Fidelis T. Suorineni graduated in geological engineering in 1980 from the Institute of Mining and Mineral Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and was retained as a teaching assistant in the School of Mines, Tarkwa, from 1980 to 1982. In 1982/83 he was awarded the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zummenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH scholarship to study in the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Britain, where he obtained his M.Sc. in rock mechanics and excavation engineering.

He returned to Ghana in 1983, and was appointed lecturer that year in the University of Science and Technology School of Mines, Tarkwa, where he taught soil and rock mechanics and mineral exploration geophysics in the departments of mining and geological engineering. Dr. Suorineni was appointed Senior Lecturer in the University of Science and Technology in 1989, where he continued to teach until 1994.

As faculty, Dr. Suorineni developed the soil and rock mechanics and exploration geophysics programs in the University of Science and Technology School of Mines, Tarkwa, and was responsible for establishing the soil and rock mechanics laboratory in 1985 through funding from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In 1985, he was granted a UNDP fellowship to University of Sheffield, Britain where he undertook special training in soil and rock testing. In 1980-82 he introduced and led geological field trips in the geological and mining engineering departments. Between 1985 and 1994 Dr. Suorineni provided consulting services to the mining and construction industries in Ghana including Ashanti Goldfields Company, Canadian-Bogoso Gold Resources, and the Ghana-Australia Goldfields Limited.

In 1994 Dr. Suorineni moved to Canada under the Ghana government scholarship, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Waterloo. Dr. Suorineni has since 1998 been working in the Geomechanics Research Centre, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada, where he is currently a Senior Research Engineer and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Engineering.

Dr. Suorineni has extensive experience in teaching and research with special interests in