Dr Rob Sommerville

Dr Rob Sommerville

University of Birmingham

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Dr Rob Sommerville

University of Birmingham

Specialism: Minerals Engineering, Physical Separation
Institution: University of Birmingham

Rob is an Assistant Professor in minerals processing, with research interests in extraction and recycling of strategic elements and critical materials. Within ReLiB, Rob is investigating cell disassembly, cell shredding, and the application of physical processing techniques to separate high purities of battery components to enable direct recycling, as well as black mass valorisation to upgrade existing black mass products. Beyond ReLiB, Rob has also been involved in other recycling projects: REBLEND (IUK), Revitalise (Horizon), DEMO (APC), and Recreate (EPSRC).