Chiara Canciani

Developed a bench scale water treatment technique abating 70% pollutants.
Developed methodology to improve performance of metals extraction technology.
Secured over 1 million USD in funding.
Performed risk and mitigation assessments, developed scale-up plans.
Assessed competitive landscape and developed business models.
Led techno-economic and cost assessments.
Presented research at conferences and contributed to research papers.

• Developed a bench scale water treatment technique abating 70% pollutants in industrial wastewater in 5 minutes,
  expected patent and pilot development in progress.
• Developed methodology to improve by 80% the performances of metals extraction technology for battery recycling,
  provisional patent filed.
• Secured 1mil+ USD in external funding for a pilot set-up processing 5000 batteries/day.
• Performed risk and mitigation assessment and developed scale-up plan of the technologies.
• Assessed competitive landscape for metals extraction technology and worked business model development.
• Performed market and impact assessment of the technology and led a team in the techno-economics and cost
  assessments.
• Presented research to 10+ academic and industrial conferences and events, and contributed to 10+ research papers.
• Conferred 2 Dean’s Awards.

Reduced scale removal time by over 90%.
Submitted research and conference papers.
Conferred Outstanding Performance Award.
Supervised undergraduate student in experimental design.

• Responsible for experimental design and methodology development of an innovative scale removal technique.
• Led undergraduate student research on scale removal.
• Recognized with Outstanding Performance Award.

Experimental work for uODS in heavy fuel oil processing.
Desulfurization of heavy fuel oil and water-in-oil emulsion separation.
Lab-scale to bench-scale transition of desulfurization technology.

• Experimental work for uODS, start-up in the heavy fuel oil processing industry.
• Desulfurization of heavy fuel oil, water-in-oil emulsion separation.
• Lab-scale to bench-scale transition of desulfurization technology.

Teaching assistant for Material Science and Engineering summer course.

Performed feasibility and market impact assessment.
Conducted SWOT analysis and KPI monitoring.