- Research Fellow, International Water Centre, Griffith University
Benny (PhD, MPhil, and BEng) is currently research fellow at the International WaterCentre. He has a sanitary and environmental engineer background, and has experience as engineer, researcher, and lecturer.
Benny has joint expertise in water, sanitation, modelling, and ecology. He has worked across multiple dimensions of these disciplines, including research projects of nature-based, low-cost wastewater treatment technologies to management of harmful algal blooms, WASH in informal urban settlements, water quality and hydraulics using IoT and data-driven modelling solutions.
Benny is interested in applied research with impact, with several of his projects tied to water utilities, international organisations (eg WHO), government agencies and research institutions from Australia, South America, Europe and the Pacific.
Experience
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2023–presentResearch Fellow, International WaterCentre - Griffith University
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2023–2023Senior research consultant, Institute of Sustainable Futures - UTS
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2021–2023Research fellow, Deakin University
Education
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2022Griffith University, PhD - Water and Environmental Engineering
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2017Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), MPhil - Environmental Engineering
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2014Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), BEng (Hons) - Sanitary and Environmental Engineering
Publications
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2024A multi-country survey on sanitation systems in underserved urban settlements in the Melanesian Pacific region, NPJ Clean Water
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2024Experimental Study on the Hydraulic Impact of Discrete Top Blockages in Gravity Sewers, Engineering Proceedings
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2024Transitioning practices of water utilities from reactive to proactive: Leveraging Australian best practices in digital technologies and data analytics, Journal of Hydrology
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2024Investigation on the Water Depth of Choked Flow due to Bottom Blockages in Circular Open Channels, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
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2023Smart water networks: A systematic review of applications using high-frequency pressure and acoustic sensors in real water distribution systems, Journal of Cleaner Production
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2023In-Lake Mechanisms for Manganese Control—A Systematic Literature Review, Sustainability
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2023A probabilistic decision support tool for prediction and management of rainfall-related poor water quality events for a drinking water treatment plant, Journal of Environmental Management
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2023Cyanobacteria removal by electroflotation with titanium electrodes, Desalination and Water Treatment
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2022Automation of species-specific cyanobacteria phycocyanin fluorescence compensation using machine learning classification, Ecological Informatics
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2022Chlorophyll and phycocyanin in-situ fluorescence in mixed cyanobacterial species assemblages: Effects of morphology, cell size and growth phase, Water Research
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2022Cyanobacteria species dominance and diversity in three Australian drinking water reservoirs, Hydrobiologia
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2021Light-induced fluorescence quenching leads to errors in sensor measurements of phytoplankton chlorophyll and phycocyanin, Water Research
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2020A systematic literature review of forecasting and predictive models for cyanobacteria blooms in freshwater lakes, Water Research
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2019Hybrid constructed wetlands system with intermittent feeding applied for urban wastewater treatment in South Brazil, Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
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2016Organic load and hydraulic regime influence over the bacterial community responsible for the nitrogen cycling in bed media of vertical subsurface flow constructed wetland, Ecological Engineering
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