PEOPLE
The Lassonde Institute brings together our UofT global leading experts across disciplines and the entire mining life cycle. From the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences our researchers are developing innovative solutions for the most complex and pressing mining challenges.
Find the U of T Engineering researchers with the expertise to solve your most complex challenges
Executive Team
Sebastian Goodfellow, PhD
Director, Lassonde Institute
Stay tuned for our Lassonde Research & Innovation Area Leads in:
- Energy & Sustainability
- Exploration
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Safer Mines
- Society and the Economy
- Water & Tailings
Lassonde Institute Principal Investigators
Cristina Amon, PhD
Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Energy & Sustainability
Melissa Anderson, PhD
Minerals Resources & Tectonics Group; Department of Earth Sciences
- Exploration
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
Gisele Azimi, PhD
Laboratory of Strategic Materials; Departments of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering
- Energy & Sustainability
Mansoor Barati, PhD
Sustainable Materials Processing Research Group; Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- Energy & Sustainability
- Water & Tailings
Erin Bobicki, PhD, PEng
Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Energy & Sustainability
Bridget Bergquist , PhD
Trace Metal and Metal Isotope Laboratory; Department of Earth Sciences
- Energy & Sustainability
Birsen Donmez, PhD, PEng
Canada Research Chair in Human Factors and Transportation; Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Safer Mines
Elizabeth Edwards, PhD, PEng
BioZone – Centre for Applied Bioscience and Bioengineering; Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Water & Tailings
Kamran Esmaeili PhD, PEng
Mine Modeling and Analytics Lab; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Safer Mines
Mason Ghafghazi, PhD
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Safer Mines
Sebastian Goodfellow, PhD
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Exploration
- Energy & Sustainability
Murray Grabinsky, PhD, PEng
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Safer Mines
- Water & Tailings
Giovanni Grasselli, PhD
Geomechanics Group; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Safer Mines
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
Daniel Greogry, PhD
Department of Earth Sciences
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Exploration
Frank Gu, PhD, PEng
NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Nanotechnology Engineering; Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Safer Mines
John Hadjigeorgiou, PhD, PEng
Pierre Lassonde Chair of Mining Engineering; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Safer Mines
John Harrison, PhD, PEng
W.M. Keck Chair in Engineering Mechanics; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Safer Mines
Greg Jamieson, PhD
Cognitive Engineering Laboratory; Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Safer Mines
Andrew Jardine, PhD, PEng
Centre for Maintenance Optimization & Reliability Engineering (C-MORE); Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Safer Mines
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
Heather MacLean, PhD, PEng
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Society and the Economy
Emily Moore, PhD
Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (Troost ILead)
- Society and the Economy
Bibhu Mohanty, PhD, PEng
Professor Emeritus; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Energy & Sustainability
- Safer Mines
Vladimiros Papangelakis, PhD, PEng
Institute for Water Innovation; Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Water & Tailings
- Energy & Sustainability
Daniel Posen, PhD
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Society and the Economy
Barbara Sherwood Lollar, PhD
Dr. Norman Keevil Chair in Ore Deposits Geology; Department of Earth Sciences
- Exploration
- Safer Mines
Brent Sleep, PhD, PEng
Professor, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Water & Tailings
Lesley Warren, PhD
Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Chair in Mineral Engineering; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Water & Tailings
- Energy & Sustainability
Peter Warrian, PhD
Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
- Society and the Economy
Paul Young, PhD, PEng
W.M. Keck Chair of Seismology and Rock Mechanics Emeritus, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Safer Mines
Zoltán Zajacz, PhD
Department of Earth Sciences
- Exploration
