Meet Our Team
Get to know the people behind the work. A passionate group of professionals dedicated to bringing ideas to life and making things happen.
Merging geological insight and quantum innovation to shape the future of science and technology.
Driving Scientific Innovation Across Geoscience and Quantum Frontiers
As the only company of its kind with Canadian roots, Quminex is uniquely positioned to support Canada’s national resource strategy while contributing to a secure and sustainable metal supply for the future. By partnering with us, you gain new insights, accelerate mineral discovery, and strengthen resource security, whether for Canada or the global market.
Dr. Marc Fassbender
CEO
Marc Fassbender, CEO of Quminex graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa, Canada.
He possesses expert knowledge of the host rocks associated with actively forming Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide (VMS) deposits on the modern seafloor and their ancient analogues, utilizing petrology, geochemistry, and machine learning techniques. Marc earned both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in geology from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where his research focused on Heavy Rare Earth Elements (HREE) enrichment in olivine and the petrogenetic evolution of the Vergenoeg F-Fe-REE deposit in South Africa. He has extensive experience in economic geology, geochemistry, and the application of machine learning in geoscience. Marc specializes in integrating datasets through machine learning to address complex geoscientific challenges.
Dr. Alan Baxter
CXO
Alan Baxter, Chief Exploration Officer of Quminex, is a multidisciplinary geologist whose expertise is in convergent margin systems.
He has managed projects that reconstructed ancient oceans in collision zones such as the Himalayas and Eastern Australia and on mineral exploration projects in Western Australia and the US. His current research is on the tectonic and metallogenic evolution of arc-back-arc systems in the SW Pacific. He was a Research Associate at the University of Ottawa with the CFREF Metal Earth Project. He was Prior to that Alan was Lecturer at the University of New England, and a Postdoctoral Fellow Marc Fassbender, CEO of Quminex graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa, Canada.at the University of Sydney (NSW), in Australia. Alan graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Ph.D. in Geology and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Geology.
Prof. Taha Rouabah
Scientific Advisor
Taha Rouabah is an Associate Professor of Physics at University of Constantine 1 in Algeria.
He earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 2015 through a joint program between University of Constantine 1 and Université Nice Côte d’Azur in France. His doctoral research focused on quantum entanglement and quantum optics. Dr. Rouabah was awarded both an Erasmus-Averroes PhD fellowship and a prestigious African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence early career research grant. He was recently selected for a US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Arab-American Frontiers Fellowship. As Principal Investigator of Constantine Quantum Technologies research group, Dr. Rouabah leads a talented team of young physicists and computer scientists. Their research efforts are currently concentrated on cutting-edge areas within the field of quantum computing, including topological quantum computing, quantum programming, quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, and quantum simulation.
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