Current Lab Members

Postdoctoral Fellow 

Basem S. Zakaria 
Postdoctoral Fellow, December 2021-Present

Ph.D. in Environmental Science, University of Alberta, 2021
M.Sc. in Environmental Biotechnology, Cairo University, Egypt, 2015

Graduate Students 

Seyed Mohammad Mirsoleimani Azizi  
Ph.D. Candidate, Fall 2019-Present

Education: M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran, 2017.
Awards: Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES), Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship

 

Qi Huang  
Ph.D. Candidate, Fall 2019-Present
(Co-supervised with Dr. Yang Liu)

Education: M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, 2019
Awards:  Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES), Rick George Graduate Leadership Scholarship in Engineering.

 

Tae Chung
Ph.D. Student, Winter 2021-Present

Education: M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, 2020
B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, 2018
Awards: Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CGS D), Alberta Innovates Graduate Scholarship, President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction

 

Monisha Alam
Ph.D. Student, Fall 2021-Present

Education: M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta
Award: NSERC PGS, President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction

 

Romana Saila 
Ph.D. Student, Fall 2022-Present

Education: M.Eng. in Water Resources, University of Alberta

 

Yadong Fan
Ph.D. Candidate (Co-supervised with Dr. Dominic Sauvageau)

Education:  M.Sc., Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, China

 

Sami Khaskheli 
Ph.D. Student, Spring 2023-Present

Education: MS in Environmental Engineering from the US Pakistan Center of Advance Studies in Water (USPCASW), Mehran UET Jamshoro, Pakistan; B. E in Mechanical Engineering from Mehran University of Engineering & Technology Jamshoro, Pakistan.

Award:  Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan Overseas Scholarship, The University of Alberta Graduate Recruitment Scholarship.

 

Parisa Niknejad
M.Sc. Student, Fall 2021-Present
(Co-supervised with Dr. Rajender Gupta)

Education: M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Iran.

 

Harveen Kaur Tatla
M.Sc. Student (Chemical Engineering Department), Fall 2022-Present
(Co-supervised with Dr. Rajender Gupta and Dr. Mohd Adnan Khan)

 

Anindya Amal Chakrabarty 
M.Sc. Student, Environmental Engineering, Winter 2023-Present

Education: B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh.

 

Research Assistant 

Nervana Haffiez
Research Assistant, September 2022-Present

Education: MSc, Environmental Science, University of Alberta