CivMin Professor Lesley Warren has been honoured by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) as one of their 2025 award winners. As a CIM Distinguished Lecturer, she is among those recognized for accomplishments in scientific, technical, management or educational activities related to the minerals industry.
Warren’s CIM recognition reads:
Lesley Warren is an internationally recognized, innovative researcher delivering new water management and treatment technologies for the mining sector through novel discoveries of the mining microbiome. She moved to the University of Toronto (U of T) to take up the Claudette Mackay Lassonde Chair in Mineral Engineering in 2016 in the department of civil and mineral engineering, and became the first female director for the Lassonde Institute of Mining in 2018. She founded the Mining Futures Initiative at U of T 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.
The CIM Awards were presented at the Awards Gala during the CIM CONNECT Convention + Expo in Montreal on Monday, May 5, 2025.