Academic and Professional Background:

Serge studies water treatment strategies for agricultural runoff and reutilization.  He specializes in incorporating electrochemical water treatment for treating irrigation water constantly recirculated for indoor agriculture.  The electrochemical methods allow complete disinfection from pathogens, degrade chemical contaminants (e.g. pesticides) and solubilize nutrients from waste materials such as plant waste.

Serge has a pending patent application for treating hydroponic solutions using a regenerative process, two publications demonstrating different methods of achieving this process and experience in protecting water bodies.  Experience includes working at a wastewater treatment plant, sampling water for GLIER and quantifying microplastics released from a wastewater treatment plant.

Expertise:

• Drinking Water Treatment
• Industrial Water Treatment
• Wastewater Treatment
• Resource Recovery
• Water Reuse

Academic and Professional Background:

Niema's research involves partial nitrification in mainstream municipal wastewater using membrane bioreactor (MBR) and sequencing batch reactors (SBR). She is a practicing professional member of Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA).

Niema has volunteered with several prominent organizations and communities in Canada, including Big Brothers Big Sisters Alberta, Ambassador of United Way of The Alberta Capital Region, Organizer of Asian heritage festivals, and Consultant of drinking water system design for Saddle Lake Indigenous community.

Expertise:

• Analytics, Monitoring
• Drinking Water Treatment
• Energy Optimization
• Industrial Water Treatment
• Wastewater Treatment
• Net Zero Energy Wastewater Treatment

Academic and Professional Background:

As a current student in the Drinking Water Research Group at University of Toronto, her research focuses on the sorption of contaminants of emerging concern onto microplastics. Prior to starting her masters, she worked as a Senior Engineer for the Drinking Water Program in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, where she reviewed and approved drinking water projects, conducted sanitary surveys, and collaborated with university researchers on radium in groundwater issues.

Florence is also currently a member of American Water Works Association (AWWA).

Expertise:

• Drinking Water Treatment
• Wastewater Treatment

Academic and Professional Background:

Lin is a current student in the Biofilm Engineering and Wastewater Resource Recovery Laboratory at Western University. His research focuses on the optimization of aeration and energy, and improvement of carbon utilization with multivariate and microbial analysis for advanced nitrogen removal processes, also monitoring emerging contaminants in municipal
wastewater. He also obtained research experience about soil remediation and drinking water treatment during his Master’s and Bachelor’s study. Prior to pursuing his PhD degree, he also worked as an intern and full-time research engineer at wastewater treatment plant and Western
University.
Currently volunteering as Vice President to Western Water Chapter (WWC), Graduate Councillor to Society of Graduate Students (SOGS), an executive member of Water Environment Association of Ontario (WEAO) YP committee and International Water Association (IWA) YP committee.

Expertise:

• Municipal Wastewater Treatment
• Wastewater Process Modelling
• Energy Optimization
• Resource Recovery
• Biofilm Technology
• Drinking Water Treatment

Academic and Professional Background:

Abhishek completed his Bachelor's of Engineering in Chemical Engineering & Biosciences from McMaster University in 2019. During his undergrad, he completed a 16-month internship at Brampton Brick Limited.

Abhishek has volunteered with several groups including WEAO Young Professional Committee (2018-2020), McMaster Children & Youth University (MCYU) water filtration workshop lead (2018-2020), University Consulting Group, and the McMaster University Chapter President (2020-present). He has also received several scholarships and awards including the WEAO Scholarship (2019), and K. Afghan Scholarship (Chemical Institute of Canada, 2019).

Expertise:

• Industrial Water Treatment
• Wastewater Treatment
• Membrane Technology
• Nanofiltration

Academic and Professional Background:

Navya is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Sustainability Management, Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on vulnerability and viability of small-scale fisheries through water quality analysis. She recently completed her Master of Environmental Studies in Sustainability Management from the University of Waterloo. She also holds a Master of Technology in Environmental Engineering and a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering. She has over one year of research experience in air quality monitoring and wastewater treatment projects. She worked as a Senior Research Fellow at ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management and EDF for microbiological filter development and air pollution repository establishment.

Her research interests broadly include water quality analysis, wastewater treatment, coastal fisheries, microbial fuel cell, and bio-energy generation. Over the course of two years in UWaterloo, she worked on a variety of topics related to climate adaptation and sustainable development goals. She is actively engaged with outreach activities related to sustainability across campus.

Expertise:

• Sustainability Management (Water)

Academic and Professional Background:

Zanina did her BSc and MSc degrees in the Netherlands, specializing in Water Management and Water Treatment, respectively. She has done several internships in different laboratories and countries. Currently, Zanina is pursuing her second master’s in Civil Engineering - Environmental. Parallel to that, she is working as a Teaching Assistant.

During the year 2021, Zanina has presented her work in two conferences (CAWQ and IWA) and received an award for best presentation from each of them. She has also submitted her first scientific article for publishing and is awaiting feedback.

Expertise:

• Drinking Water Treatment
• Industrial Water Treatment
• Wastewater Treatment
• Stormwater Management
• Water Reuse