Anders Nyström Speaker

Rock Mechanics Engineer
Boliden Mines Technology

Anders Nyström, senior rock mechanics engineer at Boliden mines has more than 25 years of experience working with underground mines in Sweden, Ireland and Canada operated by the Boliden Group. His field of knowledge includes cut and fill and longhole open stoping mining operations.

Mr Nyström, has been involved in research projects dealing with mining induced seismicity, paste backfill and rock support systems.

Horst Wagner Speaker

Emeritus Professor Mining
Univerity of Leoben

Matthias Wimmer SpeakerExhibitor

Manager Mining Technology, Kiruna mine
LKAB

Dr Matthias Wimmer is the Manager for Mining Technology at LKAB´s Kiruna mine. He is for more than 10 years with LKAB and has worked several years as a Senior Researcher on various projects which aimed to increase efficiency in production in the underground mines. During that time, he has also been involved in international projects such as the MMT (Mass Mining Technology) research project, and in European-funded research projects, such as I2Mine and the most recent being Real-Time Mining.

Matthias Wimmer graduated from the University of Leoben in Austria as a Mining Engineer in 2006. During his studies he worked at various mine and tunneling sites in Central Europe. He commenced his professional career with working for the Swedish Blasting Research Centre (Swebrec) at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. His research was awarded a PhD in the subject of Rock Mechanics & Rock Engineering. Matthias Wimmer still works closely together with academia. Amongst others, he supervises student theses and gives lectures both at the Universities in Leoben and Luleå in the field of underground mass mining methods. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 journal and conference papers throughout the years.

Matthias technical expertise is the selection and design of underground mining methods, and more specifically drill and blast designs, fragmentation and gravity flow of broken rock mass.

Ping Zhang Speaker

Associate Professor in Mining and Rock Engineering
Luleå University of Technology

Dr. Ping Zhang is an Associate Professor at the Division of Mining and Geotechnical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in Sweden and also holds a position as Specialist at LKAB. Dr. Zhang obtained Bachelor (1997), Master (2000) and Ph.D (2004) degrees from Xi′an University of Technology in China and had over 20 years’ research, education, and industry experience.
In 2010,
Dr. Zhang joined LTU as an Assistant Professor of Rock Mechanics. Since then, he has obtained funding from EU, Vinnova (Sweden’s innovation agency), Formas (Swedish Research Counsil for Sustainable Development), as well as the Swedish mining companies. Since 2008, he has been involved with the design of ground support under rockburst condition for Swedish mining industry. His research interests include rock failure process, rock dynamic mechanics, ground support and numerical analysis. Dr. Zhang is the author/co-author of more than 70 scientific publications.

Jordi Puig Moderator

Head of Mining Technology
LKAB

Jordi Puig is the R&D Manager for the Mining Technology Department at LKAB. Responsible for the technical development to reach greater depths at LKAB mines, safely, with increased productivity, CO2 free and with a reduced environmental impact.
Previous experience includes development of new mining projects and operational experience in several positions in different countries in Africa, South America and Europe for the past 15 years. He holds a degree in mining from Wits University in South Africa and UPC in Manresa (Spain), a MSc from WASM in Australia and a BSc in Environmental Sciences from UAB in Barcelona.