Fekadu Melak 

Cell Phone: 251-0948190976                               

  Email: fekadumelak95@gmail.com|Fekadu.Melak@bdu.edu.et

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ORCID ID: Fekadu Melak (0000-0001-7296-5723) - ORCID

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4P1x_-wAAAAJ&hl=en

•  Work experience
• Graduate Assistant (2005-2009) : Jimma University Department of Chemistry 
• Lecturer (2009-2017): Jimma University Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science and Technology 
• Assistant Professor (2017-2021): Jimma University Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science and Technology 
• Assistant Professor(2021-2023): Debre Markos University Department of Environmental Health
• Assistant Professor(Feb.2023-to date): Bahir Dar University, Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology

Education and training 

• PhD in Environmental Health/Technology from Gent University, Belgium and Jimma University, Ethiopia
• M.Sc degree in Chemistry (Analytical) from Addis Ababa University, Arat Kilo
• BEd degree in Chemistry from Jimma University, Ethiopia 
• Higher Diploma in teaching (Jimma University, Ethiopia), and 
• Master Class (MCL) for Teaching Online (Open edX)

Administrative positions held:

• Head, Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology (IoB), Bahir Dar University, since August 2024. 
• Stream Leader of Analytical Chemistry stream, Jimma University, Department of chemistry, 2019-2021

Conferences and seminar presentations: 

• Indigenous point of use water treatment technology: Homemade Mineral Pot (HMP) Innovation competition at USA, Virginia, TechCon2013, poster presentation 
• Developing smart conical clay pot filtering device, TechCon2016. 
• Freeze desalination as point of use water treatment technology: A case of chromium (VI) removal from water. In Proceedings of the 2nd Int. Elect. Conf. Water Sci., 16–30 November 2017; Sciforum Electronic Conference Series, Vol. 2, 2017 ; doi:10.3390/ecws-2-04942 
• Evaluation of hexavalent chromium removal efficiency using natural bituminouscoal: A batch and column approach. MDPI in The 8th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences session Urban Water, Treatment Technologies, Systems Efficiency and Smart Water

Researches and projects as PI, Co-PI 

• PI: Capacity building on Demonstration of Organic Fertilizer Production and Business modeling on Vermicomposting in Bahir Dar Zuria-Underway
• Mega research project from Bahir Dar University. Valorization of organic waste streams into bio-based fertilizer: A sustainable organic waste management and resource recovery-underway

Co-PI: Development of fluoride filter: An electro-sorption approach, (IFS), 2021 

PI: Mega research grant award from Jimma University with project title of Development of diffusiophoresis assisted adsorption technology for water purification, 

PI:  A research grant won from International Foundation for Science (IFS) (Grant agreement number W/5568-1). Project title: Development of Mineral Based Water Treatment Media (2014) 

Dissertation: ADSORPTIVE AND FREEZING TECHNOLOGIES FOR WATER PURIFICATION 

Master thesis title: ELECTROCHEMICAL DETERMINATION OF CATECHOL IN TEA SAMPLES (CAMELLIA SINENSIS) USING ANTHRAQUINONE MODIFIED CARBON PASTE ELECTRODE 

Membership and Participation

Chemical society of Ethiopia 

Ethiopian Environmental Health Professionals Association (EHPA) 

Copy Editor in Ethiopian Journal of Education and Sciences (EJES), https://journals.ju.edu.et/index.php/ejes/about/editorialTeam 

References

Professor Esayas Alemayehu, Jimma Institute of Technology, phone: 0917017002

Prof. Argaw Ambelu, aambelu@yahoo.com, Jimma University, Ethiopia 

Prof. dr. ir. Gijs Du Laing; e-mail: Gijs.DuLaing@ugent.be, Ghent University, Belgium