Linda Blackall
Other namesLinda Louise Blackall
Alma materThe University of Queensland
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Melbourne
ThesisActinomycete scum problems in activated sludge plants (1987)
Websitehttps://marinemicrobialsymbioses.science.unimelb.edu.au

Linda Louise Blackall FAA is an Australian microbiologist who has studied microbial communities and their applications in water management. She is professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Melbourne.[1]

Career

Blackall has a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, completed respectively in 1981, 1982, and 1987.[2] Her dissertation, in the School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, was Actinomycete scum problems in activated sludge plants.[3]

She was professor of microbiology at the University of Queensland from 1992 to 2008,[2] where she developed microbial techniques for wastewater treatment as scientific director of the Advanced Water Management Centre[4] and director of research at the Environmental Biotechnology Cooperative Research Centre; in this time period she also held an appointment as professor of microbiology at the University of New South Wales, and in 2005 she became chair of Australia's Antarctic Science Advisory Committee.[5] At the Australian Institute of Marine Science from 2008 to 2010,[2] she shifted her focus to the study of marine microbial communities.[4] She became head of biosciences at Swinburne University of Technology,[6] from 2012 to 2016. She moved to the University of Melbourne in 2017.[2]

Blackall's publications include the edited volume The Microbiology of Activated Sludge.[4] Beyond her research, she collaborates with the publishing company Small Friends Books on science communication books for children, and is a coauthor of the Small Friends book The Squid, the Vibrio and the Moon.[7]

Recognition

The Australian Society for Microbiology gave Blackall their Frank Fenner Research Award in 2001. The International Water Association gave her their Ardern–Lockett award in 2005.[6] In 2020, Blackall was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Linda Blackall FAA". Profiles. Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Blackall LL". ORCID. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Blackall, Linda Louise (1987). "Actinomycete scum problems in activated sludge plants" (PhD dissertation). University of Queensland. doi:10.14264/uql.2014.338. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. 1 2 3 "New Science Leader in Marine Microbiology announced at AIMS". Australian Institute of Marine Science. 23 October 2007. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  5. ↑ "Award-winning scientist to chair Antarctic advisory body". Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage Senator the Hon. Ian Campbell. 8 December 2005.
  6. 1 2 Spinks, Peter (17 July 2012). "The mystery behind the origin of life". Sydney Morning Herald.
  7. ↑ Lloyd, Sam (7 May 2019). "Review of The Squid, the Vibrio and the Moon". Children’s Books Daily.
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