Organizing Committee

Camelia is a Senior Lecturer in the Environmental Engineering and Geology Department at the University of Petrosani, Romania. She holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering, an MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment, and a BSc in Environmental Engineering in Mining from the same university. She has robust international working experience as an Environmental Scientist in the consultancy sector and as an International Headhunter & Human Resources Director, finding great people for great jobs, growing dreams, and growing teams. Camelia is a self-motivated, analytical, enthusiastic, and results-oriented professional with strong managerial experience and versatility to adapt and excel in any multidisciplinary and multinational environment, specializing in geo-environmental engineering, mainly contaminated land risk assessment. Her expertise goes even further, as she has been involved in four research grants as Project Director & Research Team Leader within the University of Petrosani. Camelia is an author and co-author of peer-reviewed scientific papers and technical reports.

Stefano is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna since 2021, he carries out his research in the field of numerical modeling of georesources and occupational safety with particular reference to excavation works. cultural. He currently focuses his research on the theme of optimizing the extraction of ornamental rocks. Engaged in national and international research projects, he collaborates with various European and non-European institutes. The research activity was mainly carried out on the following topics: Geostatistics and its applications in the mining and environmental fields; Characterization and numerical modelling of high, medium and low enthalpy geothermal reservoirs; Software tools for discretization with the integral finite difference method (finite volumes), visualization, pre-and post-processing of numerical simulations; Calculation of pathlines and streamlines for finite volume grids; Use of Ground Penetrating Radar for the characterization of rock masses in mining activities; Optimization of extraction activity in ornamental rock quarries with the use of algorithms specifically developed in-house.

Gelu is a seasoned professional with over three decades of experience in Civil, Mining, and Environmental Engineering. His career spans academic, design, and consulting roles, focusing on geomechanical and geotechnical design. He specializes in numerical methods and probabilistic approaches for underground structures, adept at working with diverse ground conditions, from jointed rock masses to frozen ground. His project experience covers North and South America, Europe, and Africa.

Currently, he serves as the Technical Director at ECO-ROCCA Engineering, a Romanian consultancy specializing in Mining, Geomechanics, and Environment. Gelu also holds a position as a Research Associate at the University of Petrosani. Previously, he was a Professor of Geomechanics at the Polytechnic of Namibia.

As the Scientific Coordinator for the "Artificial Intelligence and Combined Survey Techniques for Stone Quarries Optimization" project, he focuses on implementing Discrete Fracture Networks in Computational Geomechanics. Known for his exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, Gelu excels at collaborating with diverse teams across various disciplines, companies, and nationalities.

Sara Kasmaee is a mining engineer and Research Fellow at UNIBO. She has got her PhD (2017) from University of Bologna- DICAM in Geostatistics. Since 2017 she is a researcher working in various European projects. She has started working on GEOTeCH H2020, and since 2018, she is working on Raw Materials topics. She is an active member of RawMatCop group working on stockpiles/tailings characterisation, Exploration of minerals, Geological mapping of critical raw material, using optic satellite images, funded by EIT Raw Material.  COP-Piles, Brico-Piles and Inco-Piles are recent projects she worked on. She is manager and one of the  trainers of RawMatCop-Advanced course (Funded by EIT-RawMaterials) since 2023. Recently she has started MINEYE horizon project covering the whole mining life cycle.  

Vasilii Anisimov is a PhD researcher in Reservoir Engineering at the University of Bologna, with more than four years of experience in numerical simulation for petroleum, CO₂ storage, and geothermal systems. His work focuses on integrating physics-based reservoir simulation with machine learning, with particular interest in deep surrogate models and reinforcement learning for optimization and decision-making.

Anastasiia Nagmutdinova is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna. She received her PhD in 2022 in Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering. Her research is centered on the application of low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques for the characterization of materials. Her work particularly emphasizes the advancement of NMR data analysis methodologies and the design and implementation of experimental approaches.

Irfan Ullah is a PhD student in the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering (DICAM) at the University of Bologna, Italy. He holds a BSc in Mining Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, in 2016, and an MS in Remote Sensing and GIS from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, in 2021. After graduating, he completed internships and held positions at various private mining firms and the governmental Department of Mines and Minerals. He also served as a Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at IGIS, NUST. He later worked as a Researcher at the Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory at the National Centre of Excellence, UET Peshawar. He is a registered mining engineer with the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). Irfan’s research addresses practical challenges in mining, such as decisions about where to drill and blast and how to plan responsibly, often made under significant geological uncertainty. With an interdisciplinary background spanning mining engineering, GIS, and remote sensing, he is motivated to reduce that uncertainty by making resource assessment more transparent and reproducible. His work develops workflows for mineral exploration, geostatistical ore reserve estimation, and exploitation that integrate geological knowledge with geophysical, geochemical, and remote sensing data.