Dr. Eraldo L. Batista Jr.  Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Diagnostics and Surgical Sciences

Eraldo Batista Jr. joined the Faculty of Dentistry in January of 2013. He was formerly an Adjunct Professor of Periodontics and Graduate Periodontics Course Coordinator at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Brazil. He was also a research advisor at the program of Cellular and Molecular Biology and lecturer at the Medical School in the same Institution. He received his M.Sc. degree in Periodontology from the University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1997 and his DSc. in Oral Biology from Boston University in 2005, where he worked with neutrophil signal transduction regulation and inflammation and oral bacteria-mediated atherosclerosis. He has been working with both, clinical and basic/translational research. Among his present research interests are inflammatory events and modulation of periodontal disease progression, bone biology and pharmacological strategies to control periodontal disease-mediated tissue destruction and metastatic effects of periodontal disease that can lead to systemic inflammation. In the field of oral implantology he has interest in strategies to accelerate osseintegration based on differentially expressed genes in response to different titanium surfaces. He is a Fellow and grant awardee of the International Team for Implantology (ITI) based in Bern, Switzerland and a member of the International Association for Dental Research. At the University of Manitoba, he will focus on undergraduate periodontics and will also be involved in the graduate programme as well, particularly in clinical teaching, seminars and research. 

Dr. Stephen Cornish Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management

Stephen Cornish joined the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management as an Assistant Professor in July of 2013.  Prior to his current appointment he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge.  He completed a B.Sc. (Physical Education), M.Sc. (Kinesiology), and Ph.D. (Kinesiology) all from the University of Saskatchewan.  During his PhD he studied the effects of nutritional interventions combined with exercise on inflammatory markers in the human body.  During a post-doctoral fellowship at the Nutrition Research Division of Health Canada he sought to understand the relationship between dietary soy protein and isoflavones on inflammatory markers in a rat model.  His current research interests are concerned with whether or not exercise and/or nutritional interventions can lower chronic low grade inflammation in diseases that have an inflammatory component associated with them, such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.  As a chronic low grade inflammatory response is thought to be associated with or a cause of disease, finding optimal exercise and nutritional strategies to lower inflammation is seen as key in disease management and prevention.

Dr. Jillian Detwiler Faculty of Science, Biological Sciences

Jillian Detwiler joined the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science as Assistant Professor in July, 2013. She earned a B.S. (Biology), B.A. (Music), and M.S. (parasitology) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her Ph.D. at Purdue University focused on the molecular ecology and phylogenetics of freshwater trematode parasites.  From 2004 – 2008, Jillian was funded by two National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowships which promoted better teaching at the college level (GAANN) and K-12 level (GK12).  She began postdoctoral work at Texas A&M University in 2010 to investigate how the interplay between transmission and mating systems influences parasite inbreeding.  In 2012, she was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) NRSA postdoctoral fellowship for a grant proposal entitled “Testing mechanisms of parasite-mediated selection on MHC genetic diversity”.  Also in 2012, she received the prestigious Ashton Cuckler New Investigator award from the American Society of Parasitologists.  Her current research explores the impact of host ecology and evolution on patterns of host specificity, and the influence of parasite-mediated selection on adaptive immune genes.  She also maintains a strong interest in the nature of learning and teaching science.

Dr. Sanjiv Dhingra  Faculty of Medicine, Regenerative Medicine

Sanjiv Dhingra  joined the University of Manitoba in June 2013. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology, Regenerative Medicine Program. His research interests are focused on cardiac regeneration and tissue engineering by stem cell therapy following a cardiac injury. Prior to joining the Univeristy of Manitoba, Sanjiv received postdoctoral training at the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Toronto General Hospital and St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre in Winnipeg. In the McEwen Centre, he studied prostaglandin E2 mediated rescue of immune-privilege of allogeneic stem cells for cardiac regeneration following a myocardial injury. During his postdoctoral training, Sanjiv received fellowship awards from CIHR and MHRC with high rankings. In October 2007, Dr. Dhingra received an award from the Life Science Association Manitoba for his contribution to cardiovascular research. Sanjiv was recently awarded the Vivien Thomas Young Investigator Award at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Los Angeles. His laboratory is located in the St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre. In addition to his research program, which is focused on stem cell therapy for cardiac regeneration, Sanjiv is also responsible for directing the Canada Italy Tissue Engineering Laboratory (CITEL), a collaboration between the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre. Under his supervision, CITEL will develop innovative technologies for biomaterials and will define pioneering procedures for cardiac tissue engineering.

