Amrit Ranabhat is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. His research is focused tailings dewatering technologies. He has been currently conducting experiments to compare the efficacy of various dewatering methods such as amphirolling, addition of fly ash, repulping, neutralizing with seawater, filtration and their combinations.

Dr. Hernán Cifuentes is a Civil-Geotechnical Engineer with over twenty years of experience. He is an Independent Tailings Consultant at Tailings HC and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. His professional career spans mining operations, consulting, and academic research, specialising in geotechnical and hydraulic engineering for tailings and water management in mining. He has led projects in various countries, including Australia, Canada, Chile, Peru, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia. Large-scale operations, complex mining environments, water-related challenges, high seismicity, and strict regulatory frameworks characterise his work. Recognised as a Professional Engineer within the APEC economy, Dr. Cifuentes has extensive experience in advanced technologies for tailings management and implementing industry standards and guidelines such as ANCOLD, ICOLD, CDA, and GISTM. His research and academic contributions promote safer and more sustainable practices in tailings management, and he has authored numerous publications in international conferences.

Ella is a dams and tailings engineer with over two years of experience in the mining waste and water resources sectors. She has worked in projects across Victoria and other parts of Australia, working closely in tailings storage facilities and water supply dams. Her experience encompasses the full project lifecycle, from planning and design through to construction supervision. Ella has worked extensively in dam safety monitoring programmes

Wenqiang Zhang is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland. Currently, he is working in the area of geochemistry and geohydrology of mine waste. He also works on a CRC TiME project, “Improved prediction, remediation and closure of acid and neutral metalliferous drainage (AMD/NMD) sites by examination of mine waste behaviour at the Meso-scale”. Wenqiang finished his PhD at the Geotechnical Engineering Centre, The University of Queensland, with a focus on weather-induced desiccation behaviours of subaerially-deposited tailings and salt migration in the soil cover system. He has developed expertise in laboratory experiments and field monitoring to investigate hydrological and geochemical processes in tailings deposition and rehabilitation. He is also a specialist in numerical modelling related to water, salt and heat transport in unsaturated soil/tailings.

Dr Massey Ryan has built a distinguished career in the backfill and tailings industry, specializing in advanced methodologies such as paste backfill, cemented waste rock backfill, surface and underground waste rock disposal, tailings dam management, and tailings science. His expertise includes designing and upgrading paste plants, optimizing reticulation networks, automating processes, and developing robust QA/QC systems to ensure operational excellence. Massey has contributed significantly to binder optimization, paste mix designs, and the strategic planning of tailings storage, disposal, and recovery. With a hands-on approach and a focus on innovation, he has driven improvements in efficiency, sustainability, and safety, setting new benchmarks in mining operations.

Margaret Ekua Amosah graduated with Honours in Minerals Engineering with research interest in mineral separation and beneficiation, flotation and remediation. Her PhD research is mainly focused on Ultrafine gravity separation using inclined channels including standard gravity to separate fine particles from tailings. The passion that drives her work is the potential of using an effective and safe approach to recover economic value from tailings contributing to making a real difference in sustainable mining.

Elis is an environmental engineer with over 20 years of experience as a consultant and is currently working as Mine Earth's CEO. Elis has worked on a range of environmental and engineering projects, predominantly within the mining industry throughout Australia. Elis has focused on mine closure planning and landform design and has supported the delivery of thousands of hectares of landform rehabilitation works. During his career Elis has worked for a range of clients, including BHP, Rio Tinto, Atlas Iron, Newcrest, Fortescue Metals Group, Roy Hill and Newmont. Elis has coordinated closure projects for a range of resources including iron ore, diamonds, mineral sands, coal, polymetallic, tin, manganese, asbestos, copper and gold. Elis works in all project phases ranging from greenfield through to post-closure, preparing detailed designs, closure cost estimates and supporting execution of closure works.

Dr Chenming Zhang is a specialist in monitoring and modelling hydrological and geochemical processes in waste rock dumps and tailings storage facilities, in particular the evaporation induced mass and heat transport in soil/tailings, hydrogeochemical dynamics in aquifer systems and wast rock dumps. He has been developing IoT-based geotechnical and environmental instruments to monitor continuously and in real-time the weather, soil and water conditions.