M Akbar RHAMDHANI is a Professor in Extractive Metallurgy and Metals Recycling at Swinburne University of Technology. He is currently the Director of Fluid and Process Dynamics (FPD) Group; and Program Leader of Net Zero Carbon Materials and Processes (Manufacturing Future Research Platform). Akbar obtained his PhD from McMaster University Canada in Materials Science and Engineering. Akbar's current research directions include: (1) Recycling and recovery of metals from urban resources (e.g. e-waste, end-of-life alkaline and lithium ion batteries, solar panel, permanent magnet); (2) Decarbonisation and Hydrogenation of metallurgical processes; (3) Pyrometallurgical processes of Rare Earth Elements (REE) minerals; (4) Solar metallurgy (the use of concentrated solar thermal energy for minerals and metals processing); and (5) Astro metallurgy (extra-terrestrial minerals and metals processing; e.g. metals extraction on Mars and Lunar). Akbar has been working conducting joint research, delivering courses and workshops with/to metals industries in Australia, Europe and Indonesia. Akbar and research teams have been awarded a number of international awards including from TMS, ASM International, AIST, and IOM3. Akbar is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, TMS Springer Nature.

Dr. -Ing. Emil-Kaya graduated her bachelor's and master's degrees in Metallurgical and Material Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 2014 and 2017, respectively. She completed her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Currently, she is pursuing her Postdoctoral research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, focusing on sustainable silicon production.

Dr Katarina Jakovljevic is a chemical engineer with a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Kragujevac, Serbia (2020). She worked as a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, before she joined NTNU in 2020, where she started as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Katarina is currently working as a Researcher, and her focus areas are pyrometallurgical production, emissions from metal production, recycling and refining of metals. Dr Jakovljevic is presently active in the EU Horizon ReSilex project.