Dr Helen McFarlane is a structural geologist and Senior Research Scientist within the Multidimensional Geoscience Group in CSIRO Mineral Resources. She is currently involved in a wide range of projects within the Discovery Program, looking at structural controls in mineral systems hosted in Proterozoic and Archean terranes of Australia, spanning Au, Cu, Ni and base metal mineralisation. She received her PhD from both Monash University (AUSTRALIA) and the University of Toulouse (FRANCE) in 2018 before completing two post-doctoral placements at the University of Western Australia within the School of Earth Sciences/Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET). Helen’s previous experience involved both regional and mine-scale structural studies in West Africa and South America, coupled with multi-disciplinary, multi-scale studies incorporating metamorphic, isotopic, geochemical and potential field geophysical data.