Researchers A‑Z
Lord Abbey Assistant Professor, Plant, Food and Environmental Sciences Sustainable food systems and food security; Soil nutrient management systems; Value addition to compost; Compost utilization |
Michelle Adams Associate Professor and Director, School for Resource and Environmental Studies Policy; Industrial sustainability; Renewable energy; Industrial ecology; Industrial symbiosis; Resource efficiency; Sustainable development; Public engagement |
Hamid Afshari Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering Energy supply chain; Sustainability and new technologies; Industrial energy symbiosis; Waste to energy; Industry 4.0 technologies (additive manufacturing, AI, sensors, etc.); Optimal mixture of renewable energy sources; Non-classical inventory management such as energy storage |
Professor, Chemistry Physical chemistry; Analytical chemistry; Energy; Electrochemistry; Energy storage; Supercapacitors; Biosensors |
Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies Canada Research Chair, Human Dimensions of Cleaner Technology Behavior change; Adoption diffusion; Social impacts; Justice and acceptability; Socio-technical transitions |
Khaled Benis Waste and biomass valorization;Water and wastewater treatment; Modeling and optimization; Adsorption; Pyrolysis; Biochar |
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Powder metallurgy; Processing of materials; Press-and-sinter aluminum alloys; Robust industrial engineering |
Professor, Earth Sciences Killam Professor Behaviour of trace elements during igneous and hydrothermal processes |
Professor, Process Engineering and Applied Science Fermentations; Encapsulations; Extraction of natural products; Waste utilizations and treatment |
Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Canada Research Chair in Atmospheric Science Arctic aerosol composition and sources; Carbon cycling in permafrost regions; Oceanic contributions to atmospheric aerosol; Physical and chemical properties of marine fog |
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Electromagnetics; Antenna; Wireless technology; Energy transfer |
Saurabh S. Chitnis Associate Professor, Chemistry Inorganic chemistry; Main group catalysis; Hydrometallation; Inorganic polymers |
Professor, Mechanical Engineering NSERC/Pratt and Whitney Canada Industrial Research Chair in Structural Brazing and Processing of Powder Metallurgy Superalloys Powder metallurgy;ÌýJoining of light materials;ÌýHigh temperature thermal analysis |
Jeff Dahn Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Canada Research Chair NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair Materials; Energy; Lithium-ion batteries; Combinatorial and high throughput materials science; Advanced battery materials; Electrochemistry; Energy storage |
Assistant Professor, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Chair, Chemistry Nanomaterials; Solar energy; Catalysis; Optoelectronics; Inorganic chemistry; Materials synthesis; Solid-state chemistry |
Alexander Engau Multiple criteria decision analysis; Optimization;Operations research; Management science; Supply chain management;Transportation logistics; Mathematical modeling |
James Forren Assistant Professor, School of Architecture Computation in architecture; Innovative building processes; Materials research; Rethinking technology; Social aspects of architectural technology; Design-build; Public interest design |
Karen Foster Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada Economy, work and development; Knowledge, science and expertise; Political economy; Research methods; Rural communities; Social policy; Social statistics; Atlantic Canada |
Professor, Chemistry Harry Shirreff Chair of Chemical Research Director, CTRI Electrochemistry; Conjugated polymers; Solar fuels; Artificial photosynthesis; Organic electronics; Machine olfaction; Surface science |
Professor, Civil and Resource Engineering NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Water Quality and Treatment ¶Ù¾±°ù±ð³¦³Ù´Ç°ù,Ìý Water resource management; Water quality and monitoring |
Floris Goerlandt Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering Canada Research Chair in Risk Management and Resource Optimization for Marine Industries Risk analysis and management; Safety engineering; Safety management; Decision making under uncertainty; Data analytics; Marine environmental protection; Maritime safety; Disaster preparedness and response |
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Solid-liquid phase change; Close contact melting; Phase change material; Two-phase flow; Application of the inverse heat transfer methods |
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 |
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Peter Havard Associate Professor, Engineering Waste management; Environmental management; Energy and energy efficiency; Sustainability; Water management and monitoring |
Quan Sophia He Associate Professor, Engineering Biomass conversion; Biofuels development; Nanocatalyst development and application; Separation of chiral compounds |
Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Interface engineering; Organic electronics, Organic solar cells; Perovskite solar cells; Photoelectron spectroscopies; Printable electronics; Thin-film transistors; Surface and interface physics |
Professor, Civil and Resource Engineering Canada Research Chair in Cold Regions Ecological Engineering Hydrology; Ecological engineering; Contaminant transport; Watershed modelling; Alternative wastewater treatment |
Professor, Chemistry Herzberg-Becke Chair in Theoretical Chemistry Theoretical chemistry; Computational chemistry; Quantum chemistry; Density functional theory; Intermolecular interactions; Physical chemistry; Materials |
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 |
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Nanomaterials for energy conversion and sensing |
Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Biological physics; Near-field vibrational spectroscopy; Scanning probe microscopy |
Richard leBrasseur Assistant Professor, Department of Plant, Food and Environmental Sciences Performance landscapes; Sustainable development; Urbanisation; Green infrastructure; Ecosystem services; Green infrastructure; Landscape performance; Sustainable landscapes |
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 |
Ryan MacDonell Theoretical study of photochemistry; Internal conversion and nonadiabtic dynamics |
Andrew Medeiros |
