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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.
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Executive Team
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Lesley Warren, 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
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Cristina Amon, PhD
Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Energy & Sustainability
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Melissa Anderson, PhD
Minerals Resources & Tectonics Group; Department of Earth Sciences
- Exploration
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
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Gisele Azimi, PhD
Laboratory of Strategic Materials; Departments of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering
- Energy & Sustainability
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Mansoor Barati, PhD
Sustainable Materials Processing Research Group; Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- Energy & Sustainability
- Water & Tailings
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Erin Bobicki, PhD, PEng
Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Energy & Sustainability
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Bridget Bergquist , PhD
Trace Metal and Metal Isotope Laboratory; Department of Earth Sciences
- Energy & Sustainability
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Birsen Donmez, PhD, PEng
Canada Research Chair in Human Factors and Transportation; Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Safer Mines
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Elizabeth Edwards, PhD, PEng
BioZone – Centre for Applied Bioscience and Bioengineering; Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Water & Tailings
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Kamran Esmaeili PhD, PEng
Mine Modeling and Analytics Lab; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Safer Mines
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Mason Ghafghazi, PhD
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Safer Mines
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Sebastian Goodfellow, PhD
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Exploration
- Energy & Sustainability
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Murray Grabinsky, PhD, PEng
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Safer Mines
- Water & Tailings
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Giovanni Grasselli, PhD
Geomechanics Group; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Safer Mines
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
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Daniel Greogry, PhD
Department of Earth Sciences
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Exploration
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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
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John Hadjigeorgiou, PhD, PEng
Pierre Lassonde Chair of Mining Engineering; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Safer Mines
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John Harrison, PhD, PEng
W.M. Keck Chair in Engineering Mechanics; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Safer Mines
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Greg Jamieson, PhD
Cognitive Engineering Laboratory; Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
- Safer Mines
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Andrew Jardine, PhD, PEng
Centre for Maintenance Optimization & Reliability Engineering (C-MORE); Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Safer Mines
- Robotics, Machine Learning & Big Data
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Heather MacLean, PhD, PEng
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Society and the Economy
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Emily Moore, PhD
Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (Troost ILead)
- Society and the Economy
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Bibhu Mohanty, PhD, PEng
Professor Emeritus; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Energy & Sustainability
- Safer Mines
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Vladimiros Papangelakis, PhD, PEng
Institute for Water Innovation; Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Water & Tailings
- Energy & Sustainability
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Daniel Posen, PhD
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Society and the Economy
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Barbara Sherwood Lollar, PhD
Dr. Norman Keevil Chair in Ore Deposits Geology; Department of Earth Sciences
- Exploration
- Safer Mines
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Brent Sleep, PhD, PEng
Professor, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Water & Tailings
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Lesley Warren, PhD
Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Chair in Mineral Engineering; Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Water & Tailings
- Energy & Sustainability
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Peter Warrian, PhD
Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
- Society and the Economy
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Paul Young, PhD, PEng
W.M. Keck Chair of Seismology and Rock Mechanics Emeritus, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Safer Mines
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Zoltán Zajacz, PhD
Department of Earth Sciences
- Exploration