Principle Investigator

Charles-François de Lannoy, PhD
​Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, ON
L8S 4L7
Office: ETB 111

e-mail:
delannoy@mcmaster.ca

​phone:
905-525-9140 ext. 24471
Research Interests:
  • Environmental applications of nanomaterials
  • Advanced polymer thin film membranes for desalination
  • Membrane contactor materials for CO2 separation
  • Electrokinetic separation of charged solutes
  • Catalytic surface reactivity for environmental remediation
  • Thin film composites for CO2 separation
  • Environmental implications of nanomaterials

Post-Doctoral Fellows

PhD Students

Yichen Wu
Details:
Chemical Engineering (PhD candidate, McMaster)
Civil Engineering (MS, Purdue)
Environmental Engineering (BS, Nanjing Technical University)

Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering
JHE 296

e-mail:
wuy211@mcmaster.ca
Research Interests:
  • nanocomposite membranes
  • particle reactive transport in porous media
  • development, characterization, and application of functional nanomaterials for environmental remediation and/or engineered systems
  • Soil chemistry and adsorptive capacity
  • Hydrology, wildfire eco-hydrology and environmental quality modelling

Nan Zhang
Details:
Chemical Engineering (PhD candidate, McMaster)
Chemical Engineering (MS, Tianjin)
Pharmaceutical Engineering (BS, Tianjin)

Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering
JHE 256

e-mail:
zhang33@mcmaster.ca
Research Interests:
  • Development of anti-fouling sensor surface for water monitor
  • Printing sensors onto membranes
  • Electrically conductive membranes for water treatment

Mohamed Elganzoury
Details:
Chemical Engineering (PhD candidate, McMaster)
M.Sc. Chemical Engineering (Cairo)
B. Eng. Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering (Cairo)

Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering
JHE 265

e-mail:
elganzom@mcmaster.ca
Research Interests:
  • Fabrication and Characterization of novel materials for environmental and energy applications 
  • Electrochemical Water treatment
  • Nano-Engineering

Personal Interests:
Swimming, Soccer

Colin Gibson
Details:
Water Resources Engineering and International Development Collaborative Specialization (PhD candidate, Guelph/McMaster)
B.Eng. Environmental Engineering (Guelph)
Minor Business Administration (Guelph)

Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering

e-mail:
gibsoc@mcmaster.ca
Research Interests:
  • Ethics of Water Management
  • Water Management Paradigms
  • WASH Systems (Water supply, sanitation, hygiene)
  • Indigenous Water Insecurity
  • Water, Culture, and Technology
  • Technology Indigenization
  • Holistic Water Management
 
Personal Interests:
Photography, Camping, Ultimate Frisbee, Cycling

Scott Laengert
Details:
Chemical Engineering (PhD candidate, McMaster)
BSc. Chemistry (McMaster)
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Winner

Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering
JHE-133
​

e-mail:
laenges@mcmaster.ca
Research Interests:
  • Aerosol dynamics and filtration
  • Polymer-nanocomposites
  • Polymer chemistry​
 
Personal Interests:
Rock climbing, Astronomy and Astrobiology, Science Education

Abdelrahman Awad Babiker
Details:
Chemical Engineering (PhD in progress, McMaster)
MSc. Chemical Engineering (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals)
BSc. Chemical Engineering

Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering
​

e-mail:
awada9@mcmaster.ca
Research Interests:
  • Nanoparticle-polymer composites
  • Hollow fiber membranes
  • Electrically responsive membranes
  • Gas Separation membranes
  • ​Osmotically driven membranes
 
Personal Interests:
Swimming, Cycling, Soccer

Nathan Mullins
Details:
Chemical Engineering (PhD in progress, McMaster)
Award: NSERC PGS-D PhD Scholarship
MASc. Chemical Engineering (Queen's University)
BASc. Environmental Engineering with a Minor in Biological Sciences (University of Windsor)

Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering
​

e-mail:
mullin1@mcmaster.ca
Research Interests:
  • Organic contaminant removal, adsorption, and degradation
  • Wastewater treatment and monitoring 
  • Electrochemical membranes
  • Advances to membrane technologies

Personal Interests:
​music, mountain biking, hiking, golf, cooking

Research Scientists

Heera Marway
Details:
M.Sc. Chemical Engineering (McMaster)
B.Eng. Chemical Engineering (McMaster)

Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering
JHE 

e-mail:
marwayhs@mcmaster.ca
Research Interests:
  • ​Polymer manufacturing and processing
  • Industrial scale-up
  • Mechanical testing
  • Surface analysis (AFM)

