Mário A. Gonçalves

 
 

Profile

Research Group: RG3 – Solid Earth dynamics
Position at IDL: Researcher
Job: Associate Professor, FCUL
Email: mgoncalves@ciencias.ulisboa.pt 
Telephone Number: 
Extension: 526450

Room: 6.4.50 
Academic Degree and field of specialization: 

Agregação Geochemistry, U Lisboa, 2018
PhD Geology, U Lisboa, 2004

Editorial Advisory Board, Natural Resources Research (Springer) (Jan 2013-)
Review Editor for Frontiers in Economic Geology (Jan 2020-)
Review Editor for Frontiers in Environmental Geochemistry (Jul 2022-)
Communications Committee of the European Association of Geochemistry (Jan 2017-Dec 2022)

Ciência ID: DB18-804D-DAB7

Scientific Informations

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1898-0727

SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7202320464

Researcher ID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/842357

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mario_Goncalves3

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YXsvi_YAAAAJ

Website: https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/perfil/mgoncalves

Scientific Interests

Main Interests: 

Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry; Geochemical Exploration and Mapping of mineral deposits; Adsorption of metals on clays; Stability and phase relations in uranyl-phosphate minerals under weathering conditions; Simulation of solid-solution aqueous-solution systems

Top 10 Publications: 

Projects (10 most relevant): 

As PI:

  • May 2021 – Apr 2024: EXCITE – Electron and X-ray microscopy Community for structural and chemical Imaging Techniques for Earth materials; European Research Facility Network; Funding: Horizon 2020 (EU) INFRAIA-02-2020 – GA 101005611 – FCUL Coordinator.

  • Jan 2011 – Dec 2012: Acção Integrada Luso-Espanhola E-09/11 – Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Naturally Occurring Uranyl-Bearing Solids

  • Jan 2008 – Jun 2011: PTDC/CTEGEX/82678/2006 “Study of the adsorption mechanisms and kinetics in geomaterials and their structural charaterisation: implications for processes of natural attenuation of heavy metal contamination and radioactive wastes confinement” – KADRWaste, €200.000,00 Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).

  • Jan 2008 – Dec 2009: FCT/DREBM/00610 Cooperation Project Portugal-Tunísia, Funding: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and Tunisia Ministry of Science.

As Member:

  • Jun 2022 – May 2025: SEMACRET – Sustainable exploration for orthomagmatic (critical) raw materials in the EU: Charting the road to the green energy transition; Funding Horizon 2020 (EU)

  • SLS – PSI, Switzerland: micro-XRD e micro-XRF with synchrotron radiation in Fe-Mn crusts from the Atlantic, 16 to 21 May 2018. PI: J. Mirão (HERCULES e U Évora).

  • Oct 2016 – Sept 2019: “Element cycling and mineral texture evolution during diagenesis and weathering of ore deposits: Role of carbonate and sulfate mineral-aqueous solution interactions and environmental implications”. PI: Lurdes Fernández-Diaz e José Astilleros (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); External Members: Mário Gonçalves (FCUL) and Atanasios Godelitsas (U Atenas). Funding: Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Gobierno de Espanha.

  • Sept 2016 – Jul 2017: IUGS-RFG (Resourcing Future Generation) “Quantitative assessment and prediction of deeply buried mineral resources in covered regions”, PI: Q. Cheng (China University of Geosciences, York University and IUGS President).

  • Feb 2015 – Jan 2018: ERA-MIN/001/2014 – NewOreS – “Development of New models for the genesis of Rare Metal (W, Nb, Ta, Li) Ore deposits from the European Variscan Belt and valorization of low grade and fine grained ore and mine tailings”. PI: Michel Cathelineau, Université de Lorraine, France

  • Jan 2015 – Dec 2017: SOLMETION “Solvent mediated phase transformations: implications in geosciences”; PI: José Asstilleros (UCM, Espanha); Funding: Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Gobierno de Espanha.

  • ENV-206 SUL-X – “Study of the adsorption of metal pollutants on clays using a combined experimental and computational approach” Funding: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; from Jan 31 to Feb 8 2012.

  • Jan 2005 – Jun 2007: “Time evolution of mine tailings and their environmental impact: rates and mechanisms of concentration, liberation and migration of (low-grade) metals during weathering” MetalTravel (FCT). PI: Jorge Figueiras; Funding: FCT.

