Shadi Wajih Hasan

Shadi Wajih Hasan
Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates

Biography

Shadi Hasan is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Masdar Institute. He holds B.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. in Chemical, Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, respectively. Prior to joining Masdar Institute, he worked as a research associate at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) through which his research interests were in the fields of environmental and chemical engineering, in particular, water and wastewater treatment, waste management, fate of contaminants in natural environments, energy recovery from biological processes, and environmental chemistry. His areas of expertise include membrane bioreactors, bio-electrochemical treatment, nutrients and metals removal, and MF-UF-NF-RO-FO-MD water desalination. Throughout his academic career, he was recognized as an excellent designer and obtained a number of awards during the International Environmental Design Contests (EDC) held in UAE between 2000 and 2004. He also received a number of prestigious awards including FQRNT doctoral scholarship (Quebec, Canada), Concordia University accelerator award as well as his doctoral thesis being nominated for the 2012 Concordia University Convocation award. Dr. Hasan has authored and coauthored several articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings including IWA, EREM, and WEFTEC; and generated significant research interest abroad in the USA and overseas.