Prof. Dr. Sonia Heaven is an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Engineering within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton, and previously Head of the Water and Environmental Engineering Group. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Cambridge (1980), a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Leeds (1983), a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Open University (1994), and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Southampton (2007). Prof. Dr. Heaven is a Chartered Civil Engineer with 7 years of experience in the UK water and wastewater industry. While employed by Southampton she spent 7 years in central Asia working on a wide range of environmental problems. She has worked on the EPSRC-funded SUE Waste programme, the EU FP6 CROPGEN project, and the EU FP7 All-Gas project, and was coordinator of the EU FP7 project VALORGAS: Valorisation of food waste to biogas. She is a Member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmenta