Lesley Warren | Career Summary

Professor Lesley Warren is a leader in sustainable mining, bridging cutting-edge science with industry needs to solve critical environmental challenges in water and resource management.

She moved to the University of Toronto to take up the Claudette Mackay Lassonde Chair in Mineral Engineering in 2016 in the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, became the first female Director for the Lassonde Institute of Mining in 2018 and founded the Mining Futures Initiative at UofT in 2023.

She has established a pioneering, multidisciplinary research program investigating the roles of bacteria in key processes affecting mining and resource sector waste environments, that pave the way for smart, nature-based technologies to improve environmental outcomes.