Our Team
Robert Delatolla
Principal Investigator
Professor Robert Delatolla is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical Engineering at McGill University and has been awarded the University…
Patrick D'Aoust
Laboratory Technician / Ph.D. Candidate
Patrick D’Aoust is the technical office of the Environmental Engineering laboratories at uOttawa. He received his M.A.Sc. in 2016 with his research focusing on hydrogen sulfide production in wet stormwater ponds. Patrick currerntly has…
Neda Arabgol
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering Candidate
Raheleh (Neda) Arabgol is a PhD candidate in Environmental engineering at University of Ottawa, working under the supervision of Dr. Robert Delatolla (University of Ottawa, Ottawa) and Dr. Peter Vanrolleghem…
Alexander Schopf
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering Candidate
Alexander Schopf is a Ph.D. Environmental Engineering Candidate working on exploring ammonia removal through the use of the moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) technology. Specifically, his work includes…
Warsama Ahmed
Ph.D. Civil Engineering Candidate
Warsama Ahmed is a Ph.D candidate in Civil Engineering currently conducting research on low temperature attached growth nitrification. His research includes investigations of low carbon nitrification…
Xin Tian
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering Candidate
Xin Tian is a PhD candidate in Environment Engineering working on different biofilm technologies in wastewater treatment. Her current research focuses on the anammox process in moving bed biofilm…
Alexandra Tsitouras
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering Candidate
Alexandra Tsitouras is in her third year of the University of Ottawa’s Ph.D. Program in Environmental Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Robert Delatolla and Prof. Alain Stintzi. She obtained…
Juliet Ikem
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering Candidate
Juliet is from Nigeria, with a Bachelors’ degree in Applied Microbiology and Master’s Degree in Environmental Science with specialization in Environmental Engineering from Coventry University…
Rochelle Mathew
M.A.Sc. Environmental Engineering
I started at the Delatolla lab as a volunteer and have been lucky enough to involve myself in many projects over the years. I was first trained by Dr. Bradley Young, and helped him with his MBBR pilot plant by…
Guillaume LeBlond
M.A.Sc. Civil Engineering Candidate
Guillaume LeBlond is a M.A.Sc. Civil Engineering candidate working on improving the performance of lagoon wastewater treatment systems, in cold and temperate climates at the University of Ottawa…
Bianca Amaral-Stewart
M.A.Sc. Environmental Engineering Candidate
Bianca Amaral-Stewart is a M.A.Sc. Environmental Engineering candidate. Her research is focused on optimizing start-up conditions for the anammox treatment process in ammonia-rich wastewater streams…
Éric Robert
M.A.Sc. Environmental Engineering Candidate
Éric Robert is a M.A.Sc Environmental Engineering Candidate working on the removal of ammonia for the treatment of municipal wastewater with moving bed biofilm reactor technology…
Nathan Ramsay
Undergraduate Thesis Candidate
Nathan is a 4th year student enrolled in the University of Ottawa’s Civil Engineering program with a specialization in Environmental and Water Resources. His main research project involves the treatment…
Cassandra Lavigne
Undergraduate Honours Candidate
Cassandra is a 4th year undergraduate student studying Environmental Science (specialization in Global Change) at the University of Ottawa. As a Research Assistant, she contributed to the disc filter project…
Antoine Cantin
Research Assistant / Webmaster
Antoine is currently a 4th year environmental science student at the University of Ottawa, specialising in Global Change. As a COOP student, his main research contributions are in connection with the disk filter…
Pranesh Choolhun
Research Assistant
Pranesh Choolhun is currently a 3rd year civil engineering student at the University of Ottawa. As a Coop student, the projects that he is working on are, testing a new disk filter system at the lagoon of Alfred…
May Ourabi
Research Assistant
May is currently “testing the waters” as a research assistant while going into her third year of pursuing an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering with an option in Environmental Engineering…
Chandana Sundar
M.Eng Environmental Engineering Candidate
Chandada is a M.Eng. project student working on attached growth partial nitrification.
Alumni
Bahman Banihashemi
Post-doctorate Fellow
Bahman Banihashemi completed a year in the team as a post-doctorate fellow working on an innovative hybrid MBBR and BAF wastewater treatment technology along with aerated granule technology…
Baisha Ren
M.A.Sc.
Edit Baisha Ren successfully completed an M.A.Sc. working on innovative techniques for the analysis and identification of biofilm media in MBBR reactors under different operating and loading conditions…
Bradley Young
Ph.D.
Bradley Young successfully completed a PhD working on cold water MBBR tertiary nitrification of lagoon wastewater effluents. Mr. Young has a MASc from the department of civil engineering at the University…
Juliana Mejía-Franco
M.A.Sc. Environmental Engineering
Juliana completed her master’s program in Environmental Engineering. In her thesis project she analyzed the performance of the manure pile runoff treatment system of a cattle farm located in Winchester…
Liyu Chen
M.A.Sc. Environmental Engineering
Liyu Chen’s research included the investigation of dissolved oxygen, temperature and chlorophyll distribution as well as the bathymetry and fluid velocity in a stormwater pond. The motivation…
Nour Imad Al-Ghussain
M.A.Sc. Environmental Engineering
Nour successfully completed a masters in Environmental Engineering with a focus on wastewater treatment. Her thesis’s title is “The removal of high loads of ammonia from industrial wastewater…
Peter Roebuck
M.A.Sc. Environmental Engineering
Peter Roebuck is a slightly oddish fellow who was investigating ultrasoninc pretreatment of biofilm and suspended sludges for improvements to anaerobic digestion. Mr. Roebuck is an EIThas…
Ru Wang
M.Eng. Environmental Engineering
My name is Ru Wang. I am an M.A.Sc student working on the investigation of microbial community structure shifts in the benthic zone and water column of the Riverside South Pond II (phase one)…