About

Dr. Shooka Karimpour is an Assistant Professor at the department of Civil Engineering at York University, Toronto, Canada. She started his Ph.D. at University of Illinois at Chicago, transferred to McGill, where she graduated with a degree in Hydrotechnical Engineering – Civil Engineering in 2015 and joined York University in 2019. She is also a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario and member at large with the Hydrotechnical Division of Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE). Shooka specializes in the development and application of hydro-environmental models to investigate mixing and transport processes and linkage to entrainment of multi-phase flow. In particular, her research group explores turbulent-induced movement of sediments and emerging contaminants including Microplastics (MPs). She is leading a large-scale, multi-institutional research partnership with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks (MECP), investigating the mobility and distribution of MPs across Lake Ontario. Her research has been published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, and Environmental Science & Technology and she has been recognized nationally and internationally by awards such as the best CSCE Hydrotechnical paper award (2021) and York University’s Research Award winner (2022).

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Turbulent mixing and entrainment - Emerging contaminant tranport

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