Prof. Giovanni Grieco

Prof. Giovanni Grieco is an Associate Professor at the University of Milan, Italy. He teaches courses on georesources, covering topics from ore deposits and sustainability to raw materials, industrial applications, and georesources education. His research, documented in over 60 peer-reviewed papers and more than 120 other scholarly contributions, spans three decades and focuses on ore deposit formation, post-genetic processes, mining-related environmental hazards, and beneficiation technologies, with a particular—though not exclusive—emphasis on chromite and Platinum Group Minerals. He serves on the board of experts for the Italian National Exploration Plan, which aims to support the objectives of the EU Critical Raw Materials Act.

Jorge M. C. Machado de Carvalho

Jorge Carvalho holds a PhD in Mining Engineering from the University of Porto (2002) and is an Integrated Member of the Center for Natural Resources and Environment (CERENA), Portugal. A former professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) until his retirement in 2025, he has over four decades of experience in teaching and research in applied geophysics, geostatistics, and signal processing. His main scientific research topics / areas of expertise focus on geophysical exploration and site characterization across geotechnical, environmental, hydrogeological, archaeological, and forensic contexts, aiming at enhancing subsurface imaging and interpretation, increasing the reliability and scope of applied geophysics in both academic and industrial contexts. He has participated in numerous national and international research projects and is the (co)author of over 70 scientific papers and technical reports.

Prof. Dr. Kamil Ustaszewski

I am fascinated by the sight of mountains and consider tectonic processes that continuously modify the appearance of our Earth as outstanding landscape gardeners. My research interests hence focus on the tectonics and related sedimentary, magmatic, metamorphic, but also geomorphological processes along converging plate margins. In order to understand the deformation occurring there and its role in mountain building, I study geological faults and shear zones in terms of their geometry and kinematics over several spatial scales and at all crustal levels. Detailed field work, ideally complemented by geological mapping, forms an indispensable backbone of my projects. Additionally, I rely on geophysical data to constrain the deeper subsurface, as well as various geochronological approaches to record geological processes over time.

Prof. Dashnor Hoxha

Graduated Mining Engineer from Faculty of Geolgy and Mines of Univeristy of Tirana in 1991, he has obtained successively Master Degree in Civil and Mining Enginnering , from Institut Polytechnique de Lorraine, Nancy , France in 1994 and Ph.D degre in Géomécanique-Hydrosystems et Ouvrages , from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Géologie , Nancy France in 1998. He has worked as a Resercher fellow in the LaEGO  Research Laboratory in Nancy for 12 years. Since 2007 he is full professor at University of Orleans in Engineering School Polytech’Orleans. The domaine of ihis research are Geomechanic , Poromechanics and more generally couple thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling in geomaterials.  Characterisation of geomaterials behavior and their modelling is the principal resarch direction of his activities.  He has supervised 46 Ph.D. thesis in geomechanics and related field, published  more then 300 papers and sceintific rapport from which 124 in Web of Sciences journals (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7868-5466) He has directed the department of Civil enginnering in University of orleans and Research Laboratory « Gabriel Lamé », and has coordinated  several European Research and Education Projects , as well as regional, national and industrial projects..