Professor Lesley Warren is an internationally recognized, innovative researcher delivering new water management and treatment technologies for the mining sector through novel discoveries of the mining microbiome.
She moved to the University of Toronto to take up the Claudette Mackay Lassonde Chair in Mineral Engineering in 2016 in the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering and became the first female Director for the Lassonde Institute of Mining in 2018.
She has established a pioneering, multidisciplinary research program investigating the roles of bacteria in key processes affecting mining and resource sector waste environments.
Over the last ten years, Dr. Warren has brought in over $12,000,000 in energy sector and mining industrial partnered research, trained over 50 HQP and given over 40 keynote/ invited talks, including invited presentations to MPs and Senators on Parliament Hill.