Research Opportunities for Prospective Students

Supervisor Name	Research Interests	Specific Projects	Student Type	Skills/Education/Qualifications Required	Funding Opportunities Available	Contact Method
Madeline Whetung	Indigenous Geographies, Legal Geographies, Emotional Geographies, Embodied Practice, Place-based research, Autoethnographic methods, Anticolonial methods, Queer Care Practices, Anishinaabe Care Politics, Queer world-building, Queer and Indigenous climate change responses	Queering Community Care for Collective Climate Responsive Future: Carers and their Dependents at the Centre of our Circle	MASc or PhD	Critical thinking, reading and writing skills; Event organization; Community-based work, Knowledge and practice on care, dependent responsibilities, Queer theory, interest in experimental research methods, and exploring alternative conceptions and responses to climate change	Unknown at this time.	email: madeline.whetung@torontomu.ca
Elsayed Elbeshbishy	Anaerobic Digestion of Biosolids Greenhouse Gas Emission from Wastewater Treatment Plant Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence	1. Biogas Production from Municipal Solid Wastes 2. Monitoring GHG Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Plant	MASc or PhD	Strong Background in Wastewater Treatment and sludge management	Yes - Stipend Funding	Email: Elsayed.elbeshbishy@torontomu.ca
Claire Oswald	Watershed hydrology; water quality; urban water systems; wastewater surveillance	Classification of urban land use features; hydrological processes in urban greenspaces; isotopic characterization of urban waters; inter-watershed comparisons of urban hydrological processes (all dependent on funding)	MASc or PhD	Undergraduate or Masters in physical geography, environmental science, or related discipline; experience with environmental fieldwork, GIS, coding (R or equivalent), and quantitative data analysis.	Research Assistantship	email: coswald@torontomu.ca
Carina Rebello	Pedagogy, STEM education, communication	Retrieval practice, 21st century workforce skill development, teaching pedagogy	MASc or PhD		Research Assistantship	email: rebellocm@torontomu.ca
Umberto Berardi	Green Infrastructure	Green Infrastructure (stipend funding may be available)	MASc or PhD		Stipend Funding	email:uberardi@torontomu.ca
Lesley Campbell	Sustainable Agriculture; Plant Response to Environment; Genotype by Environment Interactions	Development of net-zero agricultural methods; refining agricultural practices to result in less fertilizer, pesticide or energy used; plant communication; supply chain management and pricing of food (all dependent on funding)	PhD	Undergraduate or Masters in Plant Biology, Agriculture, or related discipline; experience with horticulture, coding (R or equivalent), and quantitative data analysis.	Stipend Funding	email: lesley.g.campbell@torontomu.ca
Nima Khakzad	Fire safety at chemical and process plants; Risk-informed decision making and optimization; Impact assessment of natural disasters (flood, wildfire, etc.) on industrial facilities	(i) Optimal fire protection and firefighting at process plants; (ii) Risk assessment of methane explosions at wastewater treatment plants	MASc or PhD	Familiarity with the following techniques is an asset but not required as can be acquired during the research: Quantitative techniques; Statistics and probability; Risk assessment and management	Research Assistantship	nima.khakzad@torontomu.ca
Songnian Li	Geospatial information systems, environmental modeling with GIS, public-participated GIS and spatial decision-making in environmental impact assessment, geospatially-integrated environmental management systems, 3D GIS for land-surface-subsurface modeling, urban solar energy modeling and mapping.	digital twin for environment assessment; SDG assessment and monitoring using geospatial technologies	MASc or PhD	Geomatics engineering, GIS modeling	Stipend Funding	snli@torontomu.ca
Ehsan Behzadfar	Sustainable polymers, sustainable materials design and processing	Aerogels from renewable resources for medical cold chain packaging	MASc or PhD	Strong knowledge of polymer chemistry and processes, knowledge of biogenic polymers, passionate about developing sustainable solutions for specialty packaging products	Yes-Research Assistantship	behzadfar@torontomu.ca
Lu Wang	Health and healthcare access among immigrants, ageing and health, neighbourhood and health	Projects concerning immigrant health and healthcare, neighbourhood and health, spatial mobility.	MASc or PhD	Strong writing and communication skills. Statistical methods. GIS and spatial analysis, mixed-methods approach	Yes-Research Assistantship	luwang@torontomu.ca
Rachel Dodds	Sustainable tourism, destination management and marketing, climate change and tourism	Various. Please contact faculty member for more information.	MASc or PhD		Unknown at this time	r2dodds@torontomu.ca
Matthias Sweet	Transportation policy, travel behavior, transportation planning, environmental assessment, transportation finance	The Future of Transportation Finance in Ontario (FTF-Ontario) Partnership: Interpreting the new federal role considering transportation funding and GHG reduction goals	MASc or PhD	Transportation interests & demonstrated commitment/preserverance	Yes - Research Assistantship	matthiassweet@torontomu.ca
Chun-Yip Hon	Occupational health and safety, exposure assessment, evaluation of interventions,	n/a	MASc or PhD	Interest in occupational health and safety	No	cyhon@torontomu.ca
Mustafa Koc	Food security, sustainability, food policy	Sustainable urban food systems, disaster planning, rural development	MASc or PhD	Academic background	No	mkoc@torontomu.ca
Julia Lu	Analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry/science	Study of reactivity, mobility, bioavailability and toxicity of chemicals in the environment (air, water, soil...)	MASc	BSc in Science with keen interest in the project	Yes - Stipend Funding	julialu@torontomu.ca
Seth Dworkin	Geothermal heating and cooling	Modelling, optimization, AI applications with ground source heat pumps	MASc or PhD	Scientific and mathematical background	Yes - Stipend Funding	seth.dworkin@torontomu.ca
Rachel Dodds	sustainable tourism, climate change, sustainability reporting, business CSR	Currently working on a study about tourism development over a 15 year period in Tofino as well as a study looking at indicator development for sustainability	MASc or PhD	Could use someone who is good at writing and synthesizing information as need a literature review updated. They must be familiar with sustainability and be a good writer with good referencing skills and ability to cite properly. My need is immediate and I have about $1000 - 2000 to use up in the next couple of months	Yes - Stipend Funding	r2dodds@torontomu.ca
Nima Khakzad	System safety; fire safety	Improving the safety of chemical plants via optimal fire protection	MASc or PhD	Probabilistic techniques; Quantitative risk assessment	Yes - Research Assistantship	nima.khakzad@torontomu.ca
Matthias Sweet	transportation policy & planning	The Future of Transportation Finance in Ontario Partnership Development Grant	MASc or PhD	interest in transportation, skills in either a) inferential statistics, spreadsheet analysis, hypothesis testing, or b) qualitative methods, interviews, thematic analysis,	Yes - Research Assistantship	matthiassweet@torontomu.ca
Vadim Bostan	Limnology, phosphorus cycle	Internal phosphate loadings	MASc	Bachelor of Science	Unknown at this time	vbostan@torontomu.ca

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