Batric Pesic, Emeritus Professor
University of Idaho, College of Engineering, Moscow, USA
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Batric Pesic is a Distinguished Professor (for teaching) of the Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi at the University of Idaho, formerly Department of Chemical and Materials Science and Engineering.
He has received his BS degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Belgrade-Campus Bor. In 1976, he received MS (1979) and PhD (1981) in metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Upon graduation, Dr. Pesic moved to Canada and worked for Anglo American International, SA subsidiary Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company, Flin Flon, Manitoba, only to return to the States in 1983 to join the University of Idaho. The emeritus status was reached in 2022.
His research interests had been, initially, in extractive metallurgy (metallurgy of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, cobalt and nickel), followed by the environmental areas (bioremediation, remediation, biocorrosion, and corrosion). Toward the end of academic career, the research in electrochemistry in molten salts and high temperature corrosion was predominant. The fundamental research was funded by the US Federal Agencies (DOE, DOD, NSF, EPA), while the applied research was sponsored by the major metal producing corporations (Alcoa, Kennecott, Newmont, Novelis, Peñoles, Simplot…)
He has extensive consulting experience with major chemical and metallurgical corporations in North America, Europe, and Africa, of which some resulted in two US patents of relevance to gold and silver recovery.