Current Trainees

Current Trainees

Tawab Balakarzai

Tawab Balakarzai

Geography (PhD Candidate)

University of Victoria

Supervisor: Michele-Lee Moore
Research interests: Water governance in arid regions, Indigenous water practices, nature-based solutions, water-related higher education

2023 – 2024 Cohort

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Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury

Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury

Civil Engineering (MASc Student)

University of Victoria

Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
Research interests: Wastewater/fecal sludge treatment and resource recovery, public health, WASH in low-resource or emergency settings

2024 – 2025 Cohort

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Owen Donnelly

Owen Donnelly

Environmental Engineering (PhD Student)

Western University

Supervisor: Clare Robinson
Research interests: Reactive transport modelling, groundwater quality, arsenic

2024 – 2025 Cohort

Georgia Douglas

Georgia Douglas

Chemistry (PhD Candidate)

University of Victoria 

Supervisor: Heather Buckley
Research interests: Arsenic detection in drinking water, green chemistry, materials science

2023 – 2024 Cohort

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Cristian Garcia

Cristian Garcia

Land Management and Regional Planning (PhD Student)

Université Laval

Supervisor: Manuel J. Rodriguez
Research interests: Quality and access to water, drinking water in extremely vulnerable environmnets

2024 – 2025 Cohort 

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Fabian Garcia

Fabian Garcia

Civil Engineering (MASc Student)

University of Victoria 

Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
Research interests: Point-of-use water treatment, filtration systems

2024 – 2025 Cohort

Alice Gentleman

Alice Gentleman

Civil Engineering (MASc Student)

University of Victoria

Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
Research interests: Drinking water treatment

2023 – 2024 Cohort

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Samantha LeValley

Samantha LeValley

Civil Engineering (PhD Candidate)

University of Toronto

Supervisor: David Meyer
Research interests: Rural water systems, equitable distribution, intermittent water supply

2023 – 2024 Cohort

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Alexis McGregor

Alexis McGregor

Environmental Engineering (MEng Student)

Carleton University

Supervisor: Onita Basu
Research interests: Drinking water treatment, point-of-use devices, clean drinking water solutions, working with Indigenous communities

2024 – 2025 Cohort

Patrick Mirindi

Patrick Mirindi

Environmental Systems Engineering (PhD Candidate)

University of British Columbia

Supervisor: Sara Beck
Research interests: Public health, environmental diseases, waterborne diseases, infection prevention and control, policy analysis

2022 – 2023 Cohort

Louis-Philippe Noel

Louis-Philippe Noel

Water Engineering (MASc Student)

Université Laval

Supervisor: Peter Vanrolleghem
Research interests: Wastewater-based epidemiology, public health and environmental engineering, water and wastewater treatment, resource recovery

2023 – 2024 Cohort

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Aref Panjehfouladgaran

Aref Panjehfouladgaran

Civil and Environmental Engineering (PhD Candidate)

Western University

Supervisor: Clare Robinson
Research interests: Groundwater-coastal water interactions, groundwater hydrology, environmental modelling

2023 – 2024 Cohort

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Abbas Seyedabbas Rasouli

Abbas Seyedabbas Rasouli

Environmental Studies (PhD Candidate)

Carleton University

Supervisor: Onita Basu
Research interests: Water quality, wastewater treatment, adsorption, filtration, microplastics and non-plastics, statistical analysis

2023 – 2024 Cohort

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Kelsey Shaw

Kelsey Shaw

Civil Engineering (PhD Candidate)

University of Victoria

Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
Research interests: Sustainable sanitation, public health and environmental engineering

2022 – 2023 Cohort

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Eloisa Sia

Eloisa Sia

Civil Engineering (PhD Candidate)

University of Victoria

Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
Research interests: Non-sewered sanitation, pathogen transport, nutrient cycling, soil microbial activity, climate resilience, hydrogeology, sanitation policy and regulation

2022 – 2023 Cohort

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Florence Udenby

Florence Udenby

Civil Engineering (PhD Candidate)

University of Toronto

Supervisor: David Meyer
Research interests: Intermittent water supply, non-revenue water, equity in water supply

2023 – 2024 Cohort

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Mi Xuan (Joyce) Wong

Mi Xuan (Joyce) Wong

Biological Sciences (MSc Student)

Simon Fraser University

Supervisor: Jane Fowler
Research interests: Microbial source tracking, waterborne pathogens, fecal indicators, marine water, public health

2024 – 2025 Cohort

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