Ort
Teheran
Universität
Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch
E-Mail
nima.nezafati@gmail.comKurzvita
Nima Nezafati is an economic geologist and archaeometrist whose main focus of work has so far been on Iran and Western Asia. Since July 2007 he is serving as a tenured assistant professor at the Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran, where he teaches and supervises PhD and MSc students in the fields of economic geology, archaeology, and archaeological sciences and is responsible for analytical and mineralogical investigations of some archaeological expeditions.
In 2001 Nima Nezafati started his doctoral studies at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, while finished his studies at University of Tübingen, Germany in 2006. In his doctoral thesis, he performed an interdisciplinary research on some ore deposits and ancient artifacts from west central Iran including the ancient Cu-Sn-As-Au mine of Deh Hosein, where he investigated the ore, the host rocks, and some archaeological remains of the mine utilizing different analytical, petrographic and geological methods. He also studied some ancient bronze artifacts from Luristan using trace element and isotopic analyses and compared the results with the ore of his study area.
In the course of his MSc thesis, at Research Institute for Earth Sciences, Tehran, he conducted a multi-stranded investigation on a vast area in the south of Arisman ancient metallurgical site (central Iran) in search of ancient mining traces and studied the ore of the mineral deposits and ancient mines of the area together with the ancient metallurgical remains from Arisman.
Dr. Nezafati has experience in both fields of research and teaching and has already worked for both sections of industry and university. To date he has been active in some interdisciplinary projects (including field and laboratory work) and has cooperated with many domestic and international researchers and scientists (geologists and archaeologists). He has so far published the outcomes of his researches as several articles and has presented the results of some of his investigations in international conferences and workshops.
The Iranian-German joint project of Arisman on old mining and metallurgy, the Sialk Reconsideration Project, the archaeological excavations of Tappeh Sofalin and Tappeh Shoghali (north central Iran), and Chiya Sabz (western Iran), the Iran-Japan archaeological expedition to Arsanjan (Fars Province), and the old mining investigations on the Takab area, NW Iran, are among the projects in which Dr. Nezafati has been involved as team member and/or supervisor of geological and archaeometric investigations. He has also been working as a researcher and exploration geologist at Zarneh (Exploration) Research Group and Zaryaban Exploration Consultants.
In 2013-2014, Nima Nezafati played a fundamental role on the establishment of the university course of “Archaeometry” at the Art University of Isfahan. In 2014, he spent six months of sabbatical leave in Germany at the German Mining Museum, University of Heidelberg, and the Curt-Engelhorn Zentrum-Archäometrie working on some ore samples and ancient metallurgical remains from Iran. In this period of time, he enjoyed two fellowships (each 3 months) from the German Mining Museum (Heinrich Winkelmann Fellowship) and the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation.
Nima Nezafati’s research interests are rather diverse and have two main strands:
(1) Archaeological science and archaeometry: including the ancient mining and metallurgy of prehistoric Iran and western Asia (from about 10000 to 500 BCE). These comprise the provenance studies as well as investigations on early metal and lithic tools production and exchange systems using diverse compositional, microstructural, and isotopic studies of ore, rock, and ancient metallurgical remains.
(2) Economic geology and study of mineral deposits: including mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology of ore deposits, ore forming processes, fluid-rock interactions, industrial minerals and rocks, and isotopic geochemistry of ore deposits.
Favorisierte Links
More information about Dr. Nima Nezafati and some of his (downloadable) publications are available from the scientific social networks of academia.edu, linkedIn.com, and researchgate.net.
Forschungsthemen
Archaeometrie, Archaeometallurgie
Fachbereich
Mineralogie