Associate Professor
B.Sc. (Abadan Institute of Technology, Iran) 1986
M.A.Sc (University of Toronto) 1993
Ph.D. (University of Toronto) 1997
Dr. Abedi works on issues relating to energy and environment. His areas of expertise are phase behaviour of heavy oils/solvents, renewable energy, biomass/waste gasification and pyrolysis, biofuel production, and hazardous air pollutant removal. He is currently conducting research studies on biomass pyrolysis to produce bio-oil and hydrogen and solvent solubility in bitumen and phase behaviours. His research work involves the use of high performance computing and modeling.