Editorial Board Member

A/P Karina Gin is an Associate Professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore. She received her Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 1988 and M.Eng Degree from the National University in Singapore in 1991. She obtained her Doctor of Science (ScD) Degree jointly from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1996. Her research specialisation is in the area of water quality and ecosystem processes, with particular interest in understanding the fate and transport of emerging microbial and chemical contaminants of concern including antimicrobial resistance in the urban water cycle and harmful algal blooms in tropical waters. A/P Gin is a Principle Investigator of research projects totalling more than $16.5m and received the Dean’s Chair Award (NUS). She is co-author of a book on ‘The Environment in Asia Pacific Harbours’ which received a UN Atlas of the Ocean award (2006) and co-recipient of the Technology Enterprise Challenge (TEC) Innovator Award (2005).

Emerging chemical contaminants, Pathogens and indicators, Fate and transport, Water quality, Algal blooms, Toxin and off-flavors