Recovery of valuable metals from bauxite residues using decarbonated technologies
Dr.-Ing. Sreċko Stopiċ
Doctor Stopiċ graduated from the Department of Non-ferrous metallurgy at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy TMF, University in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia in 1991. He worked as Teaching Assistant at TMF from 1991 until 1994, when he defended Magister Thesis. From 1995 to 1997 he worked a full-time university assistant teaching Theory of Metallurgical Processes, and Metallurgy of Nonferrous Metals at TMF. In 1997 he defended his Ph.D. Thesis on the subject of kinetics of metallurgical reaction. He became an Assistant professor at TMF on 1999. In 2001 he was elected Director of the “Balkan Center for Coordination of Scientific Research and Project Solutions in Metallurgy BCCR”. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2001. In 2002 he has worked on subject of high pressure leaching of nickel oxidic ore at IME Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling, chair and department of the RWTH Aachen University, where since 01.04.2003. works as scientific engineer. In 2014 he became Privat Dozent at the RWTH Aachen University. He is visiting Professor at the Faculty of Technology Zvornik of the University of East Sarajevo and the Felix H. Boigny University in Ivory Coast. He is responsible for teaching Courses: 1. Hydrometallurgy and Electrolysis; 2.Metallurgy of rare earth Elements-Winning and Recycling and 3.Hydrogen in Non-ferrous Metallurgy. He is a member of Editorial Board of Journals: 1.Metals, 2.Minerals and 3.Waste. He received International awards: in Copper metallurgy in 2005 in Stolberg and in extractive metallurgy in 2012 in Goslar (Kaiserpfalz award). Regarding his diaspora work he received an award: 10 Famous Serbian People in Duesseldorf in 2019. He participated on 50 international projects and published more than 200 papers in international journals and in Proceedings of Scientific Conferences.