Academic Qualifications:
- PhD-Environmental Geology
- Master Degree - Mineral Resource Prospecting and Exploration
- Bachelor Mineral Sciences Degree - Geology
- Advanced Technician Certificate - Electrical
- General Secondary School Certificate
Cryton Phiri holds a Masters Degree in Mineral Resource Prospecting and Exploration from Jilin University in China and a Bachelors Degree in Geology from the University of Zambia, besides, an Advanced Electrical Technician Certificate from Northern Technical College. He has worked with Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) as Production Geologists and later as Senior Geologists Grade Control for two (2) years prior to joining the academic fraternity as lecturer at the University of Zambia. He has two (2) years of teaching and five (5) years of research experience in Geology. Has taught undergraduate Geology students in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Mining Geology and Economic Geology of Energy and Industrial Minerals, and supervised undergraduate students’ research projects. Research expertise is in Basin Geology, Energy Resources and Environmental Remediation. He has published over 5 research journal and two (2) Conference papers. He has served as an Assistant Dean-Research in the School of Mines of the University of Zambia, and as Lead Trainer in Development Minerals Project under United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Currently, pursuing PhD in Environmental Geology at Hokkaido University- Japan
Membership to Professional Bodies
- Engineering Institute of Zambia (EIZ)
- Member of the Geological Society of Zambia
Environmental Geology, Basin Geology; Geochemistry; Hydrocarbon resources; General Geology
- Phiri, C., Shimazui, D., Otake, T., Kikuchi, R., Chintu, I., Chirwa, M., Kalaba, L., Nyambe, I., Sato, T., 2021. Geochemical behaviour of heavy metals in sludge effluents and solid deposits on the Zambian Copperbelt: Implication for effluent treatment and sludge reuse. Journal of the Science of Total Environment.
- Tang, H., Zhao, X., Shao, M., Sun, X., Zhang, Y., Cryton, P., (2017). Reservoir origin and characterization of gas pools in intrusive rocks of the Yingcheng Formation, Songliao Basin, NE China. Marine and Petroleum Geology. http://dx.doi10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.03.016
- Cryton Phiri, Wang Pujun, ImasikuNyambe., 2016. Geology and potential hydrocarbon play system of Lower Karoo Group in the Maamba Coalfield Basin,southern Zambia. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 118, 245-262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.03.006
- Guy Roland Nguimbi, Youhong Sun, MingyiGuo, Dickson Bolou, BrumStevyOndon, Phiri Cryton., 2016. Pyrolysis and Evaluation of Oil Shale Product Yieldand Composition from Tchikatanga-Mokola (Congo) Oil Shale. InternationalEnergy Journal, Volume 16 37-46
- TANG Huafeng, Cryton Phiri, GAO Youfeng, HUANG Yulong and BIANWeihua., 2015. Types and Characteristics of Volcanostratigraphic Boundaries and Their Oil-Gas Reservoir Significance. ActaGeologicaSinica (English Edition), Volume 89, Issue 1, pages 163–174, DOI: 10.1111/1755-6724.12402
- Guy Roland Nguimbi, Sun Youhong, Phiri Cryton., 2015. New Approach of Retorting of Huadian Oil Shale in Order to Reduce CO and CO2Emissions. IOSRJournal of Engineering (IOSRJEN). ISSN (e): 2250-3021, ISSN (p): 2278-8719,Vol. 05, Issue 01 (January. 2015), ||V3|| PP 01-08
- Cryton Phiri., 2015. Geology and Petroleum System of Late Carboniferous to Permian Lower Karoo Group, Maamba Basin, Southern Zambia. MSc thesis. Jilin University, Changchun China. Pp. 68. www.cnki.net
- Cryton Phiri, Wang Pujun, G. Roland Nguimbi, Abdallah-Yousif Ibrahim Hassan. 2014. Interpreting effects of TOC (inert) organic content on source rock potential using S2 vs. TOC graph in Maamba Coalfield Basin, southern Zambia.Global Geology, 199-205. Doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-9736.2014.04.02
CONFERENCE PAPERS
- ImasikuNyambe, Cryton Phiri., 2010. Database of mineral resources ofZambia: Warsaw, Poland, International Workshop on UNFC—2009—Theory and practice, June 21–22; http://www.unece.org
- Cryton Phiri, 2016. Rock-Eval 6/TOC Pyrolysis Results From the Lower Karoo Group Mudstones and Coal Source Rocks, Maamba Basin, Southern Zambia. AAPG annual Convention and Exhibition, Calgary, Alberta Canada. www.searchanddiscovery.com/abstracts/html/2016/90259ace/abstracts/2366264.