Teaching courses

• The evolution of natural substances, the module “Genesis of Mineral Individuals and Aggregates”; lectures, seminars, workshops.
• Basics of mineralogy («soil science»); lectures, seminars.
• Mineralogy and crystallography («oil and gas business»); seminars.
• Mineralogy (geology); seminars.
• Methods of studying the physical properties of minerals; seminars.
• Mineralogical practice for 3rd year students; lectureы and practical classes.

Position

Education, scientific degrees and titles

• 2006-2010, BSc, Mineralogical Department, Geological Faculty, St. Petersburg State University.
• 2010-2012, MSc, Mineralogical Department, Geological Faculty, St. Petersburg State University.
• 2016, PhD in Mineralogy and Crystallography, PhD thesis: «Crystal chemistry of natural and synthetic tourmalines containing 3d elements»

Research IDs

• Pure
• Scopus ID

Research interests

Key publications

1. Vereshchagin, O.S., Britvin, S.N., Wunder, B., Frank-Kamenetskaya, O.V., Wilke, F.D.H., Vlasenko, N.S., Shilovskikh, V.V., Bocharov, V.N., Danilov, D.V. Ln³⁺ (Ln³⁺ = La, Nd, Eu, Yb) incorporation in synthetic tourmaline analogues: Towards tourmaline REE pattern explanation (2021) Chemical Geology, 584, 120526. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120526
2. Vereshchagin, O.S., Frank-Kamenetskaya, O.V., Kuz'Mina, M.A., Chernyshova, I.A., Shilovskikh, V.V. Effect of magnesium on monohydrocalcite formation and unit-cell parameters (2021) American Mineralogist, 106 (8), pp. 1294-1305. DOI 10.2138/am-2021-7673
3. Vereshchagin, O.S., Pankin, D.V., Smirnov, M.B., Vlasenko, N.S., Shilovskikh, V.V., Britvin, S.N. Raman spectroscopy: A promising tool for the characterization of transition metal phosphides (2021) Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 853, 156468. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.156468
4. Rogov, M., Ershova, V., Vereshchagin, O., Vasileva, K., Mikhailova, K., Krylov, A. Database of global glendonite and ikaite records throughout the Phanerozoic (2021) Earth System Science Data, 13 (2), 3432021, pp. 343-356. DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-343-2021.
5. Britvin, S.N., Murashko, M.N., Vapnik, Y., Vlasenko, N.S., Krzhizhanovskaya, M.G., Vereshchagin, O.S., Bocharov, V.N., Lozhkin, M.S. Cyclophosphates, a new class of native phosphorus compounds, and some insights into prebiotic phosphorylation on early Earth (2021) Geology, 49 (4), pp. 382-386. DOI: 10.1130/G48203.1.

The Head of Current Research Fundings

• Grant of the President of the Russian Federation for young candidates of sciences (2020-2022) Development of science-based approaches to improve the efficiency of linear pyroelectrics of variable composition (natural and synthetic compounds with the tourmaline structure)

Other professional activities

Traineeships

• Institute of Experimental Mineralogy RAS, Chernogolovka, Russia, 2010, 2011, 2012;
• ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, USA, 2012;
• Chemistry and Physics of Earth Materials, GeoForschungsZentrum, Germany, 2018.

Membership in societies

• Russian Mineralogical Society

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