Ghaida Abdallat
Ghaida Abdallat
Jordan
Ghaida Abdallat works as a major scientific researcher in environmental and natural resource management for the Economic and Social Council of Jordan (ESCJ). From 2017 to 2021, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the US Geological Survey (USGS) and Jordan's National Center for Research and Development (NCBR), a sub-organization of the Higher Council of Science and Technology. She earned her PhD of Science in Environmental and Resource Management with honors from Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany. During her PhD studies (2012-2015), she worked on decentralized wastewater treatment systems, built wetlands (vertical flow systems), and reuse in irrigation in Jordan at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the Centre for Environmental Biotechnology (UBZ) in Leipzig, Germany. Abdallat was a lecturer of innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Jordan (UJ) in 2022. She also worked at the Center for Strategic Studies in the UJ, where she was responsible for promoting a safe environment, wastewater treatment efficiency, and safe reuse while introducing pharmaceuticals and some industrial chemicals. Her research interests include hydrogeology, hydrochemistry, water-agriculture-food security, surface and groundwater management, wastewater treatment processes, reclaimed water reuse applications in irrigation, managed aquifer recharge, and water-soil interaction.