A biogeochemical engineer and environmental technologist, Professor Waite is head of the Waite Research Group in the Water Research Centre. He鈥檚 also the Executive Director and CEO of the UNSW Centre for Transformational Environmental Technologies (CTET), a Yixing-based R&D centre established five years ago.
A professor in the Water Research Centre and a former ARC Future Fellow, Professor Ni started his research career developing novel technologies to handle wastewater and municipal waste.
A sustainability scientist by training, Professor Wiedmann is interested in using ecological economics to create more sustainable planetary systems. He has built a significant body of work in the area of consumption-based accounting, which is a way of looking at both the direct and indirect environmental impacts of human activity.A sustainability scientist by training, Professor Wiedmann is interested in using ecological economics to create more sustainable planetary systems. He has built a significant body of work in the area of consumption-based accounting, which is a way of looking at both the direct and indirect environmental impacts of human activity.
When Scientia Associate Professor Min Zheng accepted a position at the Water Research Centre (WRC) in early 2024, he had a strategy in mind.
鈥淐oming to UNSW was definitely about career development,鈥 he says.
鈥淭he wastewater discipline is very strong in Australia, and within the WRC, the research field is quite broad. They have people working in groundwater, people in environmental chemistry, environmental microbiology and even hydraulics in addition to wastewater.
Science might tell us that there are up to 1,000,000 different types of algae in the world, but according to Dr Bojan Tamburic, they can be classified into two simple groups: good algae and bad algae.
Based in the UNSW Air Quality and Odour Laboratory at the Water Research Centre (WRC), Ruth works in the area of biosolids, which are the organic materials left over from wastewater treatment. Specifically, she鈥檚 interested in why biosolids smell and what can be done to mitigate their odour.
