Peter Dowd (academic)

Peter Alan Dowd (born July 1946 in Australia) is an Australian scientist who is Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide.

He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2006, the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1998, the Royal Society of Arts in 1994, and is a fellow or member of numerous other mining-related professional and academic organisations. He was selected to deliver the Georges Matheron Lecture in 2013 by the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences.