keynote speakers
Kurt Aasly
Kurt continued his work related to quartz in the industry until 2012, when he was appointed Associate Professor of Process Mineralogy at NTNU. His main field of research and teaching is within process mineralogy and geometallurgy, focusing on industrial minerals and iron oxides.
Kurt has been project manager for the MarMine project, focusing on technological challenges related to exploitation of seafloor massive sulfide deposits. He has also been responsible for establishing a mineral characterization laboratory, as part of a larger National Research Infrastructure. Recently, he is involved in a research project related to characterization and analyses of minute concentration of pyrrhotite in concrete aggregates.
Megan Becker
Megan has degrees in both geological sciences (BSc Hons 2001, MSc 2005 – University of Cape Town) and metallurgical engineering (PhD 2009 – University of Pretoria). These have more than equipped her for research in the cross disciplinary field of applied and process mineralogy. The central focus of her research and teaching activities is the application of mineralogical knowledge for the understanding, optimisation and prediction of key unit processes within the mining industry from both techno-economic and environmental aspects. Through this research she has developed numerous academic and industrial collaborations on projects in geometallurgy, process mineralogy, flotation and comminution, hydrometallurgy, and environmental mineralogy.
Since joining the Centre for Minerals Research in 2005 (then the Mineral Processing Research Unit), she has successfully integrated process mineralogy into the research activities of the Centre and other research groupings within the Dept of Chemical Engineering. She has close to 90 peer reviewed publications. In 2018, she was nominated as one of the top 100 Global Inspirational Woman in Mining.
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