Ken Collerson PhD, FAusIMM, has degrees from the University of New England (BSc. Hons.) and Adelaide University (Ph.D.). He established an international career in academia at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU, University of Regina and the University of California Santa Cruz.
From 1992 until 2010, as Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Queensland, he restructured the Department and established a world class isotope and trace element geochemical facility. Ken now works as a Mineral Exploration Consultant and is an Executive Associate (Geochemistry) with HDR.
He is an authority on REE and technology metal mineralisation, shoshonite-hosted epithermal Au-Ag (PGM) systems and application of biogeochemistry to define exploration targets.