Dr. Rouzbeh Abbassi has a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and a Master's degree in Environmental Engineering. He obtained his doctoral degree in Environmental Engineering from Memorial University, Canada. He spent four years as postdoctoral Research Fellow at Memorial University and Princeton University, USA focusing on integrating water/wastewater treatment processes with risk models to predict the environmental impact of these processes. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental, Safety and Risk Engineering at the School of Engineering at Macquarie University.