Associate Professor Paul Jensen

Associate Professor

School of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

Associate Professor

Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
p.jensen@uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 69973

Overview

Paul Jensen is a research leader in the areas of anaerobic biotechnology and resource recovery at ACWEB; and leads projects in the areas of waste treatment with a focus on recovery of renewable energy resources, production of bio-fertilizers, bio-plastics and other high value products from wastes and other low value raw materials.

Complex challenges require multi-disciplinary thinking and Paul’s team incorporates engineering, biological sciences, modelling and information processing approaches to research and technology development for a range of partners across municipal, agricultural, animal and industrial sectors.

Paul and ACWEB are recognised as both national and global experts on biogas and resource recovery technologies. They actively contributes to over 12 research and consulting projects per year with applications across the product development cycle. Importantly, the team are having real world impact, and have contributed to a range of major wastewater infrastructure projects in the last 5 years.

Research Interests

  • Anaerobic digestion and co-digestion
  • Industrial and Agri-industrial wastewater treatment
  • Energy and resource recovery from waste
  • Characterisation of waste streams and energy potential
  • Bio-reactor design and operation
  • Genome driven process design
  • Pilot Plant and Demonstration facilities
  • Microbial Activity and Inhibition

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Engineering, The University of Queensland

Publications

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Publications

Book

  • Pikaar, Ilje, Guest, Jeremy, Ganigué, Ramon, Jensen, Paul, Rabaey, Korneel, Seviour, Thomas, Trimmer, John, van der Kolk, Olaf, Vaneeckhaute, Céline and Verstraete, Willy eds. (2022). Resource Recovery from Water : Principles and Application. London, United Kingdom: IWA Publishing. doi: 10.2166/9781780409566

Book Chapter

  • Jensen, Paul D., Astals, Sergi, Bai, Xue, Nieradzik, Ludwika, Wardrop, Peter, Batstone, Damien J. and Clarke, William P. (2022). Established full-scale applications for energy recovery from water: Anaerobic digestion. Resource Recovery from Water: Principles and Application. (pp. 99-140) IWA Publishing.

  • Jensen, Paul D., Astals, Sergi, Bai, Xue, Nieradzik, Ludwika, Wardrop, Peter, Batstone, Damien J. and Clarke, William P. (2022). Established full-scale applications for energy recovery from water: anaerobic digestion. Resource recovery from water. (pp. 99-139) London, United Kingdom: IWA Publishing. doi: 10.2166/9781780409566_0099

  • Pikaar, Ilje, Cruz, Heidy, Hülsen, Tim, Batstone, Damien, Rabaey, Korneel, Jensen, Paul, Avnimelech, Yoram and Verstraete, Willy (2022). Producing microbial-based protein from reactive nitrogen recovered from wastewater. Resource recovery from water: principles and application. (pp. 223-244) edited by Ilje Pikaar, Jeremy Guest, Ramon Ganigué, Paul Jensen, Korneel Rabaey, Thomas Seviour, John Trimmer, Olaf van der Kolk, Céline Vaneeckhaute and Willy Verstraete. London, United Kingdom: IWA Publishing. doi: 10.2166/9781780409566_0223

  • Batstone, D. J. and Jensen, P. D. (2011). Anaerobic processes. Treatise on Water Science. (pp. 615-640) edited by Peter Wilderer, Peter Rogers, Stefan Uhlenbrook, Fritz Frimmel and Keisuke Hanaki. Oxford, U.K.: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53199-5.00097-X

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Other Outputs

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

Completed Supervision