Assistant Professor at the University of Sherbrooke, Department of Chemical and Biotechnological Engineering
Dr. Pahija is actively engaged in academic and industrial activities in Canada, Hong Kong, Denmark, Italy and the UK. He is the recipient of five international awards, including the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Seal of Excellence at the Technical University of Denmark.
Background and education:
PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong SAR)
MSc in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
BSc in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Research interests
Modelling and optimization of chemical and biochemical processes; carbon capture and utilization strategies; techno-economic analysis; sustainable productions; cell dynamics; fermentation; data analysis; process intensification
Current Group Members
Mohammad Bahreini, PhD student (2023 - ). Mohammad develops computational fluid dynamic models with COMSOL to study the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to potassium formate. Project in collaboration with Electro Carbon.
Amira Bakalem, Internship (2023 - ). Amira's work aims to optimize PHB production from bacteria using statistical methods and machine learning.
Past Group Members
Gabriel Metay, Internship (2023). Gabriel is a student at ESEO (France) who worked on the development of Naïve Bayes classification algorithm applied to ecoli.