Research Interests

Steven is a new post-doctoral researcher, working in water treatment, with a focus on resource recovery, particularly focusing on organic chemicals as sorbing medium.

He completed his undergrad in Environmental Chemistry in 2009-12, working on measuring trace metals and phosphate release from construction of windfarm in peatlands. He also completed an internship with the SUERC facilities, working to carbon-date and measure metals content in a restored peatland.

He completed a Masters in Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde in 2017-18, working on trace metal release from soils subjected to Smouldering Remediation, an innovative technique for destroying organic contaminants in-situ.

His PhD was on reversing this previous work on release from organic compounds, instead using farming byproducts as a naturally occurring organic sorbents, with an aim to capture and concentrate trace minerals in seawater, to investigate as a potential alternative to geological mining.

In parallel with that he worked as a research associate on several research projects, including Black Box testing of Dissolved Organic Carbon filtration methods utilizing nanocomposites for drinking water, and a project on accelerating deutrium partitioning through Silica Coated Dixon Rings, manufactured through Doped Solgel processes.