Materials Australia VIC-TAS Branch
Online Event
Tuesday 30th April 2024
5pm – 6pm
Steel Industry – Changing of the Guard
Presented by:
Professor Geoffrey Brooks,
Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria
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Professor Geoffrey Brooks will discuss the push towards decarbonisation of steel production, the major options to achieving decarbonisation and exciting developments in Australia in this area.
Professor Brooks is the Joint Swinburne/CSIRO Professor of Sustainable Minerals Processing. Since completing his PhD in 1994, Professor Brooks has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong (1993-2000), an Associate Professor at McMaster University (2000-2004), a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO (2004-2006) and a Professor at Swinburne since 2006. His joint Professorship with CSIRO started in 2024.
Since joining Swinburne, Professor Brooks has been the Associate Dean of Research, Head of Mathematics at Swinburne and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Future Manufacturing). He currently co-ordinates research for Extra Terrestrial processing at the University and a Program Leader in the ARC Steel Innovation Hub. He has also been active in recent years working with Physicists on Dark Matter detection research. Professor Brooks has published over 250 papers on fundamental aspects of steelmaking, aluminium production and materials processing in general. He has won significant international awards from the TMS, AIST, ASM and IOM3 for his contribution to metallurgical processing. Professor Brooks is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK).
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