Councillor Romy Matthies (2016-2017)

Romy Matthies

Dr. Romy Matthies is an AAG Fellow since 2009 and holds a Ph.D. from Newcastle University (UK, 2010), an M.Sc. from the University of Leon (Spain, 2007) and a Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent, Germany, 2005) from the Technical University Mining Academy of Freiberg. Romy worked three years as a mining consultant (SRK Chile S.A., SRK UK Ltd.) before moving into research (Newcastle University, UK; Waterloo University, Canada; Tohoku University, Japan). She is currently working for the R&D – Mineral Resources section of the GUB Ingenieur AG in Germany. Romy is member of the Awards and Medals committee of the AAG and was previously Council member during two terms.  Her main expertise lie in the fields of metal(loid) geochemistry, mine water prediction, - transport modelling and - remediation.