The EPSRC Programme Grant on Off-grid Water Technologies Plenary Meeting was held on the 9th December 2024. The event was held at the University of Glasgow with others joining online via Zoom. The agenda included a welcome from our Principal Investigator, Professor Bill Sloan. From the Research Team presentations were received from Dr Tania Gomez-Borraz …
Justin Sperling and Baptiste Poursat were awarded the SPIE Global Early Career Researchers Award, which will fund reciprocal researcher exchanges between the University of Glasgow (UofG) and The Phutung Research Institute (PRI) in Kathmandu, Nepal. PRI and UofG have projects aligning with the shared goal of developing new, low-cost, sustainable water monitoring sensor designed for …
We are delighted to congratulate Dr Uzma Khan on her achievement at the 6th Annual EBNet Early Career Conference (ECR24), held from July 24th-26th, 2024! The conference included parallel sessions, poster talks, a site visit and was attended by approximately 100 delegates. Dr Uzma presented her poster, “Modelling Biofilter Performance Using Machine Learning: The Merits …
We are thrilled to share our latest paper published in Water Research! In this study, we examined the transformation of DOM fractions by microbial communities at different depths of a biofilter. Our findings revealed that bottom communities are better suited to utilizing more complex organic carbon fractions, likely due to their adaptation. This opens up …
Members of the research team, Prof Bill Sloan, Prof Cindy Smith, Dr Siming You and Dinesh Bhandari attended the 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA) and Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI). The conference was held at the University of Ferrara, Italy, with the theme of exchanging research, developments, …
Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth Lawson who has been awarded a Scottish Parliament Academic Fellowship, managed and hosted by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe). The aim of the scheme is to: provide the Scottish Parliament with specialised resources, allowing it to undertake and communicate analysis which would otherwise not be possible increase use of academic …