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Current Group (November 2024)

From left to right: Yurij Mozharivskyj, Waseem Akram (M.Sc.), Kinan Al-Namourah (Ph.D.), Hao Sun (B.Sc.), Ian Pao (M.Sc.), Timothy Lo (Dr.), Taylor Spengen (B.Sc., thesis), Suha Saleem (B.Sc. co-op), Anahita Tadayyon (B.Sc.).

Who is doing what:

Kinan Al-Namourah is synthesizing magnetically active materials.

Waseem Akram, Hao Su, Ian Pao, Taylor Spengen, Anahita Tadayyon, and Timothy Lo are searching for a "highly-efficient" thermoelectric material.

Suha Saleem and Timothy Lo are looking for novel Na+-conducting oxides.

Group News

2024:

  • Sept: Taylor Spengen joined the group as a Chem 4G12 student (undergraduate thesis).
  • Sept: Waseem Akram joined the group as an M.Sc. student.
  • Aug: Kinan Al-Namourah joined the group as a cotutelle Ph.D. student.
  • Aug 27: Trong Phan successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis.
  • May: Suha Saleem joined the group and X-ray facilites as a co-op student.

2023:

  • Sept: Ian Pao joined the group as an M.Sc. student.
  • Sept: Arpita Choudhury and Suha Saleem joined the group as Chem 4G12 students (undergraduate thesis).
  • Sept: Dr. Timothy Lo was accepted into McCall MacBain Postdoctoral Fellows Teaching and Leadership Program (award).
  • Aug: Dr. Sergei Novikov joined the group of Dr. Vladislav Klepov (University of Georgia, USA) as a posdoctoral fellow.
  • May: Yasmin El Moustaine joined the group as a Chem 3RP3 student.
  • April 17: Shaochang Song successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.
  • April 13: Thomas Kalab won a 2nd place in the Inorganic/Materials Section of the Chem 4G12 (thesis) presentations.
  • March 25: Thomas Kalab won a 2nd place in in the Inorganic Chemistry division at the 51st Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), Trent university, Peterborough, ON.
  • Feb: Wengiang Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China) joined the group as an exchange student (for 1 year).
  • Jan: Arpita Choudhury joined the group as a co-op student.
  • Jan: Dr. Sergei Novikov joined the group as a research assistant.

2022:

  • Dec. 13: Zan Yang successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis.
  • Dec. 12: Sergei Novikov successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.
  • Sep. 16: Leon Huang successfully defended his M.Sc. degree.
  • Sept: Dr. Timothy Lo joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
  • Sept: Trong Phan joined the group as an M.Sc. student.
  • Sept: Esin Karatas joined the group as a Ph.D. student.
  • Sep: Thomas Kalab joined the group as an undergraduate thesis Chem 4G12 student.
  • Sept: Arpita Choudhury, Haley Pandya, Suha Saleem joined the group as Chem 3RP3 students.
  • Aug. 24: Timothy Lo successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.
  • Aug: Dr. Jan-Hendrik Pöhls joined University of New Brunswick as tenure-track Assitant Professor.

2021:

  • Sep: Lan Ni joined the group as an undergraduate thesis Chem 4G12 student.
  • Sept: Shaochang Song received the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
  • June: Shaochang Song received a Department Travel Award.
  • May: Marissa MacIver joined the group as a summer research undergraduate student.

2020:

  • Oct: Dr. Jan-Hendrik Pöhls joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
  • Oct: Dr. Fang Yuan (Ph.D. 2017) joined the group of Prof. L.M. Schoop as a postdoc (Princeton University, NJ, USA).
  • Sep: Leon Huang joined the group as an M.Sc. student.
  • Aug: Sergei Novikov received the McMaster Chemistry International Excellence Scholarship.
  • Jan: Zan Yang joined the group as an M.Sc. student.

2019:

  • Prof. Hao Fu joined our group as a visiting professor.
  • Aug: Sergei Novikov successfully tranferred to the Ph.D. program.
  • Sep: Nancy Feng, Stephanie Lu, Leon Huang joined the group as Chem4G12 thesis students.
  • May: Timothy Lo accepted the NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (2019-2022).
  • May: Nancy Feng, Stephanie Lu, Leon Huang joined the group as summer students.

2018:

  • Oct: Yafen Shang joined the group as a 2-year visiting Ph.D. student.
  • Sep: Hakum Kaur joined the group as a Chem4G09 thesis student.
  • Jun: Dr. Peng Wang (Ph.D. 2013) joined Queen's University as a tenure track Assitant Professor.
  • Jun: Hamed Bakhshi joined the group as a visiting Ph.D. student from Tarbiat Modares University (Tehran, Iran).
  • May: Timothy Lo (B.Sc. 2015) successfully tranferred to the Ph.D. program.
  • May: Shaochang Song (B.Sc. 2018) joined the group as a M.Sc. student.
  • May: Anastasiia Evstifeeva joined the group as visiting summer student from Huntington University (IN, USA).
  • May: April Cheng and Tiffany Ng joined the group as summer students.
  • Apr: Dr. Fang Yuan (Ph.D. 2017) joined the group of Prof. C. Thompson as a postdoc (Purdue University, IN, USA).
  • Jan: Sergei Novikov joined the group as a M.Sc. student.
  • Jan: April Cheng and Tiffany Ng joined the group as Chem 3RP3 students.

