Rate My Professor Apurna Ghosh

Dr Apurna Ghosh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mining Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering within the Western Australian School of Mines, Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur (now Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology), a Master's degree in Mine Planning and Design from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, and a PhD in Mine Safety from the same institution. With over 20 years of experience in teaching and research across multiple universities, Dr Ghosh joined Curtin University in 2015 as a Lecturer in Mining Engineering, progressing to Senior Lecturer. He currently serves as the Undergraduate Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) and specializes in mine safety management, mine planning and design, and resource estimation. His professional memberships include MAusIMM and MGMI.

Dr Ghosh's research interests encompass mine planning, mining engineering, remote sensing and GIS, occupational health and safety in mining, coal dust suppression, ventilation optimization, and risk assessment in artisanal and small-scale mining. His scholarly contributions have earned over 1,500 citations on Google Scholar. Key publications include 'Relationships of job and some individual characteristics to occupational injuries in employed people: a community-based study' (2003, Journal of Occupational Health), 'Relationships of working conditions and individual characteristics to occupational injuries: a case-control study in coal miners' (2004, Journal of Occupational Health), 'Evaluation of the coal dust suppression efficiency of different surfactants: A factorial experiment' (2020, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects), 'Risk factors for the number of sustained injuries in artisanal and small-scale mining operation' (2020, Safety and Health at Work), 'Comparison of the coal dust suppression performance of surfactants using static test and dynamic test' (2021, Journal of Cleaner Production), and 'CFD modelling of ventilation optimization for improving mine safety in longwall working faces' (2016, Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries). He serves on the editorial boards of journals such as Journal of Risk, Insurance, and Safety and Critical Minerals Metals and Materials.