Books & Chapters (up to 10): 

Gonçalves, M. A. (2020). Metal–Organic Interactions in Landfill Leachates and Associated Groundwaters. Encyclopedia of Water: Science, Technology and Society, edited by Patricia A. Maurice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (in press)

Gonçalves, M. A. (2020). Spectroscopic Characterization of Metal-Clay Interaction. Encyclopedia of Water: Science, Technology and Society, edited by Patricia A. Maurice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (in press)

Gonçalves, M. A. (2020). Geochemical Models – Computer Codes. Encyclopedia of Water: Science, Technology and Society, edited by Patricia A. Maurice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (in press)

Gonçalves, M. A. (2020). Geochemical Models. Encyclopedia of Water: Science, Technology and Society, edited by Patricia A. Maurice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (in press)

Gonçalves, M. A. (2020). Background Concentration of Pollutants. Encyclopedia of Water: Science, Technology and Society, edited by Patricia A. Maurice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (in press)

Gonçalves, M. A. (2019). O papel da mineralogia no estudo da contaminação ambiental. In: Colóquio Contaminação Ambiental, A. M. R. Neiva (Coord.), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, pp. 29-59.

Gonçalves, M.A., Bobos, I. and Figueiras, J. (2010). The Structure of Clay minerals as a Control of Geochemical Balances in the Surface Environment. In: “Ciências Geológicas: Ensino, Investigação e sua Hiistória”, Vol I: Geologia Clássica, J.M. Cotelo Neiva, A. Ribeiro, L. Mendes Victor, F. Noronha, M. Ramalho (eds), Associação Portuguesa de Geólogos e Sociedade Geológica de Portugal, pp. 79-88.

Conferences (last 15 presentations): 

Gonçalves, M. A. (2019). Os Desafios para a Prospecção Geoquímica na Descoberta Futura de Depósitos Minerais, Proc. XII Congresso Ibérico de Geoquímica – CIG2019, Évora, Portugal.

Gonçalves, M. A., Vuckovic, M., Fiorelli, A., Barrulas, P. e Mirão, J. (2019). Trace element geochemistry of carbonates in the Jurassic Lusitanian Basin records mineral-fluid interactions,WRI-16, Tomsk, Russia

Gonçalves, M. A. (2017). Singularity mapping and geochemical indexes in mineral deposits exploration, IAMG2017, Perth, Australia.

Gonçalves, M. A., Mateus, A. (2017). Searching for concealed deposits: why metallogenic models still matter, Goldschmidt 2017, Paris, France.

Gonçalves, M. A., Pinto, A. J. (2016). Cation Replacement Mechanisms in Uranyl Phosphates and Development of Weathering Profiles, Goldschmidt 2016, Yokohama, Japan

Gonçalves, M. A., Mateus, A. (2016). The use of multifractal modelling for targeting resources from soil and stream geochemistry data: the case of the Variscan basement of the Iberian Peninsula. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 18, EGU2016-8516-1

Gonçalves, M. A., Mateus, A. (2015). Application of multifractal methods in geochemical exploration: an overview of models and main case studies in the Iberian Variscan belt, X Cong. Ibérico de Geoquímica, 19-23 Outubro 2015, Lisboa, pp. 93-96.

Gonçalves, M. A. (2015). Using multifractal modeling as a standard tool in geochemical exploration for predicting mineralized areas, Solicited talk in the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-6179, 2015

Gonçalves, M. A., Martins, D., Parker, S. C. and Mirão, J. (2012). The mechanistic view of Cu(II) adsorption and desorption kinetics on illite surfaces: to which 2:1 clay sufaces metals adsorb? in Silva, E. F., Reis, A. P., Patinha, C., Pereira, E., Rodrigues, S. (Eds), Proc. 9th International Symposium of Environmental Geochemistry, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 91-92.

Gonçalves, M. A., Waerenborgh, J. C., Maia, F., Pinto, C., Prazeres, C. and Serio, S. (2012). Enhanced metal release from acid mine drainage sediments due to the interaction with municipal waste water, Proc. Goldschmidt 2012, Montreal, Canada, Mineralogical Magazine: 1772.

Goncalves M. A., Martins D. and Parker S. (2011). Stability of Cu Adsorbed onto Clay Surfaces: An Experimental and Computational Study, Proc. Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Mineralogical Magazine, 75(3): 930.