Merete Tangstad was educated at NTH in 1989 and was also awarded her PhD at this institution. She worked in Elkem and Eramet in the period of 1990-2004 with production of ferromanganese alloys. Since 2004 she has been a professor at NTNU and her main fields are ferralloy production, silicon production and solar grade silicon processes.

I am currently a student at Hanyang University, pursuing material science and engineering as my major.

Lassi Klemettinen works as a Staff Scientist at Aalto University, Finland. He got his D.Sc. degree from Aalto University in 2021. His research topics include trace-element distribution kinetics in non-ferrous pyrometallurgical systems and CO2 emission reduction in metallurgical processes. He has a special interest towards applying LA-ICP-MS for trace element concentration quantification in metallurgical samples. He has co-authored approximately 50 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles.

Lecturer in the Department of Materials Technology and Engineering at the Harare institute of Technology and module lecture at the University of Zimbabwe. Research areas include application of physical chemistry and kinetics in pyrometallurgical processes, low-grade ore utilization such as Titanium-containing ores, removal of impurities such as phosphorus and arsenic from iron ore, and pollution prevention (CO 2 issues) mechanism in the steel industry.