Hemant Arora

Ph.D. Candidate

Hemant has obtained his bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, (BHU) and a master's degree in Water Management from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. He is a recipient of TU Delft Institute Climate Scholarship. For his master’s thesis, he has worked on the operational aspects of Slow Sand Filters (SSF) in collaboration with Dunea, A Dutch water utility. He has worked on Optimizing the Ripening period (formation of biological layer on sand bed) of SSF by varying the operational parameters.

Nastaran Mosavari Nezamabad

Ph.D. Candidate

Nastaran received her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Shiraz University, Iran, and a master's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of Alberta.

Her current research focuses on drinking water distribution system corrosion, with an emphasis on lead release from corrosion products, and understanding the role of Natural Organic Matter (NOM) in lead release.

Patrick King

Research Assistant

Contact Information

Email: pwking@uwaterloo.ca

Mahmoud Badawy

Ph.D. Candidate

Contact

Email: mbadawy@uwaterloo.ca

Jaita Saha

MASc. Candidate

Jaita obtained her B.Sc. in Civil Engineering degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), in October 2018. Her undergraduate research was focused on monitoring potential of iron-coated jute fabrics to decrease arsenic concentration of groundwater in irrigation channels. She worked as a lecturer at Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), Bangladesh after graduation.

Ujwal Zore

 MASc. Candidate

Ujwal completed his Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, India in 2020. After graduation he worked as a manufacturing engineer at AkzoNobel, a paint and performance coating industry. Ujwal joined the NSERC Chair in Water Treatment research group in May 2021 as a MASc candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Peter Huck and Dr. Sigrid Peldszus.

Kirti S. Nemani

Ph.D. Candidate

Contact Information

Email: ksnemani@uwaterloo.ca

Sina Golchi

Research Associate

Contact

Email: sina.golchi@uwaterloo.ca

Personal Profile

Sina Golchi received his BEng. in Chemical Engineering from Science and Research University, Tehran, Iran in June 2018. His capstone project was on carbon quantum dots and their applications. He has participated in two research studies on waste and wastewater management and renewable energies as a research assistant during his undergraduate program. 

Noshin Nawar Reza

Research Associate

Noshin obtained her B.Sc. in Civil Engineering degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh in October 2018. Her undergraduate research was focused on enhanced coagulation for removal of organic carbon from polluted surface water. She worked as a lecturer at University of Asia Pacific, Bangladesh after graduation.

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