Name: Muttucumaru Sivakumar Highest qualification and awarding university PhD, University of Newcastle, Australia Designation Assoc. Professor Employer University of Sydney Contact details: Email: WhatsApp number/Mobile number +61417403852 Home page link on your employer web site if available Key areas of interest Water quality monitoring and modelling of engineering systems; development of sustainable water and wastewater treatment technologies; prediction of pollutant export from urban catchments; environmental hydraulics; water resources engineering including development of coastal reservoirs Web link for personal profile Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GQ1tsFIAAAAJ&hl=en
Brief career profile
Prof Sivakumar is a Civil and Environmental Engineer, an Associate Professor and Academic Program Director of Environmental Engineering at the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia. He has over 30 years of experience in research and teaching in Australian and overseas Universities. He has published over 200 technical papers including over 75 peer journal papers/book chapters that are relevant to water environmental engineering. Over 25 PhDs have completed under his supervision. As the founder of the Environmental engineering program at the University of Wollongong, Dr Sivakumar has been instrumental in bringing research and teaching activities in this area.
Research projects on-going
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Coastal reservoirs as a sustainable strategy for water security. Funding: SPARC, Govt of India. PI M Sivakumar
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The state-of-the-art third-generation nanopore sequencing platform to support
environmental biotechnology and health research, Funding, UOW, CI M Sivakumar
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Hybrid membrane distillation processes. Funding: UOW. PI M Sivakumar