Michael Metzger Assistant Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Herzberg-Dahn Chair Energy storage; Electrochemistry; Lithium-ion batteries; Lithium metal batteries; Desalination batteries |
EvangelosÌýE. Milios Visual Text Analytics; Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces; Text Mining; Graph Mining; Social Network Analysis |
Ìý Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Electrical transport properties; Magnetic nanostructures; Molecular beam epitaxy; Neutron scattering; Skyrmions |
Sonil Nanda Assistant Professor, Engineering Waste-to-energy biorefinery technologies; Next-generation biofuels and biochemicals; Subcritical and supercritical water gasification; Torrefaction; Carbonization; Pyrolysis; Delignification; Enzymatic saccharification; Fermentation; Lignocellulosic biomass; Biogenic wastes; Biofuels; Biochar; Activated carbon |
Suresh RajaÌýNeethirajan Digital Agriculture; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data Analytics; Animal-Computer Interaction; Sensors & Bio-Instrumentation |
Mark Obrovac Professor, Chemistry NSERC/Novonix Industrial Research Chair in Metal Ion Batteries Materials for energy storage; Materials synthesis; Advanced Li-ion battery materials; Metal-ion batteries; Magnesium batteries; Sodium ion batteries; Electrochemistry |
Kevin Plucknett Professor,ÌýIzaak 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 |
Gordon Price Associate Professor, Engineering Contaminant transport; soil fertility; organic waste management; disposal of Specified Risk Materials (SRM); Emerging Substances of Concern (ESOC) |
MasudÌýRahman Software engineering; Software maintenance & evolution; Software debugging; Code search; Code reviews; Mining software repositories |
Frank Rudzicz Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Healthcare; Speech Technologies; Explainable AI; Fairness in ML |
Pedram Sadeghian Assistant Professor, Civil and Resource Engineering Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Infrastructure Sustainable infrastructure; Fiber-reinforced composite materials |
Ahmed Saif Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering Large-scale optimization; Decision making under uncertainty; Warehouse logistics analytics; Sustainable supply chains; Hybrid renewable energy systems |
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 |
TusharÌýSharma Software engineering; Applied machine learning for software engineering; Software maintenance and evolution; Software code quality and refactoring; Mining software repositories |
Kate Sherren Associate Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies Climate adaptation; Ecosystem services; Energy; Environmental education; Food; Landscape values; Water; Spatial and visual methods |
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Lab on a chip; Environmental sensors; Deep ocean microfluidics; Nutrients; Genomics; eDNA |
Alex Speed Associate Professor, Chemistry Organic chemistry; Main Group chemistry; Asymmetric catalysis; Atom transfer; Electron transfer; Photochemistry; Sulfur hexafluoride activation |
Amina Stoddart Assistant Professor, Civil and Resource Engineering Water quality and treatment |
Mark Stradiotto Arthur B. McDonald Research Chair & Alexander McLeod Professor of Chemistry Inorganic chemistry; Organometallic chemistry; Organic chemistry; Green Chemistry and sustainability; Catalysis; Synthesis; Ligand design; Cross-coupling |
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Renewable energy (solar, wind, tidal); Energy storage (management, demand side management, lithium-ion and lead-acid chemistries); Electric vehicles, (battery energy storage, electric drive systems, charging infrastructure and management) |
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 |
Alison Thompson Professor, Chemistry Canada Research Chair in Pyrrole Chemistry for Energy and Molecular Biology Ìý Synthetic chemistry; Conjugated molecular systems; (photo)physical properties; (photo)chemical probes |
Laura Turculet Professor, Chemistry Organometallic chemistry; Transition metals; Organosilicon chemistry; Sustainability in chemical synthesis; Homogeneous catalysis; Hydrofunctionalization; Inorganic chemistry |
Peter Tyedmers Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies Ecosystems; Industrial sustainability; Life cycle assessment; Ecological economics; Carbon footprint; Ecosystem services |
M. AliÌýÃœlkü Professor, Rowe School of Business ¶Ù¾±°ù±ð³¦³Ù´Ç°ù,ÌýCentre for Research in Sustainable Supply Chain Analytics Modeling of service and manufacturing systems; Development of practical logistics policies for green supply chains; Behavioural issues in operations management; Sustainable consumption |
Cristina Verissimo Assistant Professor, School of Architecture Adaptive reuse of buildings; Materials research; Design-build |
Chad Walker Assistant Professor, School of Planning Cross-appointed within SRES Energy justice; Local support; Energy policy; Planning; Renewable energy; Local Smart Grids; Sustainable energy; Indigenous leadership; Truth and Reconciliation; Geography |
Tony Walker Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies Biodiversity conservation; Freshwater and marine systems; Health and environmental justice; Industrial sustainability; Urban and regional issues |
Ulrike (Ulli) Werner-Zwanziger Adjunct Professor, Chemistry Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance; Ceramics; Biomaterials |
Professor Emerita, Chemistry Physical chemistry; Materials, Energy; Thermal properties of materials; Materials science; Energy storageYunyun |
Yunyun Wu Electroactive Biomaterials; Biosensors; Electronic Textiles; Wearable Electronics; Eco/bioresorbable Devices; Stretchable Electronics |
Penghao Xiao Assistant Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Battery materials; Electrocatalysis;ÌýAlloy oxidation/corrosion; Long-time scale dynamics; Density functional theory |
Chongyin Yang Assistant Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science Tesla Canada Chair Li-ion battery; Electrochemistry; Rechargeable batteries; Energy materials |
Professor, Chemistry Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy; Nanoparticles; Catalysis; Biomedicine; Nanotechnology; Materials |
NurÌýZincir-Heywood Cyber security and resilience; Autonomous cyber operations; Threat analysis and detection; Machine learning and data analysis; Computer communications and networks |
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 |