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Full Professor, Harquail School of Earth Sciences - Director, Harquail School of Earth Sciences
↵PhD 2003 - Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
MSc 1997 - Geology (University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A)
BSc 1993 - Geological Engineering (Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela)
2023- Full Professor, Laurentian University
2012-2023 Associate Professor, Laurentian University
2006-2012 Assistant Professor, Laurentian University
2004-2006 Post-doctoral Fellow, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
2003-2004 Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Alberta
Origin of Pt, Pd, Au mineralization (orthomagmatic deposists)
Geochemistry of highly siderophile elements (Ru, Rh, Pd, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Au) in magmatic systems
Geochemistry of metalloids (Se, As, Sb, Te, Bi) and implications for the occurrence of precious metal minerals (PMM)
Genesis of orthomagmatic and hydrothermal ore deposits
Behavior of sulfur in magmatic systems
Introduction to the special issue on the Flatreef PGE-Ni-Cu deposit, northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex (Maier et al., 2021)
Assessing the extent of local crust assimilation within the Flatreef, northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, using sulfur isotopes and trace element geochemistry (Keir-Sage et al., 2021)
Strontium isotope stratigraphy through the Flatreef PGE-Ni-Cu mineralization at Turfspruit, northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex: evidence of correlation with the Merensky Unit of the eastern and western limbs (Mayer et al., 2021)
Chromite chemistry of a massive chromitite seam in the northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa: correlation with the UG-2 in the eastern and western limbs and evidence of variable assimilation of footwall rocks (Langa et al., 2021)
Magmatic origin of Co-rich, PGE-bearing pyrite: An experimental study on the geochemical behavior of highly siderophile elements (HSE) and metalloids in an mss-iss-pyrite system at 650 °C (Cafagna and Jugo, 2016)
Trace element distribution in sulphide assemblages of the Levack-Morrison ore system, Sudbury, Ontario: Looking for chemical fingerprints of mineralization processes (Adibpour et al., 2015)
High gold concentrations in sulphide-bearing magma under oxidizing conditions (Botcharnikov et al., 2011)
Sulfur K-edge XANES analysis of natural and synthetic basaltic glasses: Implications for S speciation and S content as function of oxygen fugacity (Jugo et al., 2010)
Imaging Element-Distribution Patterns in Minerals by Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) (Ulrich et al., 2009)
Sulfur content at sulfide saturation in oxidized magmas (Jugo, 2009)
The origin of S4+ detected in silicate glasses by XANES (Wilke et al., 2008)
An experimental study of the sulfur content in basaltic melts saturated with immiscible sulfide or sulfate liquids at 1300 °C and 1.0 GPa (Jugo et al., 2005a)
Experimental data on the speciation of sulfur as a function of oxygen fugacity in basaltic melts (Jugo et al., 2005b)
Magmatic sulfides and Au:Cu ratios in porphyry deposits: an experimental study of copper and gold partitioning at 850 °C, 100 MPa in a haplogranitic melt-pyrrhotite-intermediate solid solution-gold metal assemblage, at gas saturation (Jugo et al., 1999)