David Reynolds

Dr Reynolds is an accredited contaminated sites Auditor in Queensland and Western Australia, where he has been responsible for auditing a number of high-profile sites in the Defence, aviation and government sectors, including heavily PFAS impacted sites. He is also an Expert Witness providing litigation support, both as a consulting and testifying expert (Australia, Canada, and the United States).

Dr. Reynolds is a Remediation expert with substantial experience in remediation design and implementation across multiple disciplines including PFAS and organic contaminants. He is also the co-inventor of electrokinetic oxidation approaches for remediation of heterogeneous and low permeability source zones, as well as the use of electromigration for in-situ desalination.

Dr Reynolds is a qualified hydrogeologist and an expert modeller of single and multiphase flow and transport in both porous and fractured media. He has extensive experience in contaminant fate and transport modelling, with a specific skillset in PFAS fate and transport.

Dr. Reynolds career has also included time as a tenured academic and Senior Lecturer, as Research Director of a multi-partner Centre focusing on groundwater issues, and senior technical positions at several international consulting firms. Dave has been an author of several ITRC guidance documents, as well as an author on National Academies publications, and is actively involved in research and development including as a Principal Investigator for the US Department of Defense Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP).