Services to the national and international scientific community:
1. Provided geological samples from my collection on request to the University of Lille (France), Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia), Natural History Museum of London (United Kingdom), Arizona State University (USA), Natural Science Museum in Santos-SP (Brazil), Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad (India), etc.
2. Provided geological samples for the geological museum of the Geology Department, UFS; and for the OGG Earth Age Display in Harold Porter Gardens (Bettys Bay).
3. Presented an Academic Article Writing Workshop for Postgraduate students, UWC, 28-29th Feb and 1st March 2024.
4. Served as an external reviewer for Honours and Masters theses for the Universities of Cape Town (UCT), Witwatersrand (Wits), and Johannesburg (UJ), 2023-2024.
5. Scientific consultant and beta-reader for the biography “Caspian Observer: Pavel Aleksandrovich Pravoslavlev” by Irina Durnova, Sept 2023.
6. Presented a Literature Review in Science workshop for the Postgraduate School GFZ-Potsdam, Sept 2023.
7. Member of the Impact Cratering Committee of the Meteoritical Society. Participated in the meeting "Goals, perspectives, and challenges," Aug 13, 2023.
8. Organized an international FIB/TEM Workshop presented in UWC by Dr. Richard Wirth (GFZ-Potsdam), 5-9 June 2023.
9. Co-convener of the “Planetary Geology: Earth, Moon and Beyond” session at the GeoCongress 2023, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 11-13 Jan 2023.
10. Topic Editor of Minerals (MDPI), 2020-2023.
11. Co-Editor of Special Issue “Geochronology, Crystallography and Phase Transition in Shocked Minerals,” Minerals (MDPI), 2020-2023.
12. Presented a Literature Review in Science workshop for the Postgraduate School, UFS, 5 Feb; 5 Mar; 5 Aug 2021.
13. Presented an Article Writing workshop for the Postgraduate School, UFS, 1-3 June 2020; 11-13 Aug 2020; 14-16 June 2021.
14. Guest Editor representing Free State for the Geobulletin GSSA, Geoheritage Division 2020-2021.
15. Editor of the Department of Geology quarterly Newsletter, UFS (2019-2020).
16. Assisted at the annual European Geoscience Union general assembly in Vienna, Austria in 2013, and 2014.