Dr. Jamie Falk   Faculty of Pharmacy

Jamie Falk joined the Faculty of Pharmacy in March, 2013 as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Clinical Sciences and Practice. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Manitoba in 1997 and completed his Doctor of Pharmacy degree at the University of British Columbia in 2004. His research interests include the optimization of prescribing practices in family medicine and the facilitation of evidence-informed care and its translation to students, professionals and patients. Dr. Falk has been the lead author of two peer-reviewed papers, which have been published in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy and the American Journal of Health System Pharmacy and has served as a peer reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Diabetes. Dr. Falk previously worked as a clinical pharmacy specialist at the Royal Jubilee and Victoria General Hospitals in Victoria, BC in intensive care medicine and currently practices in the area of family medicine at the Kildonan Medical Centre. He also serves as a teacher and a practice preceptor for pharmacy students, pharmacy residents and medical residents and presents on a variety of therapeutic topics locally and across the country.

Dr. Yuvraj Gajpal   Asper School Of Business

Yuvraj Gajpal joined the Department of Supply Chain Management, Asper School of Business as Assistant Professor in July, 2013. He holds a PhD in Management Science from DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University and Master in Industrial Management from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India.  Prior to joining University of Manitoba, he worked as an assistant professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He also taught courses at McMaster University as a sessional lecturer.  He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and McMaster University. He is a member of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS).

He was an academic advisor for 6 students for their 9 month Industrial Co-op work. He has co-supervised many senior design projects for undergraduate students. He was the chair for work and process measurement lab design committee and a member of various departmental committees at system engineering department of KFUPM. 

Mr. Rodger Graham  Faculty of Extended Education

Rodger Graham joined Distance and Online Education as an Instructional Designer in July 2013. Prior to this appointment, Rodger spent a decade with Athabasca University, most recently as Manager of Course Design for the Centre for Learning Design and Development. Rodger has worked for over 25 years in the area of curriculum and learning design in both private and public sectors and has an abiding interest in the use of rich media to augment learning experiences.

Dr. Hadi Hemmati, Faculty of Science, Computer Science

Hadi Hemmati joined the University of Manitoba in July 2013. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Software Architecture Group at University of Waterloo.  Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Software Analysis and Intelligence Laboratory at Queen’s University. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Simula Research Laboratory and the University of Oslo, Norway and an M.Eng. degree in software engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran.

His main research interest is in the area of software engineering and analytics. His research has a strong focus on empirically investigating software engineering practices in large-scale systems. His sub-fields of interests are software quality assurance, mining software repositories, application of machine learning and data mining in software engineering, model-driven software engineering, search-based software engineering, could computing, mobile application development, autonomic and pervasive software systems.

He has been working, in different research programs, with industry partners such as Cisco Inc., Norway, Blackberry Canada, and CA Technologies, Inc., US. He also has work experience as a software engineer in the telecommunication domain. He has won the ACM Distinguished paper award at the International Conference on Software Engineering in 2013. He actively serves as a PC member and reviewer for conferences and journals in the field of software engineering. 

