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Members of the Project Management Team
Professor John Langford AM
(University of Melbourne)
 John was educated at the University of Melbourne, completing a PhD in 1971.
He has had a 35 year career in the Australian water industry, serving as Chief
Executive of the Rural Water Commission of Victoria, from 1989 to 1994. From
1994 to 2003 he was the inaugural Executive Director of the Water Services
Association of Australia. He is currently Director of Uniwater, a joint venture
between Melbourne and Monash Universities. In just
2.5 years $5.80 of cash research funding has been raised for every $1 invested
in the Centre. John is a Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences
and Engineering and a Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia. and has been
awarded a Churchill Fellowship, 1973, the Peter Hughes award for contribution to
water management in Australia, 2000, Centenary Medallist, and was awarded an
Order of Australia in the Queens Birthday Honours list, 2005.
Professor Rae Mackay (University of Birmingham)
 Graduated from Imperial College, London in 1978. Following a period in
industry with Sir M Macdonald and Partners Ltd. UK, he joined the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne in 1985 and became the Director of the Centre for Land Use
and Water Resources Research spanning the Faculties of Agriculture and
Engineering before accepting the Chair in Hydrogeology in the School of Earth
Sciences at Birmingham University in 1997. His particular interests are in the
fields of groundwater engineering, groundwater pollution and water resources
development. He has worked extensively overseas. He leads the Hydrogeology
Research Group (HRG) at Birmingham and is programme director for the highly
successful MSc course in Hydrogeology. He has published widely and has
undertaken a broad range of research projects at Newcastle and Birmingham with
an annual budget of around £200K averaged over the last 20 years. Professor
Mackay is a member of the management team for a consortium of 32 partners that
was awarded in 2006 a
€23M integrated research project developing
sustainable urban water methodologies.
Professor Xiao-yan Lee (University of Hong Kong)
Obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona, USA. His Ph.D. thesis won the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award from the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) in 1997. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 1996, and presently is Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering. He was awarded an Outstanding Young Researcher by the University in 2004. Professor Li has more than fifteen years of research and engineering experience in water treatment and pollution control technologies. He is an expert in particle transport phenomenon, sediment-water-pollution interactions and membrane separation in water and wastewater treatment. He has developed models for the particle flocculation process in water, nutrient flux from sediment and membrane fouling in membrane bioreactors. In recent years, he has also been working on the research and development of advanced water and wastewater treatment technologies, including aerobic sludge granulation, membrane bioreactor, membrane filtration, ozonation and electrochemical process. He has authored or co-authored about 70 SCI journal papers and given more than 50 conference presentations.
Professor Wu-Seng
(Winston) Lung (University of Virginia)
 Received
his PhD degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1975,
specializing in water quality and ecosystem modeling. Following an 8-year
period of working in environmental consulting, he joined the Department of Civil
& Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia (UVa) in 1983 and is
now a Professor and Assistant Chair for Graduate Program. He has over 35 years
of experience in fate and transport modeling of contaminants in ecosystems. At
UVa, he has been working on estuarine modeling of eutrophication and toxic
substances for use in water quality management. His current research is in
tracking the attenuation of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and
pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) in ambient waters. In
addition to publishing over 50 refereed journal papers, he has authored two
books: Water Quality Modeling: Application to Estuaries, CRC Press, 1993
and Water Quality Modeling for Wasteload Allocations and TMDLs, John
Wiley & Sons, 2001.
Professor
Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen (McGill University)
 Completed
his Doctor of Applied
Sciences degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Montreal (Canada)
in 1979. Van Nguyen is
currently holder of the Endowed Brace Professor Chair in Civil Engineering
at McGill University. He is also Director of the Brace Centre for Water
Resources Management as well as Associate Director of the Global
Environmental and Climate Change Centre at McGill. His professional
contributions over more than 25 years have been mostly in the areas of
Hydrology and Water Resources Management. In particular, his research
interests cover a remarkable range of topics including: modelling and
analyses of various hydrologic processes (rainfalls, temperature, floods,
river flows, ice accumulations, reservoir inflows); modelling of river basin
and urban storm drainage systems; assessment of climate change impacts on
water resources; regional estimation of extreme hydrologic variables
(extreme rainfalls, floods, icing storms); forecasting and simulation of
hydrologic series (rainfall and streamflow forecasting); and management of
water resources systems for sustainable development. He is author or
co-author of over 150 papers in refereed journals, specialized monographs
and conference proceedings. He has been invited to serve in various national
and international expert committees and scientific journal editorial boards
as well as to deliver keynote lectures at many universities, scientific
conferences, and training workshops in Canada and abroad. Finally, since
several years he has been being active in international co-operation
activities that include development of joint research projects and
organization of conferences and training workshops in the fields of
hydrology and water resources management with colleagues in North-America,
Europe (France, and Switzerland), and in Asia-Pacific region (Australia,
China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam).
He has been invited professors at universities in Canada, Japan, Singapore,
and Malaysia as well as an active member in several professional
associations (AOGS, APHW, AGU, ASCE, AWRA, IAHS, and IWA). Recently, he was
elected as President of the Hydrological Science Section of the Asia-Oceania
Geosciences Society (2006-2008).
Professor Kristina Hill
(University of Virginia)
 Kristina
Hill studies and designs innovations in urban water systems that address climate
change adaptations as well as social justice. Kristina’s recent studios have
addressed these issues in New York City and Baltimore. In 2008, she began working in New Orleans with a group
of Dutch water engineers and local designers. Kristina has also established a
productive research connection with urban designers and engineers in Hamburg, one of the largest port cities in Europe, to share strategies for adapting to climate
change. Her current writing is on the connections between urban design,
infrastructure design, and water systems as social and ecological drivers.
Before coming to UVa. to be the Director
of the graduate program in landscape architecture, Hill was an associate
professor at the University of Washington, where her
primary research interest was in the area of urban ecological design. Hill has
also engaged in public service as a consultant for numerous public design
projects in Seattle; Washington, D.C; Dallas, Texas; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and
Brandenburg, Germany. She holds a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in landscape
architecture from Harvard University
Associate Professor Hu Jiangyong
(National University of Singapore)
 Associate
Professor Hu Jiangyong of the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore specializes in the
field of water treatment and water reclamation. Dr
Hu has more than thirteen years research experience on water treatment
technology enhancement and water quality control. Her
main research interests include innovative water treatment technology, detection
and removal of emerging contaminants, water disinfection and biofilm control,
organic compounds characteriation
and treatability, water quality and health effects, and nutrient removal
process.
Dr Hu has
published more than 200 technical papers. She
has been actively collaborating with local research institutes and overseas
universities. She
serves as President of Environmental Engineering Society of Singapore.
She
is currently invited by National Environmental Agency (NEA) to serve as a member
of Singapore Technical Committees on National Drinking Water Quality Standards
and water quality guidelines
for aquatic facilities;She
currently serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for a number of
international and regional journals as well as funding agencies.
Graham Steed, Project Co-ordinator
 Trained
in soil physics (PhD) at LaTrobe University then spent 16 years in research and
research management with the Victorian Department of Agriculture (Australia).
Specialised in sustainable farming systems and managed state-wide research
portfolios. Set up G R Steed & Associates Pty Ltd in 1998 and has managed
complex R&D programmes for the Grains Research and Development Corporation,
Malting Barley Quality Improvement Programme, National Water Commission, Rural
Industries RDC and is now also consulting to University of Melbourne on project
development for funding organisations including the Australian Research Council.
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