• Sediment-hosted ore deposits
• Paleofluid flow in sedimentary basins
• Fluid flow and tectonism
• Base metal deposits in Europe
• The Central African Copperbelt

Recent projects

• Geology of the Kamoa-Kakula copper deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo (07/01/2025 - 07/01/2029) - Promotor
• DiSSCo Flanders 2.0: Enhancing access to Flemish collections through integration with DiSSCo (01/01/2025 - 31/12/2028) - Co-promotor
• Sustainable, decarbonised vanadium, titanium and iron extraction from Europe’s low-grade vanadium-bearing titanomagnetite deposits (01/01/2024 - 31/12/2027) - Co-promotor
• Mechanistic study of lithium leaching from lithium-rich clays (20/01/2023 - 20/01/2027) - Promotor
• Cost-effective, sustainable and responsible extraction routes for recovering distinct critical metals and industrial minerals as by-products from key European hard-rock lithium projects (01/01/2023 - 31/12/2026) - Co-promotor
• Ore-forming processes of the gold mineralization in the Western Domain of the Karagwe-Ankole belt, Central Africa. (06/09/2022 - 06/09/2026) - Promotor
• Multiple mineralization and fluid phases in the Central African Copperbelt: implications for the age dating and the ore-forming processes (22/12/2021 - 22/12/2025) - Promotor
• Diagenesis and alteration associated with the Cu-Co mineralized rocks in the Central African Copperbelt (19/10/2021 - 19/10/2025) - Promotor
• Multiple mineralization and fluid flow phases in the Central African Copperbelt: implications for the age dating of the ore-forming processes (01/10/2021 - 30/09/2025) - Promotor
• Sustainable processing of Europe’s low-grade sulphidic and lateritic Ni/Co ores and tailings into battery-grade metals (01/06/2021 - 31/05/2023) - Co-promotor

Recent publications

• launch Liu, Q., Muchez, P. (sup.) (2025). Diagenesis and alteration associated with the Cu-Co mineralized rocks in the Central African Copperbelt.
• launch Erlandsson, V.B., Foltyn, K., Muchez, P., Rantitsch, G., Ellmies, R., Melcher, F. with Erlandsson, V.B. (corresp. author) (2025). Chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and pyrite chemistry in stratiform sediment-hosted Cu(-Co) metallogenic districts: trace element characteristics and factors controlling polymetallic mineralization. MINERALIUM DEPOSITA, 60 (5), 869-894. doi: 10.1007/s00126-024-01320-0 via repository
• launch Liu, Q., Mambwe, P., Muchez, P. (2025). LA-ICP-MS element analysis of Cu–Co sulfides from the Central African Copperbelt: implications for the mobility and redistribution of metals. Journal Of Geochemical Exploration, 277, Art.No. 107800. doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2025.107800
• launch Liu, Q., Mambwe, P., Glorie, S., Muchez, P. (2025). Lu-Hf dating of apatite from the Katanga Copperbelt: age resetting due to post-orogenic fluid migration. Mineralium Deposita. doi: 10.1007/s00126-025-01359-7
• launch Cools, I., Dewaele, S., Peiffert, C., Muchez, P. with Cools, I. (corresp. author) (2025). Detailed characterisation of the fluids responsible for orogenic gold mineralisation at Imonga-Saramabila (Maniema) in the Karagwe-Ankole Belt, DR Congo. ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS, 178, Art.No. ARTN 106461. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2025.106461 via repository
• launch Torres, J., Muchez, P. with Torres, J. (corresp. author) (2025). Fluid Evolution and Cu-Co Ore-Forming Processes in the Katanga Copperbelt (DR Congo)-Insights from Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry Analyses of Fluid Inclusions. ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 120 (1). doi: 10.5382/econgeo.5121
• launch Prado Araujo, F., Virrey, M., Vassilieva, E., Magalhães, N., Rollinson, G., Sadeghi, S., Dewulf, B., Tampouris, S., Binnemans, K., Andersen, J., Hughes, H., Muchez, P. with Prado Araujo, F. (joint first author), Prado Araujo, F. (corresp. author) (2024). Mineralogical controls on the Ni and Co recovery from HCl leaching of laterites. In: PROCESS MINERALOGY ‘24 PAPERS, (96-102). Presented at the Process Mineralogy '24, Cape Town, South Africa, 11 Nov 2024-13 Nov 2024.
• launch Prado Araujo, F., Vassilieva, E., Dehaine, Q., Lavikko, S., Frenzel, M., Guy, B., Pereira, L., Demeusy, B., Filippov, L., Muchez, P. (2024). A geometallurgical approach to by-product recovery from rare-metal granites. In: Process Mineralogy '24 papers, (199-208). Presented at the Process Mineralogy '24, Cape Town, South Africa, 11 Nov 2024-13 Nov 2024.
• launch Liu, Q., Mambwe, P., Littke, R., Muchez, P. (2024). Diagenesis and Mineralization in the Central African Copperbelt: Implications from the Reflectance of Pyrobitumen. In: Young Researcher Overseas Day 2024 - Sixth Edition - abstract book, (46-46). Presented at the Young Researcher's Overseas Day, Palace of the Academies Hertogsstraat 1 / Rue Ducale 1 - 1000 Brussels, 09 Dec 2024-09 Dec 2024.
• launch Cools, I., Dewaele, S., Peiffert, C., Muchez, P. (2024). Quartz-vein hosted gold mineralization in eastern DR Congo - Western Domain of the Karagwe-Ankole Belt. In: Young Researchers’ Overseas Day: vol. Sicth edition, (Abstract No. Presentation number 5), (16-16). Presented at the Young Researchers’ Overseas Day, Palais des Académies, Rue Ducale - 1 - Hertogsstraat, 1000 Brussels, 09 Dec 2024-09 Dec 2024.