David McCarthy

David McCarthy (born July 11, 1981) is a civil engineer, urban hydrologist, and an academic. He is an associate professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Queensland University of Technology. He is the founder of the Environmental and Public Health Microbiology Laboratory (EPHM Lab) and the BoSL Water Monitoring and Control lab, both at Monash University. His research interests span the field of integrated water management, with a particular focus on urban hydrology, stormwater harvesting and reuse, and green water technologies. McCarthy is a Churchill Fellow, FASIC Fellow, and a Victoria Fellow. He is an Editor of Water Research. Education McCarthy earned a BSc in mathematics and physics in 2004, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering in 2005 from Monash University. He undertook postgraduate research in the Civil Engineering Department there from 2005 and completed his PhD in 2009. His PhD thesis was titled "Modeling microorganisms in urban stormwater". Career Following his PhD, McCarthy started his academic career as a Lecturer in the Civil Engineering Department at Monash University in 2010. Later, in 2013, he was appointed Senior Lecturer, a position he held for two years. Since 2016, he has been serving as an associate professor in Water Engineering in the Civil Engineering Department at Monash University. In 2023, he moved to Queensland University of Technology.