Professor Peter Dowd

Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide

Dowd is Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Prior to his current appointment, he worked at universities in Canada and the UK. He was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide 2004-12. When he moved to Adelaide in 2004, he established the Mining Engineering degree programme at the University. He is currently Director of the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Integrated Operations for Complex Resources at the University of Adelaide. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.  His research areas are in mathematical geosciences applied to natural resources and to environmental and climate variables. More recently, in collaboration with European colleagues, he has published widely in hydrology, groundwater, climatography, fractal analysis of karst landscapes, closed depressions on the surfaces of the moon and Mars, and fractal analysis of the Martian landscape. He was awarded the 2016 Krumbein Medal by the International Association for the Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) for his contributions to geostatistics and mathematical geosciences. He was President of the IAMG for the period 2020-2024 and is currently Past-President of the IAMG for 2024-2028.