Academic Staff

Professor Simon Beecham

Professor Beecham is Professor of Sustainable Water Resources Engineering. He specialises in Securing Water Supplies, Water Recycling Systems Design and Risk Management for Water Reuse. His research projects include: total water cycle management; water sensitive urban design; computational fluid dynamics, modelling of free surface flows; sewer system modelling; siphonic roof water harvesting and climate change impacts on urban water systems. E:simon.beecham@unisa.edu.au

Associate Professor Linda Zou

Associate Professor Linda Zou has 15 years of research experience on developing innovative solutions to solve water pollution problems. Her main research contributions include nanomaterials synthesis and their application in water purification and novel membrane desalination process. A/Prof Zou has contributed in developing low energy alternative desalination methods of capacitive deionisation process, which promises greatly improved electrode efficiency. A/Prof Zou is the Chief Investigator of eight national competitive ARC Linkage and Discovery projects. She is also the Deputy Director of the CWMR. E:linda.zou@unisa.edu.au

Dr Ian Clark

Associate Professor Clark is a geoscientist who specialises in treatment for fit for purpose reuse. His current research in environmental management and sustainability includes geological aspects of groundwater resources in fractured rock aquifers and projects related to resource and environmental management in parks and natural settings.
E: ian.clark@unisa.edu.au

Dr John van Leeuwen

Dr John van Leeuwen is a Senior Research Fellow specialising in water and wastewater treatment and reuse. He has developed models and software which enable rapid prediction of chemicals required for optimum treatment of raw waters for drinking purposes. He is an adjunct professor with the State Key Laboratory for Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. E:john.vanleeuwen@unisa.edu.au

Mr David Pezzaniti

Mr David Pezzaniti is a Senior Research Engineer specialising in Securing Water Supplies, Treatment for fit for purpose reuse and Risk Management for Water Reuse. His research interests include harvesting, treatment and reuse at all catchment scales; Integrated Institutional Frameworks; infiltration systems; irrigation systems and continuous simulation modelling for reuse. His expertise also extends to grey water reuse, hydrology and runoff pollution control. E:david.pezzaniti@unisa.edu.au

Dr Guna Hewa

Dr Hewa lectures in Civil and Water Engineering in the School of Natural and Built Environments. She has been researching into low flow hydrology since 1995. Guna is currently researching climate change effects on environmental flows and regional low flow predictions. She is also examining hydrological droughts in a changing climate and understanding the effects of WSUD measures on restoring environmental flows.  E: guna.hewa@unisa.edu.au

Associate Professor Ali Hassanli

Associate Professor Ali Hassanli is a Senior Research Fellow specialising in irrigation, water use efficiency, salinity management and environmental degradation. His research interests include reuse of wastewater for sustainable irrigation, urban and farmland salinity, soil and water monitoring for sustainable agriculture and water harvesting and management in arid and semi-arid regions. He is also a senior academic member of Shiraz University, Iran. E: ali.hassanli@unisa.edu.au

Dr Terry Lucke

Dr Lucke has over ten years of experience in the water industry. He completed his PhD in CWMR investigating the role of aeration in siphonic roofwater harvesting systems. His current research interests also include other water sensitive urban design technologies such as permeable pavements. E: terry.lucke@unisa.edu.au

Professional Staff

Mr Neill Sanderson

Neill is Research Centre Administrator. E: neill.sanderson@unisa.edu.au

Mr Ashley Hasler

Ashley is  Technical Officer. E: ashley.hasler@unisa.edu.au

Adjunct Professor Dennis Mulcahy 

Adjunct Professor Dennis Mulcahy is currently a member of the Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA) Education Committee. He was formerly Education and Training Program Leader for the CRC for Water Quality and Treatment. His research interests include physical, analytical and environmental chemistry, including the development of microelectronic sensors. E:dennis.mulcahy@unisa.edu.au

Adjunct Professor John Argue

Adjunct Professor Argue is the doyen of Water Sensitive Urban Design and editor of the definitive manual on this subject. Winner of numerous awards for his pioneering research into urban water resources management, he continues to inspire his colleagues and research students. His Handbook "Water Sensitive Urban Design: a handbook for Australian practice" is endorsed by the AWA and SIA.  E: john.argue@unisa.edu.au

Adjunct Professor Don Bursill

Adjunct Professor Don Bursill, has more than 35 years experience in water resources and water quality management. He is internationally acknowledged as one of Australia's most respected water scientists. He was responsible for establishing and directing the Australian Water Quality Centre in South Australia. E:don.bursill@unisa.edu.au

Adjunct Associate Professor Chris Saint

Adjunct Professor Saint has 24 years experience in environmental science including: biochemistry and genetics of pollutant biodegradation; cyanobacterial, bacterial and protozoan detection methodologies; taste and odour issues; water treatment and wastewater microbiology and pathogens in catchments. E: chris.saint@sawater.com.au 

Adjunct Associate Professor Chris Chow

Adjunct A/Prof. Chris Chow is a Senior Research Chemist with the Water Treatment Unit, AWQC, SA Water. Chris is also an Adjunct Research Professor with the Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. At CWMR he is the leader of the Advanced Water Quality Sensing and Optimisation group. E: chris.chow@sawater.com.au 

Adjunct Research Fellow Mr Lynn Brake

Mr Lynn Brake is a Senior Research Fellow who specialises in Risk Management for Water Reuse and in the human aspects of water management and use in rural and outback landscapes. He has worked on research projects and consultancies on water policy, planning, conflict management, and resource use.  E: lynn.brake@unisa.edu.au 

Adjunct Associate Professor Gayle Newcombe

Dr Newcombe is the Research Leader of the Applied Chemistry Unit of the Australian Water Quality Centre. She has worked in the drinking water industry for 17 years, participating in, and leading, research projects investigating activated carbon treatment (adsorption and biofiltration) and oxidation of taste and odour compounds, NOM and algal toxins. 

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Lionel Ho

Dr Ho is a Senior Research Scientist at the Australian Water Quality Centre, where he has been involved in a range of nationally and internationally funded research projects encompassing the entire water cycle. He has over 10 years experience in the water industry with expertise in areas including water treatment, analysis and treatment of cyanobacterial metabolites and aquatic microbiology.

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr.Tapas Biswas

Dr Biswas's research areas include irrigation, drainage, salinity and nutrient management with special emphasis on root zone solute and water dynamics. While addressing the sustainability issues of precision irrigated agriculture, his work aims to assist growers, irrigation technologists and policy makers in measuring and managing water use, deep drainage and farm salinity.

Adjunct Professor Wang Dongsheng

Dr Dongsheng, is Co-Director of the State Key Laboratory for Environmental Aquatic Chemistry (SKLEAC), Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He is internationally recognised for his research into water and wastewater treatment and coagulation technology, and his research focuses on achieving advanced novel drinking water treatment technologies for high quality drinking water and supply.