Co-supervisor: Wayne Parker, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
Sondus is a PhD candidate co-supervised by Prof Wayne Parker in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research is focused on investigating the enantioselective behaviour of chiral pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in wastewater and surface water at the micro- and macrocosm scale. PPCPs are heavily used in the urban cores of the Grand River Watershed and enter surface waters at trace levels from wastewater treatment plant effluents. As such, there is a need to better understand their impact on aquatic life. However, the enantioselective behaviour of chiral PPCPs (e.g. anti-depressants) is often overlooked in environmental research despite enantiomers of a given compound potentially having differences in environmental fate and ecotoxicology. Her research will aim to facilitate more accurate fate modelling and better design of environmental monitoring programmes for chiral PPCPs.
