Zhengchang SHEN is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chief Scientist of BGRIMM Technology Group (formerly Beijing General Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy), and a renowned expert in mineral processing equipment technology. He graduated from the Department of Mine Mechanical Engineering Design, University of Science and Technology Beijing (formerly Beijing Iron and Steel Institute) in 1982 and joined BGRIMM in the same year. For a long time, he has been deeply engaged in the research, development, and engineering transformation of mineral processing equipment. Under his leadership, the flotation equipment has achieved large-scale, high-efficiency, and customized development, and an internationally most complete flotation equipment system has been established, enabling China to become one of the world's three major powers in flotation equipment technology. He has won 2 National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 3 National Invention Awards, 4 China Patent Excellence Awards, and 27 provincial and ministerial science and technology achievement awards. He has published 6 monographs in both Chinese and English, including Theory and Technology of Flotation Machines and Principles and Technologies of Flotation Machines. He has received many important honors, such as the Ho Leung Ho Lee Award, National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent, National Outstanding Engineer Award, and Outstanding Communist Party Member of Central Enterprises.
Long HAN is a renowned expert in the fields of metallurgical automation, artificial intelligence applications, and digitization, and a professor-level senior engineer. The current Chairman of BGRIMM Technology Group and the only Chinese member of the International Mineral Processing Council, has been engaged in scientific research in the fields of industrial automation, mineral processing theory and technology, such as industrial process control systems, process detection instruments, computer applications, etc., especially in the development and application of selection and metallurgical process detection and analysis instruments, selection and metallurgical process control system development, and information technology application in the mining industry. He has carried out a large amount of scientific research and engineering practice. Has won 6 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological awards, published academic papers, and completed over 40 high-level research reports. He has been committed to international scientific and technological cooperation and academic exchanges in the field of mining and metallurgy for a long time. He is currently the director of the China-South Africa "the Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory for the Sustainable Development and Utilization of Mineral Resources (the only one in the mining and metallurgy field in China), and has a great influence in the international mining and metallurgy academic and engineering fields.
David DEGLON is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town. He has a BSc Chemical Engineering (Wits, 1989), a PhD (UCT, 1999), and an MBA (UCT, 2002). He worked for some years within the Rand Mines group as a metallurgist on coal, gold, and platinum operations. He left Rand Mines in 1992 and joined UCT as a research officer in the Department of Chemical Engineering. In 1996, he was appointed as a senior lecturer and was promoted to associate professor in 2006 and full professor in 2010. In 2013, he was appointed as the Anglo American Platinum Chair in Minerals Processing and Director of the Centre for Minerals Research. He is on the editorial board for Minerals Engineering and is Vice-Chairman Designate for the International Mineral Processing.