Dr. Chris Aldrich is a chair of process systems engineering at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University. He received his D.Eng. (Extrac Metall), Ph.D. (Eng), MSc Eng. (Extrac Metall) and B.Eng. (Chem Eng) at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He has extensive experience in the mineral processing and extractive metallurgical industries, particularly in plant automation, continuous process improvement, statistical modeling, and process control. He has published extensively in the chemical and metallurgical engineering literature, has received several academic awards and honors, and is actively involved in the mineral processing industries as a consultant.