Associate Members
GIWS Associate Members are individuals who are making a significant contribution to water research and are providing support for water research activities in areas relevant to our institute. This includes Research Associates, Postdoctoral Fellows and Professional Affiliates, as well as Faculty Members working at other universities who maintain a collaborative research relationship with GIWS.
Soroush Abbasi Data Scientist
Research Area(s): water resources management, water quality, hydrology, hydrogeology
Melkamu Ali Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area(s): Subsurface flow modelling at hillslope and catchment scales, Solute transport modelling for Environmental risk assessment
Hubert Tote Alimezelli Postdoctoral Fellow
Integrated Training Program in Infectious Diseases, Food Safety and Public Policy
Muhammad Rehan Anis Postdoctoral Fellow
Global Institute for Water Security and School of Environment and Sustainability
Willemijn Appels Mueller Applied Research Chair in Irrigation Science
Centre for Applied Arts and Sciences, Lethbridge College
Abdolreza Bahremand Associate Professor (Visiting Professor)
Watershed Management Department, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Meghan Carr Postdoctoral Fellow
Global Institute for Water Security
Emily Cavaliere Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Environment and Sustainability
Yin Chu Visiting Scholar
College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Geological Engineering
Nazzareno Diodato Fellow Geoscientist
HyMex, Hydrological Mediterranean Experiment, Met European Research Observatory
Jim Freer Visiting Professor
Research Area(s): Uncertainty Analysis, Conceptual modelling, Catchment Hydrology, Model evaluation, Predictive diagnostics, Large sample hydrology, UAS operations
Raea Gooding Outreach Coordinator
College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan
Abdalla H. Karoyo Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area(s): Polymers, Adsorption, Structure, Interfacial interactions, Environmental remediation
Amin Haghnegahdar Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area(s): Land surface-hydrological modelling, Model sensitivity and unvertainty assessment, Model calibration/validation
Phillip Harder Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Saskatchewan
Andrew Ireson Assistant Professor
School of Environment and Sustainability, Department of Civil and Geological Engineering, Global Institute for Water Security
Michael Kehoe Postdoctoral Fellow
Global Institute for Water Security and School of Environment and Sustainability
Dawn Keim Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area(s): Recharge processes, Hydrogeology, Unsaturated flow processes, Contaminant transport
Wouter Knoben Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Saskatchewan
Coldwater Laboratory
Sebastian Krogh Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Nevada, Reno
Nicolas Leroux Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan
Yanping Li Associate Professor
School of Environment and Sustainability and Global Institute for Water Security
Mohammad Mahaninia Research Assistant
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan
Sujata Manandhar Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area(s): Conservation planning, Biodiversity, Land-use change, Climate change, Environmental decision-making, prioritization, Water management
Luis Alejandro Morales Marin MSc, PhD, C Eng Postdoctoral Fellow
Global Institute for Water Security
Balew A. Mekonnen Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area(s): Prairie hydrology, Watershed modeling, Predicting hydrological processes including wetland function across the prairies under various cliamtic and land use scenarios
Uri Nachshon Postdoctoral Fellow
The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Isreal
Ehimai Ohiozebau Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area(s): Ecotoxicology, Aquatic pollutants, Fish health, Human and ecological risk assessment, Analytical techniques, Pollution indicators
Xicai Pan Postdoctoral Fellow
Global Institute for Water Security and College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Vanessa Pedinotti Postdoctoral Fellow
Global Institute for Water Security
Bharath Raja Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area(s): Assess impacts of climate variability on water-related ecosystem functions
Hamidreza Rashidi Professional Research Associate
Research Area(s): Indigenous Water Knowledge, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Applications in Water Management , Capacity Building and Public Awareness in Water Management , Collaborative Modelling in Water Management, Water Governess and Policies, Water and Wastewater Treatment
Saman Razavi Associate Professor
Research Area(s): Climate change and water security, Land-water management and environmental change, Hydrologic models development and calibration, Environmental and water resources systems planning and management, Single- and multi-objective optimization, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty quantification, Climate change and impacts on hydrology and water resources, Reconstruction of paleo-hydrology – implications for climate change analysis, Surrogate modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
Dominique Richard Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area(s): Providing accurate streamflow and lake level forecasts for the Yukon river, Capturing the physical properties of the watershed and the processes that dominate
Arcadio Rodriguez-Prado Adjunct Professor
Research Area(s): Conducting hydrological models using MESH, model streamflow and water level for hydrological basins in Canada and other countries, Wastewater treatment design, feasibility and modelling, using conventional and non-conventional technologies
Christopher Ryan Senior Research Scientist
Research Area(s): Environmental forensics, Athabasca oils sands, Synchrotron radiation, Absorption spectroscopy, Naphthenic acids, Petroleum Coke, Mine drainage, Industrial effluent
Lucia Scaff Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
Nicholas Wayand Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for Hydrology, Department of Geography and Planning
Befekadu Woldegiorgis Postdoctoral Fellow
Global Institute for Water Security
Jeff Wong Postdoctoral Fellow
Global Institute for Water Security and School of Environment and Sustainability
