e-mail at: skarpelis@geol.uoa.gr

Brief Curriculum Vitae

Position held - Career

Nikolaos Skarpelis is currently Professor of Geology of Mineral Deposits and Mineral Exploration in the Department of Economic Geology and Geochemistry, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment at the University of Athens.

He started his geological career as an exploration geologist with the United Nations Development Program: Project “Uranium exploration in Northern Greece”. As a junior geologist he worked on sampling and core logging, mine mapping, and geochemical surveys with the Department of Uranium Exploration of the Greek Nuclear Research Center "DEMOCRITUS" and Greek mining companies.

He has more than 30 years of experience directly devoted to the geology of mineral deposits.

Sabbatical leaves

Sabbatical leaves for studies and research at the Mineralogical Institute of the TU of Braunschweig, the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology of the University of Kiel, the Institute of Geochemistry and Petrography of the University of Karlsruhe and the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the University of Munich.

Research interests - research projects

He has conducted detailed geological mapping and metallogenic studies of mineral prospects. His research is based on extended field studies of ore systems, using a multidisciplinary approach integrating detailed mapping with petrography, mineral chemistry, whole-rock geochemistry and geochronology. During the last 10 years he carried out studies on the environmental impact of supergene alteration and exploitation of sulfide ores.

He has completed exploration programs for critical metals and gold, and research projects funded by the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology, mining companies, marble quarrying companies, the European Union, the Greek Ministry of Education, the University of Athens, as well as by non-profit Foundations, mainly as Project Coordinator. He has participated in UNESCO-IGCP projects and coordinated Bilateral Research Projects between Greece and France, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Albania.

Completed research projects (selected)

§ Cretaceous and Eocene Ni-laterites and laterite-derived sedimentary nickeliferous iron-ores and bauxites (SE Balkans): Lateritization processes, ore mineralogy and chemistry, origin, diagenetic modification.

§ Exploration for epithermal Au (NE Greece and the NE Aegean islands).

§ Exploration for electronic metals in polymetallic sulfide ores.

§ REE mineralogy and geochemistry of karstic nickel and karstic bauxite deposits.

§ Geology of a chrysotile asbestos deposit (Zidani, N. Greece).

§ The geology of the Late Miocene Lavrion carbonate replacement Pb-Ag-Zn sulfide deposit.

§ Industrial mineral resource assessment (graphite, garnet, carbonates).

§ Geology and environmental impact assessment of exploitation of HS epithermal-type Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization (Kirki, NE Greece).

§ Late Miocene extensional structural control on fluid channeling and mineralization in the Attic-Cycladic belt.

§ Petrology and metallogeny of the External Metamorphic Belt of the Hellenides.

§ Exploration for primary Titanium mineralization in metabasites (Rhodope and Eastern Aegean islands).

Current research interests

§ Geodynamics and evolution of the mineralization in the Aegean: Ore systems associated with metamorphic core complexes (Attic-Cycladic belt, Tertiary Rhodope basins).

§ Exploration for critical metals and epithermal Au in Northern Greece (research and consulting projects).

§ Assessment of environmental impact of mining and processing of Epithermal, Volcanogenic Massive Sulfides and Carbonate-hosted Replacement-type sulfide deposits (Northern Greece, Cyprus, Lavrion).

Teaching

§ Geology of Mineral Deposits: lecture - microscopy course - field trips

§ Geology of Mineral Deposits - metallic and non-metallic: lecture - microscopy course - field trips (Department of Mineral Resources Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 1999-2004)

§ Environmental Management of Mineral Resources - Post-graduate course: Case studies of current research on environmental aspects of weathering of sulfide ores, processing and exploitation of mineral resources: lectures - field trips.

Recent invited talks

§ Greek Mining Enterprises Association, Thessaloniki, May 2010: “Mineral resources exploitation in Greece: Wealth creation with respect for the environment”.

§ Geological Society of Greece, Athens, May 2011: “Mineral Potential

of Greece” (http://www.geosociety.gr/Imerida2011_gr.html)

Consulting

§ Services for the mineral industry: field and lab work, data evaluation, reporting.

§ Services for marble quarrying companies: reserve estimation, reporting.

Organization of field trips

Organization and guidance of field trips for groups of students of foreign and greek universities, participants of international congresses and people of the mining sector in areas of geological interest.

Membership

§ Society of Economic Geologists (Fellow)

§ Geological Society of America

§ Geochemical Society

§ American Geophysical Union

§ Society of Resource Geology

§ International Mineralogical Association

§ Geological Society of Greece

Professional Society Activities

§ Geological Society of Greece: Member of the Council 1988-1990, 1992-94, 1996-2000.

§ Member of Organizing and Scientific Committees of International Congresses.

§ Founding member of the Committee of “Economic Geology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry” and the Committee on “Geoscience Teaching” of the Geological Society of Greece.

§ Academic Advisor of the “Society of Economic Geologists - University of Athens Student Chapter”.

