DrSc, Adjunct Professor at Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia (Perth, Australia); Research Associate at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Honorary Research Fellow at CERCAMS (Centre for Russian and Central EurAsian Mineral Studies), Natural History Museum, London; Honorary Professor, China University of Geosciences, Beijing; Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Mineral Resources (Academy of Geological Sciences) in Beijing; deposit discoverer. He has considerable experience in the fields of tectonics, ore deposit geology and mineral exploration. Author of over 240 papers. Deputy Editor-in-Chief of “Ores and Metals” and other periodicals.
Activities: work in the Geological Survey of Western Australia, previously he held the Chair of Economic Geology at Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa) and worked with the Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa Ltd.