Current Student List
2025 Fall
Ammar Elnaggar
- Thesis: TBD
- Supervisor: Dr. Abedalrhman Alkhateeb
Yegana Azizli
- Thesis: Lignin-based nanocomposite films for antibacterial food packaging
- Supervisor: Dr. Pedram Fatehi
Xinyuan Wang
- Thesis: TBD
- Supervisor: Dr. Pedram Fatehi
2025 Spring
Md Jubayer Alam
- Thesis: Reconstructing historical ecological communities through lake sediment eDNA analysis
- Supervisor: Dr. Michael Rennie
Jay Patel
- Thesis: TBD
- Supervisor: Dr. Thangarajah Akilan
2025 Winter
Amawish Chaudhry
- Thesis: Value-added Bioproducts from Bioconversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass by Soil Bacteria
- Co-supervisors: Drs. Wensheng Qin and Justin Jiang
2024 Fall
Rishnika Boteju
- Thesis: Optimizing Microbial and Enzymatic Approaches using Direct Evolution for Sustainable and Alternative Production of Beverages, Bioethanol, and Other Bioproducts
- Supervisor: Dr. Wensheng Qin
Anirudh Shahi
- Thesis: Development of Flat Panel PET Detector with High System Sensitivity and isotropic Spatial Resolution for Brain Imaging
- Supervisor: Dr. Alla Reznik
Guimeng Andy Lu
- Thesis: Bioremediation and Greening of Oil Refinery-contaminated soil using Microalgal-Bacterial Consortium with Bioactive Molecules
- Co-supervisors: Drs. Wensheng Qin and Janusz Kozinski
Bochao Xu
- Thesis: Membrane Photobioreactor for Wastewater Treatment
- Supervisor: Dr. Baoqiang Liao
2024 Spring/Summer
Xunjia Liang
- Thesis: TBD
- Co-supervisor: Drs. Kang Kang and Pedram Fatehi
Brant Muir
- Thesis: Bioretention for Fish Habitat Protection: Treatment Performance and Spatial Prioritization in a Cold Climate
- Supervisor: Dr. Rob Stewart
2023 Winter
Aysan Gholami
- Thesis: Heat transfer enhancement using flexible filaments in microchannels
- Supervisor: Dr. Ali Tarokh
2022 Fall
Soorena Azarhazin
- Thesis: Heat transfer enhancement using flow control in a flexible pipe
- Supervisor: Dr. Ali Tarokh, Dr. Janusz Kozinski
2022 Spring
Dhanushya Jeyakumar
- Thesis: Functional analysis of microbial cutinase and suberinase enzymes for efficient utilization and conversion of cutin and suberin rich plant waste biomass vintoalue-added products
- Supervisor: Dr. Wensheng Qin
2022 Winter
- Thesis: Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Multi-phase Multicomponent Drug Delivery thorough a Patient-Specific Respiratory Airway using Pressurized Metered-Dose Inhalers (pMDIs)
- Supervisor: Dr. Leila Pakzad
- Thesis: Lignin nanoparticles with antibacterial performance for coating applications
- Supervisor: Dr. Pedram Fatehi
Rozita Zare
- Thesis: Sulfonated lignin nanoparticle containing aerogels with advanced functionality
- Supervisor: Dr. Pedram Fatehi
2021 Fall
- Thesis: Mitochondrial DNA as a novel biomarker to improve embryo implantation potential in Human In vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes.
- Supervisor: Dr. Wensheng Qin
Razieh Fereidoun Rajabi
- Thesis: Plant-wide optimization of CO2 utilization processes for the manufacturing of value-added chemicals
- Supervisors: Dr. Ebrahim Rezaei and Dr. Janusz Kozinski
Cody Veneruzzo
- Thesis: The effects of microplastics on fish metabolic rates and energetic dynamics
- Supervisor: Dr. Mike Rennie
2020 Fall
Maegen Lavalee
- Thesis: TBD
- Supervisor: Dr. Alla Reznik and Dr. Zubair Fadlullah
- Thesis: Experimental Study of Particle Cloud Evolution in Water
- Supervisor: Dr. Amir Azimi
2020 Winter
Mohammad Babazadeh mbabazad@lakeheadu.ca
- Thesis: Mineralization of Naphthenic Acids by Coupling Catalytic Ozonation and Membrane Bio-reactor
- Supervisor: Dr. Ebrahim Rezaei
2018 Winter
Ellen Silverio Vieira esilveri@lakeheadu.ca
- Thesis: AI-Based Spectroscopic Approaches for Predicting Cannabinoid Content and Tempering Defects in Cannabis Edibles
- Supervisor: Dr. Abedalrhman Alkhateeb
2017 Fall
Nathan Wilson nwilson1@lakeheadu.ca
- Thesis: Rapid response environmental assessment and monitoring
- Supervisor: Drs. Robert Stewart and Carney Matheson