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Professor and Director of Process Metallurgy Research Labs, Department of Materials Science & Engineering (University of Toronto)
- >120 journal paper publications
- Supervising 16 elite researchers and post-graduate students
- World class expert in process metallurgy and technology development
- Led more than 20 industrial research and development projects as a Dean’s Catalyst Professor
- Expertise includes process development, technology innovation, intellectual property management
- Experienced investment professional in international energy and mining
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Previously held positions include:
- Senior commercial director at Bankers Petroleum
- Senior investment advisor at AU Ventures Capital
- Senior business consultant at HKIMA Consulting
- Worked on projects of combined worth over $1B
- Consultant and project manager in the metals industry for technical and commercial projects
- Led business development efforts and project management activities for an international technical consulting firm’s North American operations
- Assessed investment and expansion opportunities for metals clients worldwide (feasibility studies to commissioning)
- Expert in risk management, cost control, budgeting and scheduling for projects
- Energy material research and development expert
- Specialization in electrode and electrolyte design for LIBs
- Postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto: study of structure-property relationships for battery materials, energy dissipation and cathode materials screening for solvent interactions
- >25 publications
- Expert process metallurgist and specialist technologist
- Over 20 years of research and industry experience in process development and operation improvement
- Expertise spanning process metallurgy, process modelling, system engineering design and operation, experimental data acquisition and analysis, numerical modelling, thermodynamics and mechanics
- Research Associate at University of Toronto’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Conflict manager and field executive for the Competence Centre for Nature Conservation and Energy Transition (KNE), commissioned by Germany’s Ministry for the Environment (BMU)
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Previous experiences include:
- Project Leader for Renewable Energies for Germany’s Friends of the Earth
- Research Fellow for the Earth System Governance Project, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Professor of Metallurgy and Director of Sustainable Materials Processing Lab at the University of Toronto
- 20 years of experience in process development and analysis
- Expert in high temperature chemical metallurgy
- Over 200 technical publications
- Vice President, Metallurgical & Materials Society of Canada