The wider mining area of Lavrion is a natural museum, Where the set about 4000 known minerals, the mining area of Lavrion found more than 300 minerals. For this reason Lavrion has caused reach large numbers of amateur mineralogists and collectors because of the variety and beauty of the special exhibit of mineral specimens.
Katerinopoulos E. Athanassios Professor
Director of the Museum Mineralogy and Petrology
Education
Natural Sciences Bachelor Degree, Athens University (1974)
Ph.D. in Geology, Athens University
Post Doctoral Research (Southampton, Leicester, Salzburg)
Positions in the University
Assistant in the Laboratory of Mineralogy and Petrology,
Athens University (1977-1984)
Lecturer in the Section of Mineralogy and Petrology, Athens
University (1985-1993)
Assist. Professor in the Section of Mineralogy and Petrology,
Athens University (1994-1999)
Assoc Professor in the Section of Mineralogy and Petrology,
Athens University (2000-2009)
Professor in the Section of Mineralogy and Petrology, Athens
University (2009-today)
Teaching
Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Applied Mineralogy Industrial
Minerals.
Laboratory and theoretical
Distinctions
Award of the Academy of Athens
Award of the Society of Greek Litterateurs
Award of the Union of Greek Minerals and Fossils Collectors
Positions in the University
Delegate of the Department of Geology in the Senate Board of
Athens University (1989 91)
Member of the Board of the Museum of Mineralogy and Petrology,
Athens University (1997-99)
Director of the Museum of Mineralogy and Petrology, Athens
University (2000-today)
Other Positions
Founding member of «The Greek Association of Mineral and
Fossil Collectors» and President of the Board (1987- 91)
Delegate of Geologists in the Geotecnical Chamber of Greece
(1989-91, 1993-95)
Member of the Board of the Geological Society of Greece(1990-91)
General Secretary of the Geological Society of Greece (1994-95)
Research
Participation in 22 national or international research
projects....more
Recent Papers
Voudouris P. Katerinopoulos A. (2004).New occurrences of mineral megacrysts in tertiary magmatic-hydrothermal and epithermal environments in Greece. Doc. Natur. 151, 1-21.
Voudouris P. & Katerinopoulos A.
& Melfos V. (2004). Alpine type fissure minerals in Greece.
Doc. Natur. 151, 23-45.
Katerinopoulos Α., Solomos Ch.
and Voudouris P. (2005). Lavrion smithsonites: A mineralogical
and chemical study of their coloration. 8th Biennial SGA
Meeting. 9/30, 983-986.
P. Voudouris, V. Melfos, A.
Katerinopoulos (2006). Precious stones in Greece: mineralogy and
geological environment of formation. 12th Quadrennial IAGOO
Symposium. Moscow.
Katerinopoulou A., Katerinopoulos
A., Bieniok A., Knop E., Magganas A. & Amthauer G. (2007).
Crystal chemistry, structure analyses and phase transition
experiment on an omphacite from eclogitic metagabbro from Syros
Island, Greece. Miner Petr. 91, p 117-128.
Katerinopoulos A. (2008).
Variscan basic dykes in the Pelagonian (Northern Greece and
South FYROM): Geodynamic significance based on petrological,
geochemical and geochronological studies. Chemie der Erde
Geochemistry, 68, 93-103.
Katerinopoulos A. (2008).
Neoproterozoic and Variscan SHRIMP ages for zircons from the
Baba Mountain granitic complex, basement of the Hellenides
Alpine orogenic belt.
N. Jb. Min. Abh. 184/3, 269-283.
Siidra, O.I.; Krivovichev, S.V.; Chukanov, N.V.; Pekov,
I.V.; Magganas, A.; Katerinopoulos, A.; Voudouris, P. (2011) The
crystal structure of Pb5(As3+O3)Cl7 from the historic slags of
Lavrion, Greece - a novel Pb(II) chloride arsenite.
Min. Mag., 75, 2, 2011, pp. 337-345.
V. Pekov, N.V. Chukanov, A. E. Zadov, P. Voudouris, A. Magganas,
A. Katerinopoulos (2011) Agardite-(Nd) NdCu6(AsO4)3(OH)63HO from
the Hilarion Mine, Lavrion, Greece: Mineral description and
chemical relations with other members of the agardite zalesiite
solid-solution system Journal of Geosciences, 56/3 ;
V. Pekov, N.V. Chukanov, A.G. Turchkova, V.O. Yapaskurt, V.S.
Rusakov1, D.I. Belakovskiy, P. Voudouris, A. Katerinopoulos, A.
Magganas. (2011) A kankite-like arsenate-sulphate mineral from
the oxidized ores of Lavrion, Greece Abstract // VI Mineral
Diversity Research and Preservation;, Sofia.
Pekov, I.V., Chukanov, N.V., Yapaskurt, V.O., Rusakov, V.S.,
Belakovskiy, D.I., Turchkova, A.G., Voudouris, P.,
Katerinopoulos, A. and Magganas, A. (2012) Hilarionite, IMA
2011-089. CNMNC Newsletter No. 12, February 2012, page 154;
Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 151155.
Books (in Greek):
Systematic Mineralogy (1992)
Applied Mineralogy-Industrial Minerals (1994)
Theophrastus “On Stones” (1993) (Translation to modern Greek)
The world of minerals (2007) Book (in Greek and English)
Minerals of the Lavrion mines (1994)