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On behalf of Minerals Editorial Board, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Minerals Travel Award in the Mineral Processing and Metallurgy Section.
The award was granted to Dr. Sunil Kumar Tripathy.
Dr. Sunil Kumar Tripathy is a Postdoctorate Fellow at GeoRessources, Universite de Lorraine, Nancy, France. He is involved in a research project on rare metal granite ore for recovering Li and other critical metals. He received his Ph.D. from ISM-Dhanbad, India, in 2016 and has more than 11 years of industrial research experience at Tata Steel Ltd.
Dr. Sunil Kumar Tripathy will present his most recent results at the XXX IMPC (Cape Town, South Africa).
The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to attend any academic conference within the next two years.
Prof. Dr. Luis Marcelo Marques Tavares Editorial Board Member, Minerals
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students, research fellows; – Plans to attend an international conference in 2020. (oral presentation or poster).
List of Documents for Application
– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted; – Curriculum Vitae and list of publications; – Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words); – Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status.
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Behzad Vaziri Hassas
Columbia University
Galina Kiriukhina
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Award Committee
Prof. Paul Sylvester
Chairman
Texas Tech University
Prof. Bojan A. Marinković
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Prof. Dr. Alberto Perez-Huerta
Prof. Dr. Federica Zaccarini
Faculty of Science, Physical and Geological Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Dr. Jaroslav Dostal
Winner
SUNIL KUMAR TRIPATHY
University of Lorraine
Winner
Timothy Gregory
School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
Nicola Campomenosi
Department of Earth Science, Environment & Life, University of Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy
Juliane Weber
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Award Committee
Prof. Paul Sylvester
Chairman
Texas Tech University
Prof. Mku Ityokumbul
Pennsylvania State University
Prof. Dr. Maria Boni
Prof. Dr. Alberto Perez-Huerta
Winner
Elizaveta Kovaleva
Department of Geology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Winner
Ayla Pamukçu
a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, USA, and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science, Brown University, USA
Jessica Hamilton
Ph.D. student at the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Australia
Winner
Mattia L. Mazzucchelli
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy
Anita Parbhakar-Fox
Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC) ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub, University of Tasmania
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