Water management leader honoured with ATSE fellowship

Transforming the way societies manage water has led The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Professor Zhiguo Yuan to be named a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).

Professor Yuan, Future Technologies Program Leader for the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities and Director of the UQ Advanced Water Management Centre, was named a Fellow of the prestigious academy last month.

Professor Yuan also won an ATSE Clunies Ross Award earlier this year.

ATSE fellowships recognise Australia’s leading minds in technology and engineering, and are awarded to people who apply technology in smart, strategic ways for social, environmental and economic benefit.

Fellows are drawn from academia, research, government and industry.
Professor Yuan said the fellowship also reflected the commitment of his team of scientists and engineers at the Advanced Water Management Centre, as well as their strong industry partnerships.

“When it comes to a resource as precious as water, it’s so important that we work alongside industry partners to ensure the scientific findings are rapidly translated into useful applications which benefit society.

“We’re persistently working to find practical solutions to improve wastewater process engineering, overall systems optimisation and infrastructure operation and maintenance.”

More details on the 2015 Fellows is available on the ATSE website: https://www.atse.org.au/content/publications/media-releases/2015/women-prominent-among-new-atse-fellows.aspx