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Buddhi Wijesiri

Research Associate in Water and Environmental Engineering, Queensland University of Technology

Research Associate in Water and Environmental Engineering, Queensland University of Technology I aspire to ensure access to adequate and safe water for ever-increasing populations. The fundamental purpose of my research is safeguarding water resources by mitigating water pollution. As such, I create knowledge and mathematical tools to understand the terrestrial processes that degrade water resources, essential for designing effective pollution mitigation measures. I possess expertise and experience in applying physically-based and statistical modelling techniques in multiple computing platforms together with locally-sourced field data and data extracted from global databases to understand mechanisms of hydrological and pollution processes. In particular, I have successfully applied Bayesian Networks (BNs) and geospatial analysis to understand complex non-linear relationships among variables that determine pollutant behaviours in water environments. My long-term research investigates how environmental changes and urbanisation influence degradation of water resources.