keynote speakers
Axel Schippers
The keynote lecture, "Biohydrometallurgy offers various process options for metal recovery from primary and secondary resources" was given by Prof. Axel Schippers, of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany.
Axel studied biology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and received his doctor‘s degree in 1998 for a thesis on the sulfur chemistry of microbial metal sulfide oxidation. Afterwards he worked for two years as post-doc on sediment microbiology and biogeochemistry in the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany.
In 2001 he moved to the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hannover, Germany. Since 2007 he heads the Geomicrobiology unit. In 2006 he qualified as lecturer (Privatdozent) for microbiology and geochemistry at the Leibniz University of Hannover and was appointed as Professor (apl.) in 2011.
Karen Hudson-Edwards
The keynote lecture "Technology metals for a green future: the role of biomining" was given by Karen Hudson-Edwards , of the University of Exeter, UK.
Karen is Professor in Sustainable Mining at the Camborne School of Mines and Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter, UK. She is an environmental geochemist and mineralogist working in the fields of mine waste characterisation and remediation, sustainable resource extraction (including biomining), mining and circular economy. She has published > 125 peer-reviewed papers in these areas with colleagues in microbiology, geomorphology, engineering, business and social science.
Karen was the 2012/3 Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland’s Hallimond Lecturer, the 2016 Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy New Zealand's Visiting Lecturer and the 2019 European Association of Geochemistry’s Distinguished Lecturer.
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