Prof. Memon was awarded the Her Majesty’s prestigious Chevening scholarship for an MSc in Environmental Engineering, followed by a PhD at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London. Before joining Exeter, at Imperial College London, he worked for about 10 years in various capacities, including as the project manager for a GBP 2.7 million EPSRC cum industry-funded 4-year multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional project on Water Cycle Management for New Developments (WaND). He coordinated a team of over 30 senior researchers from 8 UK institutions and 20 industrial collaborators and was responsible for the delivery of high-quality project outputs including over 20 water-planning tools. Fayyaz specialises in sustainable water management, and his research interests include water reuse technologies, water consumption trends, water-using micro-components, disaggregation, rainwater harvesting, grey water recycling, urban water system analysis, life cycle analysis, carbon footprinting, the implications of water demand management for water distribution and wastewater collection systems, sustainable drainage systems, machine learning, multi-criteria-based decision support systems, the water–food–energy nexus, net-zero water management, and water management in developing countries. Fayyaz has led various international initiatives. His net contribution to successful grant applications is well over GBP 5 million.