Personal Details
Sara Kasmaee
sara.kasmaeeyazdi2@unibo.it
Residence: Bologna, Italy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2438-8743
Scopus Author ID: 57219910225
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Academic Degrees
- B.Sc. in Mining Engineering, Exploration of Mine, Sep 2006, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. The title of B.Sc. thesis:”Leaching study of the Copper Ore of Darezereshk Mine, Iran”.
- M.Sc. in Mine Exploration Engineering, February 2009, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. The title of M.Sc. thesis: “Reserve Estimation of High & Low Grade Stockpiles in Choghart Ore Iron Mine”
- PhD in Georesourse (Geostatistics), Bologna University, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Material Engineering (DICAM), Final exam: 17th May 2017, Evaluation: “Excellent” , The title of PhD thesis: “Geostatistical modeling of ore deposits with transitional boundaries”
Academic Experiences
4/07/2024 till now
Junior Research fellow (RTD-A); Project: MINEYE: Earth Observation techniques for MINe lifE cYclE monitoring using ML-based data fusion approaches (funded by European Commission)
1/07/2022 till 31/03/2024
Research fellow; Project: Advanced geostatistical techniques for applications of mining engineering, Project manager of RawMatCop Alliance (funded by EIT RawMaterials)
1/10/2021 till 31/12/2021
Guest Researcher at Lulea University of Technology (Sweden); Group of Geophysical exploration and Remote sensing working on Hyperspectral remote sensing techniques (Marco-Polo scholarship awarded by University of Bologna (UNIBO)
1/12/2019 till 2/12/2021
Research fellow; Project: “BRICO-Piles: Characterization of bauxite residuals in abandoned sites for contamination monitoring and raw material recovery using Copernicus data” funded by EIT KIC Raw Material Copernicus Academy, with the host UNIBO (Italy)
1/11/2018 till 1/11/2019
Research fellow; Project: “COP-Piles: Sampling optimization in stockpiles/tailings, for grade mapping of raw material using geostatistical analysis and Earth observation data” funded by EIT KIC Raw Material Copernicus Academy1, with the host UNIBO (Italy).
01/02/2018 till 01/10/2018
Research fellow (MAECI: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation): Research work on “Assessment of the influence of transitional geological boundaries on geothermal energy exploitation” on GEOTeCH H2020, UNIBO (Italy).
01/02/2017 till 01/01/2018
Research fellow working in the European project, GEOTeCH H2020, UNIBO (Italy), Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Material Engineering (DICAM), “Mapping of European potential for innovative geothermal technology for economic cooling and heating”.
01/10/2014 till 28/02/2015
Guest PhD student at MINESParisTech (France); Centre de Géosciences, participating to CSFG courses[3] [file:///C:/Work%20Space/Teaching/Teaching-Admin/To-Submit/CV-SaraKasmaee-06-08-2024.docx#_ftn3] (Marco-Polo scholarship awarded by UNIBO.
Other Research and Industrial Projects:
- Research work since February 2017 for mapping of European potential for innovative geothermal technology for economic cooling and heating (GEOTeCH project- Geothermal Technology for Economical Cooling and Heating) http://www.geotech-project.eu/, University of Bologna, Italy
- Research work to apply geostatistical modeling for temperature prediction on exploitation of geothermal energy using tunnel lining technology in a mountain environment, for the Brenner Base Tunnel – BBT, University of Bologna, Italy (2016-2017)
- “Calculation of the optimum cell size using kriging efficiency in stream sedimentary geochemical mapping”; Case study: Khoy district northwest of Iran (2012-2013)
- “Improving Geological Models Using Multiple Indicator Kriging Approach”; Case Study: Sechahun Iron Ore Deposit, Central Iran (2012- 2013)
- “Remodeling and Reserve Estimating of Sechahun Iron Ore using geostatistical modeling”, geological modeling, geometric modeling with Gemcome Surpac Software, (Fe) & (P) estimation, Iran Central Iron ore Company (2011-2012)
- “Reserve estimation in JAJARM Aluminium Mine”, Geology data management, 3D Geological modelling and estimation using inverse distance method , Iran Alumina Center (2011)
- “study of Chadurmaloo tailings and estimation its parameters for recycling to processing plant , R&D of Fakoor Sanat Iran Company (2010)
- “Grade Estimation of Ore Stockpiles by Using Artificial Neural Networks, Case study: Choghart Iron Mine of Iran” , Iran Central Iron ore Company , (2009)
- “Determination of the quality of the high phosphor-low grade stockpile in Choghart Iron ore mine using geostatistical methods “, Iran Central Iron ore Company (Choghart Iron Mine),Yazd, Iran, (2008)
ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
- EUSPA User Consultation Platform meeting (Online)- RawMaterials session, 8th October 2024.
- Convener of the EGU2024 conference: ERE4.5-Mining and Post-mining innovative solutions for mining waste, and risk assessment for sustainable development, 18 April, 2024, Vienna, Austria.
- Organizer and the project manager of the second advanced short course “Advanced Course on Remote Sensing for the RawMaterials Sector”, (In-person) for the project of RawMatCop Alliance (funded by EIT RawMaterials), 14-16/02/2024, Seville (Spain).
