Rate My Professor Craig Garlick

Craig Garlick is a CIMR Research Associate in the School of Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He earned a Bachelor of Metallurgy (Honors 1) and a Master of Engineering from the University of Newcastle. His career spans over 40 years in metallurgical operations and research, beginning as a Metallurgy Trainee at BHP Steel Newcastle Steelworks in 1979. He advanced to Research Officer at BHP Billiton Research Labs (1983-1989), where he conducted pyrometallurgical research on slag/metal reactions and completed his Master's on the vaporisation of lead sulfide from zinc concentrates. From 1990 to 1994, he served as Steel Technology Manager at BHP New Zealand Steel, optimizing processes including electric arc furnace melting of direct reduced iron, vanadium recovery, KOBM steelmaking, ladle metallurgy, and slab casting. Subsequent roles included Principal Research Officer at BHP Billiton Research Labs (1994-2000), Development Manager at OneSteel (2000-2012) focusing on inclusion engineering and process improvements, Process Engineer at Rio Tinto Coal Australia Warkworth CHPP (2012-2016), and Process Engineer at Yancoal Australia Mount Thorley (2016-2021). Since June 2021, he has been at the Centre for Ironmaking Materials Research, investigating material behavior in new iron and steelmaking processes and process modeling for heat and mass balance.

Garlick's research specializations include alternative ironmaking, decarbonising steelmaking, metallurgical engineering, pyrometallurgy (60% of fields), separation technologies, and mineral processing/beneficiation. He leads efforts on electrode smelting of hydrogen-direct reduced iron from Australian hematite-goethite ores to support low-emission steel production. Key publications are 'Electrode Smelting of Hydrogen-Reduced Hematite–Goethite at Laboratory Scale' (Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, 2026, with T. Singh, K. Paymooni, D. O’Dea, T. Honeyands), 'Findings from Laboratory-scale Electric Smelting Furnace Experiments' (2025, with T. Honeyands et al.), 'Emission Abatement Potential of DRI Shaft Furnace Integrated with ESF-BOF Process Route' (2025, with K. Paymooni et al.), 'Electric Furnace Smelting for Alternative Hot Metal Production' (2023), and 'Electric Smelting Furnace for Alternate Hot Metal Production from Australian Iron Ores' (2023). He contributes to grants including the Australian Renewable Energy Agency-funded Electric Smelting of Australian Hematite-Goethite DRI ($2,938,049, 2024-2029) and Hydrogen DRI Production ($150,000, 2022-2023). Garlick has delivered expertise as a keynote speaker at COOLIT2025 and speaker at the HiTeMP Forum on high-temperature minerals processing.