Nicholas D. Crosbie

I completed a BSc(Hons) (1996) with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Monash University, and then a PhD (2000) in marine botany with the Department of Tropical Plant Sciences at James Cook University whilst based at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. I was then employed as a post-doctoral researcher (2000 - 2003) at the Institute for Limnology (Austrian Academy of Sciences), now a department of the University of Innsbruck, and subsequently as a senior research associate (2003 - 2004) at the Ocean Genome Legacy Foundation (New England Biolabs), now a centre within Northeastern University, Massachusetts. From 2005 until 2008, I was employed by Inivai Technologies (Melbourne) as their Chief Technology Officer. For the last 15 years I have worked for Melbourne Water as an applied scientist and research manager specialising in water-quality risk assessment and mitigation. My research interests include harmful and nuisance algae, emerging water pollutants, waterborne pathogens, water-related illness, greenhouse gas emissions from water industry assets, and wastewater-based epidemiology.