David Ian GrovesDavid was born in Brighton, UK, but mainly educated in Australia. He is Emeritus Professor of Economic Geology at the University of Western Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a National Geoscience Champion, having received nmerous medals and other awards for his teaching and research. He is also a consultant to the mining and exploration industry, mainly involved in conceptual targeting for discovery of new mineral deposits. He has adapted his holistic and multi-scale approach to forensic geological studies into the writing of cerebral thriller, mystery and mystical novels, involving a gold exploration background, with The Plagues' Protocol the first of this genre and Destiny on Magic White Mountain the second. Read More Read Less