Encarnación Ruiz-Agudo

EAG Councillor

Encarnación Ruiz-Agudo is assistant professor in Crystallography and Mineralogy at the University of Granada (Spain). She finished her PhD research in 2007 and carried out her postdoctoral research at the University of Münster (Germany). Her research interests include 1) non-classical mechanisms of mineral formation, including the formation of amorphous precursors and prenucleation species, 2) studies of surface mineral reactivity at the nanoscale and 3) silicate weathering and surface altered layer formation. In 2012, she was awarded the Research Excellent Medal of the European Mineralogical Union. She coordinates several research projects funded by the Spanish government aiming at gaining fundamental knowledge on silicate weathering and carbonation.

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