Current

Postdoctoral fellows

Xing Song, Supervisor, Oil fingerprinting and biodegradation, 2020-2022

Xiaying Xin, Supervisor, Toxicity analysis of oil and emerging contaminants, 2019-2021

Zhiwen Zhu, Supervisor, Production of biosurfactants as marine oil spill treating agents, 2019-2022

PhD

Masoumeh Rostami, Principal Supervisor, Magnetic modified oil-degrading bacteria (MM-ODB) enhanced bioremediation for oil removal from coastal subsurface soils, 2021-2025

Priyam Saxena, Co-Supervisor, Roles of landfills runoffs in contaminating ocean ecosystem, 2020-2024

Nidia Khan, Principal Supervisor, Development of absorbent for offshore oil spill treatment, 2020-2024

Masoumeh Rostami, Co-Supervisor, Optical biosensors for emerging contaminant monitoring, 2019-2023

Sanaz Mosayebi, Co-Supervisor, Improving hydrodynamic models for forecasting drift of spilled oil in Marine environment, 2019-2023

Min Yang, Principal Supervisor, Interactions between dispersed oil and micro-plastic in marine environment, 2018-2022

Yiqi Cao, Principal Supervisor, Genome enhanced biosurfactant production and associated environmental applications, 2018-2022

Xixi Li, Principal Supervisor, Synthesis of musks as additives in pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and evaluation of associated environmental risks, 2018-2022

Guihua Dong, Co-Supervisor, Advanced oxidation for emerging contaminant removal from wastewater, 2018-2022

Minhdung Tran, Co-Supervisor, Advanced oxidation for emerging contaminant removal from wastewater, 2015-2022 (part-time)

Qiao Kang, Co-Supervisor, Fate and transport of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs), 2017-2021

Narimene Zoghbi, Committee Member, Interactions between dispersants and oil in the presence of exudates and particles, 2019-2023

Riad Eissa, Committee Member, Impacts of agricultural drainage on greenhouse gas emissions from northern peatlands, 2016-2021

Hoda Tafvizi, Committee Member, Removal of natural organic matter (NOM) from water for decreasing disinfection by-products, 2015-2021

Hamideh Hamedi, Committee Member, Advanded treament of wastewater contaminting emerging contaminants, 2019-2023

Masters

Rashmi Hazarika, Co-Supervisor, Role of landfills in contamination of ocean ecosystems by persistent organic pollutants, 2020-2022

Jiheng Hu, Principal Supervisor, Multiple scale production of lipopeptide biosurfantants and their environmental applications, 2019-2021

Azadeh Afzali, Co-Supervisor, Development of a green dispersant through selection of organic solvents and their integration with a shrimp waste produced surfactant, 2019-2021

Fei Wu, Co-Supervisor, Performance evaluation of demulsifies for oil/seawater decanting, 2018-2021

Completed

Postdoctoral fellows

Hongjing Wu, Supervisor, Investigation of particle size distribution of dispersed oil under various dispersion operation conditions, 2020

Liam Jing, Supervisor, Marine oily wastewater management and oil spill response, 2017

Yinchen Ma, Co-Supervisor, Offshore oil spill response and oily water treatment in harsh environments, 2016

PhD

Weiyun Lin, Principal Supervisor, Micellar- and polymer-enhanced ultrafiltration for heavy metal and sulfate removal from aqueous solutions, 2020

Xing Song, Principal Supervisor, Fingerprinting of dispersed oil in marine environments, 2019

Qinhong Cai, Principal Supervisor, Biosurfactants production and applications in oil pollution control, 2018

Zhiwen Zhu, Principal Supervisor, Advancement of biosurfactant production and biosurfactant-aided pollution remediation, 2018

Fuqiang Fan, Principal Supervisor, Sulfate reducing bacteria, nitrate reducing bacteria and their interactions in a souring offshore oil reservoir system, 2018

Bo Liu, Co-Supervisor, Enhanced photocatalytic oxidation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in offshore produced water, 2018

Mohammed Mujtaba, Co-Supervisor, Photochemical air quality modeling in arid regions, 2017

Jisi Zheng, Co-Supervisor, Removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from offshore produced water by advanced oxidation technologies, 2017

Khoshrooz Kazemi, Principal Supervisor, Solid waste composting and the application of compost for biosurfactant production, 2016

Liam Jing, Co-Supervisor, An integrated simulation-based process control and operation planning system for marine oily wastewater management, 2014

Moshtagh Bahareh, Committee Member, Production of biosurfactants using industrial waste streams as substrates, 2019

Zahra Sadat Rastghalam, Committee Member, Transport of nanoscale titanium dioxide (nTiO2) in subsurface environments: Effects of complex water chemistry and medium, 2019

Abdulrazaq Zubair, Committee Member, Design and optimization of surfactant based enhanced remediation of bunker c fuel oil contaminated soil, 2015

Masters

Cuirin Cantwell, Principal Supervisor, Prediction of soil adsorption behavior and biodegradability of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), 2021

Miao Yu, Principal Supervisor, Development of herding agents for marine oil spill response, 2021

Yunwen Tao, Principal Supervisor, Improved detection of metformin and guanylurea in water samples and advanced oxidation for their removal, 2020

Samira Narimannejad, Principal Supervisor, Adsorption behaviours of cobalt onto saline soil with/without biosurfactants, 2018

Xixi Li, Principal Supervisor, Biosurfactant enhanced soil bioremediation and associated microbial community analysis, 2018

Natalia Vivas, Co-Supervisor, Incorporation of waste pet into concrete as natural aggregate replacement using statistical mixture design, 2017

Kedong Zhang, Principal Supervisor, Newfoundland shrimp waste utilization and dispersant generation, 2016

Ze Lv, Principal Supervisor, Improvement of high-productive biosurfactant producers through ultraviolet mutation and genome shuffling, 2016

Sarah Turner, Co-Supervisor, Microbial inhibition of sulfate reduction using nitrate and nitrite addition: a laboratory study of reservoir souring control, 2016

Nishant Tailor, Principal Supervisor, Enhanced metal contaminated site remediation in northern regions, 2016

Tong Cao, Principal Supervisor, Generation of biodispersants for offshore oil spill response, 2014

He Zhang, Principal Supervisor, Integrated nano zero-valent iron and biosurfactant aided remediation of PCB-contaminated soil, 2014

Yujiao Wang, Principal Supervisor, Algae involved generation of compost, 2014

Kieran Maddock, Principal Supervisor, Design of biosurfactant enhanced site remediation simulator, 2013

Qinhong Cai, Principal Supervisor, Screening and characterization of biosurfactant producing microorganisms from petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated marine sources in north Atlantic Canada for oil spill response, 2013