Grant Allen

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

D. Grant Allen obtained his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. from the Department of
Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Grant also worked with Esso Petroleum Canada before enrolling in a Ph.D. program in chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo. In 1987, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at U of T. He is a Professor and Associate Chair of the Department and was part of the Centre leadership from 1988 to 2003 (Associate Director and Director). In 1994 he spent his research leave with Weyerhaeuser’s Environmental Science and Technology group in Tacoma, WA. Grant’s research interests are in the field of bioprocess engineering with emphasis on the biological treatment of kraft mill effluents, biofiltration of air emissions, linking and engineering and microbiology.

Areas of Interest: Biological Waste Treatment, Bioprocess Engineering

Bob Andrews

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Water Treatment

Nasser Ashgriz

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Atomization and Spray, Combustion

David Bagley

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto

David M. Bagley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. He obtained a B.Sc. in chemical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines (1984) and then worked in the Paper Product Division at Procter and Gamble (1984-1987) as a process development engineer. He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in environmental engineering at Cornell University (1993). Prior to joining the University of Toronto in 1994, he worked as an environmental engineer for CH2M Hill. His research area is the development of sustainable wastewater treatment processes with a particular focus on anaerobic biological processes to produce methane and hydrogen as renewable fuels.

Areas of Interest: Biological Treatment

Bill Bialkowski

University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Process Control

David Boocock

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Liquid Fuels from Wood

Markus Bussmann

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Recovery Boiler Modelling

Lionel Catalan

Lakehead University

Areas of Interest: Waste Management

John Carey

Environment Canada

Areas of Interest: Biological Impact of Effluents, Photochemistry

Will Cluett

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Will Cluett joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry in 1986 after receiving his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Queen’s University and the University of Alberta, respectively. From 1997-2003 he served as Chair, First Year in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and from 1998-2003 he also served as the Faculty’s Vice-Dean. In 1997, he was awarded the Syncrude Canada Innovation Award from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering given annually to a resident of Canada who has made a distinguished contribution in chemical engineering before the age of 40. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. Professor Cluett’s research is in the fields of process identification, control, and design. He has supervised or co-supervised 4 doctoral students and 26 masters students and, from their work, has published more than 50 papers in refereed journals such as Automatica and the Journal of Process Control. Professor Cluett is also the co author with Liuping Wang of “From Plant Data to Process Control: Ideas for Process Identification and PID Design”, published in 2000 by Taylor and Francis in their Systems and Control Series.

Areas of Interest: Process Control

Paul Cooper

Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto

Paul Cooper has degrees in wood science and technology from the University of Toronto (B.Sc.F. and Ph.D.) and Oregon State University (M.Sc.). His research interests include how chemicals diffuse and interact in the wood cell wall, the effects of chemical treatments on wood preservation, fire protection and dimensional stability, and environmental impacts of wood preservative use. He is a Professor in the Faculty of Forestry and occupies the Chair in Value Added Wood and Composite Products, a position supported by the forest products industry and Forintek Canada Corporation.

Areas of Interest: Wood Science, Environmental Impacts

Don Cormack

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Donald E. Cormack is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry and Vice-Dean at the School of Graduate Studies. He obtained his B.A.Sc. (1970) and M.A.Sc. (1971) degrees from U of T and his Ph.D. (1974) from the California Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of transport phenomena and applied mathematics. Applications of his research in the area of pulp and paper include fouling and cleaning of kraft recovery boilers.

Areas of Interest: Recovery Boilers, Sootblower Design

Ted Davison

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Large Scale Control Systems/Automation

Miriam Diamond

Department of Geography, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Environment

Al Edwards

Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: DNA Microarrays

Elizabeth Edwards

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Elizabeth Edwards is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. She obtained her B.Eng. and M.Eng. in chemical engineering from McGill (1983, 1985) and her Ph.D. from Stanford (Environmental Engineering and Science) in 1993. From 1985-88, she worked in the fermentation pilot plant at J.E. Seagrams & Sons. After completing her Ph.D., she spent three years with Beak Consultants on bioremediation and biotechnology projects. Her research focusses on understanding the biodegradation of groundwater contaminants such as chlorinated solvents and aromatic hydrocarbons. She studies both the microbial ecology and biochemistry of anaerobic bacteria and the development of biotreatment strategies. Recent interests include applying genomic technologies such as DNA microarrays to environmental microbiology.

