Professor John Dilles

John is Geology Professor at Oregon State University and has supervised 40 postgraduate studies of mineral deposits in North and South America, Africa and Asia. He obtained degrees at California Institute of Technology and Stanford University, and uses structural geology, geochemistry and petrology to understand formation of metallic mineral deposits. He received the Society of Economic Geologist’s Silver Medal for research on “porphyry deposits” that supply much globally mined copper, molybdenum and gold.

For his Fulbright Future Scholarship, John will collaborate with researchers and use state-of-theart laboratories at Curtin University to investigate sulfur in magmas that supply hydrothermal fluids, metals and sulfur to mineral deposits