Academic staff

Inna Safonova

Ph.D.

Lab Chief

Research interests: geochemistry, igneous petrology, tectonics, Pacific-type orogeny, accretionary complexes, Ocean Plate Stratigraphy, mantle plumes, continental growth in Central Asia

e-mail:inna@igm.nsc.ru

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Inna Safonova is the Head of Laboratory of Evolution of Paleo-Oceans and Mantle Magmatism (LEPOM) at the Geology-Geophysical Department of the Novosibirsk State University and a Senior Research Scientist at the Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, both in Novosibirsk, Russia. She received her M.Sc. (1987) from the Novosibirsk State University (Honors), and her Ph.D. (2005) from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Safonova has been a visiting researcher in the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2004-2015), University of Tokyo (2010-2014) and a Brain Pool Program Researcher in the Korea Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources (2010-2012). Awardee of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (2007-2009, 2014-2015 and 2017) and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China (2017-2018). She has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers in SCI journals, has over 2000 citations (H-factor = 22), a coauthor of several monographs, an associate editor of Gondwana Research, Geoscience Frontiers and Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. Proposer and Leader of IGCP#592 Project "Continental construction in Central Asia" of UNESCO-IUGS (2012-2016).

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Dmitry Zedgenizov

Ph.D.

Leading research scientist

Research interests: Mineralogy, petrology

e-mail:zed@igm.nsc.ru

Research interests:

1. Processes of generation and evolution of diamond-forming media in the lithospheric mantle;

2. Composition, structure and evolution of the lithosphere of ancient cratons in connection with the problem of genesis and localization of the diamond deposits;

3. Geochemical indicators of diamond-forming processes;

4. A deep cycle of crustal material and the formation of diamondiferous substrates in the sublithospheric mantle.

Andrey Izokh

Ph.D.

Leading research scientist

Research interests: Igneous petrology

e-mail:izokhop@igm.nsc.ru

Sergey Krivonogov

Ph.D.

Leading research scientist

Research interests: GIS, sedimentology

e-mail:carpos@igm.nsc.ru

Nikolai Kruk

Ph.D.

Leading research scientist

Research interests: Tectonics, magmatism

e-mail:kruk@igm.nsc.ru

Olga Turkina

Ph.D.

Leading research scientist

Research interests: Geoghemistry, petrology

e-mail:turkina@igm.nsc.ru

Sergey Khromykh

Ph.D.

Senior research scientist

Research interests: Igneous petrology

e-mail:serkhrom@igm.nsc.ru

Dmitry Konopelko

Ph.D.

Senior research scientist

Research interests: Igneous petrology, geology

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Maxim Kuibida

Ph.D.

Senior research scientist

Research interests: Igneous petrology, geology

e-mail:maxkub@igm.nsc.ru

Olga Obut

Ph.D.

Senior research scientist

Research interests: Micropaleontology and biostratigraphy

e-mail:ObutOT@ipgg.sbras.ru

Alexey Ragozin

Ph.D.

Senior research scientist

Research interests: Mineralogy, petrology

e-mail:ragoz@igm.nsc.ru

Research interests:

1. Mineralogical and geochemical properties of natural diamonds and its inclusions that are related to aspects of the formation and evolution of minerals in the deep zones of the Earth.

2. Mineralogy and petrology of natural high pressure and ultra-high pressure metamorphism.

3. Geochronology: U-Pb zircon dating

4. Mantle mineralogy and geochemistry (major, trace and isotope composition of eclogitic and peridotitic rocks) and its relation to diamond formation.

Alexey Travin

Ph.D.

Senior research scientist

Research interests: Geochronology, isotope geochemistry

e-mail:travin@igm.nsc.ru

Head of Isotope Lab, IGM SB RUS

Professor of Faculty of Physical Engineering of Novosibirsk State Technical University

Research interests:

1. Geochronology: 40Ar/39Ar, U/Pb dating, thermochronology, numerical modeling of isotope systems mobility;

2. Geochemistry: stable and radiogenic isotope composition of rocks and its relation to sources and conditions of formation, geodynamics;

3. Plate Tectonics: subduction-collisional, collisional structures, high-grade metamorphic complexes, granite batholithes, tectonic modeling;

4. Ore deposits: Cu-Mo-porphyry deposits, Au-ore deposits, Controls on distribution of mineral deposits through time.

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Olga Gavryushkina

M.Sc.

Junior research scientist

Research interests: Petrology: petrogenesis of granitoids. Mineralogy, petrography of igneous rocks. Geochemistry: major and trace composition of granitoids;

e-mail:gavryushkina@igm.nsc.ru

Academic record:
01.07.2006 - 30.06.2011 - Department of Geology and Geophysics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia. Field of study - Mineralogy and petrology.
10.10.2011 - 09.10.2013 - Graduate School of Science of the Novosibirsk State University, Russia. Field of study - Mineralogy and petrology.

Degrees:
B.Sc. in Geology, Novosibirsk State University, June, 2011
Diploma title: Spodumene pegmatite mineralogy of the Tashelginskoe field (Gornaya Shoria region) by the example Jurievskaya vein.
M.Sc. in Geology, Novosibirsk State University, June, 2013.
Diploma title: Rare metal rock mineralogy of Alakhinski stock (Gorny Altay region).

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Maria Kolesnichenko

M.Sc.

Junior research scientist

Research interests: Mantle petrology and mineralogy; water content in the nominally anhydrous mantle minerals

e-mail:kolesnichenko@igm.nsc.ru

Pavel Kotler

Ph.D.

Junior research scientist

Research interests: Igneous petrology, geochronology

e-mail:pkotler@igm.nsc.ru

Ilya Savinsky

Ph.D.

Research scientist

Research interests: Igneous petrology, geochronology

e-mail:ilya.savinskiy@gmail.com

Maria Cherdantseva

Junior research scientist

Research interests: Ore geology

e-mail:
mariacherdantseva@gmail.com

Interests:

Magmatic deposits, mafic-ultramafic rocks, sulfide mineralization, ore-forming systems, LA-ICP-MS, platinum group minerals, Cu-Ni-PGE deposits; mineralogical studies of PGE and sulfides minerals, petrological studies

Yaroslav Shelepov

Junior research scientist

Research interests: Igneous petrology

e-mail:shelepov@igm.nsc.ru

Research targets:

Mineralogy, petrography and petrology of Paleozoic and Mesozoic differentiated mafic intrusions and gabbro-monzonite (syenite) igneous complexes of the western Central Asian fold belt.