Dr Kam Bhowany completed her BSc in Mineral Geoscience, with 1st class Honours in Geology, in Adelaide before obtaining a PhD in Metamorphic Geology in 2020.
Kam was part of the Continental Evolution Research Group (CERG), with a focus on deep-crustal fluid-driven processes. She applied a multidisciplinary approach (including structural geology, isotopic geochemistry, and geochemical modelling) to unravel fluid/rock interaction at depth.
Professionally, Kam worked as a part-time lecturer at the University of Adelaide College and the University of Adelaide, specialising in teaching international and first year students (2019-2021). During this time, she undertook some work as a researcher in isotope geochemistry in the Bruce Laboratory facility. Throughout her career, Kam also spent some time in the industry as a core logging geologist in an underground gold mine in the Northern Territory (2019) and a graduate geologist in an open pit iron-ore mine in South Australia (2021).
Currently, Kam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the W.H. Bryan Mining Geology Research Centre, with the Mine Waste Transformation Through Characterisation (MIWATCH) group. She is working on a three-year project looking at the secondary prospectivity of critical minerals in mine waste across Australia.