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Eihab Abdel-Rahman

Systems Design Engineering, Professor, Associate Chair
Eihab Abdel-Rahman
519-888-4567 x37737
Location: E7 6422
Link to profile: Eihab M. Abdel-Rahman

Chris Backhouse

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor
Chris Backhouse
519-888-4567 x31467
Location: QNC 3622
Link to profile: Chris Backhouse
Link to personal webpage: Chris Backhouse

Emmanuel Ho

School of Pharmacy, Associate Professor
Emmanuel Ho
519-888-4567 x21372
Location: PHR 4002

Google Scholar

[Waterloo News] February 6, 2019 "Researchers find new treatment for Chlamydia"

[Waterloo News] April 16, 2018 "Developing new way to fight transmission of HIV"

Link to profile: Emmanuel Ho
Link to personal webpage: Emmanuel Ho

Vassili Karanassios

Chemistry
Vassili Karanassios
Location: C2 277

Research Interests:

  • Micro and nano-analytical chemistry
  • Micro and nano samples
  • Micro-miniaturization (lab-on-a-chip)

LinkedIn

[YouTube] June 7, 2013 "Energy scavenging to power remote sensors"

Link to profile: Vassili Karanassios

Karim Sallaudin Karim

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Karim Karim
519-888-4567 x48336, 519-888-4567 x38336
Location: E7 1326A, E3 3143

Research Interests:

  • Low-dose, low-cost x-ray imaging system (e.g. tuberculosis screening)

  • Circuit technology, Photon counting circuits for biomedical imaging

  • Large area digital medical imaging

  • Silicon Thin-film Applied Research

  • Device physics

  • Amorphous semiconductors and semiconductor devices

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ResearchGate

Google Scholar

[Engineering News] November 12, 2018 "New X-ray technology to be tested on cancer patients"

[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2014 "Bending the cost curve: Building a $1000 diagnostic X-ray imager for scalable and sustainable healthcare"

[Office of Research] "Paving the way for a digital X-ray and health-care revolution"

Link to profile: Karim Karim
Link to personal webpage: Karim Sallaudin Karim

Kam Tong Leung

Chemistry
K. Tong Leung
519-888-4567, ext. 35826
Location: C2 061A

Research Interests:

  • Green energy: solar cells and hydrogen generation

  • Biosensing and environmental remediation using hybrid nanomaterials
  • Quantum electronics
  • Surface chemical physics
  • Ultra-large scale computational chemistry
Link to profile: Kam Tong Leung
Link to personal webpage: Kam Tong Leung

Peter Levine

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Peter Levine
519-888-4567 x31414
Location: E5 4012

Research Interests:

  • Integrated microsystems for clinical and environmental monitoring

  • Combining complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits with novel materials, structures, or devices to enable non-traditional life science and bio-diagnostic applications

  • CMOS-integrated biochemical assays

  • Semiconductor integrated circuits and sensors, design and test of 3D integrated circuits

  • Micro/nano fabrication, lab-on-a-chip devices

  • Electrochemical biosensors

  • Electrophysiology

  • DNA sequencing

  • Image sensors

LinkedIn

​Google Scholar

Link to profile: Peter M. Levine
Link to personal webpage: Peter Levine

Yuning Li

Chemical Engineering
Yuning Li
519-888-4567 x31105
Location: QNC 5621

Research Interests:

Development of organic materials and nanomaterials for printed and organic optical and electronic devices

  • Environmentally stable polymer semiconductors for biological and chemical sensors in applications in smart food packaging, health care devices, wearable electronics, etc.
  • Polymers derived from biologically active compounds for biological and biochemical sensors
  • Electrically highly conductive polymers for thermoelectrics, batteries, and solar cells
  • Low-temperature processable metal nanoparticle conductive inks
  • P-type and n-type high charge carrier mobility small molecules and p-conjugated polymers for organic field effect transistors, which have applications in RFIDs and displays
  • Novel synthetic chemistry for conjugated polymers
  • Single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene

Design, fabrication, and characterization of organic electronics

  • Chemical/biosensors​
  • Organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) or organic filed effect transistors (OTFTs)
  • Small molecule and polymer bulk-heterojunction photovoltaics (OPV) (solar cells)
  • Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC)
  • Perovskite solar cells
  • Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
  • Photodiode and phototransistor based organic/polymer photodetectors

​Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

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Patents

Link to profile: Yuning Li
Link to personal webpage: Yuning Li

Nima Maftoon

Systems Design Engineering
Nima Maftoon
519-888-4567 x47654
Location: E7 6426

Research Interests:

  • Medical device and diagnostic development for hearing and hearing loss
  • Audiology and Otolaryngology
  • Acoustic, Vibration, physiological and cadaveric measurements, animal models
  • Aging, Biomechanics
Link to profile: Nima Maftoon

Veronika Magdanz

Systems Design Engineering
Veronika Magdanz
519-888-4567 x41532
Location: E7 6432

Research Interests:

  • microrobots

  • sperm cells
  • magnetic actuation
  • remote control
  • wireless
  • soft robots
  • medical robots
  • bioprinting
  • 3D printing

We develop microrobots for medical applications. The goal is to develop more targeted, active, but less invasive strategies for drug or cell delivery with the help of wireless, autonomously moving microrobots. One strategy is to combine biological elements with artificial components in a biohybrid approach. The biological component (cells, molecules) can serve as power source, loading unit or structural unit.

