Simon Toze obtained his PhD in Environmental Microbiology from the University of Queensland in 1992 and has been working with CSIRO since 1994 on a range of water based topics. He is also an honorary Associate Professor with the UQ School of Population Health.
He has a range of research interests which include studying the fate and behaviour of microbial pathogens in the environment; the influence of groundwater microorganisms on the biogeochemistry of aquifers; and the development of rapid and accurate molecular based methods for the tracking, detection and enumeration of viable microbial pathogens in environmental water samples.

Dr. Jatinder Sidhu is a Senior Research Scientist in CSIRO’s Oceans and Atmosphere Business Unit, and team leader Coastal Microbiology and Biogeochemistry within the Coasts program. Dr. Sidhu’s research focuses on public health and environmental microbiology with an emphasis on the quantification, fate, and transport of pathogenic microorganisms in the environment (stormwater, surface water, marine and coastal water, groundwater, recycled water, wastewater, and biosolids). His research work is also focused on the use of high-throughput genomic technologies for surveillance of pathogens and antibiotic resistance determinants in the environment.
His work includes extensive laboratory-based research to develop and evaluate methods for concentration and quantitation (molecular methods) of enteric pathogens in the laboratory with subsequent application in field-based investigations. The gathered data from the field-based studies is then used for human health risk assessments and development of risk mitigation strategies. The goal of his research is to deliver high-quality science to achieve sustainable use of water resources which meets health and environmental needs at both national and international level. He is a member of Australian Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (ASTAG).

Associate Professor Anne Roiko is the Discipline Lead for Environmental Health in the School of Medicine, Griffith University. Anne has over 30 years of professional experience in the field of environmental health, predominantly in academia. She has worked overseas as a researcher in the National Public Health Institute in Finland, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and within the water policy unit of the Environmental Protection Department in Hong Kong. She has an extensive background in transdisciplinary, team-based research, with expertise in quantitative microbial risk assessment, risk communication, health and environment data linkage and systems modelling. Her current research focuses on systems-based modelling of water-related health risks, the transfer of risk-based evidence into policy and predicting and managing the health impacts of climate change.

Declan Page holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of South Australia specializing in drinking water quality and management and an MBA from Monash University specialising in research management. He worked for several years in water utilities across Australia in catchment management, source water protection, and supply of water to rural and remote communities before he joined CSIRO in 2005. He has had a significant influence on Australian national guidance and on the science of natural and engineered water treatment and reuse systems with a particular emphasis on Managed Aquifer Recharge. He has published extensively and is a sought after national and international collaborator. He currently leads a high performing research group, delivering water reuse options to meet Australia’s urban water demands. In this work, he advocated consolidation of the assessment and planning stages of such schemes into a single nationally accepted framework and it remains the only national framework consistent with the WHO Drinking Water Guidelines. This work has been further developed by collaboration with international research projects such as the European RECLAIM WATER project where he led the international risk assessment case studies across Europe, China, Mexico, South Africa and Australia. His work in risk assessment and problem solving has contributed to the development of a full-scale follow-on project, SAPH PANI in India.

Prof. A. Tiehm, the head of the department Microbiology and Molecular Biology at TZW with experience of health related water microbiology, environmental bioremediation and wide knowledge of water diagnostic. He is leader of international research projects and a leading expert for detection of different bacteria and bacterial groups in water assessment of biodegradation processes, microbiological detection of antibiotic resistance bacteria and application of molecular biological techniques for the evidence of antibiotic resistance genes in water. Furthermore, he has extensive experiences with the elimination of chemical substances and microbial degradation in field applications.

Claudia Stange graduated with diploma in engineering (main field: biotechnology) at the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, Germany, in 2005. Since that time she works in the department of environmental biotechnology at the TZW as project scientist. She is particularly experienced in the application of molecular biological analysis of microorganisms (e.g. pathogenic and indicator) organisms), antibiotic resistance genes and Microbial Source Tracking markers.