Dr Ezequiel Santillan

Senior Research Fellow | Senior Project Manager
Environmental Engineering cluster, SCELSE

Email: esantillan@ntu.edu.sg

Ezequiel is a senior research fellow at the Wuertz lab in SCELSE, specializing in interdisciplinary research for Sustainable Development Goals and the circular economy. As the project manager of a Singapore NRF-funded CRP research grant, he collaborates with industry partners and research institutions to recover aquaculture feed additives from food-processing wastewater. Ezequiel, a Fulbright scholar, holds a PhD and MSc in Civil & Environmental Engineering from UC Davis, with expertise in assessing microbial communities, disturbance ecology, wastewater treatment, and bioremediation applications, including intellectual property development. He also has a BSc in Chemical Engineering and five years of industry experience in steelmaking.