Katy Evans

Katy completed a Ph.D on "Metamorphic Fluid Flow in East Central Vermont" in 1999. This was followed by postdoctoral work at the University of Sheffield (UK) on kinetically-controlled mineral dissolution and precipitation in the unsaturated zone of mine spoil. She moved to Australia in 2002 to take up a position as a Research Fellow at CSIRO Exploration and Mining, where she worked on greenstone-hosted gold deposits and the thermodynamic characteristics of sulphur-bearing, high ionic strength, mixed solvent fluids. In 2005 she was awarded an Australian Synchrotron Research Fellowship, hosted by the ANU, and used this time to undertake experiments on S- and Cl-bearing silicate glasses and CO2-bearing solutions. She began a Research and Teaching Fellowship at Curtin in 2007, and has since worked on diverse projects, ranging from the impacts of industrial emissions on rock art to the formation of rare earth element and titanium deposits.