Areas of Interest: Bioremediation, Environmental Microbiology

Greg Evans

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Air Pollution Particulate Matter

Ramin Farnood

Associate Director, Pulp & Paper Centre
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Ramin Farnood obtained his B.Sc. (1987) and M.A.Sc. (1990) from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, and a Ph.D. (1995) from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry as an Assistant Professor in October 2000 and is an Associate Director of the Pulp & Paper Centre. Prior to joining U of T, he worked at PAPRICAN in Pointe-Claire (1995-1996), the Abitibi-Price Technology Centre in Mississauga (1996-1998), and Trojan Technologies Inc. in London (1998-2000). Professor Farnood’s current research program is focussed on surface and particle science.

Areas of Interest: Paper Science/Particle Technologies

Ray Francis

State University of New York

Areas of Interest: Surface Properties of Mechanical Pulps

James Frederick

Georgia Tech

Areas of Interest: Black Liquor Evaporation

Roberta Fulthorpe

Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto

Roberta Fulthorpe is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Sciences program at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. She obtained a B.Sc. in biology (Carleton University), an M.Sc. in limnology/environmental science (University of Toronto) and a Ph.D. in microbial ecology from Carleton University. Her research interests are in the molecular biology and ecology of bacteria that degrade toxic compounds, and she has studied these in a variety of different systems – aquatic, wastewater treatment and soil. Her current research is focussing on the evolution and applications of chlorinated aromatic degraders found in pristine ecosystems, and on the degradative communities that develop in waste water treatment systems and biofilters.

Areas of Interest: Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology

Kim Gilbride

Ryerson University

Areas of Interest: Environmental Microbiology

Tom Grace

University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Chemical Recovery

Geoffrey Hill

Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc.

Areas of Interest: Chemical Technology for Pulp and Paper Manufacture

Mikko Hupa

Åbo Akademi University

Areas of Interest: Recovery Boiler Chemistry

David James

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

David F. James is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. He obtained a B.A.Sc. from Queen’s University (1962) and a Master’s degree (1963) and a doctorate (1967) from the California Institute of Technology. His graduate training was in fluid mechanics, which remains the foundation of his research work on rheology and the flow of non-Newtonian fluids. Recent research has focussed on the flow of pulp suspensions, mineral slurries, and coating suspensions. He has been active in rheology organizations, and since 1988 has been the Secretary of the International Committee on Rheology. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and a Visiting Professor at Caltech and The University of Melbourne.

Areas of Interest: Fluid Mechanics, Flow of Complex Fluids

Charles Jia

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Charles Q. Jia obtained a B.E. and an M.E. from Chongqing University in China, and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from McMaster University in 1994. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, conducting research in the area of environmental science and technology. He has been collaborating with Professor H.N. Tran on problems related to chemical recovery. His particular interest is environmental applications of inorganic sulphur chemistry.

Areas of Interest: Air Pollution, Industrial Wastes

Andy Jones

University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Recovery Boilers

Masahiro Kawaji

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Masahiro Kawaji is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. He graduated from U of T (1978) and received his M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1984) from the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Kawaji specializes in gas-liquid flow and heat transfer research with applications to the chemical, nuclear and process industries. He is a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and has published over 160 refereed papers. Over the past fifteen years, he has collaborated with Professor H.N. Tran in the thermal analysis of kraft recovery boilers. He is currently investigating primary air port temperature excursions during boiler operation and char bed cooling following an emergency shutdown.

Areas of Interest: Kraft Recovery Boilers, Heat Transfer

Jim Keiser

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Areas of Interest: Recovery Boiler Corrosion and Cracking

Mark Kortschot

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Mark T. Kortschot is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. He obtained his B.A.Sc. (1984) and M.A.Sc. (1985) degrees in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto, specializing in mechanics and materials science. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1989. Professor Kortschot is interested in the relationship between microstructure and material properties, with particular emphasis on the strength and fracture toughness of fibrous materials such as paper and long and short fibre reinforced polymers. His work consists of a mixture of experimental, theoretical, and numerical approaches.

