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Many of CERCL’s consultants are internationally recognized researchers who are considered to be leaders in their fields. They maintain active research groups with Master’s and Ph.D. students, Post Doctoral Fellows and other technical staff. They attend international conferences regularly to stay abreast of the latest developments in their fields. They teach classes in Chemical Engineering fundamentals and various application areas.

Edgar Acosta

Edgar Acosta

Biomedical & Biomolecular, Catalysis & Reactor Design, Consultants, Food Processing, Interfacial Science & Advanced Materials, Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals, Process Chemistry & Process Engineering

B.Sc. (Universidad del Zulia – Venezuela), M.A.Sc., Ph.D. (University of Oklahoma),Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Interfacial curvature of surface active compounds Low surface tension films...

D. Grant Allen

D. Grant Allen

Biomass & Waste Thermal Processing, Bioremediation & Analytical Chemistry, Consultants, Process Chemistry & Process Engineering, Water & Air

B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc.(University of Toronto), Ph.D. ( Waterloo ), P.Eng.Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of Expertise Bioprocess engineering for production of chemicals, fuels and materials Biological waste...

Gisele Azimi

Gisele Azimi

Consultants, Electrochemistry & Batteries, Extractive Metallurgy, Interfacial Science & Advanced Materials, Process Chemistry & Process Engineering, Separation Technologies, Technoeconomics & Lifecycle

B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. (Sharif University of Technology), Ph.D. (Toronto), P.Eng, Post-doc (MIT)Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of TorontoCanada Research Chair in Urban Mining Innovationco-Director, Ontario Centre for the...

Timothy Bender

Timothy Bender

Consultants, Organics & Polymer, Process Chemistry & Process Engineering, Technoeconomics & Lifecycle

B.Sc., Ph.D. (Carleton)Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Organic Chemical Process: batch processing, continuous flow processing, scalability, energy input, sustainability Organic...

Ariel Chan

Ariel Chan

Biomedical & Biomolecular, Bioremediation & Analytical Chemistry, Consultants, Food Processing

Ph.D. (Queen’s), P.Eng.Associate Professor, Teaching StreamDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of TorontoCross-appointed to Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISETP) Areas of Expertise...

Arthur Chan

Arthur Chan

Consultants, Water & Air

B.S. (University of Pennsylvania), M.S., Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology) Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Environmental Chemistry Air Quality Analytical Chemistry...

Y-H. Cathy Chin

Y-H. Cathy Chin

Biomass & Waste Thermal Processing, Catalysis & Reactor Design, Consultants, Interfacial Science & Advanced Materials, Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals

B.Sc. (Oklahoma), M.Sc. (Oklahoma), Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Applications of multidisciplinary research strategy (kinetic and isotopic techniques,...

Will Cluett

Will Cluett

B.Sc. (Queen’s), Ph.D. (Alberta), F.C.I.C., P.Eng. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Contact Phone: (416) 978-5889 Email: will.cluett@utoronto.ca Research Areas Process identification, control and design About...

Nikolai DeMartini

Nikolai DeMartini

Biomass & Waste Thermal Processing, Consultants, Process Chemistry & Process Engineering, Water & Air

Director of Pulp & Paper Centre, NSERC Industrial Research Chair in the Role of Inorganics in the Industrial Processing of Woody Biomass, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Contact Phone: (416) 978-4318...

Levente Diosady

Levente Diosady

Consultants, Food Processing

Ph.D., P.Eng., C.Eng, C.F.S., OC, O.Ont, F.C.I.C, F.C.A.E., F.C.I.F.S.T., F.A.O.C.S., F.I.A.Fo.S.T., F.E.C., F.R.S.C.Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of Expertise Food process engineering...

Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards

Bioremediation & Analytical Chemistry, Consultants, Water & Air

B.Eng., M.Eng (McGill), Ph.D. (Stanford), P.Eng., Canada Research Chair in Anaerobic Biotechnology. University Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of Expertise Environmental microbiology and bioremediation...

Greg Evans

Greg Evans

Consultants, Water & Air

B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D. (UofT), P.Eng., FCAE, FAAAS Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Director, Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP) Director, Southern Ontario...

Ramin Farnood

Ramin Farnood

Biomass & Waste Thermal Processing, Consultants

B.A.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto), P.Eng. Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of Expertise Papermaking Ultraviolet disinfection Advanced oxidation Mathematical modeling Current Projects...

Daniela Galatro

Daniela Galatro

MSc (UNEXPO), PhD (Toronto)Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Machine learning applied to process engineering design, simulation, monitoring, troubleshooting, control,...

Rachel Gregor

Rachel Gregor

B.Sc. and Ph.D (Ben-Gurion University), Postdoc (MIT)Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Untargeted metabolomics Environmental and marine microbiology Drug discovery Multi-omics Marine...

Frank Gu

Frank Gu

Biomedical & Biomolecular, Bioremediation & Analytical Chemistry, Consultants, Process Chemistry & Process Engineering, Water & Air

B.Sc. (Trent), PhD (Queen’s), Postdoc (MIT-Harvard)NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Nanotechnology EngineeringProfessor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of Expertise Nanomaterials engineering: synthesis of...

Charles Jia

Charles Jia

Biomass & Waste Thermal Processing, Consultants

B.E., M.E. ( Chongqing ), Ph.D. (McMaster), P.Eng.Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of Expertise Water and air purification Waste valorization Persistent organic pollutants Energy storage materials...

