Prof Aubrey Mainza

Qualifications

BMinSc (Metallurgy and Mineral Processing), University of Zambia (1999), PhD Chemical Engineering), University of Cape Town (2006)

BackgroundAubrey Mainza is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town (UCT). He graduated from UCT with a PhD in 2006. He has 18 years of collective experience in academia, research and industry. He is the Deputy Director and Head of Comminution and Classification Research in the Centre for Minerals Research, which is a large multi-disciplinary research centre. His research areas include comminution and classification and uses Discrete Element Method (DEM), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) as tools in his modelling methods. He has participated in many local and international research projects and has worked on numerous comminution circuit design and optimisation projects. He is an active supervisor of postgraduate students and has published widely in the international mineral processing and aligned disciplines literature. He is the chairperson for the International Comminution Researchers Association African Chapter and committee member the Western Cape Branch of the Southern Africa Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Aubrey is on many advisory committees for international conferences. He is a founder member of PEPT Cape Town, a facility established in Cape Town for studying flow behaviour in different systems and also for medical research.

Employment

Research Interests

Comminution, Classification, Computational modelling (DEM, CFD, FEM, SPH); Positron Emission Particle Tracking)