Principal Investigator
Richmond K. Asamoah
Research Fellow
Future Industries Institute
University of South Australia
Mawson Lakes Campus
Building IW
Mawson Lakes, SA 5095
Australia
t: +61 8 830 23410
Graduate Students
Gertrude Acquah
PhD Candidate
Gertrude's research aims at developing new knowledge in understanding the fundamentals of critical battery metal extraction from complex ores. Specifically, her study will focus on processing and extracting lithium, nickel and cobalt from aluminosilicate mineral phases. Her research forms part of the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund for Advanced Recovery of the Battery Materials and REE from Ores and Wastes.
Angelos Konstantinos Bonis
FII-UCL MSc Student
Angelos' research is focused on the dewatering of mineral suspensions using superabsorbent polymer. A key consideration is the recovery critical minerals that are typically reporting in tailings stream.
Majed (Mj) Alqahtani
FII-UCL MSc Student
Majed's research aims at exploring space mining options in addressing energy transition challenges and the high demand for critical minerals.
Costanza Tinari
FII-UCL MSc Student
Costanza's research is focused on the implications of high critical minerals demand for low-carbon technologies with a particular interest in Environmental Social Governance (ESG).
Shiqi (Rebecca) Ruan
FII-UCL MSc Student
Shiqi's research is focused on evaluating the current global transition of metal extraction technologies. Of particular interest is hydrometallurgical processes for rare earth elements.
Co-Supervised Students
James Bradford Dankwah
PhD Candidate
James Dankwah is a PhD student in Minerals and Resource Engineering at the University of South Australia (UniSA). James holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Minerals Engineering from the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Ghana. His current research interest is in the area of coarse particle flotation where he seeks to explore the factors influencing the process and deduce means of its optimization.
Clement Lartey
PhD Candidate