Dr Carsten Laukamp

https://people.csiro.au/l/c/carsten-laukamp

Biography

Carsten Laukamp is a principal research scientist at CSIRO Mineral Resources, based in Perth, Australia. Carsten obtained his Doctorate of Science (Dr. rer. Nat.) from the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany, based on his study of the structural and fluid system evolution in the Otavi Mountain Land (Namibia) and its significance for the genesis of sulphide and nonsulphide mineralisation. After his postdoctoral position at the James Cook University (Townsville, Australia), Carsten joined the Western Australian Centre of Excellence for 3D Mineral Mapping at the CSIRO (Perth, Australia).
During his career at CSIRO, Carsten has been the project leader of AuScope's National Virtual Core Library Infrastructure Program from 2016 to 2023, and Group Leader of the Mineral Systems Science and Multidimensional Geoscience Groups in CSIRO Mineral Resources.
In his current role with CSIRO's Discovery Program, Carsten explores the potential for combined use of lab, field and remote visible and infrared reflectance spectroscopy, geochemistry and geophysics for regolith characterisation, tracing hydrothermal alteration signatures through cover, critical metals exploration and advancing ore body knowledge.

Achievements and Awards

2013-2013

Explorer of the Year award for C3DMM's development of the continental ASTER Geoscience Products and its involvement in the Kentor Gold discovery
Australian Mining Journal
2013-2013

Business Excellence - Delivery of impact
CSIRO

Professional Areas

Fields of Research

Current

Current Roles

Chair-elect of the IEEE GRSS GSIS working group on “Working Group on Spectroscopic Sensing of Earth Materials” (https://www.grss-ieee.org/) - since 2025
supporting chair (Amanda O'Connor); conducting IEEE co-funded workshops; co-ordinating ground validation sites in Australia
Elected member of the Earth Observation Australia (https://www.eoa.org.au/) Management Committee - since 2024
supporting EOA management team in updating Australia's Earth observation community about latest technological developments and synergies between different EO user groups..
Advisory Board member “M4Mining Consortium” (https://www.m4mining.eu/) - since 2024
Advisory Board member
Advisory Board member “MOSMIN: Multiscale observation services for mining-related deposits” (https://www.euspa.europa.eu/) (since 2024
Advisory Board member

Academic Qualifications

2007

Doctorate in Natural Science (Dr. rer. nat.)
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg
2001

Diploma in Geoscience
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main

Professional Experiences

2016-2023

Project leader AuScope National Virtual Core Library infrastructure program
CSIRO
2018-2021

Group Leader - Multidimensional Geoscience (Discovery Program, Mineral Resources)
CSIRO
2009-present

Research Scientist
CSIRO
2008-2019

Senior Lecturer in UWA 3rd year Mineral Exploration Course "Spectral Sensing Solutions to Mineral Exploration Challenges"
University of Western Australia
2007-2008

Postdoctoral Fellow
James Cook University, Townsville

Other highlights

2010-present

Invited Speaker: Australian Space Summit 2025, DVGeo Symposium to about 150 representatives from the German Bundestag, NGOs and Universities 2023; Indo-Pacific Space and Earth Conference 2023 & 2024; AROSE Resources-Space Workshop 2022, Raw Materials Week '20, Berlin, Germany; EU Raw Materials'18, Brusells, Belgium; Exporation’17, Toronto, Canada; FUTORES II 2017, Townsville, Australia; AusAsia-MinTech 2014, Perth, Australia; 13th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society, 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2nd Annual Exploration and GIS in Mining 2013, Perth, Australia; ACG Open Pit Mining Seminar Series 2012, Perth, Australia; European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria.
2014-present

Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia
2018-present

Convenor/Co-convenor of 40 technology transfer workshops to a total of 780 attendees