Jenny Ngueyn
Jenny received her MS degree in 2022. She completed her thesis on “The impact of redox conditions on OH• scavenging in surface water matrix and implications for testing of scavenging”.
Tori Hoffman
Tori is a PhD student with a focus on microplastics in landfill leachate and anaerobic reactor digestate. Her research is supported by Environmental Research and Education Foundation.
Chideraa Ndubuisi
Chideraa’s is pursuing a PhD in Infrastructure and Environmental Systems with a particular interest in the intersection of environmental and human health. His work focuses on the fate of microplastics in wastewater solids. He received a student grant from NC Water Resources Research Institute for his project on assessing the difference in microplastic content of primary and secondary solids.
He is pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Health simultaneously with his PhD degree.
Microplastics in wastewater
We have been working with multiple wastewater treatment plants to elucidate the sources and fate of microplastics in wastewater treatment, with the recent focus on microplastics in biosolids.
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Introduction
Dr. Olya S. Keen
Assistant Professor
Mailing address:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223
Office: EPIC 3171
Phone: 704-687-5048
E-mail: okeen@uncc.edu
Curriculum Vitae: click here
Research interests:
- Emerging contaminants: detection and analytical chemistry; environmental effects; fate and transport; treatment processes; transformation products in the natural and engineered systems
- Wastewater treatment and water reuse: advanced treatment technologies; resource recovery; applications for municipal effluent reuse, graywater reuse and in-house treatment and reuse for buildings and industries
- Ultraviolet-based processes and advanced oxidation processes: direct and indirect photolysis in natural and engineered systems, UV and ozone based advanced oxidation processes, photocatalysis
Please see “Research” tab for current and recent projects and an overview of analytical capabilities.
Resources for job-seeking students:
- WateReuse has a database of job postings related to water reuse and water resources in general: http://careers.watereuse.org/jobs/
- This website from ORAU has a variety of job listings in many scientific fields that can be searched by keywords: https://www.zintellect.com/Home/Applicant
Research group news:
09/25/2013 Dr. Keen received an award from the International Ultraviolet Association for Best UV Research Paper for the Year 2012 for her journal article “The role of effluent nitrate in trace organic chemical oxidation during UV disinfection” co-authored with Drs. Karl Linden and Nancy Love and published in Water Research.
https://www.iuva.org/news/iuva-presents-awards
09/01/2013 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in conjunction with Chemistry Department was awarded a Major Research Instrumentation Grant from the National Science Foundation for an acquisition of an HPLC/ESI-MS ion trap system. The new instrument will dramatically increase the capabilities for research of emerging contaminants.