Derek Elsworth is an English-American geoscientist and the G. Albert Shoemaker Chair in Mineral Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. [1]
Elsworth completed a bachelor of science degree with honors at Portsmouth Polytechnic, earned a master of science degree with distinction from Imperial College London, then graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a PhD. He began teaching at Pennsylvania State University in 1985. [2] In 2015, Elsworth was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering. [3] [4]