Professor Karen Hudson-Edwards

Overview

I am an environmental geochemist and mineralogist. I mainly work on the environmental impacts of mining and on sustainable mining practices. Specifically, I research the mechanisms and products of contaminant cycling in mine wastes, ground and surface water, contaminated land and dusts, the development of remediation and management schemes for mine wastes, the global biogeochemical and health impacts of mining, sustainable mining of technology metals and critical raw materials, and circular economy in mining.

I joined the Environment & Sustainabilty Institute and Camborne School of Mines in October 2017. Prior to that I worked in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London, for almost 20 years.

Biography

• 2017-present: Professor in Sustainable Mining, University of Exeter
• 1998-2017: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor in Environmental Geochemistry and Mineralogy, Birkbeck, University of London
• 1998: NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum
• 1997: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds
• 1993-1996: PhD (Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry), University of Manchester, UK
• 1989-1992: Exploration Geologist, Falconbridge Ltd
• 1981-1989: Geologist, Geological Survey of Canada
• 1985-1987: MSc (Economic Geology), Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• 1981-1982: BSc (1st class honours), Department of Geological Sciences, Queen's University, Canada

Publications

List of publications