Professor
Wendy TimmsProfile page
Professor, Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering/Centre for Sustainable Bio-Products
- Professor, Environmental EngineeringFaculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering/Centre for Sustainable Bio-Products
- Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216
BIO
Dr Wendy Timms has ~30 years of professional experience, mainly in Australia and Canada, on water and waste issues in both agriculture and mining. She has experience across consulting engineering, government, research and education as a hydrogeologist and environmental engineer. She focuses on porous earth and water systems at various scales (e.g. groundwater, biochar in soils).
Wendy leads and contributes to research projects funded by the Australian Research Council and various partners, generating new knowledge and technologies and developing leading practices. Information on publications and current research is available on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.
Wendy was appointed as a Professor in the Deakin School of Engineering in 2018. From 2012 to 2018 Wendy was the Director of Postgraduate Coursework and Senior Lecturer at UNSW School of Mining Engineering and affiliated with Mining Education Australia, the Australian Centre for Sustainable Mining practices (ACSMP), the UNSW Connected Waters Initiative. Wendy was a founding CI in the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, focused on aquitard research from 2009-2015. Prior to this Wendy worked as a consulting Senior Project Engineer (2003-2011) and as a hydrogeologist for the NSW government (1996-1997) and in Saskatchewan Canada (2002-2003).
Wendy has also worked on projects in NSW, Queensland and Northern Territory, Canada and New Zealand, and inspected project sites around the world including South Africa, Namibia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Korea, Singapore, Italy, Morroco, Poland, France, Austria, Germany, UK, USA and Chile.
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT
- Professor, Environmental EngineeringDeakin University, School of Engineering
DEGREES
- PhDUNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia1998 - 2001
- B.Sc. (Hons 1st class)Australian National University, Canberra, 19961996 - 1996
- B.Sc.University of Newcastle Australia, Newcastle, Australia1991 - 1995
FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)
- Geology
- Hydrology
- Civil engineering
- Resources engineering and extractive metallurgy
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience
- Soil chemistry and soil carbon sequestration (excl. carbon sequestration science)
- Water resources engineering
AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION
- Masters by Research and PhD supervision
AREA/FACULTY
- Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE
- School of Engineering
STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE
- Centre for Sustainable Bio-Products