Karina Yew-Hoong Gin is a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore. She received her Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 1988 and her M.Eng degree from the National University of Singapore in 1991. She obtained her Doctor of Science (ScD) degree jointly from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1996. Her research specialisation is in the area of water quality and ecosystem processes, with particular interest in understanding the fate and transport of emerging microbial and chemical contaminants of concern, including antimicrobial resistance in the urban water cycle and harmful algal blooms in tropical waters. Her research focuses on developing sensitive detection methods to study the prevalence of target contaminants; elucidating their mechanisms of action and interactions with other chemical/biological species in natural water bodies through field and laboratory experimentation; and developing environmental models for prediction. Prof Gin received the National Public Administration Medal (Bronze) (COVID-19) (2023), the COVID-19 Resilience Medal (2023) and the Dean’s Chair Award (NUS) (2017–2019).