Konstantinos Modis

Dr Konstantinos Modis is a Mining Engineer with more than 30 years of academic and industrial experience in Earth Sciences. He obtained a PhD in geostatistics studying mixed sulphide ore deposits in Greece. In his career, he has fulfilled different roles in research, exploration and mining geostatistics, including resources engineering in Aegean Metallurgical Industries (METBA SA), where mixed sulphide ores were mined and the Olympias Gold Project was designed and permitted, and also consulting in the Hellenic Industrial and Mining Investment Corporation (HIMIC SA) which owned mineral deposits in Greece and Cyprus. He was also a pioneer in the development of mining software for desktop computers with advanced graphical interface. For these achievements he was granted the Geological Sciences Award “Konstantinos Ktenas” of the Academy of Athens. As a Professor of Mineral Exploration and Geostatistics at the National Technical University of Athens, he has championed innovative educational methods, integrating interactive multimedia approaches. His research interests encompass the geostatistical estimation of mineral reserves and the formulation of stochastic models that incorporate natural laws in areas such as geothermal energy, rock mechanics, groundwater flow, and related fields.

BOOKS

• 2025    Modis, K. and G. Valakas: "Introduction to Mining Geostatistics: Intuitive Applications with Excel and R". Elsevier, ISBN: 9780443314803. https://shop.elsevier.com/books/introduction-to-mining-geostatistics/modis/978-0-443-31480-3#full-description


• 2021    Modis, K. "Bayes’s Theorem". In: Daya Sagar B., Cheng Q., McKinley J., Agterberg F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26050-7_440-1

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

• 2023    Valakas, G., Modis, K., GeoSim: An R-package for plurigaussian simulation and Co-simulation between categorical and continuous variables, Applied Computing and Geosciences, 19, 100130.


• 2022    Modis, K., Sideri, D., Roumpos, C., Binet, H., Pavloudakis, F., Paraskevis, N.:  "Geostatistical Modeling of Overburden Lithofacies to Optimize Continuous Mining in the Ptolemais Lignite Mines, Greece". Minerals, 12, 1109.


• 2017    Athanassas, C., K. Modis, M Alçiçek, K. Theodorakopoulou: “Contouring the Cataclysm: A Geographical Analysis of the Effects of the Minoan Eruption of the Santorini Volcano”, Environmental Archaeology, DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2017.1288885.


• 2016    Valakas, G. and K. Modis: “Using informative priors in facies inversion: The case of C-ISR method”, Advances in Water Resources, Vol. 94, pp 23–30.


• 2015    K. Modis, D. Sideri: “Spatiotemporal estimation of land subsidence and ground water level decline in West Thessaly basin, Greece”, Natural Hazards, Springer, Vol. 76 (2), pp 939-954.


• 2014    D. Sideri, K. Modis, D. Rozos: “Multivariate geostatistical modelling of geotechnical characteristics of the alluvial deposits in West Thessaly, Greece”, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Springer, Vol. 73 (3), pp 709-722.


• 2013    K. Modis, D. Sideri: “Geostatistical Simulation of Hydrofacies Heterogeneity of the West Thessaly Aquifer Systems in Greece”. Natural Resources Research, Springer, Vol. 22 (2), pp. 123- 138.


• 2012    Α. Kolovos, J.M. Angulo, Κ. Modis, G. Papantonopoulos, J.-F. Wang and G. Christakos: “Model- driven development of covariances for spatiotemporal environmental health assessment”. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2593-1.


• 2008    K. Modis, K. Komnitsas: “Dimensionality of heavy metal distribution in waste disposal sites using nonlinear dynamics”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier, Vol. 156, pp. 285- 291.


• 2007    H- L. Yu, G. Christakos, K. Modis, G. Papantonopoulos: “A composite solution method for physical equations and its application in the Nea Kessani geothermal field (Greece)”, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 112, B06104, doi: 10.1029/2006JB004900, 11 p.


• 2006    K. Modis, K. Papaodysseus: “Theoretical Estimation of the Critical Sampling Size for Homogeneous Ore Bodies with Small Nugget Effect”, Mathematical Geology, Springer, Vol 38, (8), pp. 489- 501.

Undergraduate

• Operations Research and Decision Analysis - , 3d and 5th semester


• Subsurface Exploration methods – Mineral Exploration, 4th semester


• Underground Mine Exploitation, 7th semester


• Geostatistics, 8th semester


• Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, 9th semester


• Stochastic Simulation of Geological Systems, 9th semester

PostGraduate

• Geostatistics, 2nd semester, MSc «Geoinformatics», NTUA