We are very grateful of the Canadian Foundation for innoviation for their financial support to rejeuvenate our research infrastructure.

Some highlights of our exciting research activities and outreach in the media around the world!

Congratulations from all of us to:

• Congratulations to Zi for a wonderful PhD thesis, 2024 - Way to go Dr. Zi.
• Congratulations to Houjie for excellent PhD thesis, 2024 - Great Dr. Houjie.
• Congratulations to Dev for AWMA PhD thesis award, 2024 - Bravo Dr. Dev.
• Congratulations to Beni for his award for STEM, 2023.
• Congratulations to Sandeep for FullBright PDF award (Stanford), USA, 2023.
• Congratulations to Yevgen for his new tenure-track assistant professorship, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, USA, 2023.
• Congratulation to our team for a cool paper on Nature Communication Engineering, 2023.
• Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Hall for his thesis - well done, March 2023.
• Congratulations Dr. Dev for his successful Ph.D. thesis, March 24, 2023.
• Congratulations to Zi and Mailine for excellent article in Water research on "A novel in-situ and real-time four-dimensional capability for the nano and micro-plastic life cycle research", March 2023.
• Congratulations to Dev for winning the 1st Place Poster Presentation @AirandWaste A&WMA conference in San Francisco for his work - Imaging Moving Aerosol Particles Using Nano Digital Holographic Microscopy (Nano-DIHM): Beyond the Diffraction Barrier.
• Congratulations to Zi and her team of student sustainability innovator for winning the top award in sustainability at McGill.
• Congratulations to Dev et al, for being included in the special issue of papers led by a woman, Nature chemical communcation.
• Welcome to Zaki, our new Ph.D. student.
• Congratulations to Dev et al. for their breakthrough work on the development of nano-DIHM for in-situ and real-time aerosols including nanosize particles. (Communication Chemistry: Nature, 2021)
• Congratulations to Houjie for his work on Black Carbon on cold-climate sites.
• Congratulations to Zi for winning the first place award in the international IUPCA/CCCE 2021 conference.
• A new technological advance for observation of airborne viruses from our labs.
• Bravo to Zi Wang for developing a picogram detection for micro and nano-plastics in environmental matrices (Environmental Pollution, 2021).
• Congratulations to Yevgen, Chitra, Hannah and Aflah for developing organic sorbent for air purification (ACS - industrial and engineering Chemistry 2021).
• Congratulations to Yevgen and Dev, for a PM2.5 policy assessment paper in the World Health Organization journal (Bulleting of WHO, 2021).
• Check out this cool video made by Bryan and the NSERC top award!
• Congratulations to Bryan for obtaining the highest possible rank in his master thesis.
• Congratulations to our team member, Mainak, for becoming recently a tenured professor (2019).
• Take a look at the media (scientific and public) coverage of our joint collaboration led by McGill and first authored by Rodrigo, with close collaboration with UdeM, U. Alberta and Environment and Climate Chanage Canada on the air pollution affecting weather processes in Alberta oil sand (2019).
• Congratulation to Mainak, Bryan and YuangYuang for our article being distinguished as "Very Important Arcticle".
• Read a very cool article in natural sustainable technology that our team first authored by Mainak- a recent example using Kaolin to remove toxic metal (2019).
• Congratulations to Jim for his discovery of airborne nanomercury in Nature publishing journal of Scientific Reports (2019)
• Congratulations to Bryan to successful thesis which was distinguished, and his new job in London (2019)
• Bravo to dev for AWM scholarship (2019)
• Congratulations to Dr. Jim for a fantastic PhD defence (2019)!
• Check out our recent work on airborne nanoparticles containing emerging contaminants, emitted from Trudeau Airport, in Environmental pollution and some coverage in media, 2019
• Check out the new work by Mainak et al. on sustainable technology in Scientific Reports (2018)! Bravo to Yevgen for MITAC PDF fellowship.
• Congratulations to Dr. Uday for a great PhD defence (2018)!
• Bravo to Dr. Rodrigo on successfully defending his PhD thesis (2018)!
• Congratulation to Dev for Alexandra Cowe award of excellence (2018).
• Roya for her recent article, which is distinguished for its significant research contribution on Faculty1000 Prime list (2018).
• Another interview highlight (2018) at RSC chemistry education and on TV (2018)
• Congratulations to our NSERC-CRD for -CONSORTIUM FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN AEROSPACE IN QUÉBEC prize (le coup du coeur), 2018 & Dev and Mayeesha for their work.
• Bryan for making a very cool science video and for winning the top NSERC competition prize in science & engineering in 2017 & For CSC 2017 graduate poster award.
• Congratulations to Ryan and Pal for NSERC CREATE award & Ryan for outstanding TA award.
• Mainak for FRQNT PDF fellowship, Ryan and Bryan for FRQNT (2017) & Yevgen for the Young Professional Best Paper Award at the Air & Waste Management (2016) and nominated by AFCAS for evidence by picture.
• Uday for wining Environment Division Graduate Poster Award in 2016 CSC meeting in Halifax!
• Jim for winning the first prize for thesis award at CSC 2016, & another prize in chemical education
• Rodrigo for FRQNT (Mexico-Canada) award (2016)
• Andrea, Jim Rodrigo, Uday and Zhenzhong for NSERC Create (smart mine) supplement award
• Andrea for presentation award in sustainability workshop
• Yevgen for FRQNT postdoctoral scholarship
• Jim for NSERC PhD scholarship

New exciting work from our research team!