Achievements

June 2024: Recipient of the Albert E. Berry Award by the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. The Albert E. Berry Award is granted to a civil engineer who has made outstanding contributions to the field of environmental engineering in Canada.

July 2023: Appointed UofA Engineering Research Chair in Community-Based Wastewater Management Towards a Circular Economy.

May 2023: Director of the Water Research Centre (WRC). 

March 2023: Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Sustainable and Resilient Wastewater Treatment for Reuse.

August 2022: Keynote Speaker at 3rd International Conference for Membrane Technology & Its Applications (MTAIC). Egyptian Society for Membrane Technology & Its Applications, Cairo, Egypt.

December 2021: Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

November 2021: Keynote Speaker at 2nd International Conference on Environmental Science and Applications (ICESA) 2021 (Virtual conference).

October 2021: Plenary Lecture at the International Forum of Controlling Emerging Contaminants in Potable Water, Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, China (Virtual conference).

August 2021: Keynote Speaker at the 2nd International Conference for Membrane Technology & Its Applications, MTAIC, Cairo, Egypt.

March 2021: Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (FCSCE).

January 2021: Recipient of the 2021 Faculty of Engineering Research Career Award, University of Alberta.

January 2020: Research Chair in Environmental Engineering, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, China.

December 2019: Keynote Speaker at Association of Egyptian American Scholars (AEAS) 46th Annual Conference on The Sustainable Development of Egypt, Tomorrow's Innovative Advancements, Cairo, Egypt.

December 2019: Recognition of Participation as a NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Peer Reviewer, Office of the Vice-President (Research), University of Alberta.

November 2019: Keynote Speaker at the First International Conference on Basalt Fibers and Composites (ICBFC-2019), Nanjing & Hengshui, China.

November 2019: Invited Speaker at College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, China.

June 2019: Keynote Speaker at the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) 2019 Annual General Conference, Laval, Quebec.

June 2019: Keynote Speaker at the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) 17th International Environmental Conference, Laval, Quebec.

May 2019: Jinshan Distinguished Professor, Jiangsu University, China.

May 2019: Certificate of Excellence by the Editor of Chemosphere for distinguished contributions to the peer review process.

May 2019: Recognition by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for contributions as external reviewer of Discovery Grant Applications.

April 2019: Adjunct Visiting Professor, School of Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, China.

April 2019: Invited Speaker at School of Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China, April 22, 2019.

March 2019: Appointed as Special Advisor to the Housing & Building National Research Center (HBRC), Ministry of Infrastructure, Egypt, for the period 2019 to 2024.

March 2019: Service Recognition Award by the Housing & Building National Research Center (HBRC), Ministry of Infrastructure, Egypt for advisory role in the area of water and wastewater treatment.

December 2018: Recognition for participating in an NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Application peer review (Letter from Associate VP).

August 2018: Recognition of participation as Contributor to Grant Assist Program (NSE) Library, University of Alberta. Letter from the Associate Vice-President (Research), Dr. Walter Dixon.

March 2018: Invited Speaker at Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, March 27, 2018.

March 2018: Invited Speaker at the State key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, Invited Speaker, March 26, 2018.

November 2017: Winner of Alberta Science and Technology Leadership (ASTech) Foundation Award, 2017 Innovation in Oil Sands Research.

October 2017: Keynote Speaker at ICEPC 2017 - The International Conference on Environmental Pollution Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 8-12, 2017.

September 2017: Keynote Speaker at ICECS 2017 10th International Conference on Environmental and Computer Science, Ottawa, Ontario, September 13-15, 2017.

May 2017: Invited Speaker at InnoTech Alberta - Distinguished Lecture Series, Edmonton Alberta, May 23, 2017.

February 2017: Recognition of CIHR Peer Review Committee Membership for volunteer time and efforts as a Teleconference of the CIHR Peer Review Committee Operating Grant: Population Health Intervention Research, University of Alberta.

October 2016: Finalist of Alberta Science and Technology Leadership (ASTech) Foundation Award, 2016 Innovation in Oil Sands Research.

May 2013: Awarded Killam Annual Professorship, University of Alberta.

July 2012: Invited Speaker at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America 33rd Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, USA, November 11-15, 2012.

February 2012: Invited Speaker at the 18th Advanced Oxidation Technologies for Treatment of Water, Air and Soil (AOTs-18), Jacksonville, Florida, USA, November 12-15, 2012.

December 2010: Awarded NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Oil Sands Tailings Water Treatment (period 2011-2016).

September 2009: Invited to present one paper during the Plenary Session, 2nd European Conference on Environmental Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes EAAOP2, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 9-11, 2009.

May 2009: Service Recognition Award, International Ozone Association/ International Ultraviolet Association at North American Joint Conference, Boston, MA, USA, May 4-6, 2009.

May 2008: One of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)'s One Hundred 2008 Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS).

August 2007: Service Recognition Award from the International Ozone Association/ International Ultraviolet Association during the International Ozone Association/International Ultraviolet Association World Congress, Los Angeles, California, USA, August 27-29, 2007.

June 2007: Certificate of Appreciation, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) at the 34th Annual CSCE Conference, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, June 6-9, 2007.

September 2006: Service Recognition Award from the International Ozone Association/Pan American Group during the International Ozone Association/Pan American Group International Conference, Arlington, Texas, USA, September 18-20, 2006.

September 2006: Service Recognition Award from the International Ozone Association/Pan American Group during the International Ozone Association/Pan American Group International Conference, Arlington, Texas, USA, September 18-20, 2006.

April 2005: Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award.

July 2004: Featured in the 2003/2004 Alberta Ingenuity Fund (AIF) Annual Report to highlight contributions to the field of Environmental Engineering.

July 2004: Invited to present two papers during the Plenary Session, Water Supply and Water Quality Conference, Poznań, Poland, September 6-8, 2004.

June 2004: Invited to the Editorial Board of the Ozone Science and Engineering (OS&E) Journal.

February 2004: Featured in PEGG to highlight a received research grant in the amount of $55,000/year for two years (granting agency: Alberta Ingenuity Fund (AIF)).

November 2003: Featured in Edmonton Journal to highlight a received research grant in the amount of $55,000/year for two years (granting agency: Alberta Ingenuity Fund (AIF)).

August 2003: Featured in the August issue of Ozone News, the newsletter of the International Ozone Association (IOA) to highlight contributions to the field of ozone treatment applications in the water and wastewater treatment industries.

September 1995: Wayne State University Graduate Scholarship, declined.

July 1991: Awarded an Honours Degree as a result of maintaining a minimum grade of “Very Good” throughout the 5-year undergraduate program at Cairo University, Egypt.

September 2023: The appointment of Dr. Gamal El-Din as Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sustainable and Resilient Wastewater Treatment for Reuse was highlited in the University of Alberta Folio (September 01, 2023) (https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2023/09/new-crcs-use-technology-to-build-a-leaner-greener-global-future.html).

July 2023: Dr. Mohamed Gamal El-Din was appointed Director and Dr. Evan Davies an Associate Director of a new Water Research Centre. This news was highlithed in Folio and News, University of Alberta (“New water research centre draws on deep well of expertise”, July 17, 2023) (https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2023/07/new-water-research-centre-draws-on-deep-well-of-expertise.html; https://www.ualberta.ca/news/news-releases-and-statements/news-releases/2023/07-july/new-water-research-centre-draws-on-deep-well-of-expertise.html).

February 2022: Dr. Gamal El-Din’s research on electro-oxidation and solar-based photocatalysis was highlighted in an article titled “Sun, water, and chemistry”, posted on the Future Energy Systems Newsletter. The article focused on the work of Dr. Soliu Ganiyu and Ph.D. students Lingjun Meng and Monsuru Suara (https://www.futureenergysystems.ca/news/post/sun-water-and-chemistry).

December 2021: Dr. Gamal El-Din was interviewed by Global News Radio, Edmonton on the potential release of oil sands tailings water on the environment (630 CHED Afternoons with J’lyn Nye” on December 9, 2021).

December 2021: Dr. Gamal El-Din was interviewed by Radio Cité on the treatment of oil sands tailings water and their possible release, December 7, 2021.

December 2021: Dr. Gamal El-Din was interviewed by Energi Media on the treatment of oil sands tailings water and their possible release to the environment, December 7, 2021.

December 2021: Dr. Gamal El-Din was interviewed by CBC New on the treatment of oil sands tailings water (“Banned for Decades, Releasing Oilsands Tailings Water is Now on the Horizon” by Kyle Bakx, December 06, 2021, https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bakx-oilsands-tailings-release-mining-effluent-regulations-1.6271537).

August 2021: Collaborative work with Tsinghua University on “Bifunctional Fe for Induced Graphitization and Catalytic Ozonation Based on a Fe/N-Doped Carbon–Al2O3 Framework: Theoretical Calculations Guided Catalyst Design and Optimization” published in Environmental Science & Technology was featured as the front cover of August 17, 2021 issue (volume 55, issue 16; https://pubs.acs.org/toc/esthag/55/16).

