People

Current Members

Dr. Kiarash Keshmiri, Postdoctoral Fellow: Mechanistic Study of the Steam-Solvent Co-Injection Process

Dr. Muhammad Siddiquee, Postdoctoral Fellow: Continuous Flow Reactors for Upgrading of Heavy Oil

Amin Karkooti, PhD Student (co-supervised by Prof. Mohtada Sadrzadeh) : Fabrication of Graphene-based Nanocomposite Membranes for Treatment of Oil Sands Produced Water

Zohreh Poursoti, PhD Student (co-supervised by Prof. Zubin Jacob, Purdue University) : Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

Yucheng Wu, MSc Student: Microfluidic Reactor for Oxidation of Naphtanic-Aromatic Macromolecules

Niloufar Manafi, MSc Student: Developing Continuous-flow Micro-Reactor for Reaction Optimization in Lignin Oxidation

Hanrui Zheng, MSc Student (Co-supervised by Prof. Chad Liu) : Mineral Flotation by Microfluidics-generated Reactive Oily Microbubbles

Alumni

Dr. Sarang Pendharker, Postdoctoral Fellow (Co-supervised by Prof. Zubin Jacob): Optical Nanoscopy to Investigate the Surface Morphology of Organic Materials in Fine Clay Particles

Swapnali Shende, MSc Student (Co-supervised by Prof. Zubin Jacob): Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy to Study Bitumen and Clay Interaction in Oil Sands Tailings

Gunjan Singh, MSc Student: Fluidic Delivery System for Naphtha Detection

Saeed Mozaffari, MSc Student: Nanofluidic Platform to Study the Role of Asphaltene in W/CO Emulsion Stability

Shokoufeh Kazemlou, MSc Student: Electric Field Gradients and its Implications in Microfabricated Post Arrays

Chenxiao Li, Co-op Student: Asphaltene Aggregation in Microscale Confinements

Nisheet Patel, University of Alberta Research Experience (UARE): Microchannels to Study Kinetics of Asphaltene Aggregation

Bora Li, University of Alberta Research Experience (UARE): Analyzing Cappilary Flow of Diverse Solvents and Diluted-Bitumen in Microchannels

Scott Patterson, University of Alberta Research Experience (UARE): Interfacial Tension of Release Agents During Fabrication of Engineered Wood

Aman Kumar, Mitacs Globalink Researcher: Dielectrophoresis Characterization of Asphaltene Nanoaggregates

Mikayla McKenna-Pettit, WISEST Student: Characterization of Lignin Particles

Kevan L. Bell, Faculty of Engineering Dean's Research Award, Research Assistant: Characterization of Electroosmotic Flow through Nanoporous Self-assembled Arrays

Mikel Gomes, Research Assistant: Improving Durability and Performance of Polymer Microfluidic Channels Exposed to Organic Solvents

Nicholas Moore, Faculty of Engineering Dean's Research Award: Characterization of Polymer Microchannels Swelling in Contact with Petroleum Fluids

Shashwat Chakraborti, Faculty of Engineering Dean's Research Award: Rheology of Water-in-Oil Emulsion

Ka Ho Chan, Faculty of Engineering Dean's Research Award: Microfluidic Reactor to Investigate Mass Transfer During Oxidation of Tetralin

Nina Krawec, WISEST Student: Rheology Analysis of Bitumen in the Presence of Asphaltenes

Ga Lee, Research Assistant: Numerical Calculation of Trajectory of Polyelectrolytes in Post Array Geometry

Amin Valeie, Research Assistant: Developing Microfluidic Droplet Dispensers