Rate My Professor Jonah Gamutan

Dr. Jonah Gamutan serves as a Lecturer in Metallurgical Engineering at the Western Australian School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, based at the Kalgoorlie campus. She obtained her Master's degree and Ph.D. in Metallurgy from Tohoku University, Japan, contributing to research there prior to joining Curtin. Her research specializations center on steelmaking, recycling, and metallurgy, particularly deoxidation equilibria in molten alloys, formation mechanisms and morphological analysis of inclusions during steel solidification, and hydrometallurgical processes for recovering metals from wastes such as electric arc furnace dust, spent lithium-ion batteries, and coals.

Gamutan's key publications include 'Selective Dissolution and Kinetics of Leaching Zinc from Lime Treated Electric Arc Furnace Dust by Alkaline Media' (Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2024), 'Morphology and Composition of Inclusions in Si–Mn Deoxidized Steel at the Solid-Liquid Equilibrium Temperature' (ISIJ International, 2020), 'MnS Precipitation Behavior in MnO–SiO2 Inclusion in Fe–Mn–Si–O–S Alloy System at Solid-Liquid Coexistence Temperature' (ISIJ International, 2020), 'Surface modification of a Mo-substrate to form an oxidation-resistant MoSi2 layer using a Si-saturated tin bath' (Surface and Coatings Technology, 2022), 'Formation Mechanism of Secondary Inclusions in Fe-36mass% Ni Alloy Using a Novel Combination Analysis Technique' (ISIJ International, 2023), 'Enhanced Leaching of Zinc Ferrite by the Formation of a Solid Solution With Magnetite in Hydrochloric Acid Solution' (Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2023), 'Lithium extraction from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) using mechanochemical process: a comprehensive review' (Resources Recycling, 2023), 'Low-Temperature Thermal Treatment and Boron Speciation Analysis from Coals' (Sustainability, 2024), and 'Aluminum Deoxidation Equilibrium in Molten Fe-Co Alloys' (Tetsu-to-Hagane, 2023). For her work on secondary inclusions in Fe-Ni alloys, she received the 2024 Sawamura Award for Best Paper in ISIJ International from the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan. She also holds a US patent application for 'Metal silicide and method for producing same' (2025). Gamutan is recognized among research supervisors at Curtin University.