2021 SS, South Australia, mining and minerals

Prof. Dr. Volker Hessel studied chemistry at Mainz University; PhD in organic chemistry, 1993). In 1994 he entered the Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz, Germany (IMM). In 2002, Prof. Hessel was appointed Vice Director R&D at IMM and in 2007 as Director R&D. In 2005 and 2011, Prof. Hessel was appointed as Part-time and Full Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, respectively. He was Honorary Professor at TU Darmstadt, Germany 2009-2018, and is Guest Professor at Kunming University of Science and Technology, China (2011-), and part-time professor at the University of Warwick/UK (2019-). In 2018, Prof. Hessel was appointed as Deputy Dean (Research) and Full Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials in the ECMS Faculty at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is the Research Director of Adelaide’s Centre of Sustainable Planetary and Space Resources.