Dr. David E. Herbert Faculty of Science, Chemistry

David E. Herbert joined the University of Manitoba in July 2013 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry.  He holds a B.Sc. (Hon.) from the University of King’s College, a M.Sc. (University of Toronto) and a Ph.D. (University of Bristol) in inorganic chemistry.  His NSERC-supported doctoral work on strained organometallic sandwich complexes and metal-containing polymers was awarded a Faculty of Science Commendation.  David held postdoctoral positions studying pincer ligands at Texas A&M University and bioinorganic model complexes at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where he was a Camille & Henry Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Fellow.  His current research explores the use of inorganic chemistry, electrochemistry and polymer science to address challenges in clean energy and environmental remediation, including ligand and catalyst design for aqueous organometallic chemistry, the use of carbon dioxide in renewable fuels and resources, and water treatment.

Dr. Michael F. Jackson Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Michael Jackson joined the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at the University of Manitoba in April 2013 as an Assistant Professor. His laboratory will be located in the newly constructed Neurosciences research laboratories in the Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine (KIAM). Dr. Jackson obtained his PhD from McGill University in the Department of Pharmacology. Following postdoctoral training at the University of Toronto in the Department of Physiology, he moved to the Robarts Research Institute at Western University in 2008 as a Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. A major focus of his research is to understand how specific families of Ca2+-permeable channels, previously implicated in neurological disease, contribute to the loss of Ca2+ homeostasis, impaired synaptic transmission and plasticity as well as neuronal cell death associated with AD and other neurodegenerative disorders. These studies make use of multidisciplinary approaches including, electrophysiological, biochemical and cellular imaging techniques.

Dr. Erin Keating Faculty of Arts, English Film and Theatre

Erin Keating joined the Department of English, Film and Theatre as an Assistant Professor in July, 2013. After a B.A. at Wilfrid Laurier and an M.A. at Concordia, she completed her PhD at Simon Fraser University. Her PhD dissertation, which studies the importance of affective reception practices for understandings of late 17th century theatre and prose fiction, was supported by an SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship and passed with distinction. She was awarded the Dean's Convocation Medal upon her graduation. Erin's teaching is fully informed by her continued work on reception and audience practices in Restoration England as well as her interest in issues of gender and sexuality in the long eighteenth century. Her current research project focuses on the social reception and material book history associated with late 17th century scandal fiction. She regularly shares her research at conferences in Canada, the United States and England. Erin has published an article in the Journal of Popular Culture and has another forthcoming in the journal Restoration.

Dr. Martha Koch  Faculty of Education, Curriculum, Teaching & Learning

Martha Koch joined the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning as an Assistant Professor in July 2013. After completing her Ph.D. at the University of Ottawa, Martha was awarded a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, which she held at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Martha’s current research focuses on ways of supporting pre-service and practicing teachers as they move toward inquiry-based approaches to mathematics, develop and use professional judgment in classroom assessment, and participate in teacher collaborative inquiry. She has worked on several collaborative research projects for the Ontario Ministry of Education over the past ten years and is currently involved in establishing the Canadian Assessment for Learning Network (CAfLN). She enjoys teaching courses in mathematics education, classroom assessment and educational research methods.

Dr. Derek Krepski  Faculty of Science, Mathematics

Derek Krepski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics. After completing his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Toronto in 2009, Derek received an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and joined the Geometry and Topology Research Group at McMaster University. In 2012, he continued his postdoctoral work at the University of Western Ontario before joining the University of Manitoba in July 2013. Derek's research focuses on problems in differential geometry and topology that explore the notion of symmetry and invariance. His doctoral research considered aspects of quantization, a geometric interpretation of the relation between symmetries underlying the models of classical physics and those of their quantum counterparts. As a lifelong student of the subject, Derek also enjoys engaging in discussions about learning and teaching mathematics at all levels, during the early stages and beyond.      

Dr. Ayush Kumar   Faculty of Science, Microbiology

Ayush Kumar joined the Department of Microbiology in July 2013. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of multidrug resistance in opportunistic human pathogens Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. He finished his doctoral work at the University of Manitoba in 2004, which was followed by a post-doctoral fellowhsip at the Rocky Mountain Center for Excellence, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. Prior to joining the Univeristy of Manitoba, Ayush was an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON from 2007-2013. 

