Rate My Professor Hans Oskierski

Associate Professor Hans Oskierski serves as Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Water, Energy and Waste within the School of Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry and Physics at Murdoch University. He holds the position of Academic Chair for the Graduate Diploma in Extractive Metallurgy (G1034) and acts as Unit Coordinator for CHE103 Introduction to Forensic Science. Oskierski's research specializations encompass mineral carbonation, critical minerals, isotope geochemistry, and extractive metallurgy. He leads contributions from the Sustainable Geochemistry and Mineral Science (GeMS) research group, focusing on sustainable processing of minerals essential for green technologies.

Oskierski has a longstanding career at Murdoch University, with appointments dating back to at least 2008 as Senior Lecturer in Geochemistry and Mineral Sciences at the Harry Butler Institute. Previously affiliated with the School of Engineering and Information Technology, he has supervised PhD theses including 'Production of Lithium Chemicals from Spodumene Using Novel Processing Routes' by Mahmoud F. Alhadad (2022) and 'Thermal Dehydroxylation Kinetics and Investigation of Synthetic Hectorite Clay Mineral' by S. Zahid (2020). His key publications include 'Dolocrete blanket over Mt Weld carbonatite (Western Australia)' in Chemical Geology (2026, with Artur Deditius and others), 'Strategies to improve sustainability of lithium extraction from spodumene' (2022, with Johannes Chischi), 'Two-Step Reaction Mechanism of Roasting Spodumene with Potassium Sulfate Compared to the Sulfation with Sulfuric Acid' in Inorganic Chemistry (2021, with Thamsanqa Ncube et al.), 'Refining α-Spudomene with Potassium Sulfate Compared to the Sulfation Process' in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2024, with Gamini Senanayake et al.), and 'Conversion of NO into N2 over γ-Mo2N' in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2016). Oskierski collaborates on ARC Linkage Project LP230100371 with BHP Group Limited and investigators including Prof Fang Xia. He contributes to public outreach through presentations at the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia Accelerated Mineral Carbonation workshop and serves on the advisory committee for the AusIMM Critical Minerals conference. Additionally, he participates in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Nigerian partnership for sustainable mining capacity development training (2025).