One example is the "spermbot" - a sperm cell remotely controlled with magnetic fields: https://phys.org/news/2014-01-sperm-bots-desired-video.html
Another example is IRONSperm: a magnetically functionalized nonmotile sperm driven by magnetic fields:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba5855

Inspired by the motion of sperm, we also develop small scale flexible magnetic robots for noninvasive surgery (coming soon). I am also interested in reproductive biology and research that elucidates reasons for infertility. We look into the mechanisms of sperm migration and some interesting phenomena, such as sperm bundling (publication online soon)

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Link to profile: Veronika Magdanz
Link to personal webpage: Veronika Magdanz

Vivek Maheshwari

Chemistry
V. Maheshwari
519-888-4567 x38885
Location: QNC 5619

Research Interests:

  • High Resolution flexible pressure and tactile sensors

  • Microbial fuel cells

  • Nano electrodes for electrochemical detection

  • Flexible Electrodes for bio-interfacing, electrical mapping self-powered devices

  • Cell-inorganic composites
  • Multi-functional materials and devices
  • Wearable sensors
  • Composite membranes
Link to profile: Vivek Maheshwari
Link to personal webpage: Vivek Maheshwari

Elizabeth Meiering

Chemistry
Elizabeth Meiering
519-888-4567, ext. 32254
Location: ESC 22

Research Interests:

  • Proteins: folding, misfolding and aggregation, structure, dynamics, and function
  • Protein engineering and design
  • Protein thermodynamics and kinetics
  • Biophysical chemistry and biochemistry
  • Bionanotechnology and biomaterials
  • Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Smart Materials
  • Biomaterials, Polymers and Bioplastics
  • Theranostic Materials
  • Smart and Functional Materials
  • Molecular Therapeutics and Theranostics
  • Nanomaterials
  • Bionanotechnology and Biosensors
  • Soft Matter
  • Drug Discovery, Design and Delivery
  • Bioinformatics, Systematics and Evolution

​[Waterloo News] November 24, 2015 "New insights into protein structure could change the future of biomedicine"

[​Chemistry News] August 20, 2014 "Chemist Elizabeth Meiering takes on the ALS ice bucket challenge"

Link to profile: Elizabeth Meiering
Link to personal webpage: Elizabeth Meiering

Kevin Musselman

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Kevin Musselman
519-888-4567 x36740
Location: E5 3013

Research Interests:

  • Nanomaterials
  • Spatial atomic layer deposition
  • Photovoltaic solar cells
  • Nanoelectronics and sensors
  • Electrochemistry
  • Connectivity and Internet of Things
  • Nanotechnology
  • IoT
  • Devices

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Kevin Musselman
Link to personal webpage: Kevin Musselman

Mahla Poudineh

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mahla Poudineh
519-888-4567 x33319
Location: QNC 3622

Research interests:

  • Real-time bio-sensing approaches for detection of small molecules
  • Microfluidic-based integrated devices for therapeutics and diagnostics purposes
  • Implantable micro-devices for cancer treatment
  • Circulating tumor cell phenotypic characterization
  • Stem cell profiling and characterization
  • Translating biomedical devices for clinical use
  • Silicon micro-machining for developing bio-MEMS and bio-NEMS devices

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Mahla Poudineh
Link to personal webpage: Mahla Poudineh

Carolyn Ren

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Carolyn Ren
519-888-4567 x38233, 519-888-4567 x33030
Location: E3 2108G, E3 4105
Contact for: Expertise in microfluidics, Lab-on-a-Chip technology, protein and DNA separation towards disease diagnosis and drug discovery, living cell analysis and water toxicity testing.

