Daniel Alessi 

December 13, 2025

DANIEL ALESSI
Professor

Daniel Alessi, an aqueous geochemist and expert on lithium extraction, joined the Jackson School of Geosciences’ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Bureau of Economic Geology as a professor in May 2025. He studies how lithium can be extracted chemically from salt flats and oil field brines.

Before joining the Jackson School, Alessi held a faculty position at the University of Alberta for 12 years. For several of those years, he worked with a company called E3 Lithium that developed synthetic materials and other technologies that can extract lithium from sedimentary brines.

Alessi also co-founded Recion Technologies, a startup in Edmonton, Alberta, which his former postdoc is now running as CEO. The company designed, scaled up and commercialized technologies to extract lithium from brines.