Dr Susanne Schmid is a principal geologist and group leader in CSIRO with 20 years’ experience in mineral exploration, mining industry and government. She worked in greenfield exploration in Greenland, Africa and Australia with focus on sediment-hosted mineral systems and adaptation of petroleum exploration techniques to mineral exploration. She joined CSIRO 13 years ago and is working closely with industry from deposit to regional scale in commodities such as copper, lead, zinc gold and uranium.