Reviewer for

§ Resource Geology (Wiley - Blackwell Publications)

§ International Journal of Earth Sciences

§ Scweicherische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen (SMPM)

§ Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

§ Sedimentary Geology

§ Journal of the Geological Society, London

§ Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie Abh. (Ε. Schweizerbart’sche Verlags, Stuttgart)

§ Tectonophysics

§ Mineralogy and Petrology (Springer)

§ Israel Journal of Earth Sciences

§ Geomorphology

§ Geologica Carpathica

§ Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

§ Bulletin Geological Society of Greece

§ Ηellenic Journal of Geosciences

Special interests

§ Aegean geoarchaeology: mining and metallurgy in the Aegean especially during Bronze Age.

§ The future of Geology teaching in High-schools.

Recent key publications

· Skarpelis, N. (2011) Critical metal resources in Epithermal and porphyry systems in N. Greece. Geological Society of London, FERMOR 2011 Conference, September 2011, London (Abstract).

· Triantafyllidis, S. and Skarpelis, N. (2010) Geochemical investigation and modelling of an acid pit lake from a high sulfidation ore deposit: Kirki, NE Greece. Bull. Geol. Soc. Greece, 53, 5, 2417-2424.

· Marschik R., Bauer T., Hensler A.-S., Skarpelis, N. & Hölzl, S. (2010) Ιsotope geochemistry of the Pb-Zn-Ba (-Ag-Au) mineralization at Triades-Galana, Milos Island. Resource Geology, 60, 4, 335–347.

· Skarpelis, N. & Argyraki, A. (2009) Geology and Origin of Supergene Ore at the Lavrion Pb-Ag-Zn Deposit, Attica, Greece, Resource Geology, 59, 1, 1-14.

· Liati, A., Skarpelis, N. & Pe-Piper, G. (2009) Late Miocene magmatic activity in the Attic-Cycladic Belt of the Aegean (Lavrion, SE Attica, Greece): implications for the geodynamic evolution and timing of ore deposition. Geol. Mag., 146, 5, 732-742.

· Kalaitzidis, S., Siavalas, G., Skarpelis, N., Araujo, C.V. & Christanis, K. (2009) Late Creataceous coal overlying karstic bauxite deposits in the Parnassus-Ghiona Unit, Central Greece: Coal characteristics and depositional environment. International Journal of Coal Geology, doi: 10-1016/j.coal.2009.06.005.

· Skarpelis, N., Tsikouras, B. & Pe-Piper, G. (2008) The Miocene igneous rocks in the Basal Unit of Lavrion (SE Attica, Greece): petrology and geodynamic implications. Geol. Mag. 145, 1, 1-15.

· Skarpelis, N. (2007) The Lavrion deposit: geology, mineralogy and minor elements chemistry. N. Jb. Miner. Abh. 183/3, 227-249.

· Herrington, R., Boni, M., Skarpelis, N. & Large, D. (2007) Paleoclimate, weathering and ore deposits - a European perspective. In: Proceedings of the 9^th Biennial SGA Meeting, “Digging Deeper”, C.J. Andrew et al. eds., Dublin,1373-1376.

· Triantafyllidis, St., Skarpelis, N. & Komnitsas, K. (2007) Environmental Characterization and Geochemistry of Kirki, Thrace, NE Greece, Abandoned Flotation Tailing Dumps. Environmental Forensics, 8, 4, 351 – 359.

· Skarpelis, N., Lüders, V. & Banks, D. (2007) Fluid inclusions, REE and Sulfur Isotope Geochemistry of the Lavrion Carbonate hosted Ore Deposit, SE Attica, Greece. GOLDSCHMIDT 07 Annual conference, Geoch. Cosmoch. Acta 71, Supplement no 15S, A 945.

· Skarpelis, N. (2007) Late Miocene extensional structural control on fluid channelling and mineralization in the Attic-Cycladic belt. Geological Society of America - Penrose Conference “Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheological Coupling, and Heat Budget” Island of Naxos, 8-12 October 2007 (Program - Poster session).

· Skarpelis, N. (2006) Lateritization processes of ultramafic rocks in Cretaceous times: The fossil weathering crusts of mainland Greece. J. Geochem. Explor. 88, 1-3, 325-328.

· Triantafyllidis, S. & Skarpelis, N. (2006) Mineral formation in an acid pit lake from a high-sulfidation ore deposit: Kirki, NE Greece. J. Geochem. Explor. 88, 1-3, 68-71.

· Skarpelis, N. & Gilg, H.A. (2006) Miocene extensional fault-controlled mineralization in the central Aegean (Mykonos, Cyclades): deposition from a two-stage hydrothermal system? Neogene Magmatism of the Central Aegean and Adjacent Areas: Petrology, Tectonics, Geodynamics, Mineral Resources and Environment (NECAM 2006), Book of Abstracts, p. 36, September 11 – 13, Milos island.

· Skarpelis, N. & Triantafyllidis, S. (2004) Environmental impact from supergene alteration and exploitation of a high sulfidation epithermal type mineralization (Kirki, NE Greece). Trans. Inst. Min. Metall., Applied Earth Science B, 113 (1), 110-116.

· Liati, A. & Skarpelis, N. (2004) The metabauxites of Ikaria island, Eastern Aegean, Greece. 5^th International Symposium on eastern Mediterranean Geology, Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-20 April, 2004, 1427-1430.

· Skarpelis, N. & Koutles, Th. (2004) Geology of epithermal mineralization of the NW part of Milos island, Greece. 5^th International Symposium on Eastern Mediterranean Geology, Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-20 April, 2004, 1449-1452.