Platon Gamaletsos

University of Athens, Greece

Platon Gamaletsos is a senior PhD candidate at University of Athens, Greece. He is working on Greek industrial bauxite and Red Mud (bauxite residue) from the Parnassos-Ghiona active mining area under the supervision of Assist. Prof. Athanasios Godelitsas (http://users.uoa.gr/~agodel/) and in close collaboration with the three mining companies Aluminium of Greece S.A. (http://www.alhellas.gr/static/index.html), S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. (http://www.sandb.com/) and ELMIN Hellenic Mining Enterprises S.A.(http://www.elmin.gr/) exploiting bauxite in Greece. P.G's Ph.D thesis is focused on the detailed determination of mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of Parnassos-Ghiona bauxite, in different scales (including micro- and nano-scale) using advanced spectroscopic and analytical techniques and synchrotron radiation (micro-XANES / EXAFS).
Moreover, he is investigating distribution and speciation of contaminants (e.g. Cr, As, V, Th) in aluminium ore - bauxite - from Hungary and Balkans related to Red Mud from Ajka alumina plant (Hungary), as well as in Greek industrial bauxite and in Greek bauxite residue (red mud) by means of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (micro-XANES / EXAFS).
For this purposes he is collaborating with the X-ray beamline of the Synchrotron Laboratory for Environmental Studies (Synchrotron Umwelt-Labor SUL) of ANKA Synchrotron facility (http://ankaweb.fzk.de/website.php?page=instrumentation_beam&id=7).

Additionally, he is collaborating with Bentomine Kimolian Enterprises S.A. (http://www.bentomine.gr/) for the identification of clay minerals and especially zeolites using separated standard wet-chemical and centrifugation procedures and Powder X-ray Diffraction.

Platon Gamaletsos is a member of:
1. Red Mud Project (http://www.redmud.org/home.html)
2. NuSTRAP group (http://magneticmoments.info/nustrap/index.php)

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