Professor Robin Batterham joined the Melbourne School of Engineering as Kernot Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2010. He has wide interests including reducing emissions through soil sequestration, application of mesoscience to mining, dewatering of tailings and elimination of tailings through in place leaching. He is past President of the Academy of Technology and Engineering (2007-2012), former Chief Scientist of Australia (1999-2005) and for over 20 years Global Head of Innovation (and other positions) in Rio Tinto. He has twice chaired the International Mineral Processing Congress, Chairs the selection panels for both the Australia India Strategic Research Fund and the Australia China Strategic Research Fund and chaired the International Energy Agency Expert Group on Science for Energy.

Rocío is a Geologist with a Master of Sciences from Universidad de Chile. Rocío has worked for the Reflex Company as a Geochemist for their expansion in South America - mainly in Chile and Peru. Additionally, she has worked as a Project Geologist at Exploraciones Mineras Andinas (CODELCO subsidiary) and NuevaUnion. In 2018, Rocío was awarded The University of Queensland’s Research Training Scholarship to join the W.H. Bryan Mining & Geology Research Centre at the Sustainable Minerals Institute. In her PhD research, she aims to apply her experience to identify and quantify key mineralogical and geochemical features of orebodies, which may be useful in the mineral processing and mine planning. She aims to have a broader concept of mining and to be conscious about the effects that it has through the whole cycle, from early exploration to mine closure.

Henry is a Geologist with 15 years’ experience in mine geology in gold, coal and base metals. Henry then worked for equipment and consumable suppliers to the resources sector in sales roles for 7 years. He has been with Scantech for 15 years and is currently the Chief Marketing Officer and Minerals Consultant. Henry has presented over 25 papers on the use of real time analysis technologies in the minerals sector for process improvement.

He is a Chemical Engineer, graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. He also has a Master of Science from Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal (Canada) and a Ph.D from the Mining and Metallurgical Department, McGill University (Canada). He currently works as a Professor of Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering in Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Chile). He is also the Deputy Director of the Automation and Supervision Centre for the Mining Industry (CASIM) and Consultant for Mining Companies in Chile and abroad. His areas of interest are applied research on process modelling, diagnosis and control, Flotation and Column flotation.

Dr Igor Ametov is the Regional Technical Manager for Solvay's Mineral Processing business in Asia-Pacific. He has extensive experience in industry and academia. Igor was awarded his PhD in Chemistry from Moscow State University, and a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Adelaide University.

Jeremy is currently Head of Engineering for Weir Minerals Asia-Pacific, leading the engineering function delivering solutions to the mining and minerals processing industry. Beginning his career as a chartered Mechanical Engineer, he then completed commercial training through an MBA, and technical training in minerals processing, while working in various project, engineering management, technology, and innovation roles. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland's JKMRC, where his research area is in techno-economic modelling and analysis of comminution in metalliferous mines. Jeremy has worked within the minerals processing and mining industry for the past 13 years.

Yves has a PhD in Nuclear Physics. After developing analysers used to detect and track high energy particles Yves has moved to develop analysers for the mining industry for CSIRO Mineral Resources.