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Daniel S. Alessi joined the Jackson School of Geosciences in 2025 after serving for 12 years as a professor at the University of Alberta in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. His research group specializes in environmental geochemistry and geomicrobiology, focusing on developing technologies for critical minerals extraction and understanding the surface chemistry reactivity of environmental materials such as pyrogenic carbon, iron oxides, bacteria, and clays. He is committed to improving knowledge of the water cycle in natural catchments and industrial operations. Alessi has been recognized as a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada in 2022 and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2023. His areas of expertise include environmental aqueous geochemistry, thermodynamics, surface complexation modeling, geomicrobiology, critical minerals, and chemical hydrogeology.
Jackson School of Geosciences • Austin, TX
Tenured faculty member specializing in environmental geochemistry and geomicrobiology.
University of Alberta • Alberta, Canada
Held the Encana Chair in Water Resources and taught in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
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