Rate My Professor Afonso Rodrigues

Dr. Angela Afonso Rodrigues is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow and Assistant Lecturer in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University. She completed her PhD in 2022 at the same institution, specializing in the application of data analysis methods for mineral identification from hyperspectral and assay datasets within porphyry copper deposits. Her doctoral research formed part of the AMIRA Global Project P1202, 'Far-field and near-mine footprints: Finding and defining the next generation of Tier-1 deposits,' undertaken in collaboration with the University of Tasmania and numerous industry partners including Newcrest Mining, AngloAmerican, BHP, Boliden, Freeport, Merdeka Copper Gold, Mount Isa Mines, Vale, Newmont, Rio Tinto, Fortescue Metals Group, Codelco, FMG, and Teck Resources. Specifically, she collaborated with Newcrest Mining on the Waivaka Corridor, a 5-km segment of porphyry systems located in Fiji's Namosi District. Her PhD work emphasized automated mineral and textural extraction from hyperspectral data, employing computer vision, deep learning, and data analysis techniques to support geologists in exploration for porphyry copper, epithermal, and skarn deposits.