Scientific Advisory Committee

Professor Timo Fabritius is the Head of the Process Metallurgy research unit at University of Oulu, Finland. His main research concerns iron- and steelmaking processes and he is an expert on heat and mass transfer phenomena, thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium and reaction kinetics in high temperature processes. He has been responsible leader of 5 EU-RFCS projects and many national projects and programs in the field of iron- and steelmaking.

Assistant Professor Efthymios (Thymis) Balomenos from the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. He has dedicated his research carrier to innovative metallurgical processing, focusing on resource preservation and climate change mitigation. Key research topics include: Industrial residue (bauxite residue, metallurgical slags, spent catalyst, e-waste) valorization, critical metal extraction and recovery, alternative paths to metallic iron and aluminium production, innovation in alumina production, Electric Arc Furnace processing, Microwave processing, thermodynamic modelling, exergy accounting, circular economy and others. He has led several large EU projects in the field of aluminium and critical raw materials.

Dr Quinn Reynolds is technical specialist with MINTEK in Johannesburg, South Africa. His professional interests revolve around the application of highperformance computing to pyrometallurgical problems including, computational magnetohydrodynamics for the study of plasma arc formation and evolution as well as computational fluid dynamics of multi-physics problems. He has also worked extensively with the application of high-speed measurement techniques in pyrometallurgy: photography, videography, and electrical properties.

Professor Ester van der Voet from Leiden University, the Netherlands, at the Department Industrial Ecology of the Institute of Environmental Sciences, CML. Within the field of Industrial Ecology, she specializes in methodology development: life-cycle assessment, material flow analysis, substance flow analysis, natural resource accounting, and indicator development. These methodologies she applies to different topical areas, especially within the bio-based economy and in metals and the circular economy. She has conducted many research projects for the EU and in other international consortia. She is a member of UNEP’s International Resource Panel.