Hossein Ganjidoust received his BS in Chem. Eng. from Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, Kansas in 1976, 1st MS in Ind. Mgt. from Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri in 1977 and 2nd MS in Sanitary Engineering from the Univ. of Missouri-Columbia in 1978 and PhD in Env. Eng. from the Univ. of Missouri-Rolla in 1988. A Year (1996) of Sabbatical Leave at the National Ins. for Resources & Env. (NIRE), Tsukuba Science City, Tsukuba, and Ibaraki, Japan.

He has over 30 years’ experience in teaching and research in graduate levels and is presently engaged as Full Prof. in the Dept. of Env. Eng., Civil & Env. Eng. Faculty, at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, I.R. Iran. Dr. Ganjidoust’s research interests include water & wastewater, ind. & hazardous waste handling, treatment, and disposal. In addition, he has given many lectures related to Culture, Archeology & humanity Sciences. 

He has supervised more than 30 research projects, and many PhD and MS students’ theses. At present time, he is supervisor of 6 PhD theses and 8 MS theses. 

He has published over 150 papers in scientific and ISI Journals and over 200 conference proceedings on his research. He was engaged in the books entitled: Principles of construction debris Landfill Site Selection (Case study: Tehran), Department of Housing and Urban Development, Building and Housing Research Center, Feb. 2013 (in Persian), "Application of Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) in Sanitary & Industrial Wastewater Treatment", Tarbiat Modares Univ. Published in February 2011 and a chapter on: “Hazardous Waste Management in Islamic Republic of Iran, HWM Policies and Practices in Asian Countries” published by Asian Productivity Organization (APO), Tokyo in October 2001.