Professor Brooks is a Professor in the School of Engineering. Since completing his PhD in 1994, Professor Brooks has been an Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong (1993-2000), an Associate Professor at McMaster University (2000-2004), a Senior Princpal Research Scientist at CSIRO (2004-2006) and a Professor at Swinburne since 2006. Since joining Swinburne, Professor Brooks has been the Associate Dean of Research, Head of Mathematics at Swinburne and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Future Manufacturing). He currenty co-ordinates research for Extra Terrestrial processing at the University and a Program Leader in the ARC Steel Innovation Hub. He has also been active in recent years working with Physicists on Dark Matter detection research. Professor Brooks has published over 250 papers on fundamental aspects of steelmaking, aluminium production and materials processing in general. He has won significant international awards from the TMS, AIST, ASM and IOM3 for his contribution to metallurgical processing. Professor Brooks is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK).

Professor Kang is currently affiliated at the Graduate Institute of Ferrous and Eco Materials Technology and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology. He previously worked at Polytechnique Montreal in Canada, where he focused on the development of thermodynamic databases for oxides and alloys, as well as sophisticated solution models used in FactSage software. His expertise lies in high-temperature experiments for the chemical reactions of metals and non-metals, computational and solution thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, and mechanism analysis. His research interests encompass various important areas, including clean steel production, recycling of industrial waste (including ferrous scrap), low-C emission hydrogen production, and theoretical solution thermodynamics. He serves on editorial boards for several international journals, including ISIJ Int., Metall. Mater. Trans. B, and Steel Research International.

Wenfeng Gu is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from Chongqing University, and in January 2023, she began her studies as a visiting Ph.D. student at Tohoku University in Japan.Her research focuses on the comprehensive utilization of steelmaking slag.

I am Sandeep Kumar, PhD Student at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. I did my Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, and my Master of technology in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi.