Prof.
Nicola
Wagner
Director & Chair
DSI-NRF CIMERA & FFF Carbon
Prof Nikki (Nicola) Wagner is the Director of the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis (CIMERA), and Professor in the Geology Department at the University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research areas include organic petrology, coal petrography, trace elements and critical raw materials in coal and associated products, coal geology, carbon dioxide capture and storage, coal oxidation, underground coal gasification, coal conversion, ash utilisation, and so on. She graduated from RHBNC, London, with a geology-zoology Honours degree, and completed her PhD in 1998 (Wits). Shortly thereafter, Dr Wagner worked for Sasol in their Coal to Syngas Research Group, as the inhouse coal petrographer. Prof Wagner joined the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 2006, where she ran the Coal Research group for 8 years before moving back into geology at the University of Johannesburg in 2014. Prof Wagner is a Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA), and member of the FFF-C, SEG, and SACNASP, and has a B NRF rating. Prof Wagner has three children.