Prof. Dr. Nima Nezafati

Nima Nezafati studied geology and mineralogy at the University of Shahid Beheshti and the Research Institute for Earth Sciences in Tehran, as well as mineralogy at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. He received his doctorate from the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Tübingen on the Deh Hossein ore deposit. He has been Deputy Head of the Archaeometallurgy Research Department at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum since the end of 2020, while he has been appointed as Honorary Professor at Ruhr University Bochum since 2023.

He specialises in the deposits of Iran and West Asia, and their role in the development of early raw material extraction and metallurgy. He is the author of Au-Sn-W-Cu-Mineralization in the Astaneh-Sarband Area, West Central Iran (2006, https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/48972), and a co-author in: On Salt, Copper and Gold: The Origins of Early Mining and Metallurgy in the Caucasus (2021).