Steffen is a Professor for Economic Geology and Director of the Centre for Exploration Targeting at the University of Western Australia.
He has 33 year experience in economic geology specialising in the field of structural geology, hydrothermal alteration and fluid chemistry of mainly gold, iron and copper deposits. Steffen has specialised in combining detailed field observations with high tech geochemical methods in order to unravel the metallogeny and paleo magmatic/hydrothermal evolution of mineral systems and the 4-D control of orebodies.
