Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

Alison McGuigan

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Areas of Expertise

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

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

Charles Q Jia

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Faculty: Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

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
Home: 416-498-6541
Languages: Mandarin and English
Email: cq.jia@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Christopher Yip

Dean, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, the Department of Biochemistry and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Biochemistry
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Areas of Expertise

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

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

Greg Evans

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
  • Occupational and Environmental Health
• Centres
  • School of Cities

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
Mobile: 905-626-2895
Languages: French
Email: greg.evans@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jeffrey Brook

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
  • Occupational and Environmental Health
• Centres
  • Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium
  • Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosols

Areas of Expertise

• air pollution
• Climate
• Equity
• Health
• Urban form and planning

Office: 416-978-5883
Mobile: 705-970-7121
Website
Email: jeff.brook@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Levente L Diosady

Professor Emeritus, Department Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

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
Email: l.diosady@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Michael V Sefton

University Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Areas of Expertise

• Biomaterials
• Tissue engineering

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

Milica Radisic

Professor, Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

Professor, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

Canada Research Chair, Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Areas of Expertise

• Biomaterials
• Bioreactors
• Cardiovascular tissue engineering
• Heart-on-a-chip
• Microphysiological systems
• Organ-on-a-chip engineering
• Tissue engineering
• Vasculature-on-a-chip

Office: 416-946-5295
Mobile: 416-767-1442
Email: m.radisic@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Miriam Diamond

Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
  • Earth Sciences
• Centres
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Air and water pollution
• Cities
• Environmental destruction & contamination
• Human exposure
• Impact of war on environmental pollution
• Indoor environment
• Infrastructure damage & long-term health impacts
• Toxic Chemicals

Office: 416-978-1586
Mobile: 416-573-2977
Website
Email: miriam.diamond@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mohini Sain

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

Director, Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
  • John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
• Centres
  • Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing

Areas of Expertise

• Bioplastics and biorefinery
• CO2 conversion to chemicals and products
• Forest bioproducts
• Industrial biomaterials processing
• Lightweight composite manufacturing
• Low carbon energy materials and devices
• Micro and Nanocellulose
• Natural fibre micro and nanotechnology
• New carbon materials
• Sustainable Automotive and Aerospace materials

Office: 416-946-3191
Home: 416-239-7154
Languages: French, Czech, Slovak, Hindi, Bengali
Email: m.sain@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Molly S Shoichet

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)
  • Institute of Medical Science
  • Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research

Areas of Expertise

• Polymers for applications in medicine
• Regenerative diseases such a blindness
• Spinal cord injury repair
• 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

Murray Thomson

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
  • Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Areas of Expertise

• air pollution
• Alternative fuels: hydrogen; biofuels
• Combustion

Office: 416-573-1022
Mobile: 416-573-1022
Languages: French
Website
Email: thomson@mie.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ning Yan

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering; Professor, John H Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Bioproducts

University Distinguished Professor in Forest Biomaterials Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
  • John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
• Centres
  • Low Carbon Renewable Materials Centre
  • Pulp and Paper Centre

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

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

Areas of Expertise

• biodiesel
• etc.)
• extraction
• Fossil energy (coal beneficiation and coal-slurry fuels)
• gas absorption
• heat transfer
• mass transfer)
• other biomass-based sources)
• Renewable energy (fuel ethanol
• Separation processes (distillation
• Transport phenomena (fluid flow

Office: 416-978-6901
Home: 416-656-5387
Languages: Estonian
Email: olev.trass@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Roger Newman

Professor

UNENE Research Chair, Corrosion Control & Materials Performance in Nuclear Power Systems

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
  • Materials Science & Engineering

Areas of Expertise

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

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

Yuri Lawryshyn

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

The Joseph C. Paradi Chair in Information Engineering

Director, Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

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
Email: yuri.lawryshyn@utoronto.ca
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