Roussos Dimitrakopoulos is currently Professor and the Canada
Research Chair in Sustainable Mineral Resource Development and
Optimization under Uncertainty – BHP Billiton, and Director
of the COSMO Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Previously he was Professor and Director of the Bryan Research
Centre, University of Queensland, Australia. He holds a PhD in
Geostatistics from Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, and a MSc from
the University of Alberta, Edmonton. He has been working in orebody
risk analysis since 1983 and the last decade on risk-based
optimization in open pit mine design. Roussos has been Senior
Geostatistician with Newmont Mining Co., Denver, and Senior
Consultant with Geostat Systems Int. He has taught short courses
and worked in Australia, North America, South America, Europe, the
Middle East, South Africa and Japan.
http://people.mcgill.ca/roussos.dimitrakopoulos/
The COSMO Laboratory (McGill University, Montreal, Canada), a global centre for leading-edge research and graduate education in “orebody modelling and strategic mine planning with uncertainty”, is supported by AngloGold Ashanti, Barrick Gold, BHP Billiton, De Beers, Newmont, Vale, Vale Inco, and Canada Research Chairs Program, NSERC, CFI.
Roussos Dimitrakopoulos is the IAMG (International Association for Mathematical Geosciences) Distinguished Lecturer for 2009.