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When engineer and researcher Professor Denis O’Carroll first came to the Water Research Centre (WRC), he only intended to stay for a short time. 

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.

“Coming to �鶹��madou was definitely about career development,” he says.

“The 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.

The end goal in general has always been: if we can leave the world in a slightly better place than when we stepped into, that would be great.

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.

An ARC DECRA Fellow, Dr Zhang leads the Water Green Urban Management (WaterGUM) group at the WRC.