Simo Spassov

Head of Research Unit (Laboratory for Environmental Magnetism, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium)

BIO

Dr. Simo Spassov received his diploma in Environmental Geophysics in 1998 and his PhD in 2002 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Switzerland). During his PhD he specialised in magnetic properties of natural materials and continued in this this field during Post-doctoral and research sojourns at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (France) and the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. At the latter, he is working since 14 years and became recently the Head of the Laboratory for Environmental Magnetism. Simo Spassov’s research activities are mainly related to the application of mineral magnetic property measurements to environmental issues such as reconstructions of palaeoclimatic proxy parameters, characterisation and dating of burned archaeological materials, and soil pollution. Recently, he successfully managed to set up an interdisciplinary COST network, in order to advance the clinical application of magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia by concentrating European research efforts.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. A. Djerrab, S. Spassov, N. Defaflia, J. Hus, S. Abdessadok, M. Rurault-Djerrab, N. Bahra & S. Ech-chakrouni (2014). The Middle Palaeolithic site of Birzgane (Tébessa, Algeria): Results rock magnetic property investigation, Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.011
  2. S. Spassov, J. Hus, R. Geeraerts and F. Heller (2008). Archaeomagnetic dating of a High Middle Age likely Iron Working Site in Corroy-le-Grand (Belgium), Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 33, 544-556.
  3. S. Spassov & J. Hus (2006). Estimating baking temperatures in a Roman pottery kiln by rock magnetic properties: implications of thermochemical alteration on archaeointensity determinations, Geophysical Journal International, 167, pp. 592-604.