Associate Professor Bita Ayati
Environmental Engineering Division, Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran

Biography:

Dr. Bita Ayati is the Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering Division of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty at TMU, Tehran, Iran. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from TMU in 2005, M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering in 1998 and B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in 1996, both from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran.   

Dr. Ayati’s recent research interests include hard-biodegradable industrial and hazardous wastewater treatment especially using new methods including nano technology and advanced biological systems. She supervised 5 Ph.D. and more than 40 M.Sc. students. She is the author of the book entitled: Application of Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) in Sanitary Industrial Wastewater Treatment. She has published over 190 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings. She has obtained 15 scientific award including Young Scientist Awards from Man and Biosphere (MAB), UNESCO in 2002.