Areas of Interest: Paper Physics & Fracture

Raymond Kwong

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Stochastic Systems/Control

Steven N. Liss

Department of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson University

Steven N. Liss is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biology at Ryerson University. He is also the Associate Dean for Research, Development and New Science Programs for the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Ryerson. Professor Liss is an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry and Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto. He leads research projects in applied microbiology and environmental biotechnology. Specific interests include microbial floc and film structure, extracellular polymeric substances, filamentous microorganisms and biosolid management, and microbial-based management tools for biological treatment processes.

Areas of Interest: Recovery Boilers

Bruce Lyne

University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Paper and Printing

Scott Mabury

Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Environmental Chemistry

Lynda McCarthy

Ryerson University

Areas of Interest: Biological Effects, Endocrine Disruptors

Bruce McKague

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Bruce McKague received his B.Sc. from McMaster University (1962) and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of British Columbia (1967). From 1971 to 1986, Bruce worked for B.C. Research in Vancouver on projects related to the pulp and paper industry. As guest researcher of STFI, the Swedish Pulp and Paper Research Institute during 1986 and 1987, he worked with Professor K.P. Kringstad on the characterization of chlorinated organic compounds in pulp bleaching effluents. He then started his own company, CanSyn Chem. Corp., which supplies chemical standards for pulp and paper, and drinking water studies. Bruce is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry and works as a consultant to the Centre on various chemical and environmental projects.

Areas of Interest: Environmental Chemistry

Chuck Mims

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Charles A. Mims received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. Before taking up a professorship at the University of Toronto in 1990, he worked for Exxon Research and Engineering and also spent a year as a visiting scientist at M.I.T. His research is in heterogeneous kinetics, catalysis, and surface science. The majority of his work focusses on energy related catalysis, including fuel cell electrode processes, but a new project concerning the transient interactions of water with paper is being pursued within the Surface Science Consortium. He is the Director of Surface Interface – Ontario, a surface analysis facility in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry.

Areas of Interest: Surface Catalysis & Kinetics

Javad Mostaghimi

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Heat Transfer, Plasma Coating, Recovery Boilers

Toks Oshinowo

University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Fluid Mechanics

Vladimiros Papangelakis

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Aqueous Process Chemistry/Hydrometallurgy

Bob Pelton

McMaster University

Areas of Interest: Wet End Chemistry

Doug Reeve

Senior Advisor, Pulp & Paper Centre
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Douglas Reeve is Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. He was named Chair in 2001 and in 2006 was appointed to a second five-year term. Dr. Reeve was the founding Director of the University of Toronto Pulp & Paper Centre serving from 1987 until 2001. During his term as Director, the Centre created more than twenty-five million dollars in research programs with financial support from forty-five companies from seven countries. He was named Frank Dottori Professor of Pulp and Paper Engineering (2001-2006).

Dr. Reeve is not accepting graduate students at this time.

Areas of Interest: Pulp Manufacturing, Environment

Joe Repka

Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Mathematical Modeling

Mohini Sain

Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto

Mohini Sain received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1988 from the Technical University, Bratislava. He then worked in the polymer industry before he joined the Pulp and Paper Research Centre at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). In 1994, he worked in the industry in the US and then became a faculty member at UQTR. In 1999, he joined the University of New Brunswick (Chemical Engineering). He is the Director of Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing, a Professor in the Faculty of Forestry and is cross-appointed to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. Dr. Sain specializes in paper sizing, coating chemistry, recycling, and biocomposite and nano-biocomposite manufacturing. He received an Industry-University NSERC Synergy Award in 2001 for his work in heavy metal scavenging.

