Dr. Corby Anderson has over 35 years of global experience in industrial operations, management, engineering, design, consulting, teaching, research and professional service. He is a native of Butte, America. His career includes positions with Morton Thiokol, Key Tronic Corporation, Sunshine Mining and Refining Company, H. A. Simons Ltd. and at Montana Tech. He holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering and an MSc and PhD in Metallurgical Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He holds 10 international patents covering 6 innovative new technologies along with 5 new patent applications.
He currently serves as the Harrison Western Professor in the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy as part of the George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. In 2009 he was honored by SME with the Milton E. Wadsworth Extractive Metallurgy Award for his contributions in hydrometallurgical research. He and his wife Jeanne reside in Golden, Colorado. Jeanne owns and operates a bakery specializing in Cornish, Welsh and Irish style pasties, the traditional meal of underground miners. Their son Caelen is a PhD Candidate in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines. In his spare time Corby enjoys golf and ice hockey, the latter only as a spectator these days.