Pooria Pasbakhsh

Dr Pasbakhsh is a chartered mechanical and material engineer and researcher with over 17 years of international experience in all different types of engineering materials such as Ceramics (BSc), Metallurgy and Material Selection (MSc), and Polymer Nanocomposites (Ph.D.).

He's been an Associate Professor at Monash University Malaysia, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Adelaide and Technical Sales Specialist at Anton Paar Australia.

He's currently working at Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne on CRC-P projects contributing to research aspects, and industrial collaborations, and their commercialisation related to polymer upcycling, decommissioning and hemp materials.

Pizza in a box
After Hours

A recycling expert on what to do with pizza boxes and all the other things you’re not sure about putting in the yellow bin

- July 19, 2025 3 MIN READ

Have you ever gone to toss something into the recycling bin – a jam jar, a pizza box, a takeaway container encrusted with yesterday’s lunch – and wondered if you’re doing it right? Perhaps you asked yourself: should I scrub the jar with hot water? Scrape the mozzarella off the box? Wash off that palak… Read more »