Cristiana Ciobanu

Dr Cristiana Ciobanu

Researcher

School of Chemical Engineering

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Senior researcher, School of Chemical Engineering
Cristiana serves as leader of the 'FOX' research project Trace elements in iron oxides: deportment, distribution and application in ore genesis, geochronology, exploration and mineral processing'. Research interests include iron-oxide mineralogy, the genesis of ore deposits, development of new mineral geochronometers and the investigation of rocks and minerals at the nanoscale using transmission electron microscopy.

I received my Ph.D. in 2000 from The University of Bucharest, and followed this with a NATO Post-doctoral research fellowship at the Norwegian Geological Survey. I also lectured in Economic Geology at the Norwegian Technical & Natural Science University, Trondheim, Norway.

I arrived in Adelaide in August 2005 to take up an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow position, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia / South Australian Museum (Order-disorder behaviour in Bi-tellurides: a tool to monitor gold scavenging by Bi-Te melts). I moved to the University of Adelaide in 2010 to take up a Research Fellow role within the Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre (DET-CRC), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. I worked on a full-time consultancy project for BHP Billiton Olympic Dam before moving to the School of Chemical Engineering in January 2015 to lead the project ‘Trace elements in iron oxides: deportment, distribution and application in ore genesis, geochronology, exploration and mineral processing (the ‘FOX’ project)’, funded by BHP Olympic Dam and the Government of South Australia Mining and Petroleum Services Centre of Excellence.

  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2010 - ongoing Senior Researcher The University of Adelaide
  • Language Competencies

    Language Competency
    Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
  • Education

    Date Institution name Country Title
    1997 - 2000 University of Bucharest, Bucharest Romania Ph.D. in Geology (Metallogeny)
    1980 - 1984 University of Bucharest, Bucharest Romania Dipl. Ing. Degree, Geology and Geophysics,
  • Research Interests

  • November 2014: Chief Investigator (CI) on a grant from the South Australia Mining and Petroleum Services Centre of Excellence ($1,900,000 excluding in-kind contributions): Iron-oxides: geochemistry, geochronology, metallurgy and exploration.
  • December 2013: Contract research project sponsored by BHP Billiton. ($157,414, excluding in-kind contributions): ‘Trace element signatures in sulphides at Olympic Dam and satellite prospects: A reconnaissance study for ore vectoring using Cu-(Fe)-sulphides in Iron Oxide Copper Gold Deposits’)
  • 2005-2008: Australian Research Council – fellowship and DP0560001 project, $314,158.
  • 2011-2014: Lecturer, Economic and Mine Geology II
  • 2012-2014: Excursion leader, Mineral and Energy Resources III
  • 2017: Introduction to Mineral Processing
  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Co-Supervisor Distributions of critical minerals in ores Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Zina Habibi
    2022 Principal Supervisor Behaviour of Critical Metals During Smelting of Copper Concentrates from Olympic Dam Plant, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Hassan Gezzaz
    2022 Co-Supervisor Composition and Evolution of Sulphide Assemblages from Olympic Dam, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Samuel Anthony King
    2022 Co-Supervisor IOCG and IOA deposits from the Carajás Mineral Province: Approach from ore-forming processes/ore deposits linking textures with chemical/isotopic compositions Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Miss Yuri Tatiana Campo Rodriguez
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Geochemical Data to Constrain the Evolution, Mineralization and Alteration Signatures of IOCG and BIF-Hosted Deposits Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Marija Dmitrijeva
    2016 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Genesis of the Blackbush Uranium Deposit, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Urs Immanuel Domnick
    2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Iron-Oxides in the Olympic Dam IOCG-Deposit and Adjacent Prospects, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Max Robert Verdugo Ihl
    2015 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Iron-Oxides in Precambrian Banded Iron Formations of the Middleback Ranges, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr William Mark Keyser
    2015 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Geochronology of Iron Oxides and Development of Matrix-Matched Reference Material for Routine U-PB Dating Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Liam Courtney-Davies
    2015 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Mineralogical Distributions of Radionuclides in Copper-Uranium Ores, Olympic Dam, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Danielle Sierra Schmandt
    2014 - 2017 Co-Supervisor The Evolution of Apatite in Iron-oxide-copper-gold Mineralization of the Olympic Cu-Au Province: Unraveling Magmatic and Hydrothermal Histories through Changes in Morphology and Trace Element Chemistry Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Sasha Krneta
    2014 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Trace Element Distributions and Partitioning Trends in Hydrothermal Base Metal Sulphide Ores Comprising Sphalerite, Galena, Chalcopyrite and Tetrahedrite-Tennantite Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Luke Leslie George
    2014 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Feldspar Petrography and Geochemistry: Insights into the Magmatic-Hydrothermal Evolution of IOCG Systems from South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Alkiviadis Kontonikas-Charos
    2011 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Spatial-Temporal Evolution of Skarn Alteration in IOCG Systems: Evidence from Petrography, Mineral Trace Element Signatures and Fluid Inclusion Studies at Hillside, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Roniza Ismail
  • Editorial Boards

    Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
    2016 - ongoing Associate Editor Minerals - -
    2003 - ongoing Associate Editor Ore Geology Reviews - -
  • Position: Researcher
  • Phone: 83137407
  • Email: cristiana.ciobanu@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Engineering North, floor Second Floor
  • Room: N231C
  • Org Unit: School of Chemical Engineering

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