Biography

Nodar Poporadze is a professor and department head at the Faculty of Mining and Geology of Georgian Technical University and a member of the GTU Academic Council. He graduated from the Georgian Polytechnic Institute in 1978 as a mining engineer-geologist and received the Doctor of Sciences degree in 1994. He headed the Chair of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry in 1998–2005 and has directed the Republican Centre for Gemology and the Study of Mineral Substances since 1994. His research interests are solid-phase transformations of silicates and precious and semi-precious stones (gemology).

Education

• Georgian Polytechnic Institute – mining engineer-geologist, 1978
• Georgian Polytechnic Institute – postgraduate studies, Petrology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 1984

Scientific degree and rank

• Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1994)
• Professor (since 1996)
• President of the Georgian Mineralogical Society (since 2012)
• Member of the Georgian Engineering Academy

Work experience

• 1978–1979 – Georgian Polytechnic Institute, senior preparator
• 1979–1987 – Chair of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, head of laboratory
• 1987–1994 – Republican Centre for Gemology and the Study of Mineral Substances, head of sector
• 1992–1996 – Docent; since 1996 – Professor
• Since 1994 – Director of the Republican Centre for Gemology and the Study of Mineral Substances
• 1998–2005 – Head of the Chair of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry