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Before joining Queen's University, Ehssan Koupaie was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. He has collaborated in interdisciplinary teams focusing on environmental engineering, electrical engineering, and physics to develop novel energy-efficient radio frequency thermal hydrolysis technology aimed at enhancing bioenergy recovery from municipal biosolids. His research interests center on sustainable strategies for managing organic waste streams in light of climate change and resource depletion. He focuses on the implementation of technologies such as anaerobic digestion and fermentation to facilitate energy/resource recovery, significantly contributing to the circular economy. In Canada, substantial amounts of organic waste, including food waste and municipal sludge, produce severe environmental impacts through improper disposal. Koupaie's research in Environmental BioEngineering aims to generate sustainable techniques that enhance the conversion of organic waste into bioenergy and value-added chemicals, leveraging principles from microbiology, nanotechnology, and chemical engineering. His current work emphasizes pretreatment technologies and the advanced anaerobic digestion of municipal and industrial organic waste.
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