Research students lauded at international conference on “Raw Materials for a Sustainable Future”
Four members of the ݮƵ Industrial Ecology Group (WIEG) returned in good cheer from the , “Raw Materials for a Sustainable Future”, held 15-17 February 2023 in Lille, France. This was the first in-person scholarly conference for SUSM Masters student Jamie Faubert and for SUSM PhD student Ankesh Siddhantakar – and the first since the pandemic for Professors Komal HabibԻSteven Young. About 200 academic government and industry participants attended from all over the world to discuss the assessment, development and markets for critical raw materials.
Jamie’s oral presentation titled “Nickel supply: primary metallurgical processing capacity does not satisfy changing demand” was well received, including questions and comments from industry and researchers. As a result, he was invited to submit a version of his paper for consideration in a special issue of the journal .
Ankesh’s poster won “best poster award”, which includes paid registration to attend the next IRTC conference in Turin, Italy in 2024. His poster titled “Helium resource sourcing and trade: Critical coproduct, cryogenic complexities” was based on research done under his supervisor Professor Steven Young and with colleagues at the University of Bordeaux and the University of Augsburg.The poster is part of a larger project for Ankesh’s PhD on the sustainability and environmental impacts of helium, an element and raw material that has not been well studiedԻis critical for modern technology including semiconductor manufacturing and magnetic resonance machines (MRI) used in medical imaging.
A copy of the winning poster is published on the .
The first paper presenting Ankesh’s helium research has accepted for publication in a special issue of the journal .
More research projects and people profiles are provided for the ݮƵ Industrial Ecology Group(±).
More information on the Sustainability Management programs is available for the SUSM Masters and the SUSM PhD.