Emma Thompson Brewster

Emma's current research interests are sustainable wastewater treatment and waste management of single-use absorbent hygiene products. Emma completed her PhD at the Advanced Water Management Centre at the University of Queensland in 2017 on the topic of nutrient recovery from wastewater and completed an industry based postdoctoral position in 2018/2019 at the Sustainable Minerals Institute also at UQ designing a system for recovering metals from acid mine drainage for commercial development. Her research interests intersect waste/water/wastewater management and treatment, resource recovery, electrochemistry, statistics and mathematical modelling. Prior to her PhD, Emma worked for the Queensland Department of Energy and Water Supply as a graduate engineer after completing her Bachelor of Environmental Engineering (Hons I) at UQ.