Lena Grand Williams Alumni Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A. Professor Dutrow received her B.S. from Chadron State College in Nebraska, and her M.S. and Ph. D from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. During this time, she was one of the first scientists to employ the ion microprobe to quantitatively determine light element compositions of rock-forming minerals and use this data to understand their impact on thermodynamic properties. She was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to conduct research at Ruhr University in Bochum, (then West) Germany. There she conducted high-pressure, high-temperature experiments determining stability relationships and crystal chemical constraints of several important rock-forming minerals. After her post-doctoral work, she returned to the U.S. and held a research position at the University of Arizona, analyzing heat and mass transport in fluid-rock systems, and a visiting faculty position in mineralogy at the University of Iowa, where she oversaw the X-ray diffraction laboratory, before moving to LSU in 1992. During her tenure at LSU, she was an affiliate scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico, and a visiting scientist at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland and Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Hayun has been an Associate Professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. His current research focuses on two main areas – the development of advanced ceramics for structural, functional, and energy-related applications and the thermochemistry and thermophysical properties of multi-component alloys. Professor Hayun received Ph. D. degree in 2009 from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. From 2009 to 2011, he was with Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory, University of California, Davis, USA, as a Postdoc. In 2011, he returned to Israel and became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva. In 2016, he became an Associate Professor. In 2017 He spent one year as a visiting professor in Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory, University of California, Davis, USA. During this visit, he developed together with Prof. Navrotsky a new methodology for measuring the enthalpy of formation from elements of multi-principal element alloys (MPEA) based on high-temperature oxidative calorimetry. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers as the first or corresponding author. He is a member of the editorial board of Materials in the section board of advanced composites. He also serves as a guest editor and Dr. Sergey Ushakov from ASU for a special issue, "Thermal Analysis of Materials," through MDPI. His work on reaction-bonded boron carbide for lightweight armor: The interrelationship between processing, microstructure, and mechanical properties was published as a cover story In the American Ceramic Society Bulletin in 2017.
Darrell Henry is the Campanile Charities Professor of Geology in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. His wide-ranging research generally relates to the utilization of minerals to decipher development of the continental crust through time. Specifically, his focus is: the crystal chemistry and petrologic applications of minerals (particularly tourmaline and biotite) in metamorphic and sedimentary environments; the tectonometamorphism of Paleozoic to Archean metamorphic terranes; the novel applications of cathodoluminescence to metamorphic and igneous rocks; and geoscience education. He has been honored by having a tourmaline species, darrellhenryite, named after him for his many contributions to the study of the tourmaline supergroup minerals. He is a Fellow of MSA and of the Geological Society of America, and the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award from the MSA (2000). After receiving degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Arizona State University and NASA - Johnson Space Center and a consultant to ARCO Oil and Gas Co. before moving to LSU. He has served the Mineralogical Society of America at varying capacities: Treasurer (2008-2012), co-editor of the Tourmaline issue of Elements (2011), Associate Editor of the American Mineralogist (2006-2010) and sole editor of The Lattice, MSA's newsletter prior to Elements (1995-2000). In addition, he was a co-editor of the special tourmaline volume of the Canadian Mineralogist (2011), published by the Mineralogical Association of Canada. He was chair of the Subcommission on Tourmaline Nomenclature for the International Mineralogical Association 2017-present. At LSU he has risen through the professorial ranks and attained Full Professor status in 1996. He was Director of the LSU SACSCOC Reaffirmation of Accreditation in 2011-2014. He became Interim Chair of Geology and Geophysics in 2022 and Chair of Geology and Geophysics in 2023.
As Distinguished Professor in geochemistry and metamorphic petrology at Boise State University, Kohn's research spans 40 years, including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, 1986), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MS, 1989; PhD, 1991), University of Wisconsin (post-doctoral fellow, research scientist), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (post-doctoral researcher), and University of South Carolina (Assistant and Associate Professor).
