{"id":289,"date":"2020-04-07T09:52:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eptl\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=289"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:10:19","slug":"289","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eptl\/people\/289\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahsa Salehi"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am truly passionate about the idea of sustainable development and zero-carbon economy; therefore, I have always based my research and studies on developing environmentally-friendly alternatives to the current fuel-based processes. I received my BSc in Chemical Engineering- Petroleum Industry Process Design from the University of Isfahan (Iran, 2012), focusing on wastewater treatment in the food industry. As I was keen on environmental engineering and biotechnology, I majored in Chemical Engineering- Biotechnology and received my MSc from the University of Isfahan (Iran, 2016). For my thesis, I designed a novel wastewater treatment system that simultaneously benefited from a biological agent (microalgae) and a chemical agent (photocatalytic nanoparticles) and evaluated its application in the treatment of oil-contaminated waters. I also have conducted research on bioleaching of metal species from different metallic wastes such as spent refinery catalysts.&nbsp; From 2017 to 2019, I worked as the research and production assistant at Aris Farayand Aria, a company settled at the Isfahan Science and Technology Town, where, as the research and production assistant, I worked on the production of biofertilizers using food industry waste materials. Right now I am a Ph.D. candidate at EPTL at Carleton University and I am working on metal fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Studying in a multidisciplinary environment has provided me with a strong background in various areas, including process design and simulation, wastewater treatment, waste management, biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. I am fully accomplished in designing, modeling, and simulation of different chemical and biological processes (using HYSYS, SuperPro Designer, and Matlab), running and monitoring laboratory-scale fermenters and reactors, and scale-up of chemical and biological processes. I am experienced at isolation and culture of different microorganisms, extraction and measurement of cellular metabolites, biochemical characterization of bacterial cells, cellular viability estimation, performing PCR, RT-PCR, qRT-PCR tests, and electrophoresis. 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