Department Executive
Name Title Email Office
Leijun Li Chair [email protected] 12-224 DICE
Aneta Thompson Academic Department Manager aneta.thompson
@ualberta.ca		 12-226 DICE
Tony Yeung Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies) [email protected] 12-241 DICE
Hao Zhang Associate Dean (Graduate Program) [email protected] 12-230 DICE
Lisa Carreiro Executive Assistant to the Chair [email protected] 12-229 DICE
Academic Professors
Name Title Email Research Areas
Marya Ahmed Associate Professor [email protected] Polymers, Smart Antimicrobial and Antifouling Polymeric Materials, Drug Delivery
Weixing Chen Professor [email protected] Corrosion and Wear
Hyo-Jick Choi Associate Professor [email protected] Epidemic/Pandemic Disease Control Measures, Vaccine Technology, Airborne Pathogen Deactivation Technology, Antimicrobial Face Masks, Antimicrobial Surfaces Against Food-Borne/Water-Borne/Hospital Associated Infectious Disease Transmission, Oral/Transdermal Vaccine/Biopharmaceutical Formulations
Hyun-Joong Chung Professor [email protected] Elastomers, Gels, Biomedical devices, Stretchable electronics, Smart textiles
Stevan Dubljevic Associate Professor [email protected] Distributed Parameter System Process Control, Fluid flow systems control and monitoring, Thermodynamical transport-reaction modelling ,monitoring and control, Biophysical cardiac systems, Mathematical and Computer large scale modelling and simulations, Steel manufacturing process modelling and control, Mineral Processing Control and Monitoring, Geothermal Energy Harvesting, Irrigation systems control, monitoiring and algae suppression
Anastasia Elias Professor / Associate Dean, Research Strategy [email protected] Microfabrication, Nanomaterials, Composites, Polymers, Sensors, Additive Manufacturing, Engineering Faculty Executive
Janet AW Elliott University of Alberta Distinguished Professor & Canada Research Chair in Thermodynamics [email protected] Thermodynamics, Biomedical Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Transport Phenomena - Fluid dynamics/ mass and heat transfer, Mathematical and Molecular Modeling, Nanomaterials and Nanofabrication, Oil Sands, Energy, Surface Science and Engineering, Cryobiology and Cryopreservation
Hani Henein Professor [email protected] Materials Process Engineering Applied to Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Solidification, Steel Processing, Pipeline Steels, Thermophysical Property Measurements, Microgravity Materials Science
Biao Huang Professor [email protected] Process Control, Oil Sands, Energy, Automation, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, System Identification, Fault Detection
Douglas G Ivey Professor [email protected] Materials Characterization, Electron Microscopy, Electrochemical Energy Storage/Conversion, Pipeline Steels
Isaac Jackiw Assistant Professor [email protected] Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase Flows, Atomization & Sprays, Complex Fluids
Arno de Klerk Professor [email protected] Conversion Processes, Catalysis, Coal, Petroleum, Energy and Fuels
Lianne Lefsrud

Associate Professor, Risk Innovation and Sustainability Chair (RISC)

 [email protected] Risk Management, Risk Communication, Leadership, Technology Adoption, Process Safety, Management Systems, Organizational Theory, Sustainability, Climate Change, Energy Systems
Dongyang Li Professor [email protected] Wear, Corrosion, Material design, Tribo-materials, Surface Science and Engineering, Computational Materials Science
Leijun Li Professor/Chair [email protected] Welding Metallurgy, High Temperature Mechanical Properties, Pipelines and Pressure Vessels, Engineering Failure Analysis
Zukui Li Professor [email protected] Optimization, Process Systems Engineering, Process Control, Data Analytics, Machine Learning
Zhi Li Associate Professor [email protected] Energy Storage, Electrocatalysts, Advanced Carbon Materials, Nitrogen Reduction, Fuel Cell
Jinfeng Liu Professor [email protected] Process Systems Engineering, Mathematical and Molecular Modeling, Energy, Artificial Intelligence
Jing Liu Assistant Professor [email protected] Corrosion; High entropy alloys; High temperature; Electrochemistry
Qi Liu Professor [email protected] Oil Sands and Energy, Mineral Processing
William McCaffrey Professor Emeritus [email protected] Biochemical Engineering, Oil Sands and Energy, Reactions and Catalysis
Patricio Mendez Professor [email protected] Welding and Metallurgy
Shiva Mohajernia Assistant Professor [email protected] Material design, energy conversion, single atoms, green energy, green hydrogen, reaction engineering and catalysis
Samir H Mushrif Professor [email protected] Computational Catalysis, Molecular Modeling, Reaction Engineering, Alternate Energy and Fuels, Biomass Conversion, CO2 Reduction, Hydrogen Production, Condensed Phase Chemistry
Ravin Narain Professor [email protected] Advanced Polymers, Nanomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Cell and Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Glycosciences, Drug and Gene Therapy, Surfaces, Hydrogels.
