BATSTONE Damien, a deputy director of the Advanced Water Management Centre, and leads the anaerobic biotechnology and resource recovery groups in this center. He is a current UQ Vice Chancellor’s Teaching and Research Fellow (2016-2019). International activities include chair of the IWA Anaerobic Digestion Specialist Group, and chair or member of multiple IWA task and working groups, including Anaerobic Digestion, CFD, Physicochemical modeling, and Benchmarking. He has over 4200 citations (2800 in the last 5 years) with H-index of 34.