research and academic activity
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
▪ Microfacies Analysis of Carbonate rocks
▪ Facies Models
▪ Palaeogeography
▪ Diagenesis
▪ Evaporites, Dolomites, Phosphorites
▪ Pedogenetic Processes, Calcretes
▪ Ancient Building Stones, Conservation of Ancient Monuments
▪ Archaeometry
VISITS IN RESEARCH INSTITUTES & UNIVERSITIES-BILATERAL CONTACTS
1985: Technical University of Berlin, Germany1985: Frei University of Berlin, Germany
1988: University of Lund, Sweden
1988: University of Copenhagen
1989, 1984: Geological Institute of Sofia, Bulgary
1990, 1993: Geological Institute of Budapest, Hungary
1994, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2002: University of Bucharest, Romania
1999, 2000, 2001, 2004: University “ Alexandru Ioan Cuza” of Iasi, Faculty of Geography and Geology, Romania
1991, 1993, 1995, 1997: University of Erlangen, Germany
1991: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (CNRS)
1994, 1996: University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, France
2002: Technical University of Mexico, Mexico City
2002, 2003: University “Liceo Cervantino” of Irapuato, Mexico
2002: University of Guanahuato, Mexico
2003: State University of NY, USA
2003: Ibero-American University, Mexico
2003: Molloy College, Long Island, USA
2004, 2008, 2009: University of Bucharest
2006: Agricultural University of Iasi “Ion Ionescu de la Brad”
LECTURES
1988: Department of Physical Geography of the University of Lund, Sweden“The great significance of caliche facies in palaeoenvironmental analysis”.
“The diagenesis of carbonate and evaporite facies”.
1994: Mineralogy Department, University of Bucharest, Romania
“The phosphatic formations of Tethys”.
“The Upper Cretaceous phosphatic formations of the Ionian zone, Western Greece”.
2000: Faculty of Geography and Geology, University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iasi.
“Rare Greek Geotopes”.
2000: Faculty of Pharmacy, University “Grigore T. Popa” de Medicine and Pharmacy.
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine.
2002: Workshop on the “Cultural Heritage, Ecology and European Integration” organized by the Embassy of Romania and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
“Biodiversity laws: the most serious environmental problem of the 21st Century”.
2002: The 7th International Congress of the Euro-American Women’s Council “Odysseys Elitis meets Octavio Paz”.
“The Laboratory Earth: environmental and ecological problems of the 21th Century”.
2003: University of Irapuato, Mexico
“The Greek and the Mexican revolution for independence: parallel historical roads and cultures”.
2005: Symposium Scientific “Agriculture and the Environment – Present and Perspectives”. University of Agricultural Studies and Medicine Veterinary “Ion Ionescu de la Brad”, Iasi, Romania.
“ Old relationships between Greece and Romania in History, Culture and Civilization”
2008: The Hellenic Speleological Association
“Marine and continental carbonate sedimentation – Karst and Speleothemes”.
MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
• Hellenic Sedimentological Association
• Greek Geological Society
• Scientific Society of Technologists of Mineral Wealth
• International Association of Sedimentologists
• Carpathian-Balcan Geological Association
• Association of Greek Geologists
• Geotechnical Association of Greece