2017:

  • Nov: Dr. Scott Forbes (Ph.D. 2015) joined University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada) as an X-ray technician.
  • Sep: Binyu Ye joined the group as a Chem 3RP3 student.
  • Aug: Allan He (B.Sc. 2015) defended his M.Sc. thesis and joined the UC Davis for Ph.D. studies (group of Prof. S. Kauzlarich).
  • May: Dr. Fang Yuan joined our group as a postdoc.
  • Mar: Dr. Fang Yuan successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis.

Group Pictures from Previous Years

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Former Group Members

 

 

 

Undergraduate students:

Arpita Choudhury (2022-2024)

Jonathan McElheron (2023-2024)

Anthony Carlucci (2023)

Yasmin El Moustaine (2023)

Haley Pandya (2022)

Jiayi Ni (2021-2022)

Marissa MacIver (2021)

Nancy Feng (2019-2020)

Stephanie Lu (2019-2020)

Leon Huang (2019-2020)

Sameer Salman (2019)

Hakum Kaur (2018-2019)

Anastasiia Evstifeeva (2018)

April Cheng (2018)

Tiffany Ng (2018)

Binyu Ye (2017)

Mark Muise (2016-2017)

Timothy Lo (2015-2016)

Aaron Insanalli (2015-2016)

Sean Grixti (2015-2016)

Kevin Wyszatko (2015-2016)

Allan He (2014-2015)

Violet Connelly (2014-2015)

Shu (Benson) Ip (2013-2015)

Alphonsus Ballesteros (2013-2014)

Rubhen Raiju Murugaanandan (2012-2013)

Laura Ogilvie (2012-2013)

Joseph Barbosa (2012)

Lexa Graham (2011-2012)

Joseph Gabriel (2010-2011)

Tyler Russell (2010-2011)

Maria Diaz Lopez (2010-2011)

Scott Forbes (2009-2010)

Janice Cheung (2008-2010)

Peng Wang (2007-2008)

Fan Fei (2007-2008)

Faraz Ahmadpour (2006-2007)

Himanshu Shekhar (2006)

Navid Kherzi (2006)

 

  

 

Graduate students:

Trong Pahn (M.Sc. 2022-2024)

Wenqiang Li (M.Sc. exchange, 2023)

Shaochang Song (M.Sc. and Ph.D. 2018-2023)

Sergei Novikov (M.Sc. and Ph.D. 2018-2022)

Timothy Lo (M.Sc. and Ph.D. 2016-2022)

Zan Yang (M.Sc. 2020-2022)

Leon Huang (M.Sc. 2020-2022)

Yafen Shang (Ph.D. 2018-2020)

Hamed Bakhshi (Ph.D. 2018-2019)

Masoud Aminzare (M.Sc. 2016-2018)

Fang Yuan (M.Sc. and Ph.D. 2012-2017)

Rubhen Raiju Murugaanandan (M.Sc. 2013-2016)

Scott Forbess (M.Sc. and Ph.D. 2010-2015)

Mehdi Esmaeli (M.Sc. 2012-2014)

Peng Wang (M.Sc. and Ph.D. 2008-2013)

Janice Cheung (M.Sc. 2010-2012)

Volodymyr Svitlyk (Ph.D. 2006-2010)

Giselle Couto (Ph.D. 2009-2010)

Pavlo Lyutyy (Ph.D. 2008)

 

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Dr. Jan-Hendrik Pöhls (2020-2022)

Dr. Mohsen Keshavarz (2016-2018)

Dr. Fang Yuan (2017-2018)

Dr. Scott Forbess (2015-2016)

Dr. Mirela Dragomit (2014-2015)

Dr. Jinlei Yao (2010-2012)

Dr. Volodymyr Svitlyk (2010)

Dr. Ashur Aushana (2007-2008)

 

Research Assistants:

Dr. Sergei Novikov (2023)

Dr. Rabaya Bagum (2017)

Benson Shu Ip (2016)

 

Visiting Scientists:

Prof. Dr. Hao Fu (2019)

Prof. Dr. Zhigang Zheng (2016-2017)

Prof. Dr. Yanhua Li (2016)

 

 

 

Potential Graduate Students

Positions available

There are positions for graduate students with interest and background in solid state chemistry

 

How to apply