Concordia receives $1.24 million for research infrastructure

Philip Abrami
Education

Using educational technology to develop essential educational competencies in Sub-Saharan Africa

The award will go toward improving teaching and learning outcomes through educational technology in Sub-Saharan Africa. The project, based at Concordia’s Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, will include two research streams: an examination of the impact of existing education tools and an experimental study to better understand educational technology for use in developing countries.

Alex De Visscher
Chemical and Materials Engineering     

Chemical process engineering in a renewable energy world          

The grant will provide sophisticated chemical analysis equipment needed to investigate how diesel, jet fuel and other compounds can be made with carbon dioxide emitted by the cement industry and the hydrogen produced from electrolysis of water using renewable energy.

The project will also investigate novel ways to convert these compounds using renewable electricity into chemicals essential to our standard of living.

Claudine Gauthier
Physics 

Quantitative high-resolution imaging of population cerebrovascular health              

Supported by the JELF, Gauthier will continue her explorations into how MRI technology can be replaced by exploiting information gained from radio frequency data. She is conducting the work at Concordia’s PERFORM Centre in collaboration with Hassan Rivaz, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Gauthier and her team aim to develop a low-cost, high-resolution ultrasound imaging framework that will make cerebrovascular imaging of small vessels accessible for clinical applications.

Ali Nazemi
Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering

A multi-sensor platform for hyper-resolution understanding of the land-atmospheric impacts of man-made reservoirs 

The funding will help Nazemi take a pioneering step toward understanding the role of reservoirs on land-atmospheric water and energy exchange.

By proposing a multi-sensor measurement platform, he will create maps of heat and water fluxes over a representative set of reservoirs in Canada, contributing to the development of improved hydrological modelling and weather forecasting capability.

This is key to managing sustainable water resources and predicting water futures under changing climate conditions. 

Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro
Theatre

The listening performance lab and repository   

In his work as Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Oral History Performance, Sotelo Castro studies how performance arts can give voice to the unheard, such as internally displaced people, Indigenous communities and the elderly. He also explores how participatory theatre might facilitate listening.

He will use the JELF investment to establish a listening performance lab and repositor at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling to support the production, standardized collection, storage, classification and analysis of data on listening in the context of oral histories pertaining to refugees in Montreal and youth at risk in post-conflict contexts across the Americas.

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