Rate My Professor Steffen Hagemann

Professor Steffen Hagemann serves as Professor of Economic Geology and Director of the Centre for Exploration Targeting in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He earned his BSc from Goethe University Frankfurt, MSc from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD from the University of Western Australia, and Dr. rer. nat. habil. from the Technical University of Munich. Earlier in his career, he held the position of Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Munich. With 33 years of experience in economic geology, Hagemann has established himself as a leading expert by integrating detailed field observations with advanced geochemical and isotopic analyses to investigate mineral systems.

Hagemann's research specializations encompass structural geology, hydrothermal alteration, fluid chemistry, metallogeny, and the paleo-magmatic/hydrothermal evolution of gold, iron ore, and copper deposits, with a focus on the four-dimensional controls on orebody formation. His ongoing projects target the Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia and South American regions, including the eastern Andes of Peru, northwest Argentina, and Precambrian shields in Brazil and Guyana. He has supervised and co-supervised 16 postdoctoral fellows and 91 PhD, MSc, and Honours theses. Notable publications include his editorship of Banded Iron Formation-Related High-Grade Iron Ore, co-authorship of "A billion-year shift in the formation of Earth’s largest ore deposits" (PNAS, 2024), "Petrology and mineralogy of the Cu-Au fertile, Archaean Burns Porphyry Intrusive Complex, Yilgarn craton, Western Australia" (2026), and "Granitoid-Hosted Orogenic Gold Mineralization: Genetic Constraints on the 7.4 Moz Archean Gruyere Gold Deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia" (2025). Hagemann contributes to the field as Associate Editor for Mineralium Deposita, Brazilian Journal of Geology, and the Geological Survey of Brazil.