Awards

George P. Demopoulos is a Professor with the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering of McGill University, where he has been teaching and doing research in the area of hydrometallurgy since 1983. During 1994 to 1999 he served as Chair of his Department. Over the years some 65 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows were trained under his supervision with 8 of them holding today academic positions and others important positions in industry. His research has led to 180 refereed publications and 6 patents. For his contributions to research and education he has been recognized with the 1999 Canadian Metal Chemistry Award and the 2000 Sherritt Hydrometallurgy Award. In 2005 he received the Featured Presenter distinction from TMS; while in 2007 he was elected CIM Fellow and was presented with the Distinguished Graduate Medal PYRFOROS from his alma mater the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Dr. Demopoulos has filled many roles at MetSoc and CIM. He first became a member of MetSoc of CIM in 1982. In 2001-2003 was Head of the Hydrometallurgy Section thereafter joining the Executive of the Board of Directors of Metsoc, serving from 2003 to 2006 as Vice-President, in 2006-2007 as President and in 2007-2008 as the Metsoc representative on the CIM Council. He chaired the 23rd Annual Hydrometallurgical Meeting in Quebec City (1993), the 9th Canadian Materials Science Conference (CMSC) in Montreal (1997) and in 2006 the Conference of Metallurgists held in Montreal. In 2007, he was also the founder and first Editor-in-Chief of MLINK, the MetSoc e-newsletter. Dr. Demopoulos continues to extend his dedication to the Metallurgical Society of CIM.