David R. Lentz received his B.Sc. and MSc. (1983, 1986) degrees in geology from the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fredericton, then completed a PhD (1992) at the University of Ottawa. In 1991, he joined the Geological Survey of Canada for a 3 1/2 year term position, then in 1994, Lentz joined the New Brunswick Geological Survey as their mineral deposits geologist. Since 2000, he has held the Research Chair in Economic Geology at UNB, with a research focus on the petrogenesis of ore deposits. He has been a P.Geo for over 25 years and a Fellow of Geoscientists Canada. Dave is particularly well known for his formal and informal short courses, workshops, and field trips. Dave has received many awards, but he is most proud of his service awards; presently he is on the executive for the Mineralogical Association of Canada and International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits continuing his long dedication to service of the geoscientific community.
Jiankang Li is a professor at the Institute of Mineral Resources (IMR), Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China. He previously studied high pressure–temperature experimental technology under I-Ming Chou at the USGS and under W. A. Bassett at Cornell University. Currently, he serves as the Director of the High Pressure–Temperature Experimental Simulation Laboratory at IMR and is the Chief Expert of the State Key Laboratory of Deep Earth and Mineral Exploration in China. His research focuses on pegmatites, particularly employing melt and fluid inclusions and P–T petrology and metallogeny experiments. He invented the Bassett-type HDVC-V hydrothermal diamond-anvil cell, which is widely used in many laboratories worldwide. To date, he has published over 120 papers.
Alexandra Navrotsky, 80, was educated at the Bronx High School of Science and the University of Chicago (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in chemistry). After postdoctoral work in Germany and at Penn State University, she joined the faculty in Chemistry at Arizona State University, where she worked with a leading-edge team in materials science and geochemistry until her move to the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at Princeton University in 1985. She chaired that department from 1988 to 1991 and was active in the Princeton Materials Institute. In 1997, she became an Interdisciplinary Professor of Ceramic, Earth, and Environmental Materials Chemistry at the University of California Davis and was appointed Edward Roessler Chair in Mathematical and Physical Sciences in 2001. She directed the organized research unit on Nanomaterials in the Environment, Agriculture and Technology (NEAT) from 1999 to 2019.Professor Navrotsky rejoined the ASU faculty in 2019 as Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the School of Engineering, Matter, Transport and Energy. She is director of the Center for Materials of the Universe at ASU, a cross-disciplinary center which brings together planetary science and materials science.
Professor Ralf Riedel has been a Full Professor at the Institute of Materials Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1993. His current research focuses on two main areas – the molecular synthesis of advanced ceramics for structural, functional and energy-related applications and the ultrahigh pressure synthesis of novel inorganic nitride based materials.
Nancy Ross, 66, is currently a Professor in the Department of Geosciences and Materials Science and Engineering Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (“Virginia Tech”) in Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. Professor Ross received her B.S. from Virginia Tech, her M.S. from the University of British Columbia and her Ph.D. from Arizona State University. After postdoctoral work at Stony Brook University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, she joined the faculty at University College London, England. In 2000, she came full circle, returning to the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech as a full professor. She served as the first Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the newly-formed College of Science at Virginia Tech from 2003 to 2012. She chaired the Department of Geosciences from 2012 to 2017.
Adam Simon is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan and CEO of VectOres Science, Inc., a company specialized in using metal isotope geochemistry for mineral exploration, processing and environmental monitoring. Adam earned BSc., MSc. and PhD degrees in geology and geochemistry from Stony Brook University and the University of Maryland and was a postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins University. Adam is recognized as an expert on all aspects of mineral resources including mineral economics and the relationship between resources availability and economic growth. He is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geology and the Mineralogical Society of American. He has led research programs on all seven continents. Adam co-authored the books Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment, and Earth Materials: Components of a Diverse Planet, has published 120 scientific articles, and supervised or co-supervised 48 MSc. and PhD students. He regularly gives invited lectures around the world including a TEDX talk and was awarded the University of Michigan Teaching Innovation Prize for his transdisciplinary pedagogy.
Professor Basilios Tsikouras was educated at the University of Patras, Greece (BSc and PhD in Geology). After working as a Geologist in construction and teaching at high schools, he was appointed to the Department of Geology at the University of Patras, Greece, where he worked until 2017, eventually as an Associate Professor. Since 2013, he has been working at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), where he is currently a Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology in the Geosciences Programme and the Director of Research in the Office of Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Sustainability. He previously served as Head of the Physical & Geological Sciences Department in UBD, as well as the Faculty of Science, UBD, as the Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs and of Graduate Studies and Research.
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