Dr. Nicholas Ashbolt was born, raised and educated in Australia. He received his undergraduate ( B.Ag.Sc. Hons) and graduate (Ph.D.) degrees in microbial ecology from the University of Tasmania. Before Nick moved to the United States to work for the EPA, he held a number of positions with various research institutions. He was the principal wastewater scientist for Australian Water Technologies Science and Environment (the research arm of Sydney Water Corp.) before joining the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney in 1994 where he was the Deputy Director of the Centre for Water and Waste Technology, the Education Coordinator for the Cooperative Research Center for Waste Management and Pollution Control, a full professor, and most recently served as the Head of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Among his numerous accomplishments, Nick has successfully supervised 18 Ph.D. and 3 M.Sc. recipients, published 31 book chapters and 112 journal articles, and served as the principle investigator on a number of multi-national research projects, including the European Union MicroRisk Project (www.microrisk.com), Swedish Urban Water Programme (www.urbanwater.org) and American Water Works Research Foundation Catchment Modeling Project
