Prof. Dr. Mostafa Benzaazoua

Prof. Dr. Mostafa Benzaazoua joined the University of Quebec (UQAT) in 1996, as a postdoctoral fellow. He held a Canada Research Chair (CRC 2003–2011) in “mine waste integrated management”. In 2009, he co-chaired an International Research Chair funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC 2009-2014) jointly with the CRC program with UCA Marrakech University (Morocco). He joined the University Mohamed IV Polytechnique in Morocco (UM6P) directing the Geology & Sustainable Mining Institute (GSMI) and the Green Energy Park (GEP). He is also a Visiting Professor at the Wuhan Institute of Technology in China (WIT). He has worked on a large number of government-funded and industry-sponsored projects, dealing with applied mineralogy and geochemistry for mine pollution control, waste management and valorization, mine site rehabilitation, and mineral processing. At the end of 2010, he took a secondment and joined the National Institute of Applied Sciences at Lyon in France as a University Professor, which allowed him to diversify his research themes by working on other industrial mineral waste management, environmental evaluation, treatment and reuse (dredged sediments and sewage sludges, incineration by-products, etc.). In 2012, he returned to UQAT, joining its recent Research Institute of Mining and Environment.