Laureate Professor Graeme Jameson holds a BSc (UNSW) and a PhD (Cambridge), both in chemical engineering. After leaving Cambridge in 1963, he worked in the oil industry in the US, before joining Imperial College London. In 1978, he returned to Australia as Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, where he remains today, as a Distinguished Laureate Professor. His research field is mineral processing, especially flotation. He is best known for the discovery of the Jameson Cell for the mineral and coal industries, which is sold world-wide. To date, the Cell has produced Australian export coal valued at over AU$50 billion. There are over 400 Cells operating throughout the world. Recently, two new cells have been commercialised – the Concorde Cell for ultrafine flotation and the NovaCell for coarse particles. He has received many awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC) in 2016, and in 2018, Fellowship of the Royal Society of London, (FRS). He was awarded the President’s Medal of the AusIMM in 1999.

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Mohit Gupta is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Chemical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. He received his B.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India (2013) and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Florida (2017). Mohit’s research interests include flotation chemistry, surface forces in foam films, process modelling and simulation, chemical reaction engineering and chemical unit operations. He has 5 years of industrial experience; 2 years as a process engineer at Reliance Industries Limited, a petroleum refinery and petrochemicals industry (2013-2015) and, 3 years as a metallurgist at Freeport McMoRan Inc (2017-2020).

George Franks is Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He completed his undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering at MIT in 1985. He completed his PhD in Materials in 1997 at UCSB then moved to Australia. His research includes suspension rheology, ceramic powder processing, materials modelling and minerals processing. His work in minerals processing relates to development and application of novel polymeric reagents in solid/liquid separation and froth flotation. He is a member of the ARC COE for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals. He has 120 papers in international peer reviewed journals, 6 book chapters and four patents with 3700 citations and h-index = 38 He is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society and Editor of Advanced Powder Technology.

My name is Gde Pandhe Wisnu Suyantara. I am a special appointed assistant professor in the Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University. My main focus is flotation and bubble-particle interaction. My current research are separation of copper and molybdenum minerals in seawater and separation of copper and copper arsenic minerals using flotation.

Yesenia Saavedra is a Metallurgical Engineering with a master degree in Mining Engineering from the University of New South Wales. Currently, she is in the process of finishing a PhD qualification in froth flotation at the University of New South Wales. Yesenia has operational experience in processing plants of nickel, lithium and gold, and exposure to grinding and gravity separation circuits, froth flotation circuit, and leaching and electrowinning circuits. She has recently joined Newcrest Telfer Mine as Plant Metallurgist.

Dr. Mohammad Hoque has specialized in multiphase turbulent flows while doing his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia. The principal objective of this study was to increase our understanding of single and binary phase turbulence using the fully resolved particle image velocimetry technique. During his Ph.D., Dr. Hoque has developed an advanced measurement technique to study the fluid flow inside the reactors for chemical and mineral processing, focusing on the transfer and utilization of energy in such equipment. Now, Dr. Hoque working as a Research Associate in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals, University of Newcastle, Australia.

Pålsson is a Reader (Docent, Assoc. Professor) in Mineral Processing at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering at Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden. He is examiner for courses in mechanical process technology, environmental analyses, process analyses and simulation of mineral processing. Dr. Pålsson also supervises research students, and is project leader and co-ordinator of contract research at the Minerals and Metallurgical Research Laboratory at LTU. Pålsson’s research interest is in the traditional minerals engineering. He is currently working on energy efficiency of tumbling mills and recovery of Rare Earth Elements from mining waste and WEEE. He has more than 80 publications in international conferences and journals.

Mehdi is currently A/Head in Mineral Processing Division at Mintek, South Africa. He is a business oriented engineering leader with over 15 years of experience across novel mineral processing technologies. He has most recently driven the implementation and scale up of a novel flotation cell. As project manager numerous projects ranging from bench scale laboratory tests to a pilot scale flow sheet confirmation campaign, analyzing test work data, he has gained valuable experience and knowledge. He has repeatedly delivered technical, financial and reputational success. Under my current responsibilities is to provide development, engineering, and support to our clients within the Mining industry.

Amit Swain is a Researcher in the Embedded Devices and Intelligent Systems group at TCS Research. His interests are inclined towards Distributed Systems, AI at the Edge and Mine IoT.

Xu Wang is a senior engineer in BGRIMM Technology Group and secondary innovation engineer of TRIZ of innovation method society in China. He earned a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University (NEU) in 2007 and an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Beijing General Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (BGRIMM) in 2010. He joined BGRIMM in 2010. He has started studying for a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) since 2021. Most of his work is in the area of research and application of crushing theory and technology, modeling and simulation of crushing equipment using Discrete Element Method (DEM) and Multi Body Dynamics (MBD). He has participated in the research, application and large scaling of inertia cone crusher and vibrating jaw crusher. He has fruitful experience in the research of kinematics and dynamics of crushing equipment.

He Niu was born in China. He is a materials engineer whose research interests are focused on Inorganic Materials. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Shandong University of Science and Technology. He accomplished his master thesis in Hydrogen Storage Group, University of Birmingham and his Master's degree in Hydrogen Storage Properties for NaH-Si composite. Thereafter, he came to the University of Oulu in August, 2018. In 2019, he is currently a doctoral student in the Sustainable Cementitious Binders Group of Fibre and Particle Engineering Unit, University of Oulu and also one of the Early-stage Researchers in the Marie Skłodowska Curie Initial Training Network-SULTAN.