Dr. KHALIL Abdessamad is a renowned researcher in the field of ore processing and mine environments. In 2014, he achieved his PhD in Earth Sciences and Environment from the Cadi Ayad University in Morocco within the framework of the International Research Chairs Initiative in Management and Stabilization of Mining and Industrial Wastes. After completing his PhD, Dr. KHALIL Abdessamad began working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue (Canada), where he focused on the feasibility of reprocessing mine wastes from abandoned mines for recovering valuable metals and recycling the depolluted residues as construction materials. His ground-breaking research led to numerous publications in highly ranked journals and his lab's research has led to pilot scale tests. In 2015, Dr. KHALIL was recruited to join the National School of Mines in Rabat, where he worked as a full professor. He is in charge of many lectures and he leads an ambitious research program about the mining industry in Morocco.  In addition to his research, he is an active mentor to engineer and PhD students and postdoctoral researchers and has served on numerous scientific advisory boards and review panels. Nowadays, he is the Principal Investigator of a big scientific project entitled dewatering mine tailings for sustainable deposition and maximal recovery of residuary water. This project gathers many researchers from Moroccan and Canadian universities.