SEMS School Office, Engineering, Mile End

Applied academic and industrial leadership in drinking water engineering, advancing resilient solutions across the full water cycle through evidence based scale up. Expertise spans multiphase flow, process and reactor design, modelling and experimental validation, with particular relevance to persistent contaminants such as PFAS. Systems thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration guide strategic choices across sources, treatment, infrastructure, environment and society, aligning technical pathways with governance, operational constraints and public trust. Research, education and practice are integrated through a closed learning loop, translating field constraints into research questions and converting results into adoption and capability building. Process and plant design follow iterative improvement through structured testing, learning cycles and stepwise scale up. The TOSI framework supports troubleshooting, optimisation, selection of new processes and innovation, enabling robust decisions that remain implementable, explainable and scalable over the long term.