Daniel Wiemer

Daniel Wiemer received a MSc from the Christian-Albrechts University (Kiel, Germany, in 2012) focussing on the timing and nature of metamorphic events in the Archean Western Dharwar Craton, South India. He obtained a PhD from the Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia, in 2017), which was awarded for excellence in research practice and contribution to the understanding of the geodynamic mode and cyclicity of ancient crust formation and deformation processes in the early Archean East Pilbara Terrane, Australia.

Following his doctoral studies, Daniel joined the Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia (Perth, Australia), where he developed a special interest in the genesis and spatial-temporal distribution of structurally controlled gold-rich magmatic-hydrothermal mineral systems in the Eastern Andean Cordillera of Peru. Funded by the Compania Minera Poderosa S.A., Daniel’s research and exploration efforts led to the recognition of the emergence of gold supercluster as an inescapable consequence of long-lived tectonic histories, inheritance and magmatic and structural reactivation during repeated superimposed accretionary orogeny at the western South American margin. Daniel has a special interest in linking frontier science advances with novel applicable industry-relevant exploration strategies.

He is the developer and project leader of the international Amira-managed, multi-company funded Geodynamic Andes eXploration Initiative (GAXI) and a researcher and lecturer at the Economic Geology Research Centre, James Cook University (Townsville, Australia), since 2024.