Petre Makreski

Date of birth: 24.11.1977 (Sagittaurus)
Place of birth: Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Nationality: Macedonian
E-mail: petremak@iunona.pmf.ukim.edu.mk
Address at work: Arhimedova 5
1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Telephone: +(389-2) 3249 904

Education:

• PhD: STUDY ON THE VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA OF SOME OXIDE, SULFATE AND SILICATE MINERALS, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje 2006;
• MSc: Charactrization and identification of some carbonate and sulfide minerals from Republic of Macedonia with infrared and Raman vibrational spectroscopy, “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” University, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute of Chemistry, Skopje 2004;
• BSc: Sulfide Minerals from Macedonia – Identification and spectra-structural characterization, “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” University, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute of Chemistry, Skopje, 2001.

Teaching:

• Physical chemistry
• Molecular structure
• Crystal chemistry
• Mineralogy
• Sources and use of chemical information
   

Areas of research interests:

• Identification and characterization of minerals by vibrational (IR and Raman) spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction;
• Spectra-structure correlations;
• Atomic absorption spectrometry in mineral analysis.

Publications:

• 18 papers in 7 journals;
• • 24 meeting presentations.

Visits abroad:

• Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia (may-june 2005, september 2006);
• University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Croatia (august 2006).

Awards:

• Young scientist in Macedonia for the year 2005 , Macedonian Academy for Arts and Sciences, 2006 (one of the three awarded persons).

Activities:

• Referee for Journal of Molecular Structure and Journal of Raman Spectroscopy

Published articles:

• B. Minceva-Sukarova, G. Jovanovski, P. Makreski, B. Soptrajanov, W. P. Griffith, R. Willis, I. Grzetic, VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA OF MIMIIIS2 SYNTHETIC MINERALS (MI = Tl OR Ag, MIII = As OR Sb), J. Mol. Struct., 651-653 (2003) 181-189.
• P. Makreski, G. Jovanovski, B. Minceva-Sukarova, B. Soptrajanov, A. Green, B. Engelen, I. Grzetic, VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA OF MI3MIIIS3 TYPE SYNTHETIC MI¬NE¬¬RALS (MI = Tl OR Ag AND MIII = As OR Sb), Vib. Spectrosc., 35 (2004) 59-65.
• P. Makreski, G. Jovanovski, B. Kaitner, T. Stafilov, B. Boev, D. Cibrev, MINERALS FROM MACEDONIA. X. SEPARATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF SOME OXIDE MINERALS BY FT IR SPECTROSCOPY, AAS, EAS-ICP AND POWDER XRD, N. Jb. Miner. Abh., 180 (2004) 215-243.
• P. Makreski, G. Jovanovski, S. Stojančeska, MINERALS FROM MACEDONIA. XIII. VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA OF SOME COMMONLY APPEARING NESOSILICATE MINERALS, J. Mol. Struct., 744–747 (2005) 79–92.
• P. Makreski, G. Jovanovski, S. Dimitrovska, MINERALS FROM MACEDONIA. XIV. IDENTIFICATION OF SOME SULFATE MINERALS BY VIBRATIONAL (INFRARED AND RAMAN) SPECTROSCOPY, Vib. Spectrosc., 39 (2005) 229–239.
• P. Makreski, G. Jovanovski, A. Gajović, MINERALS FROM MACEDONIA. XVII. VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA OF SOME COMMON APPEARING AMPHIBOLES, Vib. Spectrosc., 40 (2006) 98–109.
• P. Makreski, G. Jovanovski, A. Gajović, T. Biljan, D. Angelovski, R. Jaćimović, MINERALS FROM MACEDONIA. XVI. VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA OF SOME COMMON APPEARING PYROXENES AND PYROXENOIDS, J. Mol. Struct., 788 (2006) 102–114.