Dr. Bogale Tadesse is an Associate Professor of Metallurgy at the Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University. He completed his PhD (2013) at the former Ian Wark Research Institute of the University of South Australia. The PhD research mainly focused on understanding copper electrowinning process to control the morphology and quality of the deposited metal (cathode). Upon completing his PhD thesis, Tadesse worked as a research projects officer at CSIRO Process Science and Engineering, Clayton. He has been working at Curtin University since 2014.