Greece
Teaching and Research in the following topics: - Assessment of industrial clays, namely bentonites, palygorskite, sepiolite, kaolin, vermiculite and common clays and shales. - Asessment of Industrial minerals and rocks. - Geology and exploration of Industrial Clay deposits. - Layer charge of smectites - Invention of novel methods for characterization of smectites - Synthesis of industrial minerals (clay minerals and zeolites). - Organoclays-acid activated clays - Physical and chemical properties of industrial clays and industrial minerals in general (rheological properties, colour, particle size and shape, CEC, abrassiveness etc) - Environmental applications of industrial clays. - Diagenesis of clays-clays in oil reservoirs - Application of clays as paleoclimatic indicators - Application of clays for provenance of source materials in geoarcheology. Editing-reviewing tasks: Principal Editor: Clay Minerals-Journal of Fine Particle Science (since April 2013). Associate Editor: Applied Clay Science (2011-2013) Associate Editor: Clay Minerals-Journal of Fine Particle Science (March 2007- March 2013) Editor of the book: "Advances in the characterization of industrial minerals" EMU notes in Mineralogy, vol. 9, Mineralogical Society, London, 2011. Proposal Evaluator for EU (FP6 and FP7) Reviewer of research manuscripts in 38 International Journals Recent Awards Marion and Chrystie Jackson Mid Career Clay Scientist Award, 50th CMS Conference, Urbana-Champaign IL, USA, 7-10 October 2013. 13th George Brown Lecture, (Mineralogical Society London), Joint BZA/BCG Conference, Chester, UK, 17-20 July 2012 International Master in Advance Clay Science (IMACS). Link: www.master-imacs.org. Partners: University of Poitiers, France Technical University of Crete, Greece University of Porto Allegre, Brazil
Research (Synthesis of high purity, high added value zeolites from waste materials)