Editorial Board Member

Dr Jake O’Brien is a Research Fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS). He has a keen interest in wastewater-based epidemiology and under the supervision of Professor Jochen Mueller, his PhD research project at The University of Queensland focused on refining the uncertainties and expansion of wastewater-based epidemiology for assessing population exposure to chemicals (conferred in 2017, UQ). He is also interested in understanding the fate of chemicals both within the sewer network and in wastewater treatment plants, developing analytical methods for chemicals of emerging concern, and characterizing plastics within biological and environmental samples. Jake is also a Chief Investigator on the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program funded by the Australian Criminal Intelligence. He has published more than 90 peer reviewed articles in high impact factor journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Trends in Analytical Chemistry (TrAC), Water Research, Environmental Science & Technology, Environment International, Science of the Total Environment, Medical Journal of Australia and Addiction.

Wastewater-based epidemiology, Emerging contaminants, Analytical chemistry, High-resolution mass spectrometry, Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry