Rahul Saini
Graduate Student
Rahul Saini is a Ph.D. candidate at Civil an Environmental Engineering. He have experience in fermentation process, microbiology, molecular biology and bioprocess aspects. He has been recipient of Mitacs Research Award (2020). He have experience in fermentation process, microbiology, molecular biology and bioprocess aspects.
B.Tech. Biotechnology, SGGSW University, India (2016)
M.Tech. Bioprocess, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India (2018)
Research project: Lipid production as a feedstock for biofuel production.
Email: rahul53@yorku.ca
Mona Chaali
Graduate Student
Mona Chaali is a Ph.D. candidate in Water Science at INRS. Her research interest are in the development of nitrifying biofilms on novel supports synthetized in laboratory as environmental process for wastewater treatment and bio-valorization.
B.Eng. Sustainable Development and Environment, ISHEDD, Morocco (2014)
M.Sc. Water, Air, and Earth, INRS, Canada (2016)
Research project: Development of Nitrifying Biofilms for Wastewater Treatment.
Email: mona.chaali@ete.inrs.ca
Seyyed Mohammadreza Davoodi
Graduate student
Seyyed is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Lassonde School of Engineering). He have experience in membrane technology, construction and start-up of semi-industrial hollow fiber membrane production. His work experience is mainly in environment, and biotechnology aspects as well as on industrial processes such as bioremediation, and water treatment.
B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (2012)
M.Sc. Chemical Engineering-Separation Process Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (2014)
Research project: Fabricate in-situ remediation tools for unconventional oils.
Email: reza19@yorku.ca
Saba Miri
Graduate student
Saba is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Lassonde School of Engineering). She is the recipient of the Lassonde School of Engineering Carswell Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement as research leader and Lassonde Graduate Entrance Scholarship. She is also a member of American society of Microbiology (ASM). Her work experience is mainly microbiological and molecular biology aspects on industrial processes such as bioremediation, bioleaching and biotransformation.
B.Sc. Genetics, University Medical Branch of Tehran, Iran (2013)
M.Sc. Microbial biotechnology, Alzahra University, Iran (2016)
Research project: Cold Active Enzyme Booster Technology for decontamination of petroleum hydrocarbons
Email: saba1370@yorku.ca.
Xuhan Shu
Graduate student
Xuhan is a Master student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Lassonde School of Engineering). His work experience is mainly focused on bioremediation and compounds removal from wastewater using biological systems.
B.Sc. Biological Engineering, University of Guelph, Canada (2015)
Research project: Microbial degradation of perfluorinated compounds.
Email: shineshu@yorku.ca.
Mohammad Hossein Karimi Darvanjooghi
Graduate Student
Mohammad is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Lassonde School of Engineering). He is recipient two times of DAAD Scholarship (Duisburg-Essen and Ostfalia, Universities). His work experience is focused on nanobiotechnology, biomining, modeling, data analysis as well as separation process.
B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (2012)
M.Sc. Chemical Engineering-Process Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (2015)
Research project: Bio-oxidation process of Bio-heaps from golden extraction process.
Email: mkarimi1@yorku.ca
Behnam Nayebi
Graduate student
Behnam is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Lassonde School of Engineering). His work experience is mainly in detection, characterization and degradation of emerging contaminants from water bodies.
B.Eng. Civil/Hydraulic Structures Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran (2015)
M.Sc. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran (2018)
Research project: Detection and characterization of microplastics in the water and sediments of Lake Ontario.
Email: bhnmnyb@yorku.ca
Gurpreet Kaur
graduate student
Gurpreet is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Lassonde School of Engineering). She is holder of the Lassonde School of Engineering Carswell Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement as research leader and Lassonde Graduate Entrance Scholarship. Her work experience is microbiology, genetic engineering, plant tissue culture and environmental engineering aspects.
M.Tech. Biotechnology (5 years integrated course), SGGSW University, India (2012-2017)
Research project: Effect of Geothermal heating on BTEX degradation in groundwater sources
Email: reet2011@yorku.ca.
Noha Hasaneen
Graduate student
Noha is a Master student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Lassonde School of Engineering). Noha was ranked third of her class over 1000 students. She is recipient of Entrance Award at Lassonde School of Engineering and Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS). Her work experience is mainly on pharmacy and bioremediation of emerging contaminant from wastewater.
B.Sc. Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Egypt (2013)
Research project: Development of a microfluidic device for the detection of .macrolide antibiotics in surface water and wastewater.
Email: nohaa@yorku.ca
Pratishtha Khurana
graduate student
Pratishtha is a Master student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Lassonde School of Engineering). She is the recipient of the Dr. S.R. Ramadas 60th Birthday Commemoration Award for outstanding academic. Her work experience is in chemistry, emerging contaminants, and environment remediation.
B.Sc. Chemistry, Delhi University, India (2017)
M.Sc. Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, India (2019)
Research project: Antibiotic-metal complexation in wastewater conditions.
Email: pk027@yorku.ca.