Dr. Cigdem Eskicioglu
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ICREA Research Professor Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology |
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(34) 93 413 73 52
Biography
Dr. Cigdem Eskicioglu joined the Catalan Institution for Research & Advanced Studies (ICREA) as an
ICREA Research Professor and the Research Group of Environmental Engineering & Microbiology
(GEMMA) as a Distinguished Researcher in 2025. She obtained her B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering in
1996 from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Türkiye. She worked as an Environmental Process
Engineer in Istanbul from 1997 to 2001. With a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada (NSERC) scholarship, she pursued a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at the University of
Ottawa (UO), Canada, studying the pretreatment of municipal sludge for advanced anaerobic digestion
(2002-2006). After her Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006-2008) at UO, she joined the School of Engineering
at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, as a Professor, founding and leading the Bioreactor
Technology Group (BTG) and acquiring an international reputation for research and partnership
innovation. From 2020 to 2025 at UBC, Professor Eskicioglu was awarded the prestigious NSERC/Metro
Vancouver Senior Industrial Research Chair (IRC) title and led a research partnership program on
advanced resource recovery from wastewater.
Dr. Eskicioglu’s research supports her long-term vision of advancing waste treatment processes for
efficient contaminant removal, bioenergy conversion, and revenue generation. Her program focuses on
developing and safely integrating novel thermochemical and biochemical reactor processes into plant
operations for resource recovery from waste in the forms of phosphorus, ammonia, biomethane,
biohydrogen, and biocrude oil for the circular economy.
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