Prof. Dr. Rafael Ferreiro Mählmann

• 2023 – Chairperson with Branimir Šegvić (Texas Tech University) at the GeoBerlin 2023, Geosciences Beyond Boundaries – Research, Society, Future. Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft, Geologische Vereiningung Conference. DGGV Session 4.11: „Geo-scientific methods in Archaeology, Archaeometry and Experimental Archaeology”. Berlin, Germany (2023).
• 2023 – Convenor with Sabine Klein (Deutsche Bergbaumuseum Bochum, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen) at the GeoBerlin 2023, Geosciences Beyond Boundaries – Research, Society, Future. Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft, Geologische Vereiningung Conference. DGGV Session 4.11: „Geo-scientific methods in Archaeology, Archaeometry and Experimental Archaeology”. Berlin, Germany.
• 2022 – Convenor and Chairperson with Ömer Bozkaya (Pamukkale University), Jan Środoń (Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow) at the XVII International Clay Conference. Session TS-27: “Clay minerals reaction progress during burial diagenesis and very low-temperature metamorphism”. ICC-AIPEA Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2022 – Convenor and Chairperson with Branimir Šegvić (Texas Tech University) and Sébastien Potel (Institut Polytechnique UniLaSalle, Beauvais) at the XVII International Clay Conference. Session TS-26: “Clay minerals studies in sedimentary basins predicting geotherms, fluid- and hydrocarbon migration systems”. ICC-AIPEA Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2022 – Convenor with Lan Nguyen-Thanh (Technische Universität Darmstadt) at the XVII International Clay Conference. Session TS-29: “Stability of smectite from experiments to nature”. ICC-AIPEA Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2020 – Convenor with Peter Uhlík (Department of Economic Geology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia) and Branimir Šegvić (Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, USA). Session 6: “Burial Diagenesis and Very Low-Grade Metamorphism”. 10^th Mid-European Clay Conference, MECC Kliczków Castle, Poland (2020, postponed to 2022 due to the pandemic of COVID-19).
• 2019 – Convenor and Chairperson with Sébastien Potel (UniLaSalle UPJV, Basins-Reservoirs-Resources (B2R), Beauvais, France) at the fourth Frey-Kübler Symposium at the International Conference on Clay Science and Technology, Euroclay Conference, EUROCLAY Session B7: „Diagenesis and Low-Grade Metamorphism“. Paris, France.
• 2018 – Invited Keynote Speaker at 9^th Mid-European Clay Conference, Session E: „Clay (and associated) minerals in geological systems”. MECC Keynote: „Preliminary attempt to define grade of diagenesis and incipient metamorphism considering geothermal gradients calibrated with clay mineral, mineral and maceral index data”. Zagreb, Croatia.
• 2018 – Convenor and Chairperson with Jan Środoń (Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Research Centre in Kraków, Poland), Asuman Günal Türkmenoğlu (Geological Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey) and Béla Raucsik (Department of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, University of Szeged, Hungary) at 9th Mid-European Clay Conference, MECC Session E: „Clay (and associated) minerals in geological systems”. Zagreb, Croatia.
• 2017 – Convenor with Sébastien Potel (B2R, UPT LaSalle, Beauvais, France), Isabel Suárez-Ruiz (INCAR-CSIC, Oviedo, Spain), Simon Lopez (BRGM, France) and Andrea Moscariello (Univ. Geneva, Switzerland) at the International Meeting of Sedimentology 2017 (33^rd International Association of Sedimentologist (IAS) & 16^th Association des Sédimentologistes Français (ASF) Joint Meeting). Accepted Session SR7.4/FSD8.8 “Geothermal studies in sedimentary basins with clay minerals and organic indices to characterize present-day geotherms, fluid- and hydrocarbon migration systems”. Toulouse, France.
