APRIL 2006 NEWS

Welcome back Bojana

Congratulations to Bill Townend who successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Assessment and delivery of sustainable healthcare wastes management" on 6th April.  Bill was a part-time PhD student and he was supervised by Dr Chris Cheeseman. We wish him many congratulations.

Imperial College alumni Constanza Hernandez featured in this months issue of the "New Civil Engineer".  Colombian born Constanza did her masters degree in Environmental Engineering in 2003 and then joined Earth Tech in 2004 to work on waste water treatment projects.

Constanza is an example of how companies are training their staff in readiness for upcoming nuclear decommissioning work and she was sent to San Antonio, Texas for 6 months on-site training on the many decommisionsing projects already being undertaken in the US by her office.

Farewell to Andrew Frost who has left us recently to continue on his travels.  Andrew who is from Australia, joined us last year on a temporary basis to work as an RA with Professor Howard Wheater on research project "Improved Methods for National Spatial-Temporal Rainfall and Evaporation Modelling for Broad Scale Modelling".  He has now moved onto Lancaster University and we wish him well.

Bojana Jankovic-Nisic has returned to EWRE section an RA after having spent 5 years in consultancy where she was working on clean water supply and distribution projects from development and strategic network models for evaluation and improvement of system performance, leakage control and DMA reorganisation, water main rehabilitation planning for asset management, computational modelling of water resources systems, hydrological studies, development of sophisticated GIS systems to strategic master planning by integrating resources and pipe network development, economics of leakage and assessment of water charging schemes. 
She will be acting as a base resource researcher in developing the strategic partnership between Imperial and Yorkshire Water in the areas of water networks, energy management and optimisation