Burt Thomas
Office Director of Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies at U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation
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Burt Thomas is the DOE Office Director of Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies. Thomas previously led NETL’s critical minerals research efforts and served as Division Director for Minerals Sustainability. Thomas earned a BS in Geology from the University of Missouri and a dual PhD in Geosciences and Biogeochemistry from Penn State.
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An interdisciplinary conference on the science and technology underpinning secure, sustainable critical-mineral supply chains, connecting foundational science with applied research, pilot-scale studies, and deployable solutions. Hosted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the AVS Science & Technology Society. Global-to-local supply-chain modeling covers challenges and opportunities for U.S. leadership, AI-enabled modeling to unlock critical-mineral supply, and data-to-decision pipelines for forecasting from government, laboratory, and industry perspectives. Extraction and separation topics include interfacial chemistry and transport phenomena; field- and flow-based separation; bio-based and biomimetic approaches; bridging atomic-scale understanding to applied and field-scale separations; and recovery from terrestrial, marine, coastal, waste, and unconventional feedstocks, including tailings, slags, brines, and e-waste. The cross-cutting AI and autonomous-science theme includes AI for scientific discovery, in situ sensing, autonomous experimentation, and building an AI-ready critical-minerals research ecosystem.