Plaks Dmitry

Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences

Graduated in 2002 from the Belarusian National Technical University with a degree in Mineral Development. Qualification - mining engineer. In 2007 he defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences in the specialty "Paleontology and stratigraphy". In 2016, he was awarded the academic title of associate professor in the specialty "Geology". In 2018, he graduated from the Republican Institute of Innovative Technologies of the BNTU with a degree in Management of Vocational Education Institutions. Qualification - manager in the field of education. He has been working at the department since 2010. He is a member of the expert commission on unique geological and paleontological objects, a full member of the All-Russian Paleontological Society under the Russian Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the International Stratigraphic Subcommittee on the Devonian system. He is a specialist in the field of stratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower and Middle Paleozoic sedimentary formations of the East European Platform. The main direction of scientific research is the Silurian, Devonian and Early Carboniferous ichthyofauna of Belarus and adjacent regions, and its stratigraphic significance.

Readable disciplines:

- Fundamentals of geology and exploration of mineral deposits.

- Fundamentals of geology.

- Fundamentals of ecology.

- Mineralogy and petrography.

-Physics of rocks.

-Geology of Belarus.

- Fundamentals of stratigraphy.

- Rational use and protection of mineral resources.

- Prospects for the development of mineral raw materials in Belarus.

Author of more than 70 scientific articles, 32 abstracts of reports, 4 educational and teaching aids, 5 manuscript research papers, as well as 34 brief popular science articles on paleontology published in the encyclopedia "Nature of Belarus (geological part)". Has ten acts of implementation with a geological effect in RUE "Belgeologiya" and SE "SPC for Geology".