MetSoc Executive Board of Directors

Janice Zinck

Executive Director, Geoscience and Mines, Government of Nova Scotia

• Conference Chair for 2022 Conference of Metallurgists
• Interview with MetSoc President

Janice Zinck is the Executive Director, Geoscience and Mines at the Government of Nova Scotia. She was previously the Director of CanmetMINES, a division of the Minerals and Metals Sector of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) dedicated to research, development and innovation. Read the full biography here.

Stephen Corbin

NSERC/Pratt and Whitney Canada Industrial Research Chair
Professor of Materials Engineering at Dalhousie University

• Conference Chair for the 60th Conference of Metallurgists (2021)
• INTERVIEW WITH METSOC PAST PRESIDENT

Dr. Corbin has been a Professor of Materials Engineering since 1997, when he first took up a position at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. Dr. Corbin is currently the NSERC/Pratt and Whitney Canada Industrial Research Chair in Structural Brazing and Processing of Powder Metallurgy Superalloys at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Roki Fukuzawa

Specialist at Hatch

• Conference Chair for 2023 Conference of Metallurgists

Roki Fukuzawa is a Specialist at Hatch with more than thirteen years of experience in the design and engineering of off-gas handling systems for metallurgical clients in copper, nickel, zinc and gold industries. She has worked on off-gas projects from conceptual studies to detailed engineering. Read the full biography here.

2nd Vice-President

Erin Bobicki is stepping down. An announcement for her replacement for the 2nd VP position will follow soon.

Erin Bobicki

Associate Professor, University of Alberta

• Conference Chair for 2024 Conference of Metallurgists

Professor Bobicki’s research interests include microwave applications in mineral processing, comminution, bioreagent development, the rheology of complex mineral slurries, and value recovery from waste materials. She is currently commercializing microwave technology for the mining industry with Sepro Mineral Systems and is a Founding Director of Aurora Hydrogen, a startup developing technology for emission-free hydrogen production.

Julie Lévesque

R&D project manager, Centre de métallurgie du Québec

• Conference Chair for 2025 Conference of Metallurgists

Julie Lévesque is an R&D project manager at Quebec Metallurgy Center (CMQ), where she is the leader of the mechanical forming axis. She has close to 15 years of experience in the optimization of forming processes in collaboration with industries in the automotive, aerospace and packaging industry, amongst others.

Julie has been involved in MetSoc since 2017 as the Chair of the Light Metals technical section. She was the chair of the Light Metal Technology – Applications for the Transportation Industry at COM 2018 and a co-chair of other Light Metals symposiums at COM in 2019 and 2020. She is also active in her community, being a Women Ambassador of the Profession for the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (Quebec Professional Engineers order).

Greg Richards

Teck Metals, Retired

Greg Richards graduated in metallurgical engineering from the University of British Columbia. He continued with the department, teaching process metallurgy and conducting research in non-ferrous pyrometallurgy. He later moved to Cominco Research, working in their metallurgical research group, and then to the technical services department of Trail Operations, Teck Metals Ltd. He recently retired in his position as superintendent of knowledge management, responsible for developing systems for the capture and transfer of critical business knowledge. He has served as a board member of the Metallurgy and Materials Society of CIM since 2007.

Dimitrios Filippou

RioExpert Metallurgist, Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium, Sorel-Tracy, QC

Dimitrios Filippou, Eng., Ph.D. is a metallurgical engineer with extensive experience in metal extraction R&D, process upscaling and optimisation, life cycle assessment and technology strategy development. He holds a Dipl. Eng. from the National Technical University of Athens (1988) and a Ph.D. degree from McGill University (1994). Since 2003, he works for the TiO₂ Products Group of Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium.

Dimitrios maintains strong ties to professional and research communities. He served as Secretary and Chair of the Hydrometallurgy Section of MetSoc (2009-2016), and he co-chaired the symposium “Pressure Hydrometallurgy 2012.”