Prof. Dr. Tim T. Werner is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He holds a Ph.D. from Monash University, completed in 2017, and subsequently served as a postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne. He has held Visiting Scholar positions at Yale University and the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In 2018, Dr. Werner joined the University of Melbourne as a Research Fellow in GIS and Extractive Industries, contributing to an ARC Laureate Project. In 2021, he secured funding for an ARC DECRA Fellowship, focusing on investigating critical metal resources, their mining footprints, and potential future supply chain impacts. His interests span many topics, including mineral supply chain resilience and dynamics, land use changes, resource economics and governance, material recycling and waste management, and energy transition pathways. He is particularly interested in exploring critical metal supply chain impacts at both local and global scales.