About “Talitha Santini”

Dr Santini joined the University of Western Australia’s School of Agriculture and Environment as a Senior Lecturer in August 2018, after five years as a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences and Management at the University of Queensland. She is Director of the UWA Mining Innovation Network () and leads a multidisciplinary research program focussed largely on environmental management in the mining industry.Her research interests are centred on soil formation and weathering, geochemistry, mineralogy, and microbiology; in particular, the interactions between abiotic and biotic processes that drive soil development and global biogeochemical cycles. She pursues this research across a variety of environments including both naturally formed and anthropogenic systems (mine wastes, tailings, and organic wastes). Much of Dr Santini’s research focusses on the rehabilitation of mine sites, tailings, and soils impacted by mining and refining activities, as well as ‘extreme’ soils derived from natural processes (acid sulfate soils, salinised farmlands, etc.).