Dr. Peter Tom Jones is a Senior Industrial Research Fund Research Manager. He is Valorisation Officer of several large-scale projects and networks at the level of KU Leuven, Flanders and the EU (MC-ITN EREAN and MSCA-ETN REDMUD and DEMETER). He is also actively involved in the EIT Raw Materials. He chairs the EU-wide EURELCO Consortium. He takes care of the valorisation tasks within the research line and spearheads the contacts with major critical metal industrial players such as Solvay-Rhodia, Umicore, Molycorp Silmet, Toyota, Veolia etc.