Rorie Gilligan

@roriegilligan.bsky.social

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PhD. in hydrometallurgy. Research metallurgist based in Western Australia mostly working with raw materials for batteries. I've published papers on the metallurgy of vanadium, lithium, and uranium.

"I'd rather have Mohammed Atta as a copilot than Microsoft's insufferable tool"
A black cat under some Russian letters reading "не хочу на работу, хочу жить в лесу" (I don't want to go to work, I want to live in the forest)
A bottle of bright yellow uranyl nitrate hexahydrate
Electricity generation stats for Western Australia at 2:30 pm local time on December 3rd 2025 showing that 58%of the electricity produced is from renewable power, mostly solar.
Me in graduation robes (PhD specifically) in front of the entrance to a radiation laboratory.
A slide showing some electron microscope pictures of titanomagnetite ore with some info about the mineralogy.
Screenshot of the French Wikipedia article on the mineral brannerite.
My reflection in the window of a stopped TransPerth train.
Google scholar screenshot showing the citation counts on some of my papers
First photo: a conference room in a fancy hotel in South Africa Second photo: looking up at Table Mountain from outside the hotel
Pourbaix diagram for tungsten showing which species are dominant from pH -2 to +16 and redox potentials of -1.8 to +2.2 volts.
Flowsheet for tungsten metal production from scheelite/wolframite taken from a metallurgy textbook.
Samples of vanadium ore and purified vanadium chemicals on top of a flowsheet of the vanadium pentoxide production process.
A book on pegmatites, a lump of lithium ore, and a bunch of vials containing samples of the lithium mineral spodumene.
Me in a white coat standing in our new lab, in front of a couple of research posters on lithium and vanadium
A newspaper clipping from June 28th 1914. Headline says "Archduke's death removes danger of European conflict"
20 second clip of Chapo Trap House dubbed in Chinese.
Google scholar screenshot showing my citation count at 400.
Tucker (in medieval Chinese armour) : you support regime change in Mongolia but you don't even know how many cavalry the Great Khan has? What's the ethnic make-up of the horde? Cruz (in medieval Chinese court eunuch uniform) : They're Mongols, Tucker. But that's not important. Tucker: You're a eunuch in the emperor's diplomatic service, how can you not know this?
Poster from the USSR in the 1950s showing corn cobs marching down the road labelled "dorogu kukuruze!" (Make way for corn!). Animals watch on from the background (something to do with corn as feed for livestock?). There's a signpost labelled "na fermy" (to the farms).
Screenshot of a comment "Make that six years. And for a very good reason."
I'd rather have Mohammed Atta as a copilot than Microsoft's insufferable tool.
Front page of my PhD thesis, approved on this day in 2017. The extractive metallurgy of brannerite: Leaching kinetics, reaction mechanisms, and mineralogical transformations
Western Australian politician Kyle McGinn drinks a beer out of a shoe at the end of his final speech as a member of Western Australian state parliament.
A photo of the Soviet Jewish writer and Red Army officer Ikhil Shmulevich Failkman standing by the Reichstag wall in Berlin in 1945. Behind him is a message he carved onto the Reichstag wall, which translates as "The Germans killed 38 people from my family. I'm in Berlin, which means I took revenge!".
Flyer for an event showcasing the projects conducted by the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre.
A Duolingo screenshot, the exercise is to translate a Russian sentence meaning "what do Buddhists think about death?"
A Galilean thermometer showing a temperature of 22°C.
A map showing the network of electric vehicle charging stations in Western Australia, spanning 7000 kilometres.
A plain cover of a Russian language book of tables of data on the physical and chemical properties of inorganic substances.