People
Luka Badurina, Ph.D.
Construction Chemist
Focus
- Materials Laboratory
Biography
Dr. Badurina is an applied mineralogist with strong experience in a wide range of material characterizations and analytical techniques comprising of quantitative XRF-WDS and XRD analyses, SEMEDX, LA-ICP-MS and FTIR, with results published across 13 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Badurina is an expert in complex interpretations of many diverse matrices, ranging from volcanic ashes, bentonites, sands, clays, silica polymorph mixtures to cements and fly ashes. His analytical expertise encompasses diverse portfolios including projects with variety of bentonite occurrences across central and SE Europe, ophiolite deposits, method development of LA-ICP-MS in micro-analysis of clay minerals, and many more. Dr. Badurina’s expertise in highly specialized quantitative XRD made a significant impact on understanding commercial heat-treated silica products.
At CTLGroup, Dr. Badurina specializes in specialized materials characterizations and method developments, forensic investigations, emerging technologies and research projects as well as litigation. Dr. Badurina focuses on XRF and XRD analyses of cementitious materials, cements, clinkers, supplementary cementitious materials such as ashes, slags, and a wide range of inorganic raw materials and aggregates. Dr. Badurina brings his extensive background in clay and general mineralogy for interpretations of complex mineral mixtures.
Education
Ph.D. in Geosciences, Texas Tech University, 2023
Bachelor of Science in Geology, University of Zagreb, 2018
Affiliations
The Clay Minerals Society
Croatian Geological Survey
ASTM International
Featured Publications
Kukoč D, Smirčić D, Grgasović T, Horvat M, Belak M, Japundžić D, Kolar-Jurkovšek T, Šegvić B, Badurina L, Vukovski M, Slovenec D. 2023. Biostratigraphy and facies description of Middle Triassic rift-related volcano-sedimentary successions at the junction of the Southern Alps and the Dinarides (NW Croatia). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 112(4):1175-201, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-023-02301-w.
Šegvić B, Lukács R, Mandic O, Strauss P, Badurina L, Guillong M, Harzhauser M. 2023. U–Pb zircon age and mineralogy of the St Georgen halloysite tuff shed light on the timing of the middle Badenian (mid-Langhian) transgression, ash dispersal and palaeoenvironmental conditions in the southern Vienna Basin, Austria. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(2):jgs2022-106, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-106.
Šegvić B, Slovenec D, Badurina L 2023. Major and rare earth element mineral chemistry of low-grade assemblages inform dynamics of hydrothermal ocean-floor metamorphism in the Dinaridic Neotethys. Geological Magazine, 160(3):444-70, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756822001030 .
Slovenec D, Horvat M, Smirčić D, Belak M, Badurina L, Kukoč D, Grgasović T, Byerly K, Vukovski M, Šegvić B. 2023. On the evolution of Middle Triassic passive margins of the Greater Adria Plate: inferences from the study of calc-alkaline and shoshonitic tuffs from NW Croatia. Ofioliti, 1–6, https://doi.org/10.4454/ofioliti.v48i1.560 .
Grizelj A, Milošević MO, Miknić M, Hajek-Tadesse V, Bakrač K, Galović I, Badurina L, Kurečić TO, Wacha L, Šegvić B, Matošević M. 2022. Evidence of Early Sarmatian volcanism in the Hrvatsko Zagorje Basin, Croatia: Mineralogical, geochemical and biostratigraphic approaches. Geologica Carpathica, 74(1):59-82, https://doi.org/10.31577/GeolCarp.2023.02.
Slovenec, D., Belak, M., Badurina, L., Horvat, M., & Šegvić, B. 2023. Triassic evolution of the Adriatic-Dinaridic platform’s continental margins—insights from rare dolerite subvolcanic intrusions in External Dinarides. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 355(G1), 35-62, https://doi.org/10.5802/crgeos.183.
Badurina, L. and Šegvić, B. 2022. Assessing trace-element mobility during alteration of rhyolite tephra from the Dinaride Lake System using glass-phase and clay-separate laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Clay Minerals, 1–6, https://doi.org/10.1180/clm.2022.12.
Šegvić, B., Badurina, L., Slovenec., D. 2022. Major and REE mineral chemistry of low-grade assemblages shed light on the dynamics of hydrothermal ocean floor metamorphism in the Dinaridic Neotethys. Geological Magazine, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756822001030
Kolawolea, O., Millikan, C., Ispas, I., Schwartz, B., Kumar, M., Weber, J., Badurina, L., Šegvić, B. 2022. Impact of microbial-rock-CO2 interactions on containment and storage security of supercritical CO2 in carbonates. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 120, 103755, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2022.103755.
Badurina, L., Šegvić, B., Mandic, O. and Slovenec, D. 2021. Miocene tuffs from the Dinarides and Eastern Alps as proxies of the Pannonian Basin lithosphere dynamics and tropospheric circulation patterns in Central Europe. Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-262, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-262.
Leila, M., Lévy, D., Battani, A., Piccardi L. Šegvić, B., Badurina, L., Pasquet, G., Combaudon, V., Moretti, I., 2021. Origin of continuous hydrogen flux in gas manifestations at the Larderello geothermal field, Central Italy. Chemical Geology, 120564, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120564.
Šegvić, B., Slovenec, D., Schuster, R., Babajić, E., Badurina, L. and Lugović, † B. 2020. Sm-Nd geochronology and petrologic investigation of sub-ophiolite metamorphic sole from the Dinarides (Krivaja-Konjuh, Ophiolite Complex, Bosnia and Herzegovina). Geologia Croatica, 73, 119–130, https://doi.org/10.4154/gc.2020.09.
Badurina, L. Šegvić, B., Mandic, O. and Zanoni, G. 2020. Smectitization as a Trigger of Bacterially Mediated Mn-Fe Micronodule Generation in Felsic Glass (Livno-Tomislavgrad Paleolake, Bosnia and Herzegovina). Minerals, 10, 899, https://doi.org/10.3390/min10100899.
