Dr Evgenii Nekhoroshev is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering and a member of the Pyrometallurgy Innovation Centre led by Prof. Evgueni Jak. He graduated with a Master in Chemistry (chemical thermodynamics) from Lomonosov's Moscow State University, Deparment of Chemistry in 2012. His Master's Thesis was "Thermodynamic optimization of the NaOH-Al(OH)3-Na2SiO3-H2O system for applications in Bayer's process of bauxite treatment". In 2019, he completed a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada within The Centre For Research in Computational Thermodynamics (CRCT), where he acquired expertise in FactSage software, multicomponent database development, and was included in the list of official collaborators of FactSage. His PhD thesis was "Thermodynamic optimization of the Na2O-K2O-Al2O3-CaO-MgO-B2O3-SiO2 system" sponsored by Glass Consortium including Corning and SCHOTT glass producers. The purpose of the database he developed was to assist the industry in designing new glasses with special properties. Short after receiving his PhD, Dr Evgenii Nekhoroshev accepted a position at The University of Queensland as part of the Pyrometallurgy Innovation Centre's team where he has an official title of Theme Leader in Thermodynamic Computations, combining his broad expertise in metallurgy, chemical engineering, applied mathematics, and programming.

Jacob has spent more than 15 years working in the field of high-temperature metals processing. After studying ferrous metallurgy during his time at the University of New South Wales, Jacob pursued a career in non-ferrous metallurgy, commencing at the Mt Isa Copper Smelter and subsequently with the Ausmelt TSL technology group in Melbourne. During his time working with the technology, Jacob has gained experience in the design and delivery of smelting processes and equipment across copper, lead, nickel, zinc and tin metallurgical systems. Jacob has a passion for advancing sustainability of the pyrometallurgical industry, particularly decarbonisation and processing of industrial and consumer waste streams.

Georgia is a process engineer in Hatch pyrometallurgy group. Since joining Hatch in 2020, she has been involved in nickel, lithium, and gas handling projects from concept studies to detailed design. More recently, her work has focused on process simulation of both pyrometallurgical and off-gas equipment. Georgia holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland.