Konstantin K. PODLESSKII
CURRENT POSITION: senior research associate, Laboratory
of Litosphere, IEM RAS
ACADEMIC INTERESTS: experimental mineralogy (phase equilibria
involving solid solutions of rock-forming minerals), thermodynamics of
minerals and mineral reactions (thermodynamic data-bases, mixing properties
of solid solutions, geothermometers and barometers), metamorphic petrology
(metamorphic evolution of granulites).
Additional Data
BORN: 20 February 1953 in Moscow, USSR.
ADDRESS:
office: Institute of Experimental Mineralogy of the Russian Academy
of Sciences, 143432 Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, Russia. Phone/Fax.(+095)
9132112
home: ul.Verhnyaya Pervomayskaya 71-1-59, 105077 Moscow, Russia.
Tel.(+095) 4610738;
E-MAIL: kkp@iem.ac.ru
EDUCATION:
- Ph.D. in Geology and Mineralogy (Kandidat geologo- mineralogicheskih
nauk), Scientific Council on Mineralogy and Petrology at the Geological
Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, title of the thesis "Phase
Correspondence in the System Cordierite-Garnet- Sillimanite-Quartz"
- 1982
- graduate research student at the Institute of Experimental Mineralogy
of the Russian Academy of Sciences - 1977- 1980
- undergraduate student at the Geological Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow
State University, title of the diploma thesis " The Nepheline-Alkali
Feldspar Equilibrium" - 1970-1975
EXPERIENCE:
- senior research associate at the Institute of Experimental Mineralogy
of the Russian Academy of Sciences - 1992-present
- research associate at the same Institute - 1989-1992
- junior research associate at the same Institute - 1980-1989
- probation research assistant at the same Institute - 1975-1977
PUBLICATIONS: 36
CONFERENCE PAPERS: 19
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
- member of the USSR (now Russian) Mineralogical Society since 1979
- member of the Mineralogical Society of America since 1993
- member of the German Mineralogical Society since 1993
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
- field work in petrological expeditions to the Kola Peninsula, Karelia,
Central Asia, East Siberia and Far East of the USSR in 1973-1976, 1978-
1979, 1981, 1990, 1993
- secretary of the project N235 "Metamorphism and Geodynamics"
of the International Geological Correlation Program 1985-1989
- visiting exchange scientist (3 months) at the Institute of Mineralogy,
Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany 1989
- Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at the Institute of Mineralogy,
Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany 1991-1992
- guest research associate in the project "High-Pressure Metamorphism
in Experiment and in Nature" at the Institute of Mineralogy, Ruhr-University
of Bochum, Germany 1994-1995