Prof. in Civil Eng. Department

Faculty of Eng., Qassim University, KSA

Dr. Naima HAMOUMI obtained his BSc (Biology and Geology) from the Mohammed V University, Rabat and his Master (Oceanology ) and PhD (Sedimentology ) from Western Brittany University, Brest and « Doctorat d’Etat » from Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg. Her PhD research focused on sedimentological study of Upper Ordovician sucessions of Armorican massif, France and the record of the Upper Ordovician glaciation on sedimentation. Her « Doctorat d’Etat » research has been devoted to the depositional environments of the Ordovician system of Morocco and their climatic (glaciation), tectonic and eustatic control. She is currently Professor at Mohammed V University, Rabat, responsible of ODYSSEE research group, Faculty advisor of ENACTUS / FSR and national coordinator of the Moroccan Network of Marine Sciences and Engineering "MARSIMER". She is involved in sedimentological studies related to the Meso-Cenozoic North-Western Rif series, ordovician oolitic ironstones, coastal lagoon; mud volcanoes and cold water carbonate mounds on the Moroccan Atlantic and Mediterranean margins. She has published various papers in peer reviewed journals

Dr. Urbi Basu has obtained her BSc (Geology) from the Presidency College, Kolkata and Masters in Applied Geology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB). She has received her doctorate degree (PhD Geophysics) in May 2019 from the Center for Earthquake Research and Information, University of Memphis, USA. She is currently working as a geophysicist in ExxonMobil India. Her PhD research was seismic tomography and anisotropy structure underneath the central United States. She did graduate research work for the Reelfoot Rift region in central United States using Pn tomography and the Rayleigh wave azimuthal anisotropy to model the lower crust and upper mantle velocity and anisotropy structure. She recently published one journal paper in JGR Solid Earth (Basu, U., & Powell, C. (2019). Pn Tomography and Anisotropy Study of the Central United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(7), 7105-7119.) and is currently in the review process for another first author paper in JGR Solid Earth.

Topic: 

The European H2020 Projects Cheap-GSHPs & GEO4CIVHIC: Innovative coaxial heat exchangers for shallow geothermal installations

Biography:

Eng. Luc Pockelé, graduated at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel as electro-mechanical engineer. Worked 34 years in multi-national companies, respectively Procter and Gamble, UCB and Tate and Lyle. Started in engineering and project management on processing plants. Moved into managerial and executive positions in manufacturing, quality, environment, safety and supply chain. For the last 11 years he is managing an Italian SME, active in renewable energies in buildings, shallow geothermal in particular. Co-inventor of the patent request of the drilling methodology developed in European research project Cheap-GSHPs (grant agreement n° 657982).

Topic: 

H2020 Project GEO4CIVHIC: Innovative Applications for shallow geothermal installations

Biography:

Eng. Giulia Mezzasalma has graduated in Energy Engineering from the University of Padova in 2015. She has a master certification in project management in 2019. She works in RED Srl as project manager in European Project and as thermal engineer. She is expert in Renewable system, mostly Geothermal System. She is expert in Energy simulation and modelling, qualified as energy certificator.

Keynote Topic: 

Geochemical study of the giant Bayan Obo Fe-REE-Nb ore deposit, Inner Mongolia (Northern China): A clue to its genesis 

Biography:

Dr. Xiaoyong Yang is a full professor in School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. His major is geochemistry, his study is mostly interesting in mineral deposits.

Topic: Borosilicates in high-pressure and ultra-high-pressure lithologies

Biography:

Dr. Andreas Ertl obtained his BSc (Geoscience) and his PhD (Natural Science) from the University of Vienna, Austria. He previously worked as Visiting Professor in Heidelberg where he gave lectures about crystallography for geoscientists and about X-ray diffraction and X-ray spectroscopic analysis of rocks and minerals. He is member of the Subcommittee on Tourmaline Nomenclature of the International Mineralogical Association’s Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification. His PhD research was based on the characterization of tourmalines from different environments. He currently has a project about the behavior of borosilicates during subduction and in different geotectonic settings. His area of interest is borosilicates and investigations of metamorphic tourmaline as geothermometer. He has published more than 60 papers in peer reviewed journals.

Topic: Metallogeny of gold in the Western Altai-Sayan folded area

Biography: 

Alexandr I. Chernykh is the Director General of the FSBI "TsNIGRI" - the leading enterprise of the State Geological Service of the Russian Federation in the field of geology and metallogeny of diamonds, non-ferrous and noble metals. He holds PhD degree in geology and mineralogy. Dr Chernykh is a member of the editorial board of leading Russian geological journals, the author and co-author of more than 100 publications. A.I. Chernykh is an expert in the metallogeny and in the mineral exploration and prospecting methods for solid mineral deposits