ANZBP - Lunch & Learn Webinar Series: PFAS and Biosolids

Understanding PFAS in our Environment - Opportunities to Enable Conversations About Risk
Jen Martin, FACTRA - Technical Director - Risk Assessment, Arcadis Australia Pacific 

Jen Martin is a Technical Director who has recently joined Arcadis with over 17 years’ experience in human health and ecological risk assessment. She has a strong interest in enabling research projects and programs to target proportionate risk assessment that can enable operational outcomes. In this capacity she is an industry supervisor to a PhD project developing integrated intake-PBPK models for livestock exposure to PFAS. She was formerly a member of the National Chemicals Working Group sub-committee for biosolids during her employment at EPA Victoria.

PFAS and Biosolids – Update to the PFAS National Environment Management Plan (PFAS NEMP)​
Dr Shaun Thomas (BSc Hons, PhD)
Principal Adviser Wastewater – South Australian Environment Protection Authority

Shaun has 18 years of experience at the EPA in a number of roles and has worked in both environmental risk assessment and, more recently, regulation of a range of wastewater focused industries. This has included licensing of municipal wastewater treatment facilities and oversight of processes enabling beneficial reuse of different waste streams (recycled water & biosolids). In addition, Shaun has been a member of the National Chemicals Working Group under HEPA, which has prepared the PFAS National Environment Management Plan 2.0, is leading some of the water-focused work going into the next version of the PFAS NEMP.