Nasser Madani

Assistant Professor, School of Mining and Geosciences (SMG), Nazarbayev University

Previous to SMG

• Post doctoral scholar, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Iran, (May, 2016 – March, 2016)
• Research assistant at Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), University of Chile (March, 2013 – April, 2016)
• Research assistant at CSIRO- Chile Center of Excellency (March, 2014- April, 2016)

Degrees

• PhD, Mining Engineering, University of Chile – 2016
• MSc, Mining Engineering, South Tehran University- 2009
• BSc, Mining Engineering, South Tehran University- 2007

Teaching and Research:

Academic Activities

SMG Courses:

• Postgrads:

• Advanced Geostatistics I
• Advanced Geostatistics II

• Undergrads:

• Data analysis in Mining Engineering
• Mineral Resource Estimation

• School of Engineering courses:

• Data Analysis and Statistics for Ph.D. students

Education Innovation

• Development of Advanced Geostatistics II in Multivariate Geostatistics and Non-Linear Geostatistics
• Develop some special topic courses related to:

• Advance method of resource estimation and reporting
• Advanced method of Geological uncertainty quantifications

Research Activities

• Probabilistic Modeling of Lithofacies integrating with Seismic Information
• Probabilistic Modeling of Heterogeneous Geo-Domains
• Multivariate Geostatistics
• Non-Linear Geostatistics

A comparison of search strategies to design the cokriging neighborhood for predicting coregionalized variables
Madani, N., Emery, X., 2018 In : Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. p. 1-17

Multivariate Mapping of Heavy Metals Spatial Contamination in a Cu–Ni Exploration Field (Botswana) Using Turning Bands Co-simulation Algorithm
Eze, P., Madani, N., Adoko, A., 2018 In : Natural Resources Research. p. 1-16

Lithofacies uncertainty modeling in a siliciclastic reservoir setting by incorporating geological contacts and seismic information
Madaniesfahani, N., Biranvand, B., Naderi, A., Keshavarz, N., 2018 In : Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology. p. 1-16

Capturing Hidden Geochemical Anomalies in Scarce Data by Fractal Analysis and Stochastic Modeling
Madaniesfahani, N., Sadeghi, B., 2018 In : Natural Resources Research. p. 1-15

Simulation of geo-domains accounting for chronology and contact relationships: application to the Río Blanco copper deposit
Madani, N., Emery, X., 2015 In : Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 29, 8, p. 2173-2191