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Expert in mineralogy of various ore deposits and methods of mineralogical analysis, who developed the basis for a theory of supergenesis of massive sulfide deposits on example of the South Urals, revealed the principles of the formation of selenides in a supergene profile of massive sulfide deposits and thermodynamically substantiated their formation, as well as systematized the data on the distribution of sulfates in the Urals. Author and co-author of the discovery of seven new minerals and more than 300 published papers (including 31 indexed in the Web of Science database) and 3 monographs.

H-index: 15 (Scopus), 22 (RSCI)

Scientific interests are related to ancient massive sulfide deposits and modern hydrothermal sulfide fields. Irina Melekestseva examined the structure and mineral composition of the South Urals Co-bearing massive sulfide deposits associated with ultramafic rocks, the role of diagenesis in the transformation of ancient and modern sulfide breccias, magmatic contribution to the formation of Cu–Zn massive sulfides from several hydrothermal sulfide fields enriched in Au and Ag, the enrichment of secondary sulfides in trace elements, and similarity of lithogenesis of Paleozoic and Cenozoic barite-bearing pyrite ores. Author of 41 papers in peer-reviewed journals (including 32 papers in the Web of Science) and co-author of 5 monographs.

H-index:  14 (Scopus), 17 (RSCI). ORCID

Expert in theoretical and experimental mineralogy, mineralogical crystallography, and crystallogenesis, who founded a new direction in crystallography and crystallogenesis, determined the principles of growth of artificial crystals at the regeneration stage, proposed new methods for rational use of natural crystal raw materials, synthesis of crystals, and regulation of their properties, contributed to the genetic interpretation of crystal growth characteristics and to the disclosure of the conditions of natural crystal formation, and developed new morphological, crystallophysical, and anatomical indicators of the genesis of diamond, beryl, quartz, and other minerals. Author and co-author of more than 200 scientific papers, including 15 monographs.

H-index: 6 (Scopus), 15 (RSCI)

Expert in mineralogy, geochemistry, formation conditions, and metamorphism of ore-bearing deposits in sedimentary and volcanosedimentary complexes, as well as the deposits of semi-precious stones. Laureate of the Russian Federation President’s Prize in area of education (1997). Member of the Scientific Council of the Russian Mineralogical Society (RMO). Member of the Council of GU 212.224.04 for the defense of doctoral and candidate thesis at the National Mineral Resources University “Gorny”. Author and co-author of more than 90 scientific papers.

H-index: 8 (Scopus), 13 (RSCI)

Specialist in crystallography and mineral spectroscopy. Author and co-author of the discovery of 34 new minerals (data of 2013). A new mineral, haluskinite, was named in honor of her great contribution to mineralogy of skarns.

H-index: 21 (Scopus).

Expert in formation processes of various mineral deposits and geodynamic evolution of Earth. Author and co-author of more than 400 published papers, including 68 articles in the Web of Science database.

H-index: 34 (Scopus).

Expert in mineralogy, geochemistry, and genesis of rare-metal deposits associated with granitoid magmatism. Vladimir Krivovichev developed a concept of mineral systems and their application to the study of the evolution of mineral diversity. Author and co-author of more than 300 published papers (20 papers in the Web of Science database) and more than 25 monographs and textbooks.

H-index: 17 (Scopus), 21 (RSCI).

Expert in crystallography, mineralogy of various deposits, and mineralogical mapping. His studies were related to the development of a substantial-axiomatic theory of the structure of aggregations and transformations of minerals, symmetry of mineral indivisible aggregates, and affine homology of crystals. Author of more than 100 published papers.

H-index: 2 (Scopus), 6 (RSCI).

Expert in mineralogy, geochemistry, and genesis of gold deposits. He made a significant contribution to the theory of mineral typomorphism, as well as to one of the most serious problems of ore genesis: the identification of sources of fluids and ore substance, and the improvement of scientific methods of the forecasting and prospecting of gold deposits. Author and co-author of 375 papers including scientific journals indexed in Web of Science database.

H-index: 11 (Scopus), 22 (RSCI).

