Kevin Thomas

Professor & Director, Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS)

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

About

Experience

  • Chief Investigator and Deputy-Director at HyTECH
    Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

    I am the Deputy Director and UQ Node Leader of the Environmental Science and Monitoring theme of HyTECH, the ARC Training The ARC Training Centre for Hyphenated Analytical Separation Technologies (HyTECH). HyTECH is a research and training program designed to deliver highly skilled, innovative, industry-ready analytical scientists. These scientists will be equipped to tackle the most challenging analytical science questions across a diversity of the nation’s research and development priority areas, from advanced manufacturing to food and natural products, agribusiness, and the spectrum of environmental and health sciences. Collectively, the Centre will work to address significant analytical challenges of current societal concern. Particular attention is applied to areas of food, beverage and natural products production, and environmental monitoring and health sciences, for which industry partnership and research excellence together provide the pathway to deliver the required solutions.

  • Professor & Director, Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS) at The University of Queensland
    Jan 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 7 mos

    Director of the University of Queensland's research centre the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS) https://qaehs.centre.uq.edu.au QAEHS is a research centre, jointly funded by Queensland Health and The University of Queensland (UQ). QAEHS aims to improve human health through environmental health science by addressing local, national and global environmental health science challenges and achieve first class outcomes in research, training and partnership engagement while meeting the needs of Queensland and the wider community.

  • Norsk institutt for vannforskning (NIVA) (15 yrs 7 mos)
    • Adjunct Research Professor
      Jan 2017 - Dec 2020 · 4 yrs

    • Research Director, Contaminants
      Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr

    • Head of Department, Ecotoxicology & Risk Assessment
      Jun 2005 - Dec 2015 · 10 yrs 7 mos

  • Topic Area Leader, Hazardous Substances Research at Cefas
    1995 - May 2005 · 10 yrs 5 mos

    Researcher and then topic area leader for hazardous substances research.