Associate Professor Shirley Gato-Trinidad is currently the Associate Dean, Education in the School of Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. Shirley's research interests are in water resources engineering and management, urban water demand modelling, and green infrastructures such as constructed wetlands, and rainwater tanks. Prior to joining Swinburne University of Technology, Shirley has more than 15 years’ experience working in the water industry, in different government and engineering consulting organisations in Australia, Thailand and the Philippines. Shirley has been with Swinburne University of Technology for more than 15 years in varying roles including as Associate Professor; Associate Dean of Education; Deputy Department Chair for Civil and Construction Engineering; and as Course Coordinator for Undergraduate Civil Engineering. Shirley has supervised 15 PhD students to completion to date and published several papers in peer- reviewed conferences and highly ranked journals. Shirley has been invited as External Examiners of PhD and master’s Theses; as Guest Editors of Special Journal Issues; as Conferences’ Committee member; and as reviewer of high-quality journals and peer- reviewed conferences.