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4.08/20/2025

Makes learning engaging and enjoyable.

4.05/21/2025

Always fair, constructive, and supportive.

5.03/31/2025

Always supportive and deeply knowledgeable.

4.02/27/2025

Always prepared and organized for students.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Anthony

Dr. Anthony Umeh is a Research Fellow at the Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER) and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Science, College of Engineering, Science and Environment at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He holds a PhD in Environmental Remediation from the University of Newcastle, a Master of Science from Lancaster University, England, and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Zoology from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Dr. Umeh's expertise encompasses emerging contaminants, contaminant fate and transport modelling, adsorption-based technologies for remediation, contaminant bioaccessibility and bioavailability, human and ecological health risk assessments, soil geochemistry, and environmental statistics. He leads projects on in-situ immobilisation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in soil and groundwater, PFAS transport funded by industry, and has experience with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) risk assessments in former gasworks site soils. With collaborators, he published the first machine learning application for PFOS sorption prediction in tropical and temperate soils.