• 2017 – Convenor and Chairperson with Blanca Bauluz (I.U.C.A., Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain), Fernando Nieto (I.A.C.T. and Universidad de Granada, Spain) and Sébastien Potel (B2R, UPT LaSalle, Beauvais, France) at the XVI International Clay Conference (ICC 2017). Session MI 03: “Clay mineral reaction progress in very low-grade temperature petrologic studies”. Granada, Spain.
• 2015 – Convener and Chairperson with Hans Albert Gilg (Technische Universität München, Germany) and Stephen Hillier (The James Hutten Institut Aberdeen, United Kingdom) at the third Frey-Kübler Symposium at the 42_nd Clay Mineral Society (CMS) and EUROCLAY Conference. Session: “Clay mineral indices in palaeo-geothermal studies, hydrocarbon and geothermal prospection”. Edinburgh, Scotland, GB.
• 2014 – Convener with Ralf Littke (RWTH Aachen, Germany) and Ronan Le Bayon (Technische Universität Darmstadt) at the GeoFrankfurt 2014 Conference, Earth System Dynamics (GV, DGG). Session A09: “Organic petrology, organic geochemistry and mineralogy in basic research and applied geosciences”. Frankfurt, Germany.
• 2014 – Convener and Chairperson with Laurence N. Warr (Universität Greifswald, Germany) at the 7^th Mid-European Clay Conference (MECC14). Session 5: “Clay minerals in diagenetic and low temperature metamorphic environments” including a round table about the ”Kübler Index – standardisation“. Dresden, Germany.
• 2011 – Invited Plenary Speaker at EUROCLAY, Antalya, Turkey: “Thermo-barometric use of coal and clay mineral indicators: comparative application from diagenesis to sub-greenschist and sub-blueschist facies”.
• 2011 – Convener with Fernando Nieto (I.A.C.T. and Universidad de Granada, Spain), Sébastien Potel (B2R, UPT LaSalle, Beauvais, France) and Ömer Bozkaya (Technical University Sivas, Turkey) at the second Frey-Kübler Symposium at EUROCLAY. Session: “Clay mineral diagenesis and very low-grade metamorphic processes”, Antalya, Turkey. RFM gefragt.
• 2007 – Convenor, Chairperson and Guest President of the AKOP (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kohle- und Organische Petrologie) meeting at the Institute of Applied Geosciences, Darmstadt. Annual meeting held at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in cooperation with the Hessische Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
• 2003 – Chairperson and Convener with Peter Árkai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary) and Kenneth J.T. Livi (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA) at EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly. Session VGP 3.06 “Processes at low temperatures: Advances in studies of disequilibrium systems”, Nice, France.
• 2003 – Invited Keynote Speaker with Monika Wolf (RWTH Aachen, Germany) and Josef Mullis (University of Basel, Switzerland) at EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly. Session VGP 3.21 “Quantifying diagenesis to low-grade metamorphism: Old shoes and new paths”. Keynote: “Temperature determination between 50 and 270° C through fluid inclusion micro-thermometry and vitrinite reflectance values in the external parts of the Central Alps”, Nice, France.
• 2002 – Invited Keynote Speaker with Gary W. Ernst (Stanford University, USA) at American Geophysical Union Spring meeting, Washington D.C., USA. Keynote: “Experimental rate study of vitrinite maturation as a function of temperature, time, starting material, aqueous fluid pressure and oxygen fugacity-corroboration of prior work”.
• 2001 – Convenor with Susanne Theodora Schmidt (University of Basel, Switzerland) and Laurence N. Warr (Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany) at the first Frey-Kübler Symposium at EUG 11. Session FMF1, “Diagenesis and Low-Grade Metamorphism”, Strasbourg, France.
• 2001 – Invited Keynote Speaker with Mauricio Belmar (University of Basel, Switzerland) and Magda Ciulavu (Institutul Geologic al Romaniei, Bucharest, Rumania) at EUG 11, Strasbourg, France. Session FMF1 “Diagenesis and Low-Grade Metamorphism”. Keynote: “Bituminite reflectance in very low-grade metamorphic studies”.