Breaking News Experts

Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry

Alison McGuigan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Disease modelling
  • Drug screening platforms
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Tissue engineering

Office: 416-978-7552
Website
Email: alison.mcguigan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Charles Jia

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Air and water pollution abatement technologies
  • Applied inorganic sulphur chemistry
  • Biochar production and utilization
  • Carbon capture and storage
  • Clean air and water technologies
  • Climate change
  • Energy storage technologies
  • Environmental sulphur chemistry
  • Fate
  • Industrial waste treatment and utilization
  • Industrial waste utilization
  • Transport and impacts of atmospheric pollutants

Office: 416-946-3097
Languages: Chinese (Mandarin),English
Website
Email: cq.jia@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Christopher Yip

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biophysics
  • Microscopy
  • Molecular self-assembly
  • Protein-protein interactions

Office: (416) 978-7853
Home: 416-544-0452
Website
Email: christopher.yip@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Greg Evans

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Air pollution in large cities
  • Airborne particles
  • Climate change
  • Development and application of high time resolution instruments for field studies
  • Emissions of pollutants
  • Engineering education
  • Exposure of urban populations to traffic related air pollutants
  • Impact of aerosols on health and environment
  • Quality and composition of urban air
  • Receptor modeling for sources identification and characterization

Office: 416-978-1821
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: greg.evans@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Levente L Diosady

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Food and food process engineering
  • Micronutrient fortification and impact in developing world

Office: 416-978-4137
Home: 416-444-8692
Languages: Hungarian
Website
Email: l.diosady@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Michael Sefton

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomaterials
  • Tissue engineering

Office: 416-978-3088
Website
Email: michael.sefton@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Molly S Shoichet

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 3D cell culture
  • Drug delivery
  • Hydrogels
  • Polymers for applications in medicine
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Spinal cord injury repair
  • Stem cell stimulation
  • Stem cell transplantation
  • Targeted delivery in cancer
  • Tissue engineering
  • Traumatic injury to the brain (including stroke)

Office: 416-978-1460
Languages: French
Website
Email: molly.shoichet@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ning Yan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomass utilization
  • Bioproducts
  • Green chemistry
  • Renewable materials

Office: 416-946-8070
Website
Email: ning.yan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Olev Trass

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Biodiesel
  • Extraction
  • Fossil energy (coal beneficiation and coal-slurry fuels)
  • Gas absorption
  • Heat transfer
  • Mass transfer
  • Renewable energy
  • Separation processes
  • Transport phenomena

Office: 416-978-6901
Languages: Estonian
Website
Email: olev.trass@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Roger Newman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Corrosion
  • Electrochemistry
  • Fracture
  • Metallurgy
  • Nanomaterials and nanotechnology
  • Nuclear power systems
  • Nuclear waste management
  • Oil and gas

Office: 416-419-0411
Website
Email: roger.newman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Yuri Lawryshyn

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Applied numerical modelling
  • Economic analysis of engineering projects
  • Ultraviolet disinfection (UV) of water and wastewater

Office: 416-946-0576
Home: 705-252-6614
Mobile: 705-252-6614
Website
Email: yuri.lawryshyn@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online