Dr. Shauna Labman  Robson Hall, Faculty of Law

Shauna Labman, B.A. (Hons.); LL.B.; LL.M.; Ph.D. joined the Faculty of Law in July 2013.   Her research areas include immigration and refugee law, human rights, citizenship, international law, and jurisprudence.  She focuses on the layered influences of law on public policy and government positioning.  Dr. Labman’s doctoral project at the University of British Columbia, currently under revision for publication, examined the intersection of international rights, responsibility and obligation in the absence of a legal scheme for refugee resettlement.  From 2008 to 2012 she was a Trudeau Scholar with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.  The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Liu Institute for Global Issues further supported her doctoral work.  She has worked as a consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in New Delhi and with the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, as well as with the Law Commission of Canada, the Workers’ Compensation Board of British Columbia, the Nunavut Court of Justice and as a law clerk at the Federal Court of Appeal.  She has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 2004.      

Ms. Mê-Linh Lê, Libraries, Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library

Mê-Linh Lê joined the University of Manitoba Library as an Assistant Librarian in February 2013. In her position as the Health Sciences Centre Librarian she works out of the Neil John Maclean Library on the Bannatyne Campus. She received her BA (H) from the University of Winnipeg, her MA from the University of Alberta, and her MLIS from the University of British Columbia. Prior to her appointment Mê-Linh worked at the University of Saskatchewan Health Sciences Library and at the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health. Her research interests focus on the information needs of public health students and practitioners, as well as on the use of emerging technologies in the classroom. Her work has been published in the peer-reviewed publications Journal of the Medical Library Association, Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, and Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

Dr. Christine Leong Faculty of Pharmacy

Christine Leong, B.Sc.(Gen); B.Sc.(Pharm); Pharm.D. joined the Faculty of Pharmacy in July 2013 as an Assistant Professor.  She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Manitoba in 2010 and completed her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at the University of Toronto in 2012.  Her research interests include primary care practice, neuropsychiatry, and pharmacy education.  Dr. Leong has been a contributing author of nine peer-reviewed papers, which have been published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Clinical Medicine Insights: Therapeutics, and The Consultant Pharmacist.  She has also served as a peer reviewer for the Annals of Pharmacotherapy. During the Doctor of Pharmacy program, Dr. Leong examined a near-peer teaching model in pharmacy education, which was published in the Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy last year.  In collaboration with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Dr. Leong’s research will aim to describe the trend in benzodiazepine and antidepressant use in older adults.  She has worked as a clinical pharmacist at the Health Sciences Centre in Surgery.  She also acted as preceptor to pharmacy students and provided presentations in the area of seizure disorders, insomnia, infectious disease, and antidepressant use for depression in patients with dementia, to pharmacists, nurses, and medical residents. 

Dr. Emma McGeough Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences, Animal Science

Emma McGeough joined the Department of Animal Science an Assistant Professor, in March 2013.  She earned a PhD from University College Dublin, Ireland in conjunction with Teagasc, Ireland’s Food and Agriculture Development Authority, in 2010. Upon completion she was awarded a NSERC Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellowship and joined the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lethbridge Research Centre in Alberta. Her doctoral and post-doctoral research assessed the use of conserved forages and other dietary manipulation strategies to reduce enteric methane emissions from ruminants. Additionally, she conducted life-cycle assessments of greenhouse gas emissions associated with livestock systems. Her research interests include ruminant nutrition, the use of forage-based feeding regimes for beef and dairy production and the environmental footprint and economic sustainability of integrated crop-livestock systems.

Ms. Lisa Mendez  Faculty of Medicine, Occupational Therapy

Lisa Mendez is an instructor in the Department of Occupational Therapy within the Faculty of Medicine. Lisa graduated with a Bachelor of Medical Rehabilitation (OT) in 1999 and a Master of Occupational Therapy in 2012; both from the University of Manitoba. Her clinical work has predominantly focused on enabling children with physical and/or learning disabilities to participate in meaningful occupations of children: play, school participation, social skills, and functioning at home. Lisa began working part-time in the Department of Occupational Therapy in 2002 and has gradually increased her presence; her current workload allows her to interact with prospective students (admissions), current students (course coordination and teaching), and alumni (recruiting student placements and supporting preceptors.

