Dr. Maria Holuszko

Biography

Maria E. Holuszko has over 25 years of experience in Mineral Coal Processing Engineering, working in industry, academia, and government. She held a senior Licensed Scientist position at the British Columbia Ministry of Energy in Victoria, B.C., and completed her PhD degree at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2006. Following her PhD, she worked at the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre at the University of Queensland in Australia. In 2011, she returned to Canada as a Senior Research Engineer at Teck Resources and joined the UBC Mining Engineering department as an Assistant Professor in 2014. In 2015, she co-founded a new center focused on waste re-processing research, which collaborates with local recycling companies to recover valuable metals from municipal waste streams. Her current research includes coal carbonization processes and she co-supervises graduate students in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department. Maria has been involved in various innovative research projects, serving as a Canadian representative at the International Coal Preparation Congress and chairing the Minerals Engineering section of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Her significant contributions to the field have included numerous publications and active participation in conferences.

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