ISMET Workshop

Prof. Tom Curtis

Prof. Tom Curtis is a professor of Environmental Engineering. He joined the University of Newcastle in 1994 after a Master and PhD in Public Health Engineering (with Duncan Mara) in Leeds and experience in construction in the Middle East and Public Health Policy in the UK's Department of Health and few months as a refuse collector. He is interested in the interaction between water, waste, the environment and health. However he has gradually moved from a focus on developing countries to the need to harness the new generation of biology and microbial ecology to enable us to develop transformative engineered biological systems.