Kristian Waters has been a faculty member in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill University since 2009, where he currently serves as associate professor and chair. His research focuses on mineral processing and separation techniques, including froth flotation, magnetic separation, and gravity concentration. He is also a licensed professional engineer in Ontario. 

Before joining McGill, Waters was a postdoctoral research associate at Imperial College London, where his work explored the separation of fine mineral particles through flotation using colloidal gas aphrons and particle tracking in froth flotation cells via the positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) technique. 

Waters holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, a Master of Science in Instrumentation and Analytical Science from the University of Manchester, and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering with German, also from the University of Manchester.