UK Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre appoints new director

Dr Gavin Mudd will is moving from RMIT University, Australia, to start his new role on 20 November 2023.

Mudd will oversee evidence-based analysis on the supply and demand of critical minerals to guide UK Government.

He is relocating from Melbourne, where he was associate professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering at RMIT University.

His interests are said to include environmental impacts, mine waste management, acid mine drainage, sustainability frameworks, life-cycle assessment modelling and mine rehabilitation.

'I am very excited to be joining BGS as the director of the Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre at such a crucial time — the growth of renewable energy, electric vehicles and energy storage batteries to help mitigate climate change as well as the plethora of other global challenges. The global transformations underway rely on sound geoscience and, in particular, understanding the sustainability of our global mining supply chains as well as the need to move to a more circular economy,' says Dr Gavin Mudd, CMIC Director.