• University College Dublin | Dublin | Medewerker | 2023-09-01 - 2026-08-31

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My research focuses on energy critical metals. Those metals are critically important to the production, transmission and storgae of green energy.

I use mineralogy and geochemistry tools to understand the life cycle of energy critical metals, including where these metals originate from, how they accumulate in Earth's crust to form mineral deposits, and whether we can recycle mining wastes for the recovery of critical metals. I am passionate about interdisciplinary research in Economic Geology.

I have led projects of critical metals hosted in the Irish zinc-lead deposits and mine tailings (funded by Geological Survey Ireland, 2019-2022, €‎149,976) and Chinese zinc-lead deposits (funded by China Ministry of Science and Technology, 2022-2027, 800,000 rmb), and the sediment-hosted cobalt deposits in Africa (funded by Science Foundation Ireland, 2022-2026, ‎‎‎€‎551,900).

I completed my Ph.Ds in Economic Geology at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2014, China) and in Applied Mineralogy and Sedimentology at Aarhus University (2015, Denmark). I continued my career in geosciences as a Reseacrh Associate at Trinity College Dublin (2015-2019) and University College Dublin (2019-2022) in Ireland.