Victoria Anson

victoria.anson@mail.utoronto.ca

PhD Student
Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
University of Toronto

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PhD Student, Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto (2025-Current)
BEng Materials Engineering Co-op, McGill University, Canada (2021-2025)

Victoria Anson is a Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry in the Advanced Membranes Lab. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Engineering from McGill University. Her experience lies in the field of mining and metals, and more specifically, extractive metallurgy and critical minerals. Having previously interned at global firms Rio Tinto, Glencore, Hatch, and BBA, Victoria has experience in both hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical operations. She has also worked in the field of engineering consulting, designing the process of both a battery-grade graphite plant and a green lithium-ion battery recycling plant. Victoria currently sits on the Copper Club Board of Directors and the ASM International (formerly known as the American Society for Metals) Board of Trustees.

During her Ph.D. in Professor Werber’s Advanced Membranes Lab, Victoria will be developing a novel membrane-based electrodialysis (ED) technology, thus enabling the use of renewable energy to selectively separate critical minerals in solution (e.g., Li/Na, Ni/Co/Cu, rare earths (REEs)). By electrifying critical mineral separations, ion-selective ED has the potential to improve operating cost, environment, and even health and safety aspects of existing and future mining and metals operations around the world.

In her free time, Victoria enjoys reading about business and entrepreneurship, cooking, sailing, and learning how to play golf.