Faculty & Research
With over 500 graduate students, including about 100 PhD students, several post-doctoral fellows and invited researchers, our faculty members obtain over two million dollars in research grants each year.
Faculty and their research interests
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Alex De Visscher
How can we utilize CO2 rather than emit it into the atmosphere?
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Patricia Comeau
How can we harness knowledge about the body’s own natural healing processes to design biomaterial systems for better disease management?
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Sixu Deng
How can advanced characterizations promote the development of clean energy?
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Marc-Antoni Goulet
What kind of storage technologies will we need for the world to transition completely to renewable energy?
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Melanie Hazlett
How can we rationally design catalysts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions?
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Sana Jahanshahi-Anbuhi
How many lives can be saved by point-of-use biosensors and microfluidic paper-based devices?
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Ivan Kantor
What does sustainable industry look like? How can we move toward industrial sustainability and a circularity economy?
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Yaser Khojasteh Salkuyeh
• Modelling and simulation of processes • Techno-economic optimization and Life cycle assessment • CO2 capture and utilization • Bioenergy • Waste valorization
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Xia Li
How can we develop safe and high energy batteries for a fossil fuel-free world?
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Kelly Meek
Can we design polymers that will advance electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies?
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Deniz Meneksedag Erol
Can we accelerate the design of protein-based drugs and biomaterials using molecular simulations?
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Nhat Truong Nguyen
Can we design catalysts that efficiently convert CO2 into renewable fuels and chemicals?
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Pantcho P. Stoyanov
Can we develop advanced aerospace materials capable of operating effectively over billions of cycles, in extreme environments?
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Michel Trudeau
How can hydrogen help decarbonize society? What technologies are needed?
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Zhibin Ye
I am creating polymers and nanomaterials for renewable energy sources and a sustainable future.
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Karim Zaghib
How can research accelerate the transformation of critical minerals for the energy transition in order to create a green circular economy?
Associate member
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Steve Shih
Can we use miniaturized technologies to solve existing and future challenges in health and in energy?