Trainees

Current Trainees

Tawab Balakarzai
Geography (PhD)
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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Rachel Boyer
Civil Engineering (Master)
University of Victoria
Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
Research Interests: Microbial water quality monitoring in low-resource contexts, Reducing barriers to data equity, Public health and environmental engineering
2022-2023 Cohort
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Georgia Douglas
Chemistry (Master)
University of Victoria
Supervisor: Heather Buckley
Research Interests: Arsenic detection in drinking water, Green chemistry, Materials science
2022-2023 Cohort
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Alice Gentleman
Civil Engineering (Master)
University of Victoria
Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
Research Interest: Drinking water treatment
2023-2024 Cohort
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Samantha LeValley
Civil Engineering (PhD)
University of Toronto
Supervisor: David Meyer
Research interests: Rural Water Systems, Equitable Distribution, Intermittent Water Supply

2023-2024 Cohort
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Louis-Philippe Noel
Water Engineering (Master)
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
Civil and Environmental Engineering (PhD)
University of Western Ontario
Supervisor: Clare Robinson
Research Interests: Groundwater-coastal water Interactions, Groundwater hydrology, Environmental modeling
2023-2024 Cohort
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Patrick Mirindi
Civil Engineering (PhD)
University of British Columbia
Supervisor: Sara Beck
2022-2023 Cohort

Negar Rahmati
Chemistry (PhD)
University of Victoria
Supervisor: Heather Buckley
Research Interests: Sustainable water desalination, Biofouling prevention in sanitation plants, Green chemistry
2022-2023 Cohort
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Thusitha Rathnayake
Civil Engineering (PhD)
University of British Columbia
Supervisor: Sara Beck
Research Interests: Microplastics, UV LED Applications, Membrane-based Water Treatment
2022-2023 Cohort
S. Abbas Rasouli
Geographical and Environmental Studies (PhD)
Carleton University
Supervisor: Onita Basu
Research Interests: Water Quality, Wastewater Treatment, Adsorption, Filtration, Micro -and Nano-plastics, Statistical Analysis
2023-2024 Cohort
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Dr. Samira Sarkardei (PhD in Food Biochemistry/Toxicology & Analytical Chemistry)
Current program: Civil Engineering (MASc)
University of Victoria
Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
Research interests: Biological mechanisms of Biosand Filters, Green STEM, Industrial Symbiosis, Philosophy of Change, Ecospirituality, Earth Charters Educator.
2023-2024 Cohort
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Kelsey Shaw
Civil Engineering (PhD)
University of Victoria
Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
Research Interests: Sustainable Sanitation, Public health and Environmental Engineering
2022-2023 Cohort
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Eloisa Sia
Civil Engineering (PhD)
University of Victoria
Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
Research interests: non-sewered sanitation system, nutrient cycling, contaminant transport, global change, soil microbial activity, hydrogeology, sanitation policy and regulation
2022-2023 Cohort
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Joseph Train
Water Resources Engineering (Master)
Supervisor: Ed McBean
University of Guelph
2023-2024 Cohort
Research Interest: Water treatment and distribution systems
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Florence Udenby
Civil Engineering (PhD)
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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Soobin Yim
Biological Sciences (Master)
Simon Fraser University
Supervisor: Jane Fowler
Research Interests: Drinking water microbiome, DNA damage by UV, DNA repair mechanism
2022-2023 Cohort
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Past Trainees 

Adefolawe Adeyeye
Civil Engineering (Master)
University of British Columbia
Supervisor: Sara Beck
Research Interests: Ultraviolet disinfection of water in small-scale systems, WASH education in low-resource settings, and water quality monitoring.
2022-2023 Cohort
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Alexa Bennett
Geography (PhD)
University of Waterloo
Research Interests: Drinking water, Global health
2022-2023 Cohort
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Anne Carabin
Civil Engineering (PhD)
University of Victoria
Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
Research Interests: Water quality, Environmental health, Risk assessment
2022-2023 Cohort
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Colin Gibson
Water Resources Engineering and International Development Studies  (PhD)
University of Guelph
Supervisor: Ed McBean
Research Interests: Water ethics, Indigenous environmental philosophies, co-design of water systems & technologies
2022-2023 Cohort
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Camille Zimmer
Civil Engineering (PhD)
University of Victoria
Supervisor: Caetano Dorea
2022-2023 Cohort