Prof. Dayanthi Nugegoda is the Professor of Ecotoxicology at RMIT University, Australia, and a lead researcher in the Aquatic Environmental Stress Research Group. Her group has developed novel methods to assess, monitor and evaluate the effect of toxicants and environmental stressors on aquatic organisms, and ecosystems. She has graduated with 24 Ph.D. and five MSc research students and currently supervises seven Ph.D. candidates. She served (2012-2014) on the Independent Expert Scientific Panel on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining, and the Forest Stewardship Council of Australia. She advises The New South Wales Environment Trust, the Australian Shipowners Association; the Research Councils of Hongkong, South Africa, Norway, France, Croatia, and the Netherlands; and the OECD Validation Management Group for Ecotoxicity Tests (VMG-eco); In 2015, she served on the Scientific Reference Panel for Onshore Natural Gas and Water, Victoria, and the Science Panel for the Victorian Coastal Council. In 2017 she was invited by the Lead Scientist of Victoria to the Scientific Reference Group for Onshore Conventional Gas until 2020. In 2018 she established the Aquatic Pollution Prevention Partnership at RMIT University with Melbourne Water for research in the evaluation and management of pollution in the Melbourne Waterways. Professor Nugegoda was elected President of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Australasia 2011–2013. In 2014 she was awarded a visiting Professorship at Tianjin, Chengxian University, China; in 2009 a Visiting Professorship at the Helmholtz Research Centre for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany; and a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Flinders University Research Centre for Coastal and Catchment Environments. In 2019 she was awarded the RMIT Vice-Chancellors Award for Research Impact. She has published >160 peer-reviewed journal articles, four books, five book chapters and >30 reports to the industry