Petrogenesis and Exploration of the Earth's Interior

Petrogenetic processes: geochemistry, geochronology and geophysical approaches.- Surficial processes: sedimentation and facies analysis.- Applied mineralogy and tectonics.- Geological research applied to mineral deposits.

Prof. Dr. Basem Zoheir is a full Professor of Mineralogy and Economic Geology at Benha University (Egypt), and now AvH fellow at Kiel Univ. (Germany). He was a DAAD doctorate at the Univ. of Munich (Germany), visiting researcher at the universities of Tubingen, TU Clausthal, Geneva, Stockholm, Graz, TU Lulea, and a fulbrighter at the USGS DFC-Denver. Basem has published around 42 articles in international peer-reviewed ISI journals. He served as a reviewer and guest editor for a number of Geoscience journals, and as an examiner for several research funding institutions. Aside the academic work, Basem provided consultations to national and international mining companies exploring for gold in the Nubian Shield.

Dr. Domenico M. Doronzo holds a B.Sc., a M.Sc., and a Ph.D. degree (in 2011) in Earth Sciences from Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. Theses and specialties related to the degrees are physical volcanology, experimental and computational fluid dynamics, petrology, and natural hazards. Then he has worked in volcanology and sedimentology, fluid dynamics and combustion, environmental sciences, and rock physics in the United States, Italy, and Mexico. He is currently a contract Researcher at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain. Particularly, he has received the Rittmann Medal (in 2014) from Associazione Italiana di Vulcanologia, which is assigned to the best young Italian volcanologist. His research interests focus on integrating theory, field, numerical modeling, experiments and laboratory to study geological processes and products in volcanic areas from fluid dynamic and natural hazard perspectives. Particularly, he studies pyroclastic energy currents, sand and dust storms, turbidity currents, man-made environmental phenomena, and georesources. He has recently coordinated the Topical Collection on Dust for the Arabian Journal of Geosciences. He is an Associate Editor of the Arabian Journal of