Teams

  Ning Yan
Professor, Director of LCRMC

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

ning.yan@utoronto.ca

  • Biobased Chemicals and Products from Renewable Biomass
  • Smart and Functional Materials
E.J. Acosta
Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

  • Interfacial Curvature of Surface Active Compounds
  • Low Surface Tension Films
  • Lecithin-Based Microemulsions as Drug Delivery Vehicles
  • Lung Surfactants
     &
Cristina H. Amon
Professor

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

cristina.amon@utoronto.ca

  • Nanoscale thermal transport
  • Thermofluids
  • Clean energy systems
  • Electric vehicle and battery thermal management
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Hemodynamics and transport in biomedical systems
Gisele Azimi
Professor

Department of Materials Science & Engineering

  • Technospheric mining; Urban mining; Waste valorization; Recycling
  • Extraction, processing, and recycling of strategic materials, including rare-earth elements, PGMs, Lithium, Iron and steel
  • Electrochemistry
  • Hydrometallurgy
  • Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE)
  • Advanced materials design and fabrication; Batteries; Sensors; Filters; Functional surfaces; Hydrophobicity
  • Process development, modeling and simulation, and optimization
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 Fae Azhari
Assistant Professor

Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering

  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Sensor Development
  • Intelligent Structures and Systems
  • Computer Simulations Coupled with Field and Laboratory Testing
  • Decision Analytics

Timothy P. Bender
Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

tim.bender@utoronto.ca

  • Organic Electronic Materials Design, Synthesis and Engineering
  • Organic Solar Cell (OSC) Device Engineering
  • Organic Light Emitting Diode (OELD) Device Engineering
  • Sustainable Organic Process Development and Engineering
  Nikolai DeMartini
Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

nikolai.demartini@utoronto.ca

  • Inorganics in the Industrial Processing of Biomass and Biomass Derived Wastes
  • Thermal Conversion of Biomass Derived Fuels
 Ramin R. Farnood
Professor, Chair of Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

ramin.farnood@utoronto.ca

  • Water Treatment
  • Bio-products and Bioenergy
  • Micro-structure Characterization
Jane Howe
Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

  • In Situ Electron Microscopy–characterization and Property Measurements of Novel Materials and Nano-devices, and their Real-time Evolution During Processing and Operation
  • Synthesis, Property-structure Relationship of New Energy Materials
  Charles Q. Jia
Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

cq.jia@utoronto.ca

  • Nanoporous Carbon Materials Derived from Industrial Waste and Biomass
  • Study How Chemicals Affect the Environment
Elias B. Khalil
Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

khalil@mie.utoronto.ca

  • Machine learning
  • Integer programming
  • Algorithm design
  • Learning to optimize
  • Combinatorial machine learning
Nazir P. Kherani
Professor

Department of Materials Science & Engineering

kherani@ecf.utoronto.ca

  • NanoPlasmonics
  • Ultra-thin silicon photovoltaics and allied devices
  • Photonic crystals
  • Optical coatings and photonic materials
  • MicroPower Sources and M/NEMS sensors
 Jonathan Kelly
Associate Professor

University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

jkelly@utias.utoronto.ca

  • Collaborative Mobile Manipulation in Dynamic Environments
  • Planning Highly Dexterous Manipulation Trajectories
  • Learning Robust Deep Models for Manipulation
  • Certifiably Optimal Perception
  • Millimetre-Wave Radar for Navigation and Localization
  • Energy-Aware Planning for Planetary Navigation
  • Deep Pose Correction for Visual Localization
  • Robot Self-Calibration for Power-On-and-Go Operation
Donald W. Kirk
Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

don.kirk@utoronto.ca

  • Electrochemical and Environmental Engineering
  Mark T. Kortschot
Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

mark.kortschot@utoronto.ca

  • Optimizing the Performance of Polymers and Composites
  • Mechanical Behaviour of Composite Materials
  • Additive Manufacturing
 Eugenia Kumacheva
Professor

Department of Chemistry

eugenia.kumacheva@utoronto.ca

  • Polymers at Surfaces and Interfaces
  • Development of Advanced Polymer Materials
  • Convection in Polymeric Liquids
Patrick C. Lee
Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca

