1. Surrey Water: Innovations, Learning and Teaching (SWIRL)
Prof. Soon-Thiam Khu
Professor of Urban Water Systems Engineering
Director of Centre for Environmental & Health Engineering
University of Surrey, UK
Surrey Water: Innovations, Learning and Teaching (SWIRL)
1-4 Land cover and land-use change and climate change mitigation
2-1 Water resources management under complex, multi-stressor conditions
2-2 Toxicants, environmental pollutants & land & water resources mgt.
2-5 Urban biodiversity and green infrastructure.
3-3 Contribution to the assessment of global water resources through the use of new Earth Observation datasets and techniques
5-5 Network for forward looking activities & assessmt of research & ……

2. Surrey Water: Innovations, Learning and Teaching (SWIRL)
Water infrastructure in urban/ built-up area
Environmental problems associated with Urban expansion (pollution, runoffs, Urban Heat Island)
Asset management and information systems optimisation
Ageing infrastructure and technology lock-in
Water and sanitation provisions in developing countries -Assisting WHO and NGOs
Novel Water and wastewater treatment systems
Desalination +membrane+ nanotechnology+ photonics
Synthetic Biology/ Chemistry/ Ecology WWT
Regulatory framework and strategy for water management
Life cycle analysis – Water Framework Directive)
Industrial ecology/ ecosystem services
Water and energy nexus within buildings

3. Personal background Research interests:
Civil Engineer, worked as site engineer and structural designer prior to academia career
Previous FP experience:
TiGReSS: mitigating technology lock-in in urban water infrastructure systems
AquaREC: water re-use optimisation techniques
NeWater: optimal scenario analysis for water infrastructure design
ISBP: optimal design and mitigating technology lock-in in urban development scenarios
AMWUREC: uncertainty analysis of water infrastructure for rapidly urbanising areas in China
SPRING: road mapping and forward looking analysis of research collaboration between EU and China
Method of setting water quality standards for water bodies in China and comparison with EU WFD
Other RCUK projects
Research interests:
Integrated modelling of urban water infrastructure
Water quality modelling in rivers, lakes and water distribution networks
Impact of urbanisation on water resources management