Patrick R. Taylor a registered professional metallurgical engineer with over 39 years of experience in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy engineering, research, teaching and consulting. He holds an endowed chair as the George S. Ansell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Metallurgy and is the director of the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy. Pat is the PI for three projects in CMI and is the CSM CMI Associate Director. He has directed research for more than 100 graduate students and post-docs. He has taught extractive metallurgy and mineral processing university courses for the past 39 years. He has developed and taught 10 short courses to industry. He is active in many professional organizations including the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration SME (Distinguished Member), The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society TMS, ASM (Fellow), and Mining and Metallurgical Society of America MMSA. His areas of expertise includes: extractive and process metallurgy, mineral processing, recycling, waste treatment and minimization, and thermal plasma processing. Pat was educated at the Colorado School of Mines, where he received BS degrees in both Mathematics and Metallurgical Engineering and a PhD degree in Metallurgical Engineering.