Professor Julia Lamborn received her BEng (Civil) GradDipChemEng; and MEng and PhD in Environmental Engineering, all from Swinburne University of Technology. Her PhD thesis was on landfill gas modelling. Julia is a civil, chemical and environmental engineer. She was employed by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria for 10 years as the Cooling Tower Thermal Design Engineer. During that time she designed the Loy Yang B natural draft cooling towers, supervised their construction, undertook the commissioning and oversaw the operation of the towers once the power station went into full production.

From 1990 – 2015, she has been employed at Swinburne University of Technology in the areas of civil, chemical and environmental engineering. She held multiple leadership roles during her time there including Director, Engineering Accreditation, Associate Dean (Education) and Associate Dean (Learning Innovation).

In 2015 she was appointed as Professor in Environmental Engineering and Associate Dean (Education) for the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University.

She has been very active within Engineers Australia and on State Government Statutory Authorities and Panels for over 41 years.