个人简介: Dr. Yahui Zhang joined the Department of Process Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland in January, 2016. Before that, he was a professor at Northeastern University in China. He had worked as a Senior Metallurgist in Beijing General Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (BGRIMM) for 9 years. He earned his first Ph.D. degree in Mineral Processing from Central South University in 1996, and second Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering from University of Alberta, Canada, in 2005. His research interests lie in the areas of extractive metallurgy of precious and nonferrous metals, designing and finding of new reagents for mineral flotation and metal extraction, and preparation of nanomaterials by electrochemical methods. He has published more than 90 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and filed 13 patent applications, of which eight have been granted.