• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Ahmad Ghahreman

Cyclic Materials

CEO, President & Co-founder

Dr. Ahmad Ghahreman is the CEO, President and co-founder of Cyclic Materials.  A serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years experiencing developing sustainable technologies to process and recycle mineral resources, Ahmed’s career spans industry and academia.  Dr.  Gharhreman is an early co-inventor of Jetti Resources’s hydrometallurgical extraction process from low-grade copper resources and has served as senior technical and Board of Advisory member of Li-Cycle, a sustainable lithium-ion battery recycling company.  As an associate professor in the Robert M. Buchan Mining Department at Queen’s University, he built the Hydrometallurgy and Environment Research Group, drawing support from the Government of Canada as well as several junior and senior resource and mining companies.  In 2020, Dr. Ghahreman received the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Excellence in Research award. Dr. Ghahreman holds a PhD in materials engineering from the University of British Columbia and BS and MS degrees in material science and engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.  He has co-authored over one hundred papers and co-invented nineteen patents.

Sessions With Ahmad Ghahreman

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 04:30pm - 05:00pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 09:30 pm - 19/mar/2024 10:00 pm

    Cyclic Materials | Creating a Circular Supply Chain for Rare Earth Elements 

    We are helping the world transition to an environmentally responsible future by recovering rare earth elements from the difficult-to-recycle products of the modern world. Founded by Dr. Ahmad Ghahreman, Cyclic Materials is a cleantech company recycling rare earth elements from magnets of end-of-life products, which is critical for the energy transition. 

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Wednesday, 20 March

  • 09:30am - 10:10am (CST) / 20/mar/2024 02:30 pm - 20/mar/2024 03:10 pm

    EIP: Accelerating decentralized, resilient and sustainable energy systems
    Innovation & Technology

    The multidimensional nature of the energy transition is reshaping the global energy system. The need to balance markets, climate and geopolitics is creating more complex systems—requiring greater flexibility and responsiveness in our ability to manage them. What innovations are emerging to meet these needs? What role will new entrants play in managing this complexity? How are financial and regulatory systems adapting to support this transformation? This panel will feature members of the 2024 class of CERAWeek Energy Innovation Pioneers.