- Organizer and the project manager of the second advanced short course “Advanced Course on Remote Sensing for the RawMaterials Sector”, (In-person) for the project of RawMatCop Alliance (funded by EIT RawMaterials), 26-30/06/2023, Bologna (Italy).
- Member of the organizing committee of the three RawMatCop Short Courses5, (On-line) for the National Geological Survey of Spain and Portugal 13-28/04/2021, Germany 18-28/05/2021 and DG-Grow with international participants 1-9/06/2021). https://rawmatcop.eitrawmaterials.eu/
- Member of the organizers Committee of the 1st Round Table entitled “Challenges on the recovery of CRM from tailings”, for International Experts of INCO-Piles 2020 Project: International Consortium to recover critical (CRM) raw materials from stockpiles/tailings targeting Regional Innovation scheme (RIS), funded by EIT RawMaterials 11/12/2020) physically and videoconference at UNIBO, Italy.
- Member of the organizers Committee of the Kick-Off Meeting of INCO-Piles 2020 Project, held in videoconference, 10/12/2020
- Member of organizers of RawMatCop RIS Short Courses, University of Kosice, Slovakia, on-line course,10-13/11/2020 and on-line course,13-22/10/2020
- Member of organizers of RawMatCop Short Course, UNIBO, Italy,17-20/06/2019.
- Member of organization group of the 7th General Assembly of GEOTeCH Project, held at University of Bologna, Italy, 22-23/11/2018
- Member of the LET’s Messenger at International Conference of Leading Enabling Technologies for Societal Challenges (LET’s), held at Bologna, Italy, 29/09/2014-01/10/2014.
INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL INVITED SEMINARS
- Presenting a seminar about mining residuals at “The Extractive Waste Management project (MIW)”, IMPEL project- phase II, 28/29 November 2022, University of Cagliari, Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, Sardinia, Italy.
- The key speaker in workshop of “Copernicus Satellite data in Chile and South America”, by Joint Natural Conservation Commitee and the Copernicus Relays, hosted by led by Universidad Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, 6-9 Sep.2022, Chile.
- The key speaker of the 1st Round Table for International Experts of INCO-Piles 2020 Project, 11/12/2020, held in hybrid mode –physically at UNIBO and videoconference, Italy
- Lecturer for RAMES international master students (Raw Materials Exploration and Sustainability), Entitled: “Metals grade mapping: application to mining residues (tailings and stockpiles)” RAMES Master Program, Geology department, Bologna, Italy, 25/11/2020
- Lecturer for Label-StartUP (EIT RawMaterials Program), as an expert for 60 Labelled Master students from 6 Labelled Master Programmes, EIT RawMaterials (Raw & Circular Economy Expedition program), TU Leuven, Belgium, 12/10/2019
- Lecturer at RACE program presenting a course for 70 Master students from leading European universities, (Raw & Circular Economy Expedition program), Helsinki, Finland, 17/08/2019
- Seminar on “Geostatistical modeling in Mining Engineering, Stockpiles and Environmental Engineering”. Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering. Invited by Professor Tomislav Malvic, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 19/01/2018.
SCIENTIFIC MEMBERSHIP AND REVIEW EXPERIENCE
- Scientific committee of ARMMIC 25 congress: Applied Research in Mining and Metallurgy International Congress 2025, Chile.
- Co-Editor on Special issue “Open Satellite Data-Driven Approaches for Geohazard Monitoring and Modelling”, for the journal of Discover Geoscience (Springer Nature) since 2024.
- Scientific committee of International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications GeoENV2024, Chania, Greece, June 2024.
- International Association for Mathematical Geosciences Outreach Committee since February 2024
- Editorial board of journal “The Mining-Geology-Petroleum Engineering Bulletin”. University of Zagreb, Croatia (since 2022)
- Scientific committee of “Mathematical Methods and Terminology in Geology 2022, Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Scientific committee of Conference GeoENV2022, Parma, Italy, July 2022.
- Scientific committee of Conference on Raw Materials and Circular Economy [RawMat2021], Athens, Greece, 06-10/09/2021
- Guest Editor for the journal of “Remote sensing” and “Resources” (MDPI), Basel, Switzerland (since 2021)
- Scientific committee of “Mathematical Methods and Terminology in Geology 2020 and 2018”, (10/10/2020) and (10/10/2018), Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Review for journals of “Acta Geophysica”, “Applied Water Science”, “Natural Resources Research” and “International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment” (SPRINGER) since 2022
- Review for journals of “Applied Computing and Geosciences” (ELSEVIER) since 2022
- Reviewer for the journal of “Applied Sciences”, “Energies”, “Environmental Research”, “Public Health”, “Minerals” and “Remote Sensing” (MDPI), Switzerland since 2019
- Reviewer for the journal of “The Mining-Geology-Petroleum Engineering Bulletin”. University of Zagreb, Croatia (since 2018)
- Reviewer for “Bolletino di Geofisica Teorica e Applicata” (International journal of earth science), Italy (since 2018)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
- S.Kasmaee, et al. “Copernicus Data to boost raw materials source management: illustrations from the RawMatCop Alliance project“,Conference on Exploration and Exploitation of Critical Raw Materials: Focus on Northern Europe in Tallinn, Poster, October 2024.
