Dr Marie Bigot has been working as a senior ecotoxicologist at Hydrobiology in Brisbane for the past 2 years after graduating from a PhD at Griffith University in 2016. Her experience in the environmental industry extends across a range of disciplines, including human health and ecological risk assessments, impact assessments, as well as ecotoxicity and environmental monitoring investigations. She is currently part of the environmental risk assessment team at Hydrobiology and has worked on multiple ecotoxicology investigations of freshwater and marine environments, particularly through the assessment of water quality and metal concentrations in tissues of aquatic organisms as well as the use of chemical modelling tools.