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Meet Dan Manaig, metallurgical engineer
(1) What do you do?
I am a metallurgical engineer specializing in mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, and geometallurgy. I design processes to extract valuable metal, non-metal, metalloid, and minerals...

Meet Dan Manaig, metallurgical engineer

(1) What do you do?

I am a metallurgical engineer specializing in mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, and geometallurgy. I design processes to extract valuable metal, non-metal, metalloid, and minerals from rocks or secondary sources, such as byproducts and recycled materials.

For my Ph.D. project, I am tasked to design cost-effective hydrometallurgical extraction and purification processes to recover valuable metal and metalloids from a specific byproduct of a lead-zinc smelting plant in British Columbia, Canada.

(2) Where do you work?

I am doing my Ph.D. research at the University of British Columbia in the Okanagan valley, the hottest tech startup region in Canada. I work in two laboratories: Biological Solutions Lab and Fipke Lab for Trace Element Research.

(3) Tell us about the photo.

This was taken on the last day of my internship with my colleagues and supervisors at the Mauritanian Copper Mines, located somewhere in the scorching Sahara desert.

(4) Tell us about your academic career path so far:

Primary and Secondary Education (1998-2008):

  • Elementary - Daughters of Mary Immaculate School (Tanauan City, Batangas)
  • High School - First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities (Tanauan City, Batangas)
  • High School - Tomas del Rosario College (Balanga City, Bataan)

Bachelor’s Degree (2008 - 2012)

  • BSc in Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Philippines - Diliman (Philippines)

Master’s Degrees (2013 - 2015)

  • MSc in Geosciences Engineering, Lulea University of Technology (Sweden)
  • MSc in Geological and Mining Engineering, Universite de Liege (Belgium)
  • MSc in Geosciences, Planet Resources and Environment, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Geologie - Universite de Lorraine (France)

Doctorate Degree (2016 - present)

  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering specialized in Metallurgy and Electrochemistry (Canada)

Master of Laws Degree (2017 - present)

  • LLM in Oil, Gas, and Mining Law, Nottingham Trent University (United Kingdom)

(5) Anything else you’d like to share?

To whoever will read this, one valuable piece of advice from me would be: Go travel! I have started travelling when I moved to Europe as an Erasmus Mundus scholar, and I got hooked–25 countries now. There is so much to see and so much to learn when you get out there and explore. It will give you a much better perspective on how our world works  and how we, as human beings, are so different yet the same. The experience would humble you, in the sense that, you will realize that you are just one out of the billions; geography, mother nature, and concrete jungles would definitely overwhelm you. However, as you witness the cruelty of mankind, it would also allow you to know your potential, and perhaps, be inspired to somehow make a difference.

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