Distinguished Lecture Series : Resource Recovery and Concentrate Management for a Sustainable Future

Dr. Jega is a Professor of Environmental Engineering and Director of Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre at the School of Engineering of RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is also the Secretary of the Stormwater Quality Improvement Device Evaluation Protocol Governance Panel of the Stormwater Australia. His expertise lies in the fields of Water (Treatment, Distribution, modelling) Wastewater (MBR, Membranes in Agriculture, Aquaculture), Saltwater Intrusion, Integrated Water Management, Resource Recovery (Mine Tailing Ponds, Dye and Salt from Textile Effluent) and Novel Hybrid Technologies (Reverse Osmosis, Forward Osmosis, Membrane Distillation). He has won grants to work on integrated water management through the application of advanced wastewater treatments (Research Exchange with the Universidad Estuado de Maringa), Advancing research cooperation through joint workshops between Australia and India: water scarcity and ways to reduce the impact, funded by the Australia India Council Grant. He is currently involved in the Climate Resilience Honiara project that focuses on designing solutions to mitigate water, sanitation, drainage, waste, and flood risks in five highly vulnerable settlements in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Dr. Jega is the Editor in Chief of Environmental Quality Management (a journal of Wiley Publisher) and a book series on Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for a Sustainable Future (by Springer Publisher). He is one of the Founders and the Series Chairman of an International conference on the Challenges in Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE) that is being held annually in several countries since 2008. Dr. Jega has more than 400 publications in the form of peer reviewed journal and conference articles, book chapters, editorials and commercial-in-confidence reports.