Research Interests:

  • Protein and DNA separation analysis towards disease diagnosis and drug discovery

  • Biosensing and Devices (bacterial, proteins, fluorescence)

  • Living cell analysis and water toxicity testing

  • Lab-on-a-Chip technology (point-of-care biomedical diagnosis , chemical detection, protein separation and identification, environmental testing)

  • Micro-scale fluid mechanics, droplet microfluidics and nanofluidics

  • High Throughput Screening For Drug Screening
  • Manufacturing Nanomaterials and Carbon Management

LinkedIn

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Canada Research Chair in Lab-on-a-Chip Technology [Canada Research Chair Profile]

[Waterloo Stories] June 14, 2012 "Creating the tiny future of science"

Link to profile: Carolyn Ren
Link to personal webpage: Carolyn Ren

Hamed Shahsavan

Chemical Engineering
Hamed Shahsavan
519-888-4567 x34805
Location: E6 2018

Research interests:

  • Smart Polymers
  • Liquid Crystal Elastomers
  • Soft Robotic Materials
  • Micro Additive Manufacturing
  • 4D Printing
  • Surface and Interfacial Engineeirng
Link to profile: Hamed Shahsavan
Link to personal webpage: Hamed Shahsavan

Madjid Soltani

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ehsan Toyserkani

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Ehsan Toyserkani
519-888-4567 x37560
Location: EC4 1031
Contact for: Expertise in additive manufacturing of biodegradable scaffolds for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering applications, optical sensors for biomedical area.

Research Interests:

  • Tissue engineering and biodegradable implants for regenerative medicine (3D printing)

  • Bio-additive and microscale-additive manufacturing (opto-mechanical sensors, smart structures, developed through additive manufacturing)

  • Novel multi-scale additive manufacturing technologies for biomedical, oil/gas and manufacturing sectors

  • Laser-based fabrication techniques with particular focus on direct write processes in micro- and macro-scale

  • Modeling, sensing and real-time control of laser-based manufacturing techniques

University Research Chair

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Canada Research Chair in Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing [Canada Research Chair Profile]

[Office of Research News] May 8,2018 "Waterloo researchers named Canada Research Chairs" 

[YouTube Lecture] May 6, 2014 "Additive manufacturing"

Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

Link to profile: Ehsan Toyserkani
Link to personal webpage: Ehsan Toyserkani

Yimin Wu

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Yimin Wu
519-888-4567 x40185
Location: E7 3418

Research interests:

  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Materials Interfaces
  • Energy Materials
  • Solar Fuels
  • CO2 reduction
  • Ammonia synthesis
  • Batteries
  • Plastic recycling and upcycling
  • In situ Multimodal Characterizations
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Connectivity and Internet of Things
  • Electronic and Photonic Materials
  • Responsive Materials
  • Neuromorphic Computing
  • Flexible Electronics and Soft Robotics
  • Sensing
  • Healthcare
  • Nanotechnology
Link to profile: Yimin Wu

Mustafa Yavuz

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor, Director, Graduate Nanotechnology Program
Mustafa Yavuz
519-888-4567 x32093
Location: E5 3011
Link to profile: Mustafa Yavuz
Link to personal webpage: Nano and Micro Systems Lab

John Yeow

Systems Design Engineering
J. Yeow
519-888-4567 x32152
Location: E3 3159

Research Interests:

  • MEMS/NEMS

  • Nanodevices and carbon nanotube-based sensors for biomedical applications (early disease detection)

  • Microassembly and micromirror devices for genetic microarray reading and tissue imaging

  • Lab-on-a-chip designs

Canada Research Chair in Micro and NanoDevices [Canada Research Chair Profile]

Link to profile: John Yeow
Link to personal webpage: John Yeow

Evelyn Yim

Chemical Engineering
Evelyn Yim
519-888-4567 x33928
Location: E6 4014

Research Interests:

  • Stem cells, nanofabrication and advancement of biomaterials in healthcare technologies to repair, replace or regenerate damaged tissue and organ structures

  • Fabrication and application of nano-structure for biomedical applications in neural, vascular, and cornea tissue engineering

  • ​Biomaterial approach to study ex-vivo pluripotent stem cell expansion

  • Modulation of cell behavior with nanotopography

  • Topography-regulation of stem cells lineage commitment and differentiation

  • Differentiation of adult and pluripotent stem cells with nanotopography

Google Scholar

LinkedIn

Link to profile: Evelyn K.F. Yim
Link to personal webpage: Evelyn Yim

Norman Zhou

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
N. Zhou
519-888-4567 x36095
Location: E5 3007
Contact for: Expertise in welding and joining, especially for medical implantable devices, programmable shape memory alloys, corrosion of laser processes NiTi alloys.

Research Interests:

  • Microjoining (wire bonding, laser & resistance microwelding, etc.) for medical and electronics applications

  • Nanojoining (laser joining, soldering, etc.) for sensing and biomedical applications

  • Brazing/soldering (diffusion brazing, ceramic/metal bonding, etc.) for aerospace, automotive and electronics applications

  • Welding (laser, resistance welding, etc.) for automotive applications

Google Scholar

Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials Joining and Processing[Canada Research Chair Profile]

[Office of Research News] May 8, 2018 Waterloo researchers named Canada Research Chairs

Link to profile: Norman Y. Zhou
Link to personal webpage: Norman Zhou