Professor Longbin Huang leads a research program on “Ecological Engineering of Mine Wastes” for rehabilitating sustainable Soil-Plant Systems at the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute. For tackling global tailings challenges, Longbin has pioneered transformative concepts and novel approaches to tackle rehabilitation of mine wastes (e.g., tailings), by treating mine wastes as engineered parent materials rather than wastes.
His achievement is highlighted by the invention of “Bauxite Residue Treatment” technology(
https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-021-00429-4) for in situ dealkalization and soil formation to rehabilitate sustainable soil-plant systems without topsoil, which is one of the leading cases in the Sustainable Bauxite Residue Management Guidance (released by International Aluminium Institute, in April 2022).