Dr Ruben Sakrabani
Lecturer in Soil Chemistry
Location: Building 37, Cranfield campus
E: r.sakrabani@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2710
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Ruben Sakrabani teaches on the MSc Land Management options, Soil Management and Land Reclamation and Restoration. He has been involved in projects funded by DEFRA on soil organic carbon modelling and consultancy work on soil aggresivity to pipe corrosion.
He is involved in contract research on the application of compost and modelling the impact on carbon sequestration and release of green house gas. His research interests also involve determining nutrient dynamics associated with organomineral fertilisers in arable land. He has an interest on the application of waste to land with a special focus on fate and transport of organic micropollutants in soils. Ruben also has an interest on mobility of heavy metals in soils. He currently supervises several PhD and EngD students on some of the projects mentioned above. He is also the Research Student Director for the Natural Resources Department.
He was elected in 2006 as the Honorary Treasurer of the Environmental Chemistry Group (ECG), an interest group within the Royal Society of Chemistry. In addition, he serves as the Associated Editor of the ECG Bulletin.
Clients
- Defra
- ERM
- Pesticides Safety Directorate
- Thames Water
- Unilever
- United Utilities
- WRAP
Background
Dr Ruben Sakrabani obtained his first degree in Chemistry from the National University of Malaysia. He obtained the prestigious British High Commissioners Chevening Award to undertake the MSc in Environmental Pollution Control from University of Leeds. After his MSc, he worked for a year at Earth Tech Engineering Ltd as an Assistant Environmental Specialist.
He then started his PhD at University of Abertay Dundee and later transferred to University of Bradford. His PhD work was on the biodegradability of eroding combined sewer sediments during wet weather conditions. He has experience in field and laboratory analysis involving polluted sediments and hands on experience operating AAS, HPLC and ion chromatograph.
During his PhD, Ruben spent four months at Aalborg University in Denmark developing novel methods to predict biodegradability of organic matter from combined sewer sediments. In addition, he was also involved in an EU collaborative project involving trans-national access to Major Research Infrastructure (MRI) at WL Delft Hydraulics in the Netherlands.
Dr Ruben Sakrabani joined Cranfield in September 2002 as Lecturer in Soil Chemistry.
