Nicola Wagner

Director DSI-NRF CIMERA Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg

Prof Nikki (Nicola) Wagner is the Director of the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis (DSI-NRF CIMERA) and Professor in the Geology Department at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research areas include organic petrology, coal characterization, trace elements and critical raw materials in coal and associated products, CCUS, coal conversion, ash utilization, and CRM for the low carbon economy. She graduated from RHBNC, London, with a geology-zoology Honours degree, and completed her PhD in 1998 (Wits). Prof Wagner has worked for Sasol, the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), and currently the University of Johannesburg (since 2014). Prof Wagner has graduated over 50 postgraduate students and published over 80 peer reviewed journal articles. She is a Fellow of the GSSA, Chair of the FFF-Carbon Executive Committee, member of Society for Economic Geologists, registered with SACNASP, fully accredited by the ICCP and on the Council of the ICCP. She holds an NRF B-rating. As Director of DSI-NRF CIMERA, Prof Wagner interacts with collaborators across South Africa and internationally in the economic geology research space.