October 2020: Dr. Gamal El-Din was interviewed by the CIM Magazine to discuss his research project on biofiltration for oil sands process water (“Actively Looking for a Passive Approach” by Lynn Greiner, October 01, 2020, https://magazine.cim.org/en/environment/actively-looking-for-a-passive-approach-en/?utm_source=LI&utm_medium=LI&utm_campaign=LI).

January 2020: Dr. Gamal El-Din was interviewed by the Canadian Energy Center in Toronto to discuss his article published in the University of Alberta Folio Website on the biofiltration of oil sands process water (https://www.canadianenergycentre.ca/new-research-adding-tools-for-cleanup-of-oil-sands-waste-water/).

December 2019: Dr. Gamal El-Din was interviewed by Ms. Danielle Smith for her Radio Talk Show (Edmonton) on his article published in Folio (biofiltration of oil sands process water as an alternative to decontaminate process water).

November 2019: Interview in CBC Edmonton Radio to discuss treatment of oil sands process water using biofiltration and oxidation.

October 2019: Featured in the University of Alberta Folio Website to highlight Dr. Gamal El-Din’s research in the area of oil sands process water treatment using biofiltration.

April 2018: Paper on “A New Compartmental Model for Describing the Mixing Behaviour in a Multi-Transversal Jet Reactor” by B. Nandi, P. Chelme-Ayala, M. Loewen and M. Gamal El-Din was awarded 2018’s CSCE Thomas C. Keefer Medal, Canadian Society of Civil Engineering.

September 2017: Featured in Edmonton Journal to highlight Dr. Gamal El-Din’s research in the area of oil sands tailings water treatment.

June 2017: The paper “Impact of environmental conditions on bacterial photoreactivation in wastewater effluents” was selected by the handling Editor as one of the top 10% of papers published in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts. This selection was based on the exceptionally positive referee reports that the manuscript received during peer review, along with the Editor’s assessment of the significance and impact of the paper.

March 2017: First Place Best Poster Competition at Annual Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Graduate Student Poster Competition, Edmonton, Alberta, March 16, 2017 (“Carbon Xerogel Material for the Adsorption of Naphthenic Acids” by Y. Rashed, S. Messele, H. Zeng., and M. Gamal El-Din).

December 2016: Paper on "Transcriptional Responses of Male Fathead Minnows Exposed to Oil Sands Process-Affected Water", Comp. Phyiol. Biochem. C, Pharm. Toxicol., 157(2), 227-235 (2013) by Wiseman, S., Y. He, M. Gamal El-Din, J.W. Martin, P.D. Jones, M. Hecker, and J.P. Giesy was acknowledged by the Editors of Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C as one of the most highly cited papers during 2014, 2015 and up until June 2016.

September 2014: Second Place Best Poster Competition at the Helmholtz Alberta Initiative (HAI) 4th Science Forum, Edmonton, Alberta, September 29, 2014 ("Evaluation of Adsorption and Biodegradation Mechanisms of NAs in a Simultaneous Adsorption and Biodegradation Treatment of OSPW" by Islam, M.S., Y. Zhang, K.N. McPhedran, Y. Liu, and M. Gamal El-Din).

April 2013: Featured on Spotlight section of Applied and Environmental Microbiology to highlight paper on “Kinetics of Ozone Inactivation of Infectious Prion Protein”.

April 2013: First Place Best Poster Competition, at the 2013 Air and Waste Management Association, Canadian Prairie & Northern Section (CPANS) Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, April 15-16, 2013 (“The Application of Exfoliated Graphite for the Remediation of OSPW” by Moustafa, A., S. Kang and M. Gamal El-Din).

June 2012: Second Place for Outstanding Paper, Graduate Student Paper Competition at the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) 2012 Annual Conference, 12th International Environmental Specialty Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, June 6-9, 2012 (“Coagulation/Flocculation/Sedimentation Treatment of the Oil Sands Process Affected Water” by Pourrezaei, P., Y. Wang, L.A. Pérez-Estrada, J.W. Martin, and M. Gamal El-Din).

March 2012: Award for Student Poster Competition at the Canadian Oil Sands Network for Research and Development (CONRAD) 2012 Water Conference and Workshops, Edmonton, Alberta, March 21-22, 2012 (“Coagulation/Flocculation/Sedimentation Treatment of Oil Sands Process Affected Water” by Pourrezaei, P., L.A. Pérez-Estrada, J. Anderson, S. Wiseman, K. Liber, J.P. Giesy, J.W. Martin, and M. Gamal El-Din).