Dr. Robert C. Mizzi   Faculty of Education

Robert C. Mizzi, B.A. (Hons.); B.Ed.; M.Ed.; Ph.D. joined the Faculty of Education in July 2013. His research areas include Educational Policy, Politics and Professionalism; Equity Studies; Identity; International/Foreign/Newcomer Educators; and Sexual and Gender Diversity in Education and Community. Robert examines the political, social, cultural, administrative and professional challenges that shape workplaces for minority educators. Dr. Mizzi’s doctoral project at York University examined the experiences of foreign, gay male educators who worked in Kosovo after the 1999 conflict and some of the work struggles in absence of support systems. His SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Florida International University reversed the work context of his doctoral study and examined gay and lesbian educators who immigrate to Canada and the United States. Dr. Mizzi has garnered work and study experiences in over 35 countries in the area of educator/facilitator training and community development with several governmental and aid agencies. Robert has published 34 chapters, papers, and reviews in books, journals, conference proceedings and reports as well as 4 books in the fields of international education, educational administration and adult education.

Dr. Jim Mulvale  Faculty of Social Work

Jim Mulvale joined the Faculty of Social Work as Dean in July 2013. Previous to this appointment, he spent fourteen years at the University of Regina, including three years as Associate Dean of Social Work. His teaching interests include social policy, work and economic security, and theories of social justice. His research focuses on basic or guaranteed income, poverty reduction, and Indigenous approaches to economic development. He is co-editor of the journal Basic Income Studies and a member of the Social Policy Interest Group of the Canadian Association of Social Workers. Before embarking on his academic career, Jim worked in community development positions in the fields of developmental disability and community mental health in southwestern Ontario.      

Dr. Claudia Narvaez  Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences, Food Science

Claudia Narvaez joined the Department of Food Science in January 2013. Her research interests focus in food safety, specifically in the study foodborne pathogens at pre and post-harvest levels, as well as on the emergence of antimicrobial resistance drugs in zoonotic and foodborne pathogens.  Dr. Narvaez completed her Veterinary Medicine and Master degree in Venezuela, where she held an Associate Professor position at the Veterinary School, Zulia State University from 2004-2010.  She completed her Doctoral work at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas in 2011, which was followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), at the Lacombe Research Station in Alberta.  Dr. Narvaez maintains collaboration with AAFC in research areas related with food safety and food microbiology.

Dr. Fabio Pinheiro  Faculty of Dentistry, Preventive Dental Science

Fabio Pinheiro, a native from Brazil, joined the Department of Preventive Dental Science as an Assistant Professor in April 2013.  He completed a 4-year orthodontic residence program in Brazil.  This program combined the delivery of clinical services to patients with cleft lip and/or palate at the Hospital for Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies and a Master’s degree in Orthodontics at Sao Paulo University.  Dr. Pinheiro also received a Master’s degree in Biomaterials from the University of Michigan, and a PhD. in Orthodontics from the University of Manchester.  After having worked in Brazil and Sweden, Dr. Pinheiro, along with his wife Tatiana and his son Daniel, now look forward to permanently settling in Winnipeg.  He enjoys supervising undergraduate and graduate students in the clinic.  He is also very open for interdepartmental research collaboration and is currently accepting students for research supervision.  Dr. Pinheiro’s areas of interest are, but not limited to, cleft lip and palate, evaluation of orthodontic techniques and clinical outcomes, and intercenter comparisons.  He is very enthusiastic about his new position and looks forward to contributing to the orthodontic team at the University of Manitoba. 

Dr. Nicolas Roulin   Asper School Of Business

Nicolas Roulin joined the Asper School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Human Resources Management in July 2103. He earned BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a PhD from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. His research areas include the use and detection of impression management and faking tactics during the selection process, applicants’ strategies when entering competitive job markets, and the use of social networking websites as selection instruments. His research has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology and the International Journal of Selection and Assessment. 

