Doctoral Students and Senior Staff

Dr. Georgiana Moldoveanu

BASc (University of Bucharest, Romania),
MEng (McGill University),
Ph.D. (McGill University),
Research Associate

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
University of Toronto
200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5
Room WB211
Tel: (416) 978-0542
e-mail: georgiana.moldoveanu@utoronto.ca

Research Projects:

  • Recovery of rare earth ions adsorbed on clay minerals
  • Control of calcium sulphate scale deposition in the heater train during pressure acid leach of laterite ores

Awards:

MITACS Accelerate Internship, MITACS, 2010
Gordon P. Ritcey Graduate Student Award, COM, 2001
NSERC PGSB Scholarship, NSERC, 1999-2001
Horace C. Young Graduate Scholarship, McGill University, 1999-2000
Best Poster (Material Chemistry),11th CMSC, CIM, Kingston (ON), 1999
Horace C. Young Graduate Scholarship, McGill University, 1998-1999

Mitchell Zak

BASc (University of Toronto),
Ph.D. student

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
University of Toronto
200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5
Room WB 324
e-mail: mitchell.zak@mail.utoronto.ca

Research Project:

Investigating the recovery of rare earth elements through biosorption onto algal biofilms grown using the waveguide photobioreactor

Leo Shen

BASc (University of Toronto),
Ph.D. student

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
University of Toronto
200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5
Room WB 334

Research Project:

Modeling of bio-oxidation for tailings remediation 

Noel Devaere

BASc (McMaster University),
MASc (University of Toronto),
Ph.D. student

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
University of Toronto
200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5
Room WB 233
e-mail: noel.devaere@mail.utoronto.ca

Research Project:

Forward osmosis for water recovery from industrial effluent

Runlin Yuan

BASc (University of Toronto), Ph.D. student

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
University of Toronto
200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5
Room WB 233
e-mail: runlin.yuan@mail.utoronto.ca

Research Project:

Water separation and recovery using continuous freeze concentration

Jens Kastenhofer

BASc (), PostDoc

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
University of Toronto
200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E5
Room WB
e-mail: jens.kastenhofer@utoronto.ca

Research Project: