Name: Mokhles K. Azer

Title: Researcher Professor

Affiliation: Researcher Professor and the head of Geological Sciences Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

Email: mokhles72@yahoo.com

Research fields:

· Mineralogy and petrology

· Ore deposits

· Igneous and metamorphic rocks

· geochemistry

Qualifications:

· B.Sc. in Science (Geology), Faculty of Science-Assuit University (June, 1994)

· Preliminary studies on the petroleum and hydrogeology, 1997, Assiut University, Egypt.

· M.Sc. in Geological Sciences, Faculty of Science-Cairo University (16/7/2000). Thesis title: Petrology, mineral chemistry and geochemistry of volcanic rocks Iqna Shara, central Sinai, Egypt.

· Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, Faculty of Science-Cairo University (20/3/2004). Thesis title: Petrological and geochemical studies of some volcanic rocks in south Sinai, Egypt.

Publications:

List of publications:

I)- Chapter in books

1. Azer, M.K., Asimow, P.D., Wilde, S. , 2020. Volcanism during the Post-accretionary Stage of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Chapter Book in “The Geology of the Arabian-Nubian Shield”

2. Shahien, M.G. and Azer, M.K. 2020. Neoproterozoic ophiolites of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Chapter Book in “The Geology of the Arabian-Nubian Shield”

3. Azer, M.K. Asimow, P.D., 2021. Petrogenetic Evolution of the Neoproterozoic Igneous Rocks of Egypt. In The Geology of the Egyptian Nubian Shield (pp. 343-382). Springer, Cham.

4. Gahlan, H.A., Azer, M.K., Asimow, P.D. and Hamimi, Z., 2021. The Mantle Section of Neoproterozoic Ophiolites from the Pan-African Belt, Eastern Desert, Egypt: Tectonomagmatic Evolution, Metamorphism, and Mineralization. In The Geology of the Egyptian Nubian Shield (pp. 309-341). Springer, Cham.

II)- Peer-reviewed articles

1. Ali, S., Abdel-Karim, A.M., Azer, M.K., 2020. Origin and evolution of metamorphosed ophiolitic mantle peridotites from Eastern Desert of Egypt: Implications for tectonic and metamorphic events during Neoproterozoic in the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (Under Review).

2. Abdel-Karim, A.M., Azer, M.K., Sami, M., 2020. Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the Maladob ring complex in the South Eastern Desert, Egypt: New insights from mineral chemistry and whole-rock geochemistry. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Accepted).

3. Stern, R.J., Ali, K., Asimow, P.D., Azer, M.K., Leybourne, M.I., Mubarak, H.S., Ren, M., Romer, R.L., Whitehouse, M.J., 2020. The Atud Gabbro-Diorite Complex: Glimpse of the Cryogenian Mixing, Assimilation, Storage, and Homogenization Zone beneath the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Journal of the Geological Society 177, 965-980.

4. Mubarak, H.S., Azer, M.K., Surour, A.A., Moussa, H.E., Asimow, P.D., Kabesh, M., 2020. Mineralogical and geochemical study of rodingites and associated serpentinized peridotite, Eastern Desert of Egypt, Arabian-Nubian Shield. Lithos. 105720.

5. Gahlan, H.A., Azer, M.K., Asimow, P.D., Al-Kahtany, K.M., 2020. Petrogenesis of gold-bearing listvenites from the carbonatized mantle section of the Neoproterozoic Ess ophiolite, Western Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia. Lithos. 2020 Jul 12:105679.

6. Abdel-Karim, A.M., El-Shafei, S.A., Azer, M.K., 2020. Petrology and geochemistry of ophiolitic metaperidotites from the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Insights into geodynamic evolution and post-melting alteration processes. Acta Geologica Sinica (Final accepted).

7. Abuamarah, B.A., Azer^, M.K., Asimow, P.D., Ghrefat, H., Mubarak, H.S., 2020. Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of late Ediacaran Rare-metal Albite Granites of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Acta Geologica Sinica (Published online: https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-6724.14379).

8. Abdel-Karim A.M., El-Shafei S.A., Azer M.K., 2020. The Neoproterozoic ophiolitic ultramafic rocks in Eastern Desert of Egypt: implications for petrogenesis and metasomatic processes. International Geology Review (Published online: https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2019.1708816).

9. Stern, R.J., Ali, K., Asimow, P.D., Azer, M.K., Leybourne, M.I., Mubarak, H.S., Ren, M., Romer, R.L., Whitehouse, M.J., 2020. The Atud Gabbro-Diorite Complex: Glimpse of the Cryogenian Mixing, Assimilation, Storage, and Homogenization Zone beneath the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Journal of the Geological Society (Published online: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-199).

10. Abdallah, S.E., Azer, M.K., El Shammari, A.S., 2020. Petrological and geochemical evolution of Ediacaran rare-metal bearing A-type granites from Jabal Aja complex, northern Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia. Acta Geologica Sinica 94(3): 743–762.