Faculty

Shahzad Barghi

Associate Professor and MEng Program Director

Research Interests / Specializations: Multiphase reactors, Biomass gasification, Titania and carbon nan-otube production, Fixed bed reactors, Reactive Drying, Wastewater treatment, Membrane bioreactor, Air pollution, Odor abatement, Process development and design

Amarjeet Bassi

Professor and Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Bioenergy, Biofuels, Microalgae, Bioseparations, biosensors, bacteriorhodopsin, liquid solid circulating fluidized beds

Franco Berruti

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Gas-solid fluidized beds; chemical reactor engineering; heavy oil upgrading; cracking and coking reactions; thermal cracking of biomass and solid wastes; bio-oil; hydrodynamic modeling; gas-liquid feed jets

Michael Boutilier

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Nanostructured membranes, experimental fluid dynamics, nanotechnology

Cedric Briens

Professor, NSERC/Syncrude Industrial Research Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Fluidization and particulate operations

Paul Charpentier

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Developing new “green nanotechnologies” for environmentally-friendly and alternative energy applications

Hugo de Lasa

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Catalysis, photocatalysis, chemical reactors, fluidization

Lauren Flynn

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, adipose-derived stem cells

Elizabeth Gillies

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Biomaterials Synthesis

Research Interests / Specializations: Biomaterials; nanomaterials; polymers; oligomers; dendrimers; organic synthesis; polymer synthesis; therapeutics; imaging; contrast agents; self-assembly; supramolecular chemistry

Jose Herrera

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Bridge the gaps between materials science, surface science, heterogeneous catalysis and environmental engineering; and to understand the interactions between heterogeneous and homogeneous reactions and surface phenomena

Andrew Hrymak

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Problems with complex rheology, multiple phases and multiple length scales

Dimitre Karamanev

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Biochemical Engineering and Fluid Flow

Naomi Klinghoffer

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Thermochemical conversion of biomass and waste, catalytic synthesis of renewable transportation fuels, catalytic conversion of hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide utilization

Tianlong (Taylor) Liu

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Artificial intelligence (AI) for chemical and biochemical processes, AI enhanced process control, Waste to energy applications, Wastewater treatment.

Kibret Mequanint

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Tissue engineering; 3D scaffold fabrication; cell-material interaction and signaling; polyurethanes; bioreactor; extracellular matrix proteins, mass transfer

George Nakhla

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, biological nutrient removal, leachate treatment, treatment process modeling, treatment process optimization, hazardous wastes biotreatment, in-situ bioremediation, activated carbon adsorption

Arghya Paul

Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor, Associate Chair (Graduate)

Research Interests / Specializations: Bioactive materials, Hydrogels, Gene/Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Nanomedicine, Stem Cell Therapy

Dominic Pjontek

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Gas-liquid-solid fluidized beds, bitumen and bio-oil upgrading, particle agglomeration in fluidized beds, hydroprocessing, and reactor engineering

Anand Prakash

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Multiphase particulate systems; three-phase slurry bubble column reactors, ultrasonic techniques, sulfur removal, ammonia removal

Mita Ray

Professor and Associate Chair Undergraduate

Research Interests / Specializations: Gas-solid Separation, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Particle Technology, Environmental Modeling

Lars Rehmann

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Biochemical Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Green Process Engineering, Bioenergy, Biofuels, Lignocellulose Processing, Biopolymers, Bioreactor Design, In-situ Product Recovery, Environmental Engineering

Amin Rizkalla

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Biomaterials, synthesis, bioactive glass-ceramic, dental, crystallization, cement, nano-composite, sol-gel, mechanical, physical, chemical, coating, scaffold

Sohrab Rohani

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Crystallization includes detailed experimental study of the kinetics of nucleation, growth, agglomeration, and breakage in batch and continuous systems

Lauren Tribe

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Downstream pharmaceutical particulate manufacturing operations; the research emphasis is on sensor development for improved monitoring and investigation of operation parameters on particulate characteristics including flowability

Jin Zhang

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Design, processing, surface modification, and characterization of nanocomposites for the applications in bioengineering, tissue regeneration, and sustainable energy

Ying Zheng

Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Associate Chair (Research)

Research Interests / Specializations: Development of novel catalysts and new intensified catalytic processes with applications in fuel upgrading, renewable energy, waste-to-energy/value-added products

Jesse (Jingxu) Zhu

Distinguished University Professor, Canada Research Chair in Particle Technology and its Applications

Research Interests / Specializations: Fluidization, powder technology, ultrafine powders, reactor design, powder coating, pharmaceutical tablet coating, pulmonary drug delivery, biological processes, wastewater treatment.