Masters Students

Hannah Grewal
Details:
Geography and Earth Science (MSc. in progress)
B.Sc. General Science/Chemistry (Mount Royal University)

e-mail:
grewah35@mcmaster.ca
Research Interests: 
  • Heavy metal contamination and water quality analysis
  • Heavy metal mapping
  • First Nations environmental reconciliation
  • Indigenous community engagement
  • community-informed research
  • membranes 

Personal Interests:
travelling, hiking, cooking, basketball 

Erik Frechette
Details: 
Chemical Engineering (Master's Degree)
​B. Eng. Chemical Engineering (McMaster)

e-mail:
frecheee@mcmaster.ca
Research Interest
  • water sensors
  • surface fouling
  • First Nations water issues
  • electrochemistry and applications to environmental monitoring​​Other

​Personal Interests:
​Cross-country skiing, music production, musical theatre, swimming, language learning

Undergraduate Students

Alicia Yaeji Kwon
Details:
3rd Year Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering

e-mail:
kwony7@mcmaster.ca
Summer Research Project
  • Facemask analysis
  • Particle filtration efficiency

​Other Interests​
  • cooking, reading mystery and thriller novels, watching movies!

Gavin Yuen
Details:
3rd Year Undergraduate Student
Chemical Biology

e-mail:
yueng4@mcmaster.ca
Summer Research Project
  • Cathodic degradation of organics
  • Anodic degradation of PFAS
  • Characterization of metallized membranes

​Other Interests
  • Eating, reading, gaming

Christina Hanna
Details:
1st Year Undergraduate Student
Nanotechnology Engineering
University of Waterloo

e-mail:
c25hanna@uwaterloo.ca
Summer Research Project
  • nanomaterials as adsorbents
  • heavy metal remediation from mining wastewaters
  • electrochemistry

​Other Interests
  • deep conversations, children, the elderly, animals, travelling, new cultures, hiking, swimming, dancing, musical composition, botany, batteries, solar technology, space exploration, and entrepreneurship

Sheel Ayachi
Details:
1st Year Undergraduate Student
Chemical and Bioengineering

e-mail:
ayachis@mcmaster.ca
Summer Research Project
  • Water quality on First Nations Land (Six Nations)
  • Indigenous Water Insecurity
  • Environmental Reconciliation

​Other Interests
  • Cooking, true crime, reading about anthropology, and running to 2000s pop songs 

Moly Mikhail
Details:
1st Year Undergraduate Student
General Engineering

e-mail:
mikham16@mcmaster.ca
Summer Research Project
  • Biofouling
  • Hollow Fiber Membranes
  • Membrane cleaning
  • Wastewater Treatment

​Other Interests
  • Coding and Grey's Anatomy fanatic! 

Alumni

Post-Doctoral:
Trevor Gilbert, PhD McMaster University, now a research scientist at SciEx
Hyejin Lee, PhD Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, now a research scientist at McMaster University
Saloumeh Ghasemian, PhD McGill University
Jackie Meng Xu, PhD University of Missouri
​Mohamad Amin Halali, PhD McMaster University

PhD:
Mohamad Amin Halali, PhD McMaster University, now at NanoH2O

Master's:
Melissa Larocque, MSc McMaster University, now a consultant at Jacobs Engineering 
Cassandra Chidiac, MSc McMaster University, now studying PhD at University of Toronto
Maria Ximena Ruiz-Caldas, MSc McMaster University, now studying PhD in Sweden
Alexander Sutherland, MSc McMaster University, now a consultant at Hatch Ltd.

Undergradaute: 
Christina Hannah (Nanotechnology Engineering, University of Waterloo)
Jenna Bullard (Chemical Engineering)
Adi Gelb (Chemical Engineering)
Panos Papangelakis (Chemical Engineering)
Aly Khalifa (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Hannah Mann (Chemical Engineering)
Maddison Konway (Mechanical Engineering)
Lauren McGregor (Civil Engineering)
Kyle Heyblom (Chemical Engineering)
Erik Pena (Chemical Engineering)
Sara Evans (Physics)
Saifuddin Syed (Bachelor's of Technology)
Thomas Baker (Chemical Engineering)
Mohammad Akhtar (Chemical Engineering)
Erik Fréchette (Chemical Engineering)
Laraib Shaikh (Chemical Engineering)
Prabhjot Burmy (Chemical Engineering)
​Al-Asel Maizer (Chemical Engineering)
​Beatrice Benigno (Chemical Engineering)
​Ryan Tyrrell ​(Electrical and Computer Engineering)

High School: 
Christina Hannah