Expert in crystal chemistry of rock-forming minerals, crystallochemical properties, formation conditions, geochemical properties, and their application to petrological, geological, and ore deposits. He has made significant contributions to the studies of thermobarometry of mafic and ultrabasic rocks and diamond inclusions, geochemistry of mantle rocks, and their relation to the diamond potential of kimberlites. He also studies volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits compared with modern seafloor mineralization. He is a leading specialist in copper metallogeny of the Alpine fold region and its archeometry. Author of more than 90 published papers in international journals.

H-index: 34 (Scopus).

Expert in mineralogy and crystallography of the Dara-i-Pioz alkaline pluton (Tajikistan), skarn deposits of the Inylchek Ridge (Kyrgyzstan), and pegmatites of the Ilmeny Mountains (South Urals). Author and co-author of discovery of more than 40 new minerals (as of 2017) and 48 published papers (Web of Science). The mineral pautovite was named in his honor.

H-index: 12 (Scopus), 14 (RSCI).

Expert in mineralogy and geochemistry of alkaline postmagmatic systems, granitic pegmatites, exhalation post-volcanic processes, and supergene zone of chalcogenide deposits, as well as mineralogy, geochemistry, and crystallochemistry of rare elements, zeolite-like minerals and synthetic compounds. Author and co-author of the discovery of 202 new minerals (as of 2016) and more than 550 published papers, 429 of which are indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus.

H-index: 29 (Scopus), 31 (RSCI).

Expert in mineralogy and processes of combustion metamorphism caused by natural organic fuel fires. Author and co-author of more than 270 published papers.

H-index: 26 (Scopus), 30 (RSCI).

The areas of scientific interest are related to mineralogy, geochemistry, and formation conditions of noble metal deposits. Author and co-author of more than 160 published papers.

H-index: 9 (Scopus), 12 (RSCI).

The research interests are related to chemical and temporal evolution of the Earth’s lithosphere and associated mineral deposits, the development of Re–Os and Sm–Nd isotope systematics for VMS and gold deposits, which are used to improve the accuracy of geochronology and stratigraphy, and Sm–Nd isotope mapping technology for geologic terranes. Author and co-author of more than 300 published papers, including 42 articles in the Web of Science database.

H-index: 21 (Scopus).

Expert in geochemistry of mining and industrial technogenesis and mechanisms of migration and accumulation of technogenic, including toxic, chemical elements. The main topics of his study are related to the development of a theory of ecogeochemistry of mining and industrial technogenesis in the South Urals. For the Karabash and Mednogorsk geotechnical systems, he revealed the distribution and mode of occurrence of toxic elements in natural environment (soils, lake floor sediments, etc.). Author and co-author of more than 80 published papers.

H-index: 13 (Scopus), 17 (RSCI).

Expert in geology and mineralogy of ore deposits of the Kola Peninsula, mainly kyanite and Cu–Ni deposits with platinoids. Yury Voitekhovsky develops three scientific directions at the interface of natural and mathematical sciences: systematic combinatorial-geometric analysis of (i) polyhedral structures, including fullerenes and their analogs and (ii) real crystallographic simple forms in connection with a Curie dissymmetry principle and structural analysis of crystalline rocks as a space with different topologies and non-Euclidean metrics. Author of more than 300 published papers including 5 monographs.

H-index: 8 (Scopus), 14 (RSCI).

Expert in mineral physics and material science, who made a significant contribution to the development of modern concepts of mineral spectroscopy, obtained original results in point defects of structure of minerals, traced the dynamics of changes in the defectness of the structure under various thermodynamic and radiation effects in natural and model environments, proposed mechanisms of the formation and transformation of defects, and determined their relationship with physical and chemical properties and the environment of mineral formation. Author and co-author of more than 350 published papers (44 in the Web of Science database) including 8 monographs.

H-index: 11 (Scopus), 20 (RSCI).

Expert in geology and geochemistry of ore deposits, ore mineralogy, petrology of igneous rocks, economic geology, isotopic studies of ore systems, including platinum group elements (PGE) in chromitites, ore mineralization of the Bushveld complex (South Africa), unconventional PGE sources in gold-bearing black shale deposits, gas transport of metals in natural settings of high-temperature fumaroles, isotopic dating of ore mineralization, and PGE behavior in hydrothermal systems. Author and co-author of more than 100 published papers.

H-index: 26 (Scopus), 28 (RSCI).