| D. Grant Allen | - Photocatalytic pretreatment for anaerobic treatment of pulp mill wastewaters
- Cultivation of micro algae in bioreactors for the production of sustainable fuels and chemicals
| Yes:
MASc |
| Gisele Azimi | - Recycling of lithium ion batteries. We will look at different aspects of the recycling process of various cathode materials like NMC and LFP
- Supercritical fluid extraction for the recovery of valuable metals from primary and secondary resources
- Development of lithium ion and aluminum ion batteries. We will focus on development of cathode materials and electrolytes
- Extraction of rare earth elements from uncommon ore materials. We will develop the extraction process and elucidate the process mechanism
| Yes:
PhD |
| Timothy P. Bender | - Accelerated materials development
- Materials development via applied chemistry and/or chemistry to be developed
- Physical characterization of materials for applications
- Materials development for applications – and are engineered in the laboratory
- Engineering organic solar cells (OSCs)/organic photovoltaics (OPVs)
- Engineering organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs)
- Life cycle analysis of OSCs/OPVs and OLEDs in true environment
- Sustainability chemical processes
- Sustainable materials for applications
| Yes:
MASc & PhD |
| Arthur Chan | - Source of Volatile Organic Compounds in Indoor Air
Atmospheric Emission of Chemical Additives from Car Tires
| Yes:
MASc & PhD |
| Y-H. Chin | - Industrial catalytic technology developing: understanding the effects of microenvironment in sustainable chemical and fuel synthesis
- Bridging thermo- and electro-catalysis in the synthesis of sustainable liquid fuel
- Connect the structure and reactivity of transition metal catalysts in C-H, C-O, C-C bond activation
| Yes:
PhD |
| Nikolai DeMartini | - Reducing variability in soap recovery
- CFD modeling of biomass and hydrogen flames in the lime kilns of kraft pulp mills
- CFD modeling of smelt dissolving tanks - The effect of operational and dimensional parameters on smelt distribution, cooling and dissolution
- Image classification of the furnace bed volume in recovery boilers
| Yes:
PhD |
| Levente L. Diosady | - Fortification of tea - iron and folic acid
- Multiple fortification of salt - iron, zinc, B vitamins, iodine
- Protein isolation from oilseeds/legumes as nutraceuticals or meat replacers
- Scale-up of folic acid fortification for Ethiopia, UNICEF
Field analytical kit for folic acid
| Yes:
PhD |
| Elizabeth A. Edwards | - Anaerobic microbial biotransformation of pollutants
| Yes:
MASc, MEng & PhD |
| Greg J. Evans | - Ultrafine particles near airports
- Non exhaust emissions from vehicle brakes and tires
- Impact of wildfires on air quality
- Engineering education research: use of AI in education, career paths of engineering graduates
| MASc & PhD |
| Jennifer Farmer | - Chemical Engineering Education based projects
| Yes:
MASc |
| Ramin R. Farnood | - Photocatalytic conversion of biomass to value added chemicals
| Yes:
MASc & PhD |
| Rachel Gregor | - High-throughput mapping of specialized metabolite production by marine bacteria
- Metabolic regulation of the bacterial degradation of marine polysaccharides
| Yes:
MASc & PhD |
| Frank Gu | - Design of self-driving lab for agriculture
- ML and automation for evaluation of material surface properties
- Design of novel ionically gelled hyaluronic acid polymers
| Yes:
MASc & PhD |
| Charles Q. Jia | - Developing Nature-based Climate Solutions by Exploring Biochar
| Yes:
PhD |
| Donald W. Kirk | - Hydrocarbonization of plastics
- Electrochemical CO2 conversion
| Yes:
MASc |
| Mahadevan, Radhakrishnan | - Machine learning for bio catalyst engineering
- Bioengineering Mine Tailings for Nickel Extraction
- Hybrid Deterministic and Machine Learning for Metabolic Engineering
| Yes:
MASc & PhD |
| Emma R. Master | - Enzyme engineering, Biocatalytic synthesis of bio-based materials
| Yes:
MASc & PhD |
| Alison P. McGuigan | - Engineering dynamic disease models for monitoring disease progression mechanisms
| Yes:
PhD |
| Moosavi, Seyed Mohamad | - AI for Materials Discovery
- Geometric Deep Learning for Porous Materials
- Large Language Models for Scientific Discovery
| Yes:
MASc & PhD |
| Bertrand Neyhouse | - Redox flow battery scale-up and reactor engineering
Characterization and reactor design for off-electrode catalytic processes
Redox-active polymers for mediated electrochemical manufacturing
Electrochemical processes for plastic recycling
| Yes:
MASc & PhD |
| Vladimiros G. Papangelakis | - Water capture and purification from mining and process operations
- Bioleaching of tailings
- Rare Earth Element extraction from ores
| Yes:
MASc |
| Arun Ramchandran | - Our research focuses on double emulsions (DEs) and Janus droplets (JDs), which have promising applications in drug delivery and controlled release due to their unique multi-phase structures. Despite their potential, industrial use is limited by instability issues like droplet coalescence, break-up, and osmotic imbalances that disrupt uniformity. To address this, we will study the formation of DEs and JDs by analyzing how droplets merge within a third fluid using precision measurements of the thinning film between them. Additionally, we have developed a computer-controlled device to investigate coalescence through controlled collisions of DEs and JDs in various configurations.
| Yes:
PhD |
| Cindy Rottmann | - MASc student: Professionally situated ethical development: Early career engineers in Canada and Australia navigate the historic tension between business and science in construction, mining, and biomedical industries.
- PhD student: Engineering Workforce Transformation Requirements in Response to Artificial Intelligence (PI is Susan McCahan, but I will supervise one student for phase 3--qualitative)
| Potentially |
| Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling | - AI for ChemE/Chemistry
- AI for Enzyme discovery/optimization
- Explainability/Interpretability of scientific experiments (XAI)
| Yes:
PhD |
| Bradley A. Saville | - Life Cycle Assessment and Technoeconomic Assessment of Biofuels and Bioproducts
Projects to be jointly supervised with
Heather MacLean
| Yes:
MASc |
| Molly S. Shoichet | - Therapeutic delivery and discovery strategies
| Yes:
PhD |
| Jay Werber | - Enhanced Reverse Osmosis for Treatment of High-Salinity Brines
- Ion-Selective Separations for Battery Recycling and Sustainable Hydrometallurgy
- Separation Materials and Processes for Bioderived Chemicals
| Yes:
MASc & PhD |
| Ning Yan | - Circular biobased functional polymers replacing petrochemicals
- Low carbon green adhesives, additives and foams for construction and automotives
| Yes:
PhD |
| Weilai Yu | - Interphase Optimization of Next-generation Battery Materials
Electrocatalytic Molecular Manufacturing for Circular Economy
Solar-driven Chemical Reforming for Environmental Sustainability
High-throughput and Autonomous Experimentation driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI)
| Yes:
PhD |
