Ian Graham is a senior lecturer in Earth Sciences within the School of Biological, earth and Environmnetal Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Australia. He received his BAppSc (1st class honours) and PhD degrees from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia. His research fields are very broad and generally cover the fields of mineralogy, geochemistry and igneous petrology. He particularly focusses on inorganic geochemistry and mineral matter within coal, unconventional sediment-hosted critical element mineralisation, intraplate volcanism, gem deposits and Ag-Au deposits. He has published over 115 journal papers, co-authored/edited 5 books, and edited 4 special issues for international journals. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Coal Geology and Mineralogical Magazine.