Staff Members CV
The Center has more than 45 senior-level faculty from national, regional, and international institutions. ACEWM affiliated 38 faculty who are engaged in teaching, research, joint supervision of students, and offering short courses.
Meseret Dessalegne
PhD in Water and Health Program (water and wastewater Treatment Specialization)
Water Science & Technology
Personal Information
- Full Name: Meseret Dessalegne Zerefa
- Title: Associate Professor of political science & international relations at Addis Ababa University
- BSc in Applied chemistry at University of Gondar, Ethiopia
- MSc in in Environmental Health at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- PhD in Water and Health Program (water and wastewater Treatment Specialization)
- Assistant Professor from February 2018-Recent at Ethiopian Institute of Water Resources, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- Assistant Professor from June 2017-January 2018 at Chemistry department, Dire Dawa University, Ethiopia
- Lecturer from July 2011-Sept 2012, Chemistry department, Dire Dawa University, Ethiopia.
- Project Assistant from Dec 2010-Feb 2011, EAWAG project on production of aluminum hydroxide in large scale at Addis Ababa University
- Meseret D. and Feleke Z., 2013. Daily dietary fluoride intake in rural villages of the Ethiopian Rift Valley. Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry.
- Meseret D., Feleke Z., Isabel D., 2016. Aluminium hydroxide supported on zeolites for fluoride removal from drinking water. J Chem Technol Biotechnol (wileyonlinelibrary.com)
- Meseret D., Feleke Z., Numa P., Annette J., Isabel D., 2016. Layered double hydroxide and its calcined product for fluoride removal from groundwater of Ethiopian Rift Valley. Water Air Soil Pollut. 227:381. DOI 10.1007/s11270-016-3079-5.
- Meseret D., Feleke Z., Wondafrash M., Girma W., Isabel D., 2018+9999. Effective fluoride adsorption by Aluminum oxide modified clays: Ethiopian Bentonite vs Commercial montmorillonite. Bull. Chem. Soc. Ethiop. 32(2): 199-211. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/bcse.v32i2.2
- Braun L, Sylivester YD, Zerefa MD, Maru M, Allan F, Zewge F, et al. (2020) Chlorination of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 14(8): e0008665. https://doi.org/10.1371/pntd.0008665
- ASTMH (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) Annual Meeting, Maryland, USA, 2019.
- OU (Oklahoma University) International Water Conference, Oklahoma, USA 2019.
- Addis Ababa University, Annual research week, May 2019
- Stakeholder Consultative Workshop on Scale up of water defluoridation Technologies in Ethiopia, Dec 2015, Adama.
- Oromia Regional State, Integrated Fluorosis Mitigation Approaches, Ministry of water and Energy, 2011, Adama, Ethiopia.
- Feb 2006-June 2006: Project on calcium, zinc and phytate interrelationship in selected cereals from Ethiopia.
- 2009-2011: Master thesis on assessment of Daily fluoride intake in adult person living in selected households of Dugda wereda.
- Jan 2015- Jul 2015: Eawag’s Partnership Program EPP in Switzerland (Part of PhD research) Title: «Preparation and characterization of high capacity adsorbents from composite mixtures and amended oxides for fluoride removal in drinking water»
- October 2013-March 2017: PhD study and research with a title: “Synthesis, Characterization and Defluoridation studies of Aluminium based adsorbents”
- May 2017- August 2017: Research associate on a project entitled “Affordable Hybrid Technology for Water Purification” at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology.
- August 2017- August 2018: Post-doctoral researcher on a collaborative research project entitled WISER: Water Infrastructure for Schistosomiasis- Endemic Regions) funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
- My research interest is in water and health program specialized in water and wastewater treatment