Professor Jeff Gostick receives the Azzam-Dullien Endowed Professorship

Jeff Gostick, associate professor of Chemical Engineering, is the inaugural recipient of the Azzam-Dullien Endowed Professorship.  The Professorship was established to honour the supportive relationship Mohamed Azzam had with his graduate supervisor Professor Dullien- a world renowned authority and pioneer in the study of transport in porous media. 

This four-year appointment supports Professor Gostick's vision to advance sustainable development goals through rational design of porous materials.  

Professor Gostick runs the Porous Materials Engineering & Analysis Lab.  His research group focuses on structure-performance relationships of porous materials, particularly artificially generated ones such as electrodes for fuel cell and li-ion batteries, fibrous materials such as paper and membranes, and catalyst supports. Understanding the impact on performance requires considering the interplay of multiphysics interacting between phases and spanning multiple length scales. He approaches these problems with a combination of experimental characterization and advanced custom computational tools. He is the creator of the open source