Sheyla Palomino Ore is an environmental mining hydrogeochemist specialising in mine water quality and mine waste geochemistry.
Sheyla is currently a PhD candidate at The University of Queensland's Sustainable Minerals Institute. She obtained her degree in Sanitary Engineering from the National University of Engineering (Peru) and later completed her Master's degree in Geosciences at Virginia Tech University (USA) as a Fulbright Scholar. Before immigrating to Australia, she worked as a geo-environmental researcher at the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute of Peru (INGEMMET) and as a Hydro-geochemist consultant at Amphos 21 Consulting Peru.
Since beginning her PhD, Sheyla has focused on developing meso-scale testing approaches to improve prediction, remediation, and closure of Acid and Neutral Metalliferous Drainage (AMD/NMD) sites. Her research focuses on scaling up kinetic leachate results from columns to mesoscale experiments, with direct relevance to mine operations, closure and water management strategies.
Sheyla's work has been presented at major international conferences including the International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage and the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, and published in peer-reviewed journals such as Applied Geochemistry.
Beyond research, Sheyla is committed to building technical capacity in Latin America. She serves as Manager of the Environmental Hydrogeochemistry Section at the Geological Society of Peru and coordinates training courses on predictive geochemical modelling. Sheyla taught Environmental Geochemistry and Water Treatment courses for two years, at the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima and is currently an Adjunct Researcher at the Water Research and Technology Centre (CITA) at UTEC.