CERENA Seminar - June

hybrid: Presential at Técnico & Zoom | June 27 | 13:30 |

On June 27 at 130pm, we will have the following talks: 

Circular economy and revalorisation of NORM waste: examples from gold mining in South Africa by Frank Winde

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Frank Winde Studied Geography, Geology, Sociology and Environmental Chemistry. Three years of field research in U-mining regions of Central Europe, Southern Africa, and Tropical Australia. PhD (Halle, 1996), Habilitation (Jena, 2003). More than 20 years in South Africa: gold mining industry + academia. Since 2004: Professor (NWU). Numerous interdisciplinary projects on U and mining for SA governmental departments, NNR, WHO, IARC, IAEA, Co-Chief Assessor UNESCO for IHP VII.

He was elected Chair IGU-Commission for Water Sustainability. Frank published more than 200 papers + research reports, reviewer for international journals and science funding bodies. Frank joined Wismut in 2019, a German government company specialising in remediating U-mining legacy sites.



'Smart Mining for Energy Transition' by Amílcar Soares

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Amilcar Soares is Full Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) and VisitingProfessor at some other schools at UAE, Australia and Brazil.

He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the International Association of Mathematical Geosciences. He is the coordinator of a research group for the application of Spatial Data Sciences in the mining and petroleum industry.

His most recent R&D work is focused on geostatistical and spatial data sciences methods applied to the seismic characterization of mineral and energy resources.

 

 

The event will be in a hybrid format in, presential at IST and via Zoom. 

Date/Location: June 27, 2022 (Monday), Room C13 (Central Pavilion - Alameda).

Link zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/84154735290?pwd=aVdhdWpJQU1TV2hRTDNZYmpqRXEzZz09