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University of New Brunswick
Masoud Haeri Nejad, Ph.D., MCIC is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Calian Ltd. collaborating with the Research Group of Dr. Dean Kennedy, P.Eng. at the Canadian Royal Military College, Kingston, ON. Masoud has a B.Sc. degree in Applied Chemistry, a M.Sc. degree in Analytical Chemistry. He holds a MSc degree in Chemical Engineering from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, in Sweden and has recently completed his doctorate degree program in Chemical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton under supervision of Professor Dr. Mladen Eić, P.Eng.(GPA=4.2) His research interests include multicomponent solvent evaporation; storage, purification, and separation of gaseous mixtures using adsorption; mathematical modeling of separation processes; molecular simulation of adsorption; and application of the fast-screening ZLC experimental technique for the equilibrium and kinetic adsorption studies. He has taught the undergraduate course Engineering Thermodynamics at UNB CHE and has been a teaching- and laboratory assistant for a number of courses at KTH and UNB including Unit Operations and Air Pollution Control Engineering. Masoud is the recipient of the 2024 Arvind Varma Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Prize on behalf of UNB School of Graduate Studies.
For the paper, “Use of molecular simulation for evaluating adsorption equilibrium of inhalation anaesthetic agents on metal–organic frameworks,” Can. J. Chem. Eng. 2024, 102(4), 1646 by Masoud Haeri-Nejad, Mladen Eic.