Selected academic activities

Invited talks

1. Plenary lecture, Crystallization Challenges and Opportunities in Critical Raw Materials Processing, 23rd International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization (ISIC), Budapest, Hungary, September 6- 9th, 2026.
2. Keynote lecture, Crystallization and Precipitation Challenges and Opportunities in Critical Raw Materials Processing, Critical Metals Congress CRITMET 2025, Jamshedpur, India, November 7th, 2025
3. Plenary lecture, Crystallization of battery precursors connecting battery recycling and cathode synthesis, at the Annual Conference of the British Association for Crystal Growth BACG 2025 in Leeds, UK, 1st- 3rd July 2025. 
4. Plenary lecture, Crystallization in Critical Raw Materials Processing, at the scientific committee meeting of the GDR Prométhée, the French network on Hydrometallurgy, Metz, France, June 5- 6th, 2025.
5. Plenary lecture, Chemical Engineering for Materials Recycling, the 5th ZORH conference, Split, Croatia, April 9- 11, 2025. 
6. Plenary lecture, Chemical Engineering for Materials Recycling in a Circular Economy, India International Science Festival (IISF), Guwahati, India, December 1st, 2024.
7. Invited lecture, Eutectic Freeze Crystallization for maximized mass, energy, time and space efficiency at the 1st International Circular Hydrometallurgy Symposium ICHS 2024 organized by the Solvomet group at KU Leuven, Mechelen, Belgium, September 9- 11, 2024.
8. Keynote lecture, Crystallization in energy metals processing and opportunities for circularity, at Hydrometallurgy 2024, organized by The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Cape Town, South Africa, September 1- 3rd, 2024,
9. Keynote lecture, Crystallization Challenges and Opportunities in Battery Recycling, (online) in the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) Metallurgical Society webinar series “Topics on Green Process for Critical Minerals Recovery”, Australia, May 21st, 2024.
10. Plenary lecture, Crystallization for Critical Materials Recovery, (online) at the International conference on sustainable nanomaterials integration & organization for energy and environment (iSNIOE2), Dehli NCR, India, March 20-23, 2024. 

Examination committee member/ opponent for PhD defenses at
Monash University (Australia), University of Queensland (Australia), University of Toronto (Canada), Cairo University (Egypt), Aalto University (Finland), Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT (Finland), University of Lorraine (France), University of Rouen Normandy (France), University of Toulouse (France), RWTH Aachen (Germany), Indian Institute of Technology IIT (Indian School of Mines) in Dhanbad (India), Indian Institute of Technology IIT in Roorkee (India), University of Iceland (Iceland), Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU (Norway), University of Oslo (Norway), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), University of Cape Town (South Africa), Chalmers University (Sweden), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Luleå University of Technology (Sweden), Lund University (Sweden), Stockholm Univeristy (Sweden), Uppsala University (Sweden).

Member of the organising committee
An EPD Symposium Honoring Fiona Doyle and the Rare Metal Extraction & Processing symposium at TMS 2025 (Las Vegas), Responsible Lithium Production for Energy Transition and Electric Mobility RELiTE 2024 (Jujuy, Argentina), the Rare Metal Extraction & Processing symposium in USA at TMS 2024 (Orlando), TMS 2023 (San Diego), TMS 2022 (Anaheim), TMS 2021 (on-line), TMS 2020 (San Diego), the 28th International Workshop on Industrial Crystallization, BIWIC 2023 (Stockholm) and the Recovering the Unrecoverable Symposium as part of REWAS 2022 (Anaheim).

Member of the scientific committee
Critical Metals Congress CRITMET 2025 (Jamshedpur), 15th European Congress of Chemical Engineering ECCE 2025 & 8th European Congress of Applied Biotechnology ECAB 2025 (Lisbon), The 30th International Workshop on Industrial Crystallization BIWIC 2025 (Tianjin), the Green Deal Conference 2025, (Nancy), XVI International Mineral Processing and Recycling Conference IMPRC 2025 (Belgrade), 13th European Metallurgical Conference EMC 2025 (Hamburg), IX International Congress, Engineering, Environment and Materials in Process Industry EEM 2025 (Bijeljina), The British Association for Crystal Growth's Annual Conference BACG 2024, (Loughborough), BIWIC 2024 (Delft), the Green Deal Conference 2024, (Nancy), BIWIC 2023 (Stockholm),the International Conference on Raw Materials and Circular Economy, RawMat 2023 (Athens), BIWIC 2022 (Espoo), RawMat 2021 (Athens), and the 3rd European Rare Earth Resource conference ERES 2020 (online).

Member of the advisory committee
The International Conference on Sustainable Nanomaterials Integration and Organization for Energy and Environment iSNIOE2 2024, (Delhi NCR), the International Conference on Science, Technology and Applications of Rare Earths ICSTAR 2024 (India), the ATALANTE 2024 conference (Avignon).