Research Group

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Graduate Students

  • Bethany Lowe (PhD) "Thermolysis of Halogenated Free Radicals in the Atmosphere"
  • Malick Diedhiou (PhD) "Reactions of Formates with Atmospheric Water"
  • Nick Zinck (PhD) "Unimolecular Reactions of OPAH ions - sources of CO and H2O in the Interstellar Medium?"
  • Edgar White Buenger (PhD) "Ionized terpenes and their oxidation products"
  • Sandesh Gondarry (PhD) "Reactions dynamics of protonated guaiacol and its derivatives"
  • Reshmi Karamel (PhD) "Reaction dynamics of ionized terpenes and terenoids"
  • Peace Emele (PhD) "Reaction Dynamics of Aldehydes in the Gas Phase and on Surfaces"
  • Lisa Shi (MSc) part-time with Laboratory Services Division, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Undergraduates

2022-23 Honours students

  • Nicole St. Aubin
  • Kaitlyn Jang
  • Eelana Surendran

These three students are analyzing and quantifiying the chemical composition of plant hydrosols

  • Samuel Charpentier-St-Pierre

Samuel is exploring the gas-phase chemistry of perfluorinated compounds

2022

  • Sreejita Das
  • Joseph Thottungal
  • Johanes Utami
  • Dan Taylor

All of these undergrads worked on a project developing analytical methods for studying hydrosols (water-based plant extracts)

  • Daniel Anderson (URS) "Neutralization-reionization mass spectrometry of PAHs"

2021

  • Stasa Skorupan (honours) "Laboratory simulations of atmospheric reactions of aldehydes"
  • Nathan Comin (honours) "Laboratory simulations of atmospheric reactions of aldehydes"
  • Anais Hamelin (honours) "Laboratory simulations of atmospheric reactions of aldehydes"
  • Xiao Ma (honours) "Laboratory simulations of atmospheric reactions of aldehydes"
  • Daniel Anderson (URS) "Neutralization-reionization mass spectrometry of PAHs"
  • Helena Charron (URS) "Neutralization-reionization mass spectrometry of PAHs"

2020

  • Petra Chea (honours) "Characterization of isomeric trisaccharides by CID and Ion Mobility MS"
  • Callum Blaney (honours) "Unimolecular reactions of per-hydrogenated PAHs"
  • Yuen Ling Anita Luong "Mass spectrometry of terpenes"
  • Arpana Wadhwani "Mass spectrometry of terpenes"
  • Kian Mansour "Mass spectrometry of terpenes"

Visitors

Fall 2022 

  • Prof. Maxi Burgoa Paci (Universidad Nacionale de Cordoba, Argenina)
  • Dr. Alejandro Cardona (Universidad Nacionale de Cordoba, Argenina)

Winter 2020

  • Halima Daoud (Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, France)

Fall 2019:

  • Jade Le Manc'h (Lycee Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, France)

High School 

  • Mathias Giorgi 2022
  • Jacob Poulton 2020

John L. Holmes Mass Spectrometry Facility

  • Dr. Sander Mommers 
  • Dr. Sharon Curtis
  • Dr. Zoran Minic
  • Xinyu Cheng (Summer 2022)