Students

Angelos Almpanis, Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:

Characterization of organic compounds with DC resistivity and induced polarization

Evan Angus, M.E.Sc. Candidate

Research Interests:

Examination of factors contributing to septic contamination in lake tributarie

Mohamed El Qelish, Ph.D

Research Interests:

I have more than 15 years of experience in wastewater treatment technologies and solid waste management for biogas production and nutrients recovery. I have treated different wastewaters from different industries including crystal, dairy, slaughterhouse, textile, finishing and pharmaceutical wastewater.

Yunpeng Gao, M.E.Sc. Candidate

Research Interests:

Integrated GIS and remote sensing techniques manipulating septic system placement and water resources numerical model of septic contamination.

Grant Hodgins, M.E.Sc. Candidate

Research Interests:

Role of groundwater in delivering chloride to urban streams.

Sabrina Jivani, M.E.Sc. Candidate

Research Interest:

Analyzing the effect of land management practices and climatic factors on the seasonality of phosphorus loading from an urban sub-watershed to Lake Erie.

Christopher Jobity, M.E.Sc. Candidate

Research Interests:

Analysis of nutrient and microbial concentrations in watercourse systems due to septic tanks.

Salil Mathew, Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:

Advanced wastewater treatment technologies and process intensification for resource recovery like electrocoagulation, flow-electrode capacitive deionization, membrane distillation, and membrane photocatalysis.

Seyed Ziaedin Miry, Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:

Multidimensional analysis of smouldering combustion: Advancing smouldering characteristics understanding in the context of STAR remediation of soil.

Omar Mohamed, Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:

PFAS Removal from High Strength Wastewater using Electrochemical Technology.

Maryam Rezaei, Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:

My research interest is working with different microorganism in biological processes such as wastewater treatment to implement them in industrial plants. Improvement of membrane bioreactors for municipal wastewater treatment was my previous research project.

Difan Su, M.E.Sc. Candidate

Research Interests:

Acid mine drainage prediction, mine site closure and reclamation.

Arslan Tahir, Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:

Nutrients recovery from livestock effluent using membrane distillation – Ammonia and phosphorus.

Emily Verkuil, M.E.Sc. Candidate

Research Interests:

Investigating the physiochemical properties of various road salts and their environmental impact.

Dillon Vyn, M.E.Sc. Candidate

Research Interests:

Identifying urban phosphorus sources and evaluating phosphorus reduction performance of low impact development infrastructure at an urban watershed scale.

Jiahao Wang, Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:

Smouldering performance and characteristics of porous media and fuel.

Shuyang Wang, Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:

Characterization of groundwater phosphorous delivery with reactive transport models.

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