Rate My Professor Emma Thompson Brewster

Emma Thompson Brewster's academic interests center on sustainable wastewater treatment and waste management, with a particular emphasis on single-use absorbent hygiene products such as nappies and adult incontinence products. Her research intersects waste, water, and wastewater management and treatment, resource recovery, electrochemistry, statistics, and mathematical modelling. Key publications from her career include 'Adult incontinence products are a larger and faster growing waste problem than baby diapers' (Waste Management, 2022), 'Struvite Production from Dairy Processing Waste' (Sustainability, 2022), 'Electrochemical Phosphorus Recovery from Anaerobically Digested Sludge: Improving Product Purity and Concentration' (ACS ES&T Engineering, 2024), 'The end-of-life of used pads in Australia – who is filling up the bin?' (2024), 'Staged electrochemical treatment guided by modelling allows near-complete phosphate recovery' (2020), 'A modelling approach to assess the long-term stability of a continuous flow electrochemical phosphate recovery cell' (2018), and 'A mechanistic model for electrochemical nutrient recovery systems' (2016). Through her work, she addresses pressing environmental issues related to resource recovery and waste minimization.