Clean and NextGen Materials
Khaled Benis Waste and biomass valorization;Water and wastewater treatment; Modeling and optimization; Adsorption; Pyrolysis; Biochar |
D. Paul Bishop Professor, Mechanical Engineering Powder metallurgy; Processing of materials; Press-and-sinter aluminum alloys; Robust industrial engineering practices; Advanced mechanical property testing |
| Su-Ling Brooks Professor, Process Engineering and Applied Science Fermentations; Encapsulations; Extraction of natural products; Waste utilizations and treatment |
Stephen Corbin Professor, Mechanical Engineering NSERC/Pratt and Whitney Canada Industrial Research Chair in Structural Brazing and Processing of Powder Metallurgy Superalloys Powder metallurgy; Joining of light materials; High temperature thermal analysis |
| Michael Freund Professor, Chemistry Harry Shirreff Chair of Chemical Research Director, CTRI Electrochemistry; Conjugated polymers; Solar fuels; Artificial photosynthesis; Organic electronics; Machine olfaction; Surface science |
Kimberley Hall Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Charge and spin dynamics in perovskite photovoltaic materials; Electron spin relaxation in III-V semiconductors; Many-body phenomena in semiconductor materials; Solid state quantum information using semiconductor quantum dots; Ultrafast dynamics and quantum control in semiconductors; Photophysical properties of diluted magnetic semiconductors; Photonic and spintronics devices |
| Erin Johnson Professor, Chemistry Herzberg-Becke Chair in Theoretical Chemistry Theoretical chemistry; Computational chemistry; Quantum chemistry; Density functional theory; Intermolecular interactions; Physical chemistry; Materials |
Azadeh Kermanshahi pour Associate Professor, Process Engineering and Applied Science Sustainable processes for production of specialty and commodity chemicals from renewable resources; Remediation process development to control the environmental impact of organic contaminants |
| Ghada Koleilat Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Nanomaterials for energy conversion and sensing |
Laurent Kreplak Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Biological physics; Near-field vibrational spectroscopy; Scanning probe microscopy |
| Brian Lilley Associate Professor, Architecture Computation in architecture; Innovative building processes; Materials research; Responsive environments |
Jesse Maassen Assistant Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Solid state physics; Materials science; Condensed matter physics; Electrical engineering; Engineering physics; Transport modeling; Materials simulation; Energy conversion devices |
| Ted Monchesky Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Electrical transport properties; Magnetic nanostructures; Molecular beam epitaxy; Neutron scattering; Skyrmions |
Kevin Plucknett Professor, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Chair, Mechanical Engineering Advanced structural and functional ceramics; Composites (including fibre-reinforced); Inorganic foams and porous materials; Materials processing; Mechanical behaviour; Electron microscopy; Oxidation and corrosion; Biopolymers |
| Pedram Sadeghian Assistant Professor, Civil and Resource Engineering Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Infrastructure Sustainable infrastructure; Fiber-reinforced composite materials |
Alison Scott Assistant Professor, Process Engineering and Applied Science Design of polymeric materials; Structure/property relationships; Polymerization kinetics; Multi-component polymers; Polymer flocculants |
| Gurpreet Selopal Assistant Professor, Engineering Nanoengineering; Nanoelectronics; Photovoltaics; Green hydrogen production; Waste-water treatment; Solid state batteries; Smart agriculture; Biomedical Engineering |
Farid Taheri Professor, Mechanical Engineering Computational modelling of materials; Fiber-reinforced composite materials; Structural rehabilitation and vibration-based damage detection; Smart sensors; Fatigue and fracture of materials; Characterization of impact response |
| Cristina Verissimo Assistant Professor, School of Architecture Adaptive reuse of buildings; Materials research; Design-build |
Ulrike (Ulli) Werner-Zwanziger Adjunct Professor, Chemistry Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance; Ceramics; Biomaterials |
| Mary Anne White Professor Emerita, Chemistry Physical chemistry; Materials, Energy; Thermal properties of materials; Materials science; Energy storage |
Peng Zhang Professor, Chemistry Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy; Nanoparticles; Catalysis; Biomedicine; Nanotechnology; Materials |
| Josef Zwanziger Professor, Chemistry Canada Research Chair in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Materials Materials; Physical chemistry; Computational chemistry; Theoretical chemistry; Glass; Opto-mechanical effects; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Density functional theory |