[FISH] Tomas Villalon Jr. (Phoenix Tailings)
Date: Friday, October 9, 2026 Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm Location: 54-209 M. Nafi Toksöz Seminar Room | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA Attend VirtuallyTBA
Dr. Tomas Villalon Jr. is the Founder and CTO of Phoenix Tailings, a company focused on extracting rare earth minerals from mining waste in a carbon-free process.
Friday Informal Seminar Hour —
Postdoc-run seminar series within the Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL). Features talks by ERL members as well as special guests from academia and industry on earth science and energy transition topics including geothermal energy, carbon sequestration, geologic hydrogen, and critical minerals / in situ mining.
Contact: fish_seminar_organizers@mit.edu