Rate My Professor Ali Hanandeh

Ali El Hanandeh is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University, within the Civil and Environmental Engineering discipline. He earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Sydney between 2006 and 2010, complemented by BSc, MASc, MIT, and GCHE qualifications. After completing his doctorate, he held a Post-doctoral Research Fellow position in Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney from June 2010 to January 2011. El Hanandeh joined Griffith University as a Lecturer in Engineering at the Gold Coast campus and advanced to Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Built Environment before his promotion to Associate Professor effective January 1, 2025.

As an environmental engineer, El Hanandeh's research centers on sustainable engineering, life cycle assessment, nutrient recovery, green chemistry, and cleaner production methods to address nutrient removal and recovery from waste streams. His contributions include developing innovative solutions such as modified biochar for enhanced phosphate adsorption and life cycle analyses for waste treatment processes like mobile pyrolysis units for olive industry solid waste. With over 3,700 citations on Google Scholar, his work has notable influence in environmental engineering. Key publications encompass 'Quantifying the carbon footprint of religious tourism: the case of Hajj' published in 2013 and cited 189 times, 'Carbon abatement via treating the solid waste from the Australian olive industry in mobile pyrolysis units: LCA with uncertainty analysis' from 2012, 'Modification of Hardwood Derived Biochar to Improve Phosphate Adsorption Performance' in 2021 cited 42 times, 'Electro-assisted adsorption of heavy metals from aqueous solutions using iron oxide modified rice husk biochar' in 2020, and 'Isotherms, kinetics and thermodynamics study of phenol adsorption on magnetite nanoparticles' in 2022. He has produced around 90 publications. El Hanandeh edits for Applied Sciences and engages in teaching and postgraduate supervision.