Dr. Majid Sartaj is a Professor of the Civil Engineering Department, University of Ottawa. He obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from University of Ottawa in 2001. After graduation he worked for 2 years in consulting industry, where he was Project Engineer for the development of the first Engineered Landfill for the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia. He was also a faculty member of Isfahan University of Technology before joining University of Ottawa in 2011.
During the past 20 years, his research was directed towards developing sustainable solid waste management (SWM) technologies, with the main focus on Bioreactor Landfilling and biogas/renewable natural gas (NRG) production. Benefits of operating a landfill as a bioreactor include enhancement of the landfill gas (LFG) generation rates; reduction of environmental impacts, reduction of landfilling operation and post-closure activities and costs; abatement of greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, bioremediation of contaminated soils and application of adsorption and Ion-Exchange processes for reduction and removal of contaminants released by different industries and agricultural activities such ammonia, heavy metals, cyanide and nitrate and modeling their fate and transport in the environment are among his other research topics of interest.
Dr. Sartaj is the author or co-author of over 75 research publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and one book chapter. He has supervised or co-supervised more than 35 graduate students. Dr. Sartaj has been an active participant and organizer of several national and international conferences.