Kebreab Ghebremichael

Kebreab A. Ghebremichael holds a BSc in Civil Engineering from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, an M. Eng. Sc degree in water engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia and a PhD degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He is a civil engineer who has specialized in water Engineering.

His PhD study was on low cost drinking water treatment, specifically on the use of natural resources for the coagulation and filtration units.

A special focus of his research was on the purification of a coagulant protein from the seed of a tropical tree, Moringa oleifera, for coagulation purposes in water treatment.

Kebreab A. Ghebremichael joined UNESCO-IHE in August 2005 as a lecturer in water supply. Before joining this institute he worked as lecturer and head of department at the University of Asmara in Eritrea and as a post doctoral fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

He was one of the members who worked in the establishment of KTH Direct (that was established in response to the tsunami disaster South East Asia).

Kebreab Ghebremichael has earned valuable experience in design, construction and supervision of water related infrastructures. He has worked as a freelance engineer for a number of consulting companies.

His main research area focuses on appropriate drinking water treatment systems for community and household water supplies in developing countries. These include the use of natural resources for coagulation, adsorption and filtration. His research interest also covers modeling of water quality in distribution systems.

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