Проф. д-р Михаил Тарасов
"Акад. Иван Костов"
Българска академия на науките
Date of birth: 1960
Nationality: Bulgarian (ethnic Russian)
Education
1977-1983 High Education (Geochemistry, Environmental Protection), Saint-Petersburg (Leningrad) State University, Saint-Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia;
2001 PhD degree “Mineralogy and Crystallography”; Central Laboratory of Mineralogy and Crystallography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria; Thesis title: „Alteration of scheelite and formation of secondary tungsten and tungsten-iron minerals under supergene conditions “
Academic positions
2018 - currently, Professor, Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography, Acad. Ivan Kostov ", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMC-BAS)
Field of interests
- indicative properties of minerals; REE-Th-U accessory minerals; Nb-Ta-Ti-U-REE minerals; W-Fe minerals and mineral and organic carriers of W and Fe in ores, soils and sediments; structural mechanisms of phase transformations; weathering processes;
- sol-gel processes, nanoprocesses and nanomaterials;
- archaeomineralogy;
- electron microscopy (SEM, TEM) and electron probe microanalysis
Membership
Bulgarian Geological Society (BGS) – President since 2023
Bulgarian Crystallographic Society (BCS)
European Association of Geochemistry (EAG)
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