Donald Kirk

Donald Kirk

Consultants, Electrochemistry & Batteries, Extractive Metallurgy, Process Chemistry & Process Engineering, Water & Air

B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D. (University of Toronto), P.Eng.Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of Expertise Electrochemical Technologies Corrosion failures New Technology Evaluation Expert witness Current...

Yuri Lawryshyn

Yuri Lawryshyn

Consultants, Information Technology, Process Chemistry & Process Engineering, Technoeconomics & Lifecycle, Water & Air

B.A.Sc. (University of Toronto), M.A.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto), M.B.A. (Western Ontario),Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto. Areas of Expertise Real options research Applied Financial Research Applied CFD...

Chris Lawson

Chris Lawson

B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. (UBC), Ph.D. (Wisconsin), Post-doc (Berkeley Lab) Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of Expertise Industrial biotechnology Environmental microbiology Bioprocess engineering...

Krishna Mahadevan

Krishna Mahadevan

Consultants, Process Chemistry & Process Engineering

B.Tech. (Indian Institute of Technology), Ph.D. (Delaware)Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Systems biology Synthetic biology Metabolic engineering and metabolic modeling and model-based...

Emma Master

Emma Master

B.Sc. (McGill), Ph.D. (UBC), Post-doc., KTH, Stockholm Sweden Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto. Areas of expertise Discovery, design and production of enzymes and non-catalytic proteins that can be used to...

Alison Mcguigan

Alison Mcguigan

Biomedical & Biomolecular, Consultants

MEng. (Oxford), PhD (Toronto), Post-Doc (Harvard, Stanford).Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Tissue engineering and disease modelling Biological image analysis Cellular assay development...

Mohamad Moosavi

Mohamad Moosavi

Consultants, Extractive Metallurgy, Information Technology

B.Sc. (Sharif Univ.), M.Sc. & Ph.D. (EPFL) Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise AI for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Molecular Modelling Porous Materials and Carbon Capture...

Bertrand Neyhouse

Bertrand Neyhouse

Consultants, Electrochemistry & Batteries

B.Sc. (Ohio University), Ph.D. (MIT), Postdoc (Michigan) Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Design and scale-up of electrochemical systems Sustainable energy conversion technologies...

Vlad Papangelakis

Vlad Papangelakis

Consultants, Extractive Metallurgy, Water & Air

D.Eng., M.Eng , Ph.D. (McGill)Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Hydrometallurgy Process modelling Flowsheet development Aqueous chemistry Current Projects Bioremediation of sulfidic tailings...

Milica Radisic

Milica Radisic

Biomedical & Biomolecular, Consultants

B.Eng. McMaster University (1999), Ph.D. MIT (2004), Post-doc Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology (2005)Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of Expertise Organoids Organs-on-a-chip Drug...

Arun Ramchandran

Arun Ramchandran

Consultants, Interfacial Science & Advanced Materials, Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals

B. Chem. Eng. (Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai), Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame), P.Eng.Professor and Canada Research Chair in Engineered Soft Materials and Interfaces, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of...

Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling

Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling

Consultants, Information Technology

B.Sc (Guanajuato), M.Sc. (Erasmus Mundus, Valencia), Ph.D. (Harvard) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Designing computer-robotic systems that augment our human capacity for engineering...

Brad Saville

Brad Saville

Biomass & Waste Thermal Processing, Bioremediation & Analytical Chemistry, Catalysis & Reactor Design, Consultants, Food Processing, Process Chemistry & Process Engineering, Separation Technologies, Technoeconomics & Lifecycle

Ph.D. (University of Alberta), P. Eng.Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto. Areas of Expertise Production of Biofuels and Bioproducts from Biomass and Renewable Resources Technoeconomic Assessment and Life Cycle...

Michael Sefton

Michael Sefton

Biomedical & Biomolecular, Consultants

B.A.Sc., Sc.D. (MIT), P.Eng. University Professor and Michael E. Charles Chair in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, and Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto Areas of expertise...

Molly Shoichet

Molly Shoichet

Biomedical & Biomolecular, Consultants

B.Sc. (MIT), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Massachusetts)University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto. Areas of expertise Polymers, fluoropolymers,...

Nicole Weckman

Nicole Weckman

BASc (Waterloo), MEng (McGill), PhD (Cambridge), Postdoc (Harvard) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto & ISTEP Areas of Expertise Sensor design with a focus on biosensors Synthetic biology especially with...

Jay Werber

Jay Werber

Consultants, Separation Technologies

B.Sc. (Washington Univ. St. Louis), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Yale), Post-doc (Minnesota)Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Membrane materials and membrane separation processes Synthesis and...

Ning Yan

Ning Yan

B. Eng. (Southeast), Ph.D. (Toronto), P.Eng.Professor, Department of Forestry, cross-appointed to the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of expertise Lignocellulosic biomaterials engineering Forest and agriculture residue...

Chris Yip

Chris Yip

B.A.Sc.( Toronto ), Ph.D. ( Minnesota ), P.Eng.Dean of Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biochemistry, University of...

Weilai Yu

Weilai Yu

Consultants, Electrochemistry & Batteries

B.Sc. (Wuhan), Ph.D (Caltech), Postdoc (Stanford)Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Areas of Expertise Advanced battery materials and interfacial engineering Electrochemical and solar-driven systems for...