Dr. Shepherd Steiner School of Art

Shepherd Steiner joined the School of Art in July 2013. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1997. He has taught at The Edinburgh College of Art, the Malmö Art Academy (Lund University), Emory University, and The University of Florida. Literary theory, philosophical aesthetics, and the continuance of modernism in and as the contemporary are his general areas of research. More specifically, his research involves the intersection between practice and theory in contemporary art, especially the ways in which interpretative dynamics encountered on the micro level of the work of art are mediated by larger issues in the political crucible. One key area of this research involves the question of projection, in particular, the ways in which projection is instanced in our encounters with abstract painting. This research is inclusive of the theoretical notion of teleopoiesis, confronts the problem of identity and opens onto the horizon of ethics. Finally, he is actively researching a wide range of contemporary photographic practices. Recent books include Rodney Graham: The Phonokinetoscope, (London: Afterall Books: One Work Series, 2013); The New Criticism: Formalist Literary Theory in America and Abroad, co-edited with Rick Armstrong and Alfred J. Drake (London: Cambridge Scholars Press), 2014; and Cork Caucus: on art, possibility, and democracy, co-edited with Trevor Joyce (Frankfurt: Revolver Verlag, 2007). A manuscript titled, Projective Politics and the Mnemotechnics of Support: High Modernist Painting, Sculpture and Criticism, 1945-1968 has just been completed.

Dr. Jocelyn Thorpe Faculty of Arts, Women's & Gender Studies

Jocelyn Thorpe joined the Faculty of Arts in September 2012 as an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies. She arrived in Winnipeg after zigzagging the country with a postdoc in history at UBC and then a faculty position at Memorial University of Newfoundland. While she is thrilled to have landed in the centre of it all, her SSHRC-funded project, “Natives and Newcomers, Land and Sea: Lost Encounters in the New-Found-Land,” takes her frequently back to Newfoundland, where she conducts oral and archival research into the history of colonialism and its contemporary effects. She is the author of Temagami’s Tangled Wild: Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature, which was published by UBC Press in 2012.

Geoffrey K. Tranmer, Ph.D., joined the Faculty of Pharmacy as an Assistant Professor in July 2013.  He has a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree from Brock University in Chemistry and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Guelph, specializing in Organic Chemistry.  Following post-doctoral studies at Princeton University, he received an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship and continued his studies at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Steven V. Ley, CBE, FRS, examining the application of new technologies in organic synthesis.  His first industrial role was as a Senior Research Chemist at Merck Frosst in Montreal as a member of the Technology Enabled Synthesis group, integrating the application of automated synthesis and purification into medicinal chemistry programs.  Following subsequent employment at McMaster University as the Synthesis and NMR Lab Manager in the Centre for Microbial Chemical Biology, and research at the Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization, he has accepted the appointment of Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy, with specialization in Medicinal Chemistry.  His research interests are focused on the application of innovative technologies in the field of organic synthesis as applied to medicinal chemistry and new strategies for targeted cancer therapies.  Specifically, he is interested in developing novel flow chemistry techniques that will aim at enhancing current synthetic organic methodologies, and focus on lead generation and optimization in drug discovery, while simultaneously focusing on the development of novel targeted cancer therapies, with particular focus on hypoxia.  He has co-authored 16 papers and 3 reviews in peer-reviewed international journals, and has been named as co-inventor on six published patent applications.

Dr. Qiuyan Yuan Faculty of Engineering, Civil Engineering

Qiuyan Yuan joined the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, in July of 2013 as an assistant professor. She earned her PhD degree from the University of Manitoba. Her research interests are in the areas of biological nutrient removal from wastewater, solid waste treatment, and phosphorus recovery. The goal of her research is to develop sustainable technologies for water and waste treatment processes that will reduce the environmental burden, carbon footprint, and greenhouse gas emissions. She has published over 20 journal papers and conference proceedings. She is also interested in community outreach to promote environmental awareness.