Associate Professor Anthony Stickland is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering within the Melbourne School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He obtained his BSc (Hons), BE (Chemical Engineering, Hons), and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, completing his doctorate in 2005. Following his PhD, Stickland worked for four years in industry with ICI (later AkzoNobel), first at their corporate research centre in Wilton, UK, and then at their coil coating research and development centre in Sunshine, Victoria. In mid-2009, he returned to the Department of Chemical Engineering as a Research Fellow, securing a permanent position as Senior Lecturer in 2012, and has since advanced to Associate Professor. He lectures courses such as Advanced Thermodynamics and Reactor Engineering, Particle Mechanics and Processing.

Stickland's primary research area is the flow and deformation—or rheology—of particulate suspensions under shear loads, such as in pipe flow, or compressive loads, such as in filtration. His interests encompass solid-liquid separation, suspension rheology, wastewater treatment, and minerals processing. He has led multiple projects, including Biosolid Flow, Separation and Activity in Anaerobic Lagoons; Concept Testing of a Novel Process for Enhanced Solid-Liquid Separation of Waste Reprocessing Streams; Reducing Land and Infrastructure Requirements for Water Evaporation from Biosludge through Dry Stacking; and Bacteriophages for Foam Control in Wastewater Processing. Applications of his work include wastewater treatment sludges, water treatment sludges, minerals tailings, algal biomass, and paper recycling process streams. Stickland serves on the council of the Australian Society of Rheology, has acted as former president, chaired the Australia-Korea Rheology Conference organizing committee, and participates in scientific committees such as FILTECH. His contributions extend to practical innovations like high-pressure dewatering technologies and patents such as An Apparatus for Dewatering a Suspension (2024).

Professional Email: stad@unimelb.edu.au