Stuart is the Senior Curator of Geosciences at Museum Victoria. Stuart completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2007. Before joining Museum Victoria, he was a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at the University of British Columbia and was a Research Scientist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Stuart specialises in the study of secondary minerals and how they form, using a variety of methods including X-ray diffraction, synthesis and chemical/isotopic techniques. He works on minerals from deposits in Victoria (including the famous Lake Boga quarry in northern Victoria) and Australia, as well as from international occurrences (especially Cap Garonne, France and Otto Mountain, California).

Stuart holds the following positions:
Chair, XXII meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Melbourne, 2018
Secretary, the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical Association
Associate Editor, Mineralogical Magazine
Consulting Editor, Rocks & Minerals
Scientific advisor, Le Cahier des Micromonteurs

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