Ana María is a Chemical Engineer from Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile with a Master’s in Mineral Processing from The University of Queensland, Australia. She has over 15 years of experience in companies related to the mining industry as a process engineer in reagent companies, and as technical manager in a consulting company for the development of new technologies and applications in mineral processing. Senior QemScan analyst for mineral samples, data analysis using iDiscover technical software.

She currently works as Project Engineer, part of the Productivity team, at SMI-ICE-Chile. Her work has focused on projects of complex ores.