Educated at Griffith University in Brisbane Australia with postdoctoral research positions held at University of Western Australia and University College Dublin in Ireland.

1987 - 1990: Lecturer in Applied Mathematics - Griffith University.
1991 - 1999: Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics - Griffith University.
1997 - 1999: Head of School of Applied Mathematics and Statistics.
1998 - 1999: Deputy Head of School of Science.
2000 - 2007: Reader in Hydrology - Loughborough University.
2007 - : Professor of Hydrology.
2000 - : Visiting Research Fellow appointment at Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University.
2003: Visiting Professor - Laboratoire D'Etudes des Transferts En Hydrologie Et Environment Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble France.
2004: Visiting Professor Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble France.

Broad interests and expertise

• Hydrology
• Soil physics
• Applied mathematics

Professional affiliations

• Member of the American Geophysical Union
• Member of the American Mathematical Society
• Member of the Australian Soil Science Society
• Member of the Australian and New Zealand Industrial Applied Mathematics Branch of the Australian Mathematical Society
• Member of European Geophysical Society