Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Mohamed Meshref 
Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2019-Present
Education: Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, 2017
Graduate Students
Basem S. Zakaria
Ph.D. Student, Fall 2017-Present
Education: M.Sc. in Environmental Biotechnology, Cairo University, Egypt, 2015
Awards: Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize, Donald R Stanley Graduate Scholarship in Environmental (Civil) Engineering, UofA Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship
Nesma Allam
Ph.D. Student, Winter 2017-Present
(Co-supervised with Dr. Ania Ulrich)
Education: M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2013
Awards: NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS), Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship, Dr. Donald R Stanley Graduate Scholarship in Environmental (Civil) Engineering, Petro-Canada Graduate Scholarship, UofA Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship
Seyed Mohammad Mirsoleimani Azizi
Ph.D. Student, Fall 2019-Present
Education: M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran, 2017.
Qi Huang
Ph.D. Student, Fall 2019-Present
(Co-supervised with Dr. Yang Liu)
Education: M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, 2019
B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, China, 2017
Wafa Dastyar
Ph.D. Student, Fall 2019-Present
Education: M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 2019
Tae Chung
M.Sc. Student, Fall 2018-Present
Previously worked as an Undergraduate Researcher (Dean’s Research Award Program, Fall 2017) and Research Assistant (Summer 2018)
Education: B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, 2018
Awards: Alberta Innovates Graduate Scholarship, Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation (KCSF), University of Alberta Graduate Fellowship 2019, Graduate Student Teaching Award (GSTA), Leonard E. Gads Teaching Assistant Award, Westmoreland Coal Company Graduate Scholarship in Environmental Engineering
Mayank Dhadwal 
M.Sc. Student, Summer 2019-Present
(Co-supervised with Dr. Yang Liu)
Education: B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University, India, 2017
Hok Nam Joey Ting 
M.Sc. Student, Fall 2019-Present
(Co-supervised with Dr. Hamid Zaman)
Previously worked as an Undergraduate Researcher (Dean’s Research Award Program, Winter 2019) and NSERC USRA summer student (Summer 2019)
Education: B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, 2019
Nervana Haffiez
M.Sc. Student, Summer 2020-Present
Education: BSc in Biology/Chemistry, Ain Shams University, Egypt.
Felipe Pereira de Albuquerque
M.Eng. Student, Fall 2020-Present
(Co-supervised with Dr. Hamid Zaman)
Education: B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, the Federal University of Technology of Paraná – Brazil, 2012
MBA in Sustainable Construction (2018), Cidade de São Paulo University – Brazil, 2018
