Athanasios Godelitsas (born 9 August 1967) received his PhD in chemistry from Aristotle University (Greece) and then he did a postdoc in mineral surface science and nanogeoscience at the group of Prof. A. Putnis at University of Muenster (Germany). He is Professor of Mineralogy-Mineral Chemistry at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA, Greece), Visiting Professor of Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and Erasmus+ Visiting Professor at University of Oulu (Finland).

He is actively involved in a wide range of research areas in modern mineralogy, mineral-chemistry and geochemistry. For this purpose he mainly uses electron and atomic force microscopies, surface analytical techniques and accelerator/Synchrotron-based spectroscopies.

• Mineral Surface Science and Nanogeoscience
• Microporous/Nanoporous Minerals and Rocks
• Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry
• Biomineralogy and Medical Geology
• Mineral Atmospheric Particles
• Marine Mineralogy and Geochemistry

• Evaluation of the mineralogical and geochemical data of the Gozo Island (Malta) geological formations (2020-2023)
• Nanogeoscience of the marine environment: Mineral nanoparticles, nanominerals, and nanoporous oxides in the Hellenic Volcanic Arc (2018)
• The nature of thorium in REE-bearing coastal deposits of northern Greece (2015)
• Biogenic sulfur minerals in the environment of eastern Mediterranean volcanoes: the case of shallow-sea hydrothermal vents off Milos island, Greece (2014-2015)
• Investigation of Fe-bearing minerals in desert dust (and "red rain") and their role to the atmospheric inputs of Fe in eastern Mediterranean and Aegean Sea (2013)
• The nature of uranium in sedimentary rocks of Epirus, NW Greece (2012)
• Investigation of environmental/geological materials using Synchrotron radiation techniques (2012)
• The nature of silver and gold in mining products of Chalkidiki, northern Greece (2012)
• Distribution and speciation of contaminants in bauxite and red mud from Ajka alumina plant, Hungary (2012)
• Elemental distribution and speciation in Saharan dust and urban particulate matter from Athens, Greece, using combined micro-XRF/-XANES/-XRD techniques (2011)
• Distribution and speciation of mercury and other heavy metals in framboidal pyrites from lagoon sediments in NW Greece (2010)
• Thorium chemistry in Greek bauxites and bauxite-tailings (red mud) using X-ray absorption spectroscopy (2009)
• Elemental distribution in Saharan dust from red rain precipitated over Athens, Greece (2008)
• Uranium distribution and speciation in carbonate rocks from the greater Attica region, Greece (2008)

• SERI-funded ERC Starting Grant DryCO2: Mechanisms of gas-driven mineral weathering in a changing climate; University of Bern, Switzerland (2023-....)
• Fabrication of Nanomaterials for CO2 Storage based on Geological Materials from Cyprus; University of Cyprus (2012-2014)
• A multi-scale study of dissolution-crystallization processes relevant to biomineralization and environment; Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (2010-2012)
• Center of Excellence in Low-energy Ion-Beam Research and Applications / LIBRA; NCSR "Demokritos", Greece (2009-2011)
• Interaction processes between sulphate minerals and aqueous solutions: mineralogical and environmental implications; Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (2007-2009)
• Transmission electron microscopic and spectroscopic study of diamondiferous UHP rocks from northern Greece; UoA, Greece, & Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Germany (2007)

• Mineralogy-Mineral Chemistry and Crystallography (undergrad)
• Mineralogy and petrology for geological mapping (undergrad)
• Environmental Mineralogy and Medical Geology (undergrad & postgrad)
• Minerals and Materials Science (postgrad)
• Instrumental analytical techniques (postgrad)