New Mineral Species and Their Crystal Structures

 Irina O. Galuskina is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the University of Silesia, Poland. She received a PhD (1998) and habilitation (2011) in Earth Sciences in the discipline of geology at the University of Silesia. She teaches crystallography, mineralogy, genetic mineralogy, and methods of investigation. Her research interests focus on the crystal chemistry of minerals and mineralogy of rodingites, high-temperature skarns, and pyrometamorphic rocks. She is the author and co-author of more than 50 new mineral species, and she has published 72 scientific papers in international journals. 

Igor V. Pekov is a Professor of Mineralogy at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. He graduated in Geology and Geochemistry in 1989 at this University, where hd received a PhD in Mineralogy and Crystallography in 1997 and a DSc in 2005. He was elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2016 and was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2018. His main research interests are in the fields of mineralogy and crystal chemistry of rare elements; mineralogy and geochemistry of alkaline rocks, volcanic exhalations, and oxidation zone of ore deposits; crystal chemistry of oxysalt minerals; crystal chemistry and properties of mineral-like microporous materials; and history of mineralogy. To date, he has discovered 145 IMA-approved new mineral species as a senior author and more 98 new mineral species as a co-author. He has authored more than 200 articles in international journals, as well as eight books.