Adjunct Faculty

Shirin Bahrami

PhD, P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Environmental, Civil and Chemical/Biochemical engineering and biology

Damien Batstone

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Wastewater Management

Jonathan A. Black

PhD, PGCert.

Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical Engineering

Storer Boone

PhD, P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical engineering in regards to foundations, tunneling & excavation, transportation, infrastructure, and risk analysis.

Amy B. Cerato

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical engineering, prediciting expansive soil behaviour using microscale properties and foundation design for alternative energy.

Hany El Naggar

PhD., P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical Engineering, soil structure interaction and dynamic behavior of geomaterials

Elsayed Elbeshbishy

PhD, P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Anaerobic digestion, Pretreatment of municipal solid wastes, Co-digestion, Biohydrogen and biomethane production, Nutrients recovery from waste and wastewater Microbial melectrolysis cell and microbial fuel cell, Anaerobic embrane bioreactor (AnMBR)

Salah El-Din El-Fitiany

PhD., P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: structure retrofitting, seismic analysis, and foundation assessment/upgrade; Specialized in nonlinear thermal analysis and fire analysis to ensure structural integrity and safety

Mahmoud (Meckkey) Elsharnouby

PhD, P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical Engineering, marine terminal infrastructure, linear infrastructure, surface mining, machine foundations, shallow and deep foundations, geotechnical engineering, geo-dynamic engineering, and computational geomechanics

Michael Etezad

PhD, PEng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical Engineering within the mining and hydropower business sectors

Hisham Hafez

PhD, P.Eng., MBA

Research Interests / Specializations: Environmental Engineering: Water/wastewater treatment

Ahmed Hamada

Ph.D., P.Eng., M.ASCE, M.CSCE

Research Interests / Specializations: Structural and Wind Engineering, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Heavy Timber and Light-Framed Wood Structures, Artifical Intelligence in Structural Engineering
Teaching: Western University

Dwight Houweling

PhD, P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Water resource recovery engineer; Wastewater treatment; Biological nutrient removal, MABR, Anammox, Process Modelling/Optimization

Chowdhury Jubayer

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Wind engineering

Jidong Kang

PhD, PEng, I.W.E.

Research Interests / Specializations: Experimental studies and modeling in mechanical behavior of structural materials, physical metallurgy, welding mechanics, and stress corrosion cracking of pipelines.

Peter King

PhD, PEng

Research Interests / Specializations: Structural Engineering with emphasis on the dynamics and wind effects on bridges.

Thomas G. Mara

PhD, P.Eng

Research Interests / Specializations: Structural Engineering, Wind Engineering

Silvana Micic

PhD., P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical Engineering

Ashraf Nassef

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms, Structural Optimization, Shape and Topology Optimization

Denis O'Carroll

PhD, P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Environmental and Geoenvironmental

Maryam Refan

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Wind Engineering

Djordje Romanic

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Boundary-Layer, Applied, and Dynamic Meteorology

Diego Rosso

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Environmental process engineering; water and wastewater engineering; carbon and energy footprints; energy conservation

James W. Roy

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: multiphase and single-phase fluid flow through geologic materials, fate and transport of contaminants in the subsurface and their interaction with surface water bodies and their ecosystems; impact of contaminants and nutrients in groundwater on aquatic ecosystems of rivers and lakes (with specific focus on oil sands, urban contamination, and phosphorus), and monitoring gas behaviour in groundwater (with implications for unconventional gas impacts and contaminated site natural attenuation).

Imtiaz Shah

PhD, P.Eng.

Research Interests / Specializations: Water Resources Management, Floodplain Management, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling, Low Impact Development, Climate Change Resiliency, Stomrwater quality

David Sills

PhD

Research Interests / Specializations: Severe Weather Science

Christine Switzer

PhD, MInstP

Research Interests / Specializations: Fate, transport, and remediation of contaminants in the environment; rehabilitation of formerly contaminated soils; combustion and pyrolysis processes

Fitsum Tariku

PhD.

Research Interests / Specializations: Building Science