Episode 18: Negar Roghanian, PhD Student, Civil Engineering

In this interview, Negar Roghanian tells us all about her life as a PhD student in Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia. You'll hear about Negar's work producing a coating material that extends the life span of concrete pipes, her journey from her home country of Iran to Canada, and her passion for creating sustainable, eco-friendly materials that will support infrastructure for decades to come. Negar Roghanian is a research assistant and PhD candidate at the SIERA (sustainable infrastructure research) group at UBC as part of the department of Civil engineering. Her research focuses on developing sustainable coating for rehabilitation of corroded pipes. For a full transcription of this episode, click here. Links: Hoor-Ava Persian Choir Nanyang Technological University, Singapore "New coating material protects concrete pipes from corrosion," Journal of Commerce Shiraz University, Iran "SIERA's PhD Candidate Negar Roghanian selected for UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award," SIERA at UBC Sustinable Infrastructure Research (SIERA) group at UBC The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Guest: Negar Roghanian Hosted by: Danniele Livengood (@livengood) Theme Music: "Positive and Fun" by Scott Holmes Produced by:  Vanessa Reich-Shackelford For more from Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology, you can follow us on Twitter at @WWEST_SFU, on Facebook at @WWEST.SFU, and subscribe to our biweekly newsletter at wwest.ca.