Our Team:

Niloofar Abdehagh, PhD, PEng, PMP
Vice President - Research and Development
Niloofar joined CH Four Biogas in 2016 and is responsible for the strategic and overall operations of R&D department of the company. Niloofar holds a PhD degree from University of Ottawa in Chemical and Biological Engineering and has a wide range of experience in biofuel and biogas industry. She has been responsible for the formation and operation of the company’s R&D department and overseen CH Four’s technology development and technology positioning. Under her management, CH Four has been actively working on different research projects in various fields related to biogas industry and anaerobic digestion. Niloofar has also been appointed as Adjunct Professor at University of Ottawa leading a research group of undergrad and grad students in addition to lecturing on anaerobic digestion and biogas topic.

MohammadAli BaghbanZadeh, PhD
​Research Scientist
MohammadAli joined CH Four in 2019 as Research Scientist. He conducts different research projects in the field of anaerobic digestion of organic wastes, nutrient recovery from digestate, and wastewater treatment. MohammadAli’s specialty is on anaerobic digestion, water and wastewater treatment and waste management where he has spent more than 6 years doing research and engineering on different processes used in this area. MohammadAli holds a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Ottawa.
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Nikan Nadimi
Research Intern
​Nikan joined CH Four in 2019 as Research intern and actively works in different research projects conducted at CH Four. He has received his bachelors degree in Chemical engineering  from University of Ottawa on April 2019. His main focus is on the anaerobic digestion process and the technical measurements featured in it.