August 2005: Best Student Research Paper Presentation at the International Ozone Association (IOA) 17th World Congress, Strasbourg, France, August 22-25, 2005 ("The Use of PIV/PLIF to Study the Liquid-Phase Backmixing in an Impinging-Jet Ozone Bubble Column" by Baawain, M., M. Gamal El-Din, and D.W. Smith).

March 2024: Bouthaina Aoudi and Judy Kahkeci received the Graduate Student Travel Awards at a value of $1,642.00 each.

November 2022: Zhexuan An received the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) ($12,000).

September 2022: Jia Li received the Rick George Graduate Scholarship in Engineering ($1,000); Zhexuan An received the Jacob Masliyah Graduate Scholarship in Oil Sands Engineering ($2,000); and Hadi Mokarizadeh received the Jacob Masliyah Graduate Scholarship in Oil Sands Engineering ($2,000).

December 2021: Mr. Hadi Mokarizadeh received the Gerald J Maier/Nova Chemicals Graduate Recruitment Award at a value of $5000.

September 2021: Ms. Jülide Kahkeci and Mr. Hadi Mokarizadeh received the UofA Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship (award valued at $5,000).

September 2020: Ms. Zhexuan An received the Gordon R. Finch Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Environmental Engineering. This award is values at $2,700.

September 2020: Ms. Zhexuan An received the Jacob H. Masliyah Graduate Award in Oil Sands Engineering. This award is valued at $2,000.

October 2019: Ms. Jia Li received the Gordon R. Finch Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Environmental Engineering. This award is valued at $2,500.

September 2019: Mr. Akeem Bello received the University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship (award valued at $5,000).

April 2019: Mr. Mosuru Suara received the University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship (award valued at $5,000).

April 2019: Ms. Deborak Crominski da Silva Medeiros received the University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship (award valued at $5,000).

November 2018: Ms. Chelsea Benally was featured in the University of Alberta Folio website as the First Indigenous woman to graduate with Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Alberta.

October 2018: Mr. Lei Zhang received the Gordon R. Finch Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Environmental Engineering. This award is valued at $2,500.

October 2018: Mr. Abdallatif Abdalrhman received the Petro-Canada Graduate Scholarship in Petroleum Engineering. The award is valued at $5,000.

June 2018: Mr. Abdallatif Abdalrhman received the DAAD-RISE (Research Internship in Science and Engineering) Professional Scholarship offered by the German Government to conduct an internship in Germany from June to September 2018. The research topic was “Analysis of structure-performance relationship for middle distillate flow improvers (MDFI)”. Mr. Abdalrhman worked as an R&D intern at BASF SE, the largest chemical producer in the world.

April 2018: Mr. Abdallatif Abdalrhman received the Graduate Students' Association (GSA) Academic Travel Award. Academic Travel Award in the amount of $500.

April 2018: Mr. Abdallatif Abdalrhman received the Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Student Award from FGSR, University of Alberta (Graduate travel support fund).

April 2018: Ms. Rui Qin received the J Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award from FGSR, U Alberta (April 11, 2018) (Graduate travel support fund) - $1,500 to attend the SPEA10 in Almeria, Spain.

February 2018: Ms. Lingjun Meng received the Jean Isobel Soper Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Science.

May 2017: Mr. Mohammed Shaikh, Mr. Mohamed Ibrahim, and Ms. Shu Zhu received the J. Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award, from the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta

April 2017: Mr. Mohamed Meshref received the Leonard E. Grads Teaching Assistant Award for 2017 from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta.

March 2017: Mr. Mohammed Shaikh received the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship - Master's level, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta.

March 2017: Ms. Yara Rashed and Mr. Mohammed Shaikh received the Alberta Graduate Student Scholarship (Master’s). This scholarship is administered by Student Aid Alberta in conjunction with the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Alberta.

January 2017: Dr. Jinkai Xue received the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

December 2016: Mr. Jinkai Xue received the Award of Excellence for Students Studying Abroad from the China Scholarship Council and the Award of Excellence for Xinjiang Students Studying Abroad from the Provincial Government of Xinjiang, China.

December 2016: Mr. Abdallatif Abdalrhman received the Dr. Donald R. Stanley Graduate Scholarship in Environmental Engineering (one of the Faculty of Engineering scholarships).

November 2016: Mr. Abdallatif Abdalrhman received the Shell Enhanced Learning Fund to attend The CSCE 15th International Conference on Environmental Engineering in Vancouver, BC, Canada.