- S. Kasmaee, et al. “Integration of Machine Learning and Geostatistics to enhance the concentration mapping (Case study: Apulia bauxite mining wastes)”, IAMG2023, Trondheim, Norway, Oral presentation, August 2023;
- S. Kasmaee, et al. “Contribution of geostatistics in mapping subsoil temperature evolution in urban areas”, GeoENV 2022, Parma, Oral presentation, June 2022;
- S. Kasmaee, et al. “Mapping bauxite mining residues using remote sensing techniques”, RawMat2021, Athens, Oral presentation, September 2021;
- R. Bruno, S. Kasmaee, et al. “Evaluating the correlation between ground information and satellite spectral data”. Mineral Exploration Symposium, Oral presentation, September 2020, online
- S. Kasmaee, et al. “Contribution of geostatistics in mapping subsoil temperature evolution in urban areas”, GeoENV 2018, Belfast, Oral presentation, July 2018;
- S. Kasmaee, at al. “Contribution of geostatistics in mapping subsoil temperature evolution in urban areas”, GeoENV 2018, Belfast, Oral presentation, July 2018;
- S. Kasmaee, et al. “Partial Grade method to improve estimation of multi-unit deposits with soft [https://www.iamgconferences.org/iamg2018/submit.php?tok=Le60d59243237&ContributionID=621] boundaries: application to an iron mine deposit [https://www.iamgconferences.org/iamg2018/submit.php?tok=Le60d59243237&ContributionID=621] ” Abstract has accepted in the 19th Annual conference of IAMG 2018, Olomouc, Czech Republic , Poster, September, 2018;
- S. Kasmaee, participating with presentation: “Geostatistical modelling of ore deposits with transitional boundaries” at LES JOURNEES DE GEOSTATISTIQUE, Oral presentation, September 2017, Fontainebleau, France;
- S. Kasmaee, et al. “Sensitivity of geostatistical models in estimation of multi-unit deposits with transitional boundaries”. Oral presentation, GeoStat 2016, Spain;
- S. Kasmaee, et.al, “Use of Universal Kriging as a tool to estimate mountain temperature distribution affected by underground infrastructures: the case of the Brenner Base Tunnel”, Oral presentation, European Geothermal Congress 2016, France, Full paper published;
- F. Tinti, S. Kasmaee, et al. “Macro-scale underground geomechanical and thermal mapping for very shallow geothermal applications”, GeoEnv 2016, Oral presentation, Portugal;
- S. Kasmaee and R. Bruno, “Assessing the feasibility of geostatistical approaches to quantify stockpiles characterization using variogram modeling”, GeoEnv 2014, France, Poster.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2022 Awarded the “Seal of Excellence” for the proposal submitted under the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Global fellow) with the evaluation point of 89.4 out of 100 entitled: GEORESCUE: Geospatial-Remote Sensing multidisciplinary model for sustainable characterization of mining wastes.
2022-2031 Assessed by the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) commission as qualified for the Associate Professor position recruitment (Settore Concorsuale 08/A2, INGEGNERIA SANITARIA-AMBIENTALE, INGEGNERIA DEGLI IDROCARBURI E FLUIDI NEL SOTTOSUOLO, DELLA SICUREZZA E PROTEZIONE IN AMBITO CIVILE).
2020 – 2021 MARCO POLO Scholarship, 3 months stay in Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. (01/10/2021-31/12/2021) Awarded by DICAM, UNIBO, Italy
2018-2021 Post Doc Scholarship: RawMATCop Programme1, Host institute: DICAM, UNIBO/ Italy
2017-2018 MAECI Scholarship: awarded by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy.
2017 Best paper award from DICAM, UNIBO, for the paper entitled “Exploitation of geothermal energy using tunnel lining technology in a mountain environment”.
2014-2015 MARCO POLO Scholarship, for five months stay at Geostatistical centre of Fontainebleau, France (MINES ParisTECH), (01/10/2014-28/02/2015), Awarded by DICAM, UNIBO/ Italy
2014-2017 PhD Scholarship. Awarded by DICAM, UNIBO/ Italy (Rank 7th among 81).
2014-2017 ISA-Brains fellowship, Awarded by Institute of Advance Studies, UNIBO, Italy
2009 1thrank among the master graduations of Mining Engineering GPA: 18.68 out of 20), Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, / Yazd University/ Iran
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIP:
- International Association for Mathematical Geosciences IAMG since 2019.
- European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers since 2021.
- European Geosciences Union (EGU) member since March 2024.
TECHNICAL SOFTWARES SKILLS:
- R programming: Professional user (since 2015)
- ISATIS (Geovariances software since 2014): Professional user: 3D modeling, Geostatistics, Estimation/Simulation, ISATIS.neo (since 2023)
- GEOVIA SURPAC: Professional user: 3D modeling, Geostatistics, Estimation (2008-2014)
- ENVI: Intermediate user (since 2018)
