Team and Partners
Work Package Leaders
René Booysen
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
The goal of this work package is to coordinate MOSMIN in a way that maximises its potential for impact creation and market uptake. This includes financial follow-up, administrative coordination and reporting, as well as strategic coordination and integration of project results. It also includes communication within the consortium and towards the European Commission, continuous quality and risk management, and management of intellectual property rights, data and ethics.
Oriol Monserrat
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
The goal of this work package is to develop vertically integrated services and tools for the geotechnical monitoring of Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) and Waste Rock Dumps (WRDs). This includes optimising InSAR processing for automated, reliable surface deformation measurements over long periods, and establishing workflows for the early detection of dam movements using near real-time SAR data processing. It also involves defining radar and multispectral data-based products to monitor moisture in tailings, and trialing time-resolved electrical resistivity tomography to assess humidity conditions within dam walls. WP2 also looks to complement InSAR measurements by deploying autonomous seismic sensors and fiber-optic cables to identify changes in seismic velocities for early detection of subsurface weak zones and deformation.
Calin Baciu
Babes-Bolyai University (UBB)
This work package focuses on developing environmental monitoring services and tools by integrating remote sensing with in situ measurements. It involves mapping the chemical and mineralogical composition of rocks, sediment and soil and analyzing the chemical composition of waters to assess acid mine drainage effects. It also includes a multi-scale and multi-temporal vegetation analysis, integrating satellite- and UAV-based mapping products with in-situ and sample-based analytical data of plants.
Sandra Lorenz
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
This work package focuses on developing vertically integrated services and tools for the valorisation of mining-related deposits. It includes defining suitable spectral products for surface material characterization of TSFs, WRDs, and stockpiles using multi-scale spectral observations, and developing integrated digital solutions for valorisation, volume estimation, and tracking of stockpiles based on topographic and spectral data. The package also aims to fuse surface material properties with subsurface geophysical data for resource domaining and assessing re-mining potential in WRDs, while optimizing machine-learning techniques for resolution enhancement, data fusion, and multi-temporal analysis to enable commercial-scale implementation of these services.
Alexander Bergström
Nordic Strategy Partners (NSP)
The goal of this work package is to ensure successful market entry and continuous growing market share and sales for MOSMIN services.. Key aspects for reaching the main objectives include extensive customer insight, trend and competitor analysis, business service design, business modelling and financial planning, including investment needs analysis.
Trevelayne Faller
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
The goal of this work package is to ensure the project updates and results are being effectively communicated, disseminated and exploited. This includes enhancing awareness, visibility, and potential of the project, as well as disseminating project results and their impact to a diverse audience (industry, environmental bodies, EU Citizens, other stakeholders). It also includes integrating the generated know-how with similar & complementary projects, ensuring the adequate protection of Intellectual Property Rights by leveraging the strong presence of industrial partners in the consortium, and preparing an exploitation plan for the results, knowledge, and products derived from the project.
Partner Representatives
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Dr. Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos
Dr. Rodrígues Tribaldo and her team will be combining novel fiber-optics sensing technologies (in particular Distributed Acoustic Sensing, DAS) with ambient seismic noise originating from natural and human activities for high-resolution characterization and monitoring of the subsurface structure and behavior of tailing dams, to help elucidate the cause of potential changes or instabilities.
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Calin Baciu
Calin is leading WP3, focusing on the link between the environmental investigation at the ground level and the remote sensing methodologies. The environmental work will involve testing for contaminants in soil, sediments and water. The directly measured parameters will be correlated with UAV- and satellite-derived products. An interactive WebGIS will be developed for the visualisation and integration of relevant environmental monitoring products.
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Oriol Monserrat
Oriol's role includes leading WP2, with a specific focus on tasks related to InSAR for ground displacement monitoring. This involves developing approaches tailored for tailing dams, testing them across MOSMIN project sites, and validating the results using in-situ data. To support the validation, a set of passive corner reflectors will be installed at two sites.
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Diana Comte
Diana will manage the electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) in the Talabre-CODELCO tailings dams, process these data, and analyze the probable correlation with other MOSMIN data. Diana will also be responsible for the permanent and temporary customs clearance of MOSMIN equipment in Chile.
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Pavel Pavlovskiy
Pavel Pavlovsky will be leading the technical, financial and administrative matters of the project at GeoKinesia. Under the WP2 Pavel will coordinate the work of GeoKinesia with other entities as well as with the MOSMIN consortium as a whole. Pavel will also play a special role under the WP5 – business opportunities identification and business strategy development.
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Alexander Bergström
Aexander is the leader of Work Package 5, Business Opportunities, which aims to ensure successful commercialization of products and services developed in the MOSMIN project. Key activities involve market analysis, customer and market validation, business model design, developing go-to-market strategies and financial business-cases.
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Cecilia Contreras
Cecilia will be supporting the hyperspectral and satellite-based data processing and integration with ground truth data, as well as the development of the tools for the vertical integration of the workflows and data.
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René Orellana
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Peter Johnstone
Peter Johnstone is Group Engineer for Tailings & Water Dams at First Quantum Minerals, overseeing the company’s TSFs and Water Dams, globally. He is keen to see FQM Trident TSF contribute to the success of the MOSMIN Project in developing multi-variate online monitoring and analysis of TSF physical behaviour.
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Nicolae Pavel
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Erik Ronne