DrIbrahim El Saliby

Dr Ibrahim El Saliby is a research hub manager with a wealth of experience in managing and maintaining research projects in nutrient recycling, wastewater treatment and reuse, and plant propagation and production for plant science and conservation.

He has over 22 years of experience in managing databases and inventories, project budgets, infrastructure maintenance, and facilitating research experiments. He was the driving force behind the success of horticultural and water technology projects between several national and international stakeholders. Dr El Saliby has project managed hydroponic experiments between the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in vertical farms and liaised with nursery stakeholders to achieve project goals. He’s researched and developed environmental engineering nanotechnologies for wastewater treatment, trained and co-supervised MEng and PhD students. He’s also written ARC and CRC projects’ proposals, progress reports, peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and presented research results in national and international seminars and conferences. His research achievements are summarised in 31 peer reviewed publications, 2 book chapters and 8 conference presentations.

Dr El Saliby’s managed the operational aspect of research projects while working for the Nature Conservation Center (NCC), previously known as IBSAR (Initiative for Biodiversity Studies in Arid Regions), an academic research center based at the American University of Beirut (AUB), with the mission of making people the guardians of their nature. He’s carried out field, glasshouse, and laboratory experiments on selected plants to showcase the success of different technologies and collaborated with international researchers and funding organisations to develop new products, outreaching, and writing extension documents to community groups in different languages as well as leading training sessions in technology transfer and applications.

Dr El Saliby holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Engineering from UTS, a Master of Science in Plant Sciences from AUB and a Diploma of Agricultural Engineering from the Lebanese University.