At the invitation of Professor Nie Junshen, Professor Nan Zhongren, Professor Wang Shengli and Professor Hu Yahu from the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Professor Zhao Baojin, chief scientist of the Center for Geology and Environment at the University of South Africa, will come to our university for academic visit and exchange from June 15 to July 15 and give an academic report on mine environment.

Title: Research on mine environment and hydrochemistry

Time: July 7 (Wednesday), 16:00-17:30

Site: Room 1009, Guanyun Building, Lanzhou University

Lecturer Profile

Professor Zhao Baojin is currently the chief scientist of the Center for Geology and Environment (GATE), South Africa University, one of 111 foreign experts of the introduction plan of the Institute of Shale Gas, Southwest Petroleum University, South African geologist for China University of Geosciences (Beijing). Professor Zhao Baojin was admitted to the Chengdu University of Technology in 1977 and received his bachelor's and master's degrees. Later, he studied at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and received his doctoral degrees. He has served as the head of the Department of Geology and Dean of the School of Science at the University of Fort High, South Africa, visiting professor of Geology at Yale University, Visiting Professor at China University of Mining and Technology, the Chengdu University of Technology and Henan Polytechnic University, a senior geologist at mining companies such as Goldfield Corporation and Hamerney Gold Mining Corporation, a principal geochemist at PhD Environmental Engineering, and a senior geological consultant and executive at WorleyParsons Engineering Consulting. He has published more than 70 scientific papers and monographs and completed a number of South African National Science Fund (NRF) and Water Research Council (WRC) research projects. He is a senior member of the Society of Economic Geologists and the Geological Society of South Africa, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of South Africa, a registered scientist of South Africa, and a former overseas evaluation expert of the China Changjiang Scholars.