  • Multiphase Nano-Structured Lightweight and Smart Hybrid Polymer Foam Materials
  • Micro-/nano-layer Coextrusion Foam Manufacturing
  • Fundamental Understanding of Foaming Phenomena
  • Computational Modelling of Foaming
  • Super High R Value Foams
  • Conductive Foams
  • Sound Insulation Foams
  Keryn K. Lian
Professor

Department of Materials Science & Engineering

  • Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials, Devices, and Hybrid Systems
  • Printed Organic Memories
 Radhakrishnan Mahadevan
Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

krishna.mahadevan@utoronto.ca

  • Metabolic Engineering Using Systems and Synthetic Biology
  • Systems Analysis and Engineering of Biological Processes
  • Genome-scale Models of Cellular Processes and Microbial Communities
  • Machine Learning for Protein Modeling and Enzyme Engineering
  • Optimization and Control of Biological Processes
Emma R. Master
Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

emma.master@utoronto.ca

  • Biocatalytic Synthesis of Bio-based Materials and Chemicals
 Heather MacLean
Professor

Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering

  • Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Methods Incorporating Uncertainty
  • Sustainable Infrastructure
  • Bioenergy Systems Including Biobased Electricity and Liquid Fuels (Ethanol, Hydrogen, and Aviation Fuels)
  • Conventional and Alternative Light-duty and Medium-duty Vehicles
  • Conventional and Unconventional Fossil Fuels
  • Sustainable and Resilient Cities
  Javad Mostaghimi
Professor

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

mostag@mie.utoronto.ca

  • Advanced Coatings, Thermal Plasmas
  • Thermal Spray Coatings
  • Arcs
  • Radio-frequency Inductively Coupled Plasmas
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
Hani E. Naguib
Professor

Department of Materials Science & Engineering

hani.naguib@utoronto.ca

  • Multifunctional Composites, Meta Materials, Bio-based Materials
  • Micro and Nano Fabrication, Self Assembly, Additive Manufacturing
  • Sensors and Actuators, Soft Robotics,  E-textiles and Wearables
  • Triboelectrics, Supercapacitors, and Flexible Batteries
Chul B. Park
Professor

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

  • Plastic Foaming Technology
  • Fundamental Understanding of Foaming Phenomena
  • Computational Modelling of Foaming
  • Super High R Value Foams
  • Sound Insulation Foams, Biodegradable Foams
  • Environmentally Safe Blowing Agents
  Daman Panesar
Professor

Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering

d.panesar@utoronto.ca

  • Cement Chemistry
  • Hydration Kinetics
  • Evolution of Microstructural, Mechanical and Transport Properties of Concrete
  • The Effect of Exposure Conditions on Material Microstructure, Transport Properties and Durability
  • Degradation Mechanisms and Indicators for Concrete Durability
  • Durable and Sustainable Cement-based Materials
  • Supplementary Cementitious Materials
  • Service Life Estimates and Life Cycle Cost Assessment
  • Green Building Materials
  • Non-destructive Evaluation and Testing of Concrete

Mohini Sain
Professor

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

m.sain@utoronto.ca

  • Bionanotechnology
  • Bioderived Carbon-Based Energy Storage and Light-emitting Devices
  • Bio-inspired Advanced Materials
  • Functional and Lightweight Carbon/Biocarbon Materials
Shoshanna Saxe
Associate Professor

Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering

s.saxe@utoronto.ca

  • Sustainable infrastructure
  • Construction resource use and embodied GHG
  • Transit infrastructure
  • Infrastructure and time
Craig Steeves
Associate Professor

University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

csteeves@utias.utoronto.ca

  • Topology Optimization
  • Hybrid Polymer-nanometal Structures
  • Tailored Composites
  • Low Thermal Expansion Lattices
  Honghi N. Tran
Professor Emeritus

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

honghi.tran@utoronto.ca

  • Energy and Chemical Recovery in the Kraft Pulping Process
  • Combustion Characteristics of Biomass and Mixed Fuels
Yu Zou
Assistant Professor

Department of Materials Science & Engineering

mse.zou@utoronto.ca

  • High-entropy Alloys, Nanocrystalline Alloys, Quasicrystals, Titanium, Aluminium and Steels.
  • Nanoindentation, In-situ Instrumentation, High Strain-rate/temperature Deformation, Fracture and Failure Analysis
  • Additive Manufacturing, Cold Spray Technology, Mechanical Alloying, Arc Melting, and Magnetron Co-sputtering
  • Machine Learning for Alloy Design, Computer Vision for Advanced Manufacturing