Editorial Board for section 'Clays and Engineered Mineral Materials'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Laboratoire SUBATECH, UMR 6457–Institut Mines-Télécom Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS/IN2P3, 44307 Nantes, France
Interests: computational molecular modeling of mineral-water interfaces and confined aqueous phases in clay, cement, and other nano-strucutred materials; environmental materials chemistry; geological nuclear waste disposal; physical chemistry of soil organic matter
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Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, P. Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: clay minerals; diagenesis and very low-grade metamorphism of shales; X-ray diffraction; mixed layer illite-smectite; dating of synkinematic minerals; thermal evolution of sedimentary successions; burial and exhumation history of fold-and-thrust belts; basin analysis; thermal modelling

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EnvoGéotechnique Ltd., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: geotechnical engineering with an environmental approach; sustainable soil stabilisation; environmental geotechnology
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Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4168-007 Porto, Portugal
Interests: low-temperature mineralogy and geochemistry; stable and light isotope geochemistry; clay minerals and zeolites; hydrothermal alteration and diagenesis; biomineralization; uranium aqueous geochemistry; analytic techniques
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Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), 52428 Jülich, Germany
Interests: materials chemistry; crystal growth and dissolution at low temperatures; radionuclide uptake and retention; dissolution-precipitation reactions; sulphates; secondary phases; clay minerals; solid-solution formation; environmental sciences
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C-MADE Centre of Materials and Building Technologies, Departament of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
Interests: environmentally sustainable binders and composites; technology for sustainable construction; microstructure of materials; materials durability testing and performance
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Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, Italian National Research Council, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: clays; clay minerals; geodynamic; climate change; provenance; diagenesis; low grade metamorphism; mixed-layers clay minerals and quantitative analysis of clays
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School of Earth Science and Resources, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
Interests: mineralogy; applied clay science; environmental science; soil science
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Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e delle Risorse, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Vicinale Cupa Cintia 21, 80126 Napoli, Italy
Interests: archaeological ceramics; clay raw materials; ancient mortars; provenance and technology; archaeometry

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Department of Civil Engineering, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Interests: earth-based building materials; earth building technologies; waste-based construction materials; artificial pozzolans; low embodied energy binders; building limes; architectural heritage conservation; vernacular construction rehabilitation
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Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: pore water chemistry; clay mineral synthesis; clay formations; properties of clays and natural raw materials; applicability of bentonites in European HLRW repositories
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Department of Geology and Geochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Interests: cement-clay interaction; bentonite; radioactive waste disposal; geochemical modeling; clay adsorption; water contamination

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Institut de Chimie et Matériaux de Poitiers, UMR 7285, CNRS, Université de Poitiers, F-86073 Poitiers, France
Interests: clay mineralogy; X-ray and neutron diffraction of disordered minerals; neutron scattering of water dynamics; molecular modeling of hydrated minerals; mineral-water interfaces

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Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Universidad de Malaga, 29071 Malaga, Spain
Interests: kaolin; smectite group of minerals; sepiolite; palygorskite; pelotherapy; advanced, clay-based materials; pharmaceutical uses of adsorption processes; new technologies
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Department of Mineralogy-Petrology-Ec. Geology, School of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: industrial minerals and rocks; zeolitic rocks; limestones; clay minerals; mineralogy; petrology
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Department Civil Engineering, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
Interests: cement; concrete; fly ash; environmental impact
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Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
Interests: microbe-mineral interaction; extreme einvrionments; Fe-liberation, smectite-to-illite reaction; diagenesis; petrophysical properties
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Research Group of Analytical Chemistry, Laboratory for Surfaces and Nanostructures, University of Pannonia, P.O. Box 158, 8201 Veszprém, Hungary
Interests: preparation, structure elucidation and application of organo-clay nanocomplexes

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CAS Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou 510640, China
Interests: clay minerals; diatomite; diatom biogenetic silica; surface properties and structure of minerals; interface reaction; solid acidity of minerals

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School of Geosciences and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Interests: graphite and graphene; mineralogy and mineral materials; clay mineralogy and application
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Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05508-060, Brazil
Interests: environmental analytical chemistry; development of sorbents for water treatment and solid phase extraction; flow-based analytical methods; monolithic materials; liquid chromatography
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School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Interests: soil reinforcement; soil stabilisation; pavement design; use of waste materials in pavement; thermal behaviour of stabilised clays; railway geotechnology; remote sensing and geotechnical field instrumentation; design and develoment of closed-loop research equipment
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Key Laboratory of Clay Mineral Applied Research of Gansu Province, Center of Eco-Materials and Green Chemistry, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Interests: attapulgite; palygorskite; halloysite; mineral pigments; environmental mineral materials; resource utilization of solid wastes; antibacterial material
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Department of Geology and Geochemistry, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Interests: geology and geochemistry of clays; special clays applications; sepiolite–palygorskite; bentonite; Talc–kerolite; clays and health; mineral characterization
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Department of Sciences, Macchia Romana Campus, University of Basilicata, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: magmatic and metamorphic petrography; naturally occurring asbestos; ophiolitic sequence; geomaterials
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Geosciences Department, Geobiotec Research Unit, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: clays and clay minerals; industrial minerals in general and traditional building materials; medical geology; coastal and marine geology
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Department of Earth Sciences, University of Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
Interests: mineralogy; clay minerals; geochemistry; environmental evaluation; paleoenvironmental evolution; anthropic wastes; tsunami deposits
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Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, Motooka 744, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Interests: biohydrometallurgy; biooxidation; bioremediation; cementitious materials; clay minerals; geopolymer; photocatalysts; radioactive wastes; resource recovery; spectroscopy; wastewater treatment
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Departamento de Geología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza del la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Interests: industrial minerals; clay minerals; physicochemical
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Chair in Mine Design, The Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Interests: drilling performance; rock burst investigation; behaviour of cement paste backfill material; slope and underground opening stability; advanced laboratory and field testing methods; soil improvement methods
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