Rate My Professor Mehrooz Aspandiar

Dr. Mehrooz F. Aspandiar serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Affiliated with the Department of Applied Geology in the Western Australian School of Mines, he has held his position since 2000. Aspandiar obtained his Bachelor of Science in Geology from Nowrosjee Wadia College at the University of Pune in 1987. He then pursued postgraduate studies at the Australian National University, earning both his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Geosciences under the supervision of Professor Tony Eggleton and Graham Taylor. His academic career emphasizes teaching intensive roles, including lecturing in regolith and exploration geology, exploration geochemistry, mining geology, and field mapping. He coordinates the Bachelor of Applied Geology program and provides counseling to undergraduate and postgraduate students while supervising higher degree by research projects.

Aspandiar's research specializations center on regolith science, encompassing surface earth materials that form the critical zone of interaction between geosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere. His work addresses regolith characterization and landscape evolution for geochemical exploration, weathering processes such as chlorite alteration, acid sulphate soil assessment using hyperspectral sensing, geochemical dispersion through transported cover, and Archean hydrothermal systems including copper isotope fractionation in the Mesoarchean Carlow Castle Cu-Co-Au deposit. He collaborates with researchers at CSIRO and has produced 50 publications garnering 487 citations. Notable works include 'Copper Isotope Fractionation in Archean Hydrothermal Systems: Evidence From the Mesoarchean Carlow Castle Cu-Co-Au Deposit' (2023), 'Regolith characterization and landscape evolution for geochemical exploration of the covered Yamarna Terrane, Western Australia' (2021), 'Directly Dating Plio-Pleistocene Climate Change in the Terrestrial Record' (2023), 'Forensic Geology' chapter (2022), 'Weathering of Chlorite: I. Reactions and Products in Microsystems Controlled by the Primary Mineral' (2002), and contributions to 'The Business of Mining: Mineral Deposits, Exploration and Ore-Reserve Estimation' (2019). His contributions advance mineral exploration techniques, environmental geoscience, and forensic applications in geology.