GROUP MEMBERS
Milana Trifkovic- Professor
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Milana Trifkovic joined the Department of Chemical and Petroleum engineering at U of C in April, 2013.
Prior to joining the faculty, Milana was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at University of Minnesota under the joint direction of Profs. Christopher Macosko and Prodromos Daoutidis.
She received her PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the Western University under the supervision of Dr. Sohrab Rohani.
Profile at UCalgary’s Website
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Nanoprobes for subsurface fluids detection and cancer theranostics
ozioma.akakuru@ucalgary.ca Linkedin Google Scholar ResearchGate
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Nanoparticle Stabilized Emulsions, Utilization of Engineered Polyscaharides in Advanced Materials
sefiu.rasaki@ucalgary.ca
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Proton conducting metal-organic frameworks (PC-MOFs) and PC-MOFs based electrolyte membranes
shuo.lin@ucalgary.ca Google Scholar;
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Molecular modelling of polymer nanocomposites
anindya.mitra@ucalgary.ca Linkedin
Graduate Students
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Ph.D. Candidate
Processing and testing plastics and polymer composites
gleb.bobrov@ucalgary.ca Linkedin
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Ph.D. Candidate
Design of Hierarchical Monoliths from Ternary Polymer Blend Nanocomposites
aylin.habibiyan@ucalgary.ca Linkedin Google Scholar ResearchGate
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Ph.D. Student
Solid Polymer Electrolytes for Li-ion Batteries
pantea.ghahremani@ucalgary.ca Linkedin Google Scholar
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Ph.D. Student
Particles structuring via phase separation of multi-component solvent system
minhyung.lee1@ucalgary.ca Linkedin
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Ph.D. Student
Solid state sodium ion batteries
mjotswel@ucalgary.ca
FORMER GROUP MEMBERS
Research Staff
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Postdoctoral Fellow
In-operando Monitoring of Electrochemical Reactions
behzadfu@gmail.com Linkedin
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Eyes High Post Doctoral Research Fellow
vinay.saini1@ucalgary.ca Linkedin Google Scholar ResearchGate
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Research Associate
Bacterial Cellulose based Solid Electrolyte Design
qasim.khan1@ucalgary.ca Google Scholar
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Use optical tweezers to examine the connection between microstructure and rheology in complex materials
leonardo.martinalarc@ucalgary.ca Linkedin Google Scholar ResearchGate
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Melt-Spinning of Alberta Oilsands Asphaltenes into Carbon Fibres
biporjoy.sarkar@ucalgary.ca Linkedin Google Scholar ResearchGate
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Monitoring horizontal well performance via fluorescent-based nanosensors
sabad-e-.gul@ucalgary.ca Linkedin Google Scholar ResearchGate
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Position (2021-2022):
Postdoctoral Fellow
Linkedin Google Scholar ResearchGate Scopus
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Position (2018-2020):
Research Associate
Position (2015-2017):
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Position (2020-2021):
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Position (2018-2021):
Postdocotoral Researcher
Linkedin Google Scholar ResearchGate
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Position (2018):
Postdocotoral Researcher in collaboration with TECHNION
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Position (2018-2020):
Industrial Visitor Fellow
Graduate Students
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MSc candidate
Rheology & Tribology of Nanoparticle Lubricants
jackson.uhryn@ucalgary.ca Linkedin
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MSc candidate
Stabilizations of Oil-in-Water Emulsions with GQD particles
gaurav.karhana@ucalgary.ca Linkedin
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Graduation year: 2023
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Graduation year: 2023
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Graduation year: 2023
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Graduation year: 2016
ahmadian1986@gmail.com
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Graduation year: 2018
Current position: Research Engineer at the Canadian Energy Research Institute
evar.umeozor@gmail.com Linkedin
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Graduation year: 2017
Current position: Data Scientist at BHGE
tsjohnnychan@gmail.com Linkedin
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Graduation year: 2018
Current position: Data Scientist and Senior Consultant at IBM (Watson Advanced Analytics)
sagar.neel.purkayastha@ibm.com Linkedin
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Graduation year: 2018
Current position: Ph.D. Candidate at McGill University (Bicolloids and Surfaces Lab)
heidi.jahandideh@mail.mcgill.ca Linkedin
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Graduation year: 2018
Current position: PhD Candidate at PIK
edna.molinabacca@ucalgary.ca Linkedin
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Graduation year: 2018
Current position: Research Engineer at Membrion, Inc.
ram25alone@gmail.com Linkedin
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Graduation year: 2018
Current position: Chief Innovation Officer, EnviCore Inc.
aseem.pandey@envicoreinc.com Linkedin
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Graduation year: 2018
Current position: CEO and Co-Founder, EnviCore Inc.
shahrukh.shamim@envicoreinc.com Linkedin
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Graduation year: 2021
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Université de Montréal
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Graduation year: 2021
rahul.nagial1@ucalgary.ca
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Graduation year: 2021
Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at University of Calgary
behzadfu@gmail.com Linkedin
UNDERGRAD STUDENTS
• Karim Firdous (University of Calgary) – Undergraduate Student (2021)
• Xiang Yu Shi (University of Calgary) – Undergraduate Student (Summer 2019)
• Sierra Cranmer-Smith (University of Waterloo) – Undergraduate Student (2018-19)
• Rashmika Raghupathi (University of Calgary) – Undergraduate Student (Summer 2018)
• Nima Macci (University of Calgary) – Undergraduate Student-(2018-19)
• Austin Hartwell (University of Calgary) – NSERC USRA Summer Intern (2017)
• Elijah Nathan Comin (University of Waterloo) – Visiting Undergraduate Student (2017)
• Keiran Sawatzky (University of Waterloo) – Visiting Undergraduate Student (2017)
• Geena Smith (University of Victoria) – Visiting Undergraduate Student (2017)
• Ayesha Abid (University of Calgary) – Undergraduate Student (2017)
• Gregory Lazaris (University of Waterloo) – Visiting Undergraduate Student (Summer 2017)
• Marcelo Mathias (University of Calgary) – Undergraduate Student (Summer 2017)
• Sakshi Shrivastava (University of Calgary) – Undergraduate Student (Summer 2017)
• Aniruddha Das (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur) – Mitacs Globalink Scholar (2016)
• Caroline May Liu (University of Calgary) – Undergraduate Student (Summer 2016)
• Kenrick Valenica (University of Calgary) – Undergraduate Student (Summer 2016)
• Mary Chen (University of Waterloo) – Undergraduate Student (Winter 2016)
• Sumesh Shrestha (University of Calgary) – NSERC USRA Summer Intern (2015)
• Rajas Shah (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee) -Mitacs Globalink Scholar (2015)
• Salman Azhar – Visiting MEng Student (Summer 2014)
• Henrique Ribeiro Theiss (Universidade Federal de Itajubá) – Visiting Undergraduate Student (Summer 2014)
• Rachel Malone (University of Calgary) – Undergraduate Student (Summer 2013)