Petr Nikrityuk Professor [email protected] Transport Phenomena - Fluid dynamics/ mass and heat transfer Energy Energy and Heat Storage
John Nychka Professor / Vice-Provost (Learning Initiatives) [email protected] Materials Characterization and Processing, Biomedical Engineering, Regenerative Medicine
Vinay Prasad Professor [email protected] Process Systems Engineering: Modeling, Estimation, Control and Monitoring; Reaction Engineering and Catalysis; Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning; Chemoinformatics; Energy; Mineral Processing
Zhiwei Peng Assistant Professor [email protected] Active Matter, Collodial Suspensions, Rheology, Fluid Mechanics, Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Brownian Dynamics, Transport Phenomena
Arvind Rajendran Professor [email protected] Gas Separations, CO2 Capture, Absorption Fundamentals, Process Design and Optimization, Negative Emission Technologies
R Sean Sanders Professor [email protected] Pipeline Hydrotransport; Scale-Up of Multiphase Processes; CFD; Rheology of Industrial, non-Newtonian mixtures; Erosion-corrosion in Particle-laden Flows
Dominic Sauvageau Associate Professor [email protected]
Natalia Semagina Professor | Director of Institute for Oil Sands Innovation [email protected] Reaction Engineering and Catalysis, Energy
Joao Soares Professor [email protected] Polymerization Reaction Engineering, Polyolefins, Polyethylene, Polypropylene, Polymer Flocculants, Oil Sands Tailings, Ziegler-Natta, Metallocenes, Polymer Characterization
Jason Tam Assistant Professor [email protected] Physical Metallurgy, Alloys, Ceramics, Electron Microscopy
Tian Tian Assistant Professor [email protected] Machine-learning-accelerated simulations for interfacial material design, applications in two-dimensional materials, energy storage, light-emitting materials, collodial soft materials.
Hasan Uludag Professor [email protected] Biomedical Engineering, Nanomaterials and Nanofabrication
Larry Unsworth Professor [email protected] Biomedical Engineering, Nanomaterials and Nanofabrication, Surface Science and Engineering
Xiaolei Wang Assistant Professor [email protected] Advanced Materials, Clean Energy Technologies, Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis, Nanotechnology, Batteries and Supercapacitors
Liuyin Xia Assistant Professor [email protected] Mineral Processing and Hydrometallurgy
Anthony Yeung Professor/ Associate Chair, Undergraduate Program [email protected] Engineering Department Executive, Fluid Dynamics, Oil Sands and Energy, Surface Science and Engineering
Hongbo Zeng Professor [email protected] Colloids and Interface Science, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Characterization and Processing, Nanomaterials, Oil Sands, Energy, Mineral Processing, Polymers Hydrogels
Hao Zhang Professor / Associate Chair, Graduate Program [email protected] Engineering Department Executive Mathematical and Molecular Modeling Corrosion and Wear Materials Characterization and Processing Surface Science and Engineering Thermodynamics Metallurgy
Xuehua Zhang Professor [email protected] Supervisor, Nanomaterials and Nanofabrication, Transport Phenomena - Fluid Dynamics/ Mass and Heat Transfer, Nanomaterials And Nanofabrication, Oil Sands, Energy, Surface Science and Engineering
Faculty Service Officers
Name Title Email Research Areas
Artin Afacan Faculty Service Officer [email protected]
Elizabeth Lee Faculty Service Officer [email protected]
Dave Sharp Faculty Service Officer [email protected]
Industrial Professors
Name Title Email Research Areas
Christopher Coles ESRM Industrial Professor (Associate Director) [email protected] School of Engineering Safety and Risk Management
Marnie Jamieson Industrial Professor [email protected] School of Engineering Safety and Risk Management
Fereshteh Sattari Industrial Professor/ Research Director [email protected] School of Engineering Safety and Risk Management
Lisa White Industrial Professor [email protected] School of Engineering Safety and Risk Management
Gordon Winkel Chair, Industrial Professor [email protected] School of Engineering Safety and Risk Management