Rate My Professor Anita Parbhakar-Fox

Associate Professor Anita Parbhakar-Fox is a Principal Research Fellow in Mine Waste Geoscience at the W.H. Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre within the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland. She earned her PhD in Environmental Geosciences from the Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences (CODES) at the University of Tasmania in 2012 and a first-class MSci (Hons) in Environmental Geology from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London in 2005. Her professional career commenced as an environmental consultant from 2005 to 2006, followed by a research assistant role on the AMIRA P843 geometallurgy project from 2006 to 2007. She then served as a part-time Junior Research Fellow for the Cooperative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE) from 2011 to 2012, postdoctoral research fellow in the Environmental Indicators program from 2012 to 2015, and postdoctoral research fellow for the ARC Transforming the Mining Value Chain Research Hub from 2015 to 2019 at CODES, where she acted as deputy leader of Theme 3 minimising geoenvironmental risks and leader of Program 2 Geometallurgy, Geoenvironment and Mining. Joining UQ in 2019, she founded and leads the Mine Waste Transformation through Characterisation (MIWATCH) research group, Australia's premier secondary prospectivity initiative. She also holds the position of deputy director in the Critical Resources for the Future ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre and was Assistant Editor of Minerals Engineering from 2017 to 2019. Additionally, she served as Adjunct Senior Researcher at the University of Tasmania from 2019 to 2022.