Simon Jowitt

Simon Jowitt is an economic geologist based at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He has degrees from the University of Edinburgh, Camborne School of Mines, and the University of Leicester and spent eight years at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia before moving to UNLV. His research focuses on mineral economics and exploration, critical metal resources and security of supply chains, ore deposit formation, geochemistry, global tectonics, magmatism and metallogeny. Simon has published more than 90 scientific papers since 2010 and was awarded the Society of Economic Geologists Waldemar Lindgren Award in 2014.