Dr.Mahad Said Baawain

TITLE: Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering

ABSTRACT: Wastewater Sludge in Oman

BIOGRAPHY:

Dr.Mahad Said Baawain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering. He obtained his B.Sc in Civil Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman in 1998. Then he continued his postgraduate studies in the area of Environmental Engineering where he obtained M.Sc from Imperial College, UK in 2000 and PhD from University of Alberta, Canada in 2007. His research interest covers several areas among environmental engineering including fundamentals of water and wastewater treatment processes, advanced oxidation processes, water and wastewater reactors modeling, nanotechnology applications for water and wastewater treatment, climate change and impacts on environmental systems, and air pollution modeling and management.

Dr.Baawain has a number of major research projects and consultancy services in different areas of environmental engineering (water & wastewater, solid waste and air pollution) from Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), The Research Council (TRC), Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), Oman Wastewater Services Company (Haya Water), and Oman Refineries and Petrochemicals Company (ORPC).