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Shiferaw Ayalneh Worku

Email: shiferaw.ayalneh@aastu.edu.et

College: Engineering

Department: Chemical Engineering

Academic Rank: Chief Technical Assistant

Qualification: BSc in Food Technology and Food Process Engineering , MSc in Chemical Engineering (Food Process Engineering)

Research Interest: Product development, characterization and extraction for food and medical based researchs

Publication: I have 5 publications

Solomon Tibebu Gebreabe

Email: solomon.tibebu@aastu.edu.et

College: Engineering

Department: Environmental Engineering

Academic Rank: Lecturer

Qualification: Environmental Engineering

Research Interest: Water & Wastewater Engineering; Soil & Groundwater Remediation; Air pollution Engineering; Solid Waste Engineering; Waste to Energy Technologies; Renewable Energy Engineering

Publication: 1. Potential of biochar g-C₃N₄ nanocomposites in soil remediation of 2,4-D with mechanistic insights and future prospects Cited by: NA Year: 2025 2. Influence of Mixed Microbial Starter Cultures and Fermentation Duration on the Quality and Shelf Life of Ethiopian Injera Cited by: 1 Year: 2025 3. Decoupled hydrogen production through hybrid water electrolysis utilizing ruthenium-tin oxide electrocatalyst Cited by: NA Year: 2025 4. Optimization of pyrolysis conditions for Catha edulis waste-based biochar production using response surface methodology Cited by: 2 Year: 2025 5. Optimization of glucose syrup extraction from Colocasia esculenta starch using enzymatic hydrolysis Cited by: 1 Year: 2025 6. Advanced methylene blue adsorption with a tailored biochar/graphene oxide/magnetite nanocomposite: characterization, optimization, and reusability Cited by: 10 Year: 2025 7. Microbial Fuel Cells for Sustainable Biofuel Production: Cutting-edge Technology Cited by: NA Year: 2025 8. Cr (VI) removal from aqueous

Takele Sime Tessema

Email: takele.sime@aastu.edu.et

College: Engineering

Department: Environmental Engineering

Academic Rank: Lecturer

Qualification: MSc. In Environmental Engineering

Research Interest: Water, wastewater, Air pollution and Control, Climate change and modeling, Soil and Control, and renewable Energy

Publication: 1. Sime, T., Fito, J., Nkambule, T. T., Temesgen, Y., & Sergawie, A. (2023). Adsorption of congo red from textile wastewater using activated carbon developed from corn cobs: the studies of isotherms and kinetics. Chemistry Africa, 1-16. 2. Tessema, T. S., Adugna, A. T., & Kamara. Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2020, 1- 10. 2023 3. Seleman, M., Sime, T., Ayele, A., Sergawie, A., Nkambule, T., & Fito, J. (2023). I. International Journal of Biomaterials, 2023. 4. Shibeshi, A., Gebreabe, S. T., Tiruneh, A., Kassahun, E., & Sime, T. (2024). Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-25. 5. Kassahun, E., Fito, J., Tibebu, S., Nkambule, T. T., Tadesse, T., Sime, T., & Kloos, H. (2022). Journal of Chemistry, 2022, 1-11. 2024 6. Tibebu, S., Kassahun, E., Ale, T. H., Worku, A., Sime, T., Berhanu, A. A., ... & Ashebir, H. (2024). Scientific Reports, 14(1), 19280. 7. Tibebu, S., Kassahun, E., Sime, T., & Shibeshi, A. The Effect of Assessing Students Based on Their Class Work and Homework Performance

Tefera Bahiru Ambo

Email: tefera.bahiru@aastu.edu.et

College: Engineering

Department: Civil Engineering

Academic Rank: Assistant Professor

Qualification: PhD

Research Interest: Road Safety and Transportation Planning, Road Safety Analysis, Transport Policy and Regulation, Urban Transport Challenges and Optimization, Traffic Violation and Crash Investigation and Analysis, Data Analysis and Modeling, Application of big data in transportation

Publication: 1. Investigating Influence Factors of Traffic Violation Using Multinomial Logit Method, Ambo T. B., J. Ma, and C. Fu, Int. J. Inj. Contr. Saf. Promot., vol. 28, pp. 78-85, Nov. 2020 2. Investigating road conditions of crash blackspots in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, A random parameters negative binomial mode: Ambo T. B., J. Ma, C. Fu, and Atumo, E.A, Int. Jr CrashW, pp.521-532, Sep. 2023 3. Segment-Level Spatial Spillover Effects of Exogenous Characteristics of Arterials on Crash Frequency, E.A. Atumo, B. Zhang, H. Li, X. Jiang, Q. Yu, Ambo T. B., and Z. Hu, TRR., Feb. 2023, 4. Micromobility in Addis Ababa’s Transportation System:Opportunity and Challenges, Ambo T. B. and J. Ma, World Transport Convention Nov. 2022, Wuhan, China.

Tibebu Yohannes

Email: tibebu.yohannes@aastu.edu.et

College: College of Social Science and Humanities

Department: Humanities Division

Academic Rank: Assistant Professor

Qualification: PhD

Research Interest: developmental disability, technology and disability

Publication:

Tsedekech G/meskel W/michael (PhD)

Email: tsedekech.gebremeskel@aastu.edu.et

College: Engineering

Department: Environmental Engineering

Academic Rank: Assistant Professor

Qualification: Environmental Science

Research Interest: Soil remediation, Environmental pollution control, Soil biodiversity

Publication: 15

Tsegaye Sissay Tedla

Email: tsegaye.sissay@aastu.edu.et

College: Engineering

Department:

Academic Rank: Chief Technical Assistant

Qualification: MSc., PhD candidate

Research Interest: Energy storage, renewable energy, modeling and simulation

Publication: 7

Tuaumelsan Shumye Gebre

Email: tuamelisan.shumye@aastu.edu.et

College: Engineering

Department: Chemical Engineering

Academic Rank: Assistant Professor

Qualification: Ph.D

Research Interest: my research focus on development of Functional and neutraceutical foods, Probiotics and Postbiotics as well as Fermentation systems

Publication: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=n6naY80AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Weynshet Ferede Mihretu

Email: woinshet.ferede@aastu.edu.et

College: Engineering

Department: Chemical Engineering

Academic Rank: Lecturer

Qualification: Chemical Engineering (process stream)

Research Interest: new product production

Publication: no

Yalew Woldeamanuel Sitotaw

Email: yalew.woldeamanuel@aastu.edu.et

College: Engineering

Department: Chemical Engineering

Academic Rank: Assistant Professor

Qualification:

Research Interest: • Application of ultrasound and planetary ball milling for biomaterials and mineral processing. • Polymers and composites processing and characterization of for diverse applications. • Biofuel processing for sustainable resource utilization. • Synthesis of biomaterials and valuable chemicals from agro-industrial wastes. • Industrial Process Design and Optimization. • Industrial process intensification and integration. • Product design and development. • Nanomaterials.

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