Areas of Interest: Wet-end and Surface Sizing, Neutral and Alkaline Papermaking, Waste Treatment

Preet Singh

Georgia Tech

Areas of Interest: Recovery Boiler Corrosion

Rana Sodhi

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Rana N.S. Sodhi graduated from Reading University (UK) in chemistry and obtained an M.Sc. from the University of Alberta in 1980, and a Ph.D. from UBC in 1984, specializing in electron spectroscopy. Following a postdoctoral position at UBC, he worked at Surface Science Western at the University of Western Ontario. In 1989, he came to Toronto to manage the Surface Science Unit in the Centre of Biomaterials. He has held an adjunct faculty appointment with Chemical Engineering and has collaborated with groups in Forestry, Pulp and Paper, and Biomaterials, among others. He currently works at Surface Interface Ontario a state of-the-art lab for surface analysis (ToFSIMS and XPS) in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry.

Areas of Interest: Surface Analysis, TOFSIMS, XPS

Jan Spelt

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Jan K. Spelt joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in 1988. His research interests are in surface science, the mechanics of materials, and the mechanics of manufacturing processes. He received his B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto and an M.E. degree from Caltech. From 1985 to 1988, he was a research engineer with Alcan International Ltd., working on the structural adhesive bonding of aluminium in automobiles and railcars. He is currently the principal investigator for the project “Changes in Local Microtopography as a Function of Paper Type, Rewetting Liquid, and Volume During Printing”, part of the Research Consortium on Surface Science for Superior Paper in the Digital Era.

Areas of Interest: Interfaces, Adhesion, Manufacturing Process Mechanics

Trevor Stuthridge

New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd.

Areas of Interest: Environmental Chemistry

Pierre Sullivan

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Pierre E. Sullivan obtained his B.S.Me. (1988) and M.S.Me. (1990) degrees from Clarkson University at Potsdam, NY in mechanical engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario in 1995. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. His work is focussed on experimental measurement techniques for turbulent multiphase flows using particle image velocimetry and laser Doppler velocimetry. He is interested in the development of experimental data for the validation of multiphase flow codes for lime kilns and the effect of dusting.

Areas of Interest: Turbulence Flow of Pulp Suspensions

Honghi Tran

Director, Pulp & Paper Centre
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Honghi Tran obtained his B.Sc. and M.Eng. in ceramic engineering from Shizuoka University, Japan and received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from U of T in 1982. Dr. Tran is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, and Director of the Pulp & Paper Centre. Dr. Tran is also a technical consultant to kraft pulp mills on problems related to kraft recovery boilers, lime kilns and borate autocausticizing. His research interests are in fouling and corrosion in recovery boilers and chemical recovery processes. Dr. Tran has co-authored over 120 referred papers and has 8 patents. Professor Tran is a Tappi Fellow.

Areas of Interest: Recovery Boilers/Kilns/Chemistry/Corrosion

Olev Trass

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Areas of Interest: Comminution of Wood & Other Cellulosic Materials, Mechanical Pulping

Chris Verril

Georgia Tech

Areas of Interest: Black Liquor Evaporation

Roberto Villarroel

Votorantim Celulose e Papel

Areas of Interest: Lime Kiln Chemistry

Rick Wessel

McDermot Technology, Inc.

Areas of Interest: Recovery Boiler Modeling

Ning Yan

Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto

Ning Yan is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Forestry, cross appointed to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, and an Associate Director of the Pulp & Paper Centre. She obtained her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from U of T in 1997. Before joining the U of T as a faculty member, she worked as a research scientist for various companies, including the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada, Trojan Technologies Inc., and Xerox Corporation. She has broad expertise in cellulosic materials, composites and adhesives, surface science, and conventional and digital printing technologies. Her research interests are in the areas of wood/natural fibre composites, pulp and paper, and printing.

Areas of Interest: Printing and Paper Interactions, Paper Physics, Composites

Chris Yip

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Christopher M. Yip obtained a B.A.Sc. in chemical engineering from the University of Toronto in 1988. From 1988 to 1991, he was a research scientist at Dupont Canada. After receiving his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1996, he was a postdoc with Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis. In 1997, he was appointed to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, the Department of Biochemistry, and to the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. Professor Yip’s research focusses on molecular self-assembly and single molecule biophysics. He was the inaugural recipient of the Molecular Imaging Outstanding Young Biological SPM Investigator of the Year Award (1998) and holds a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Imaging.

Areas of Interest: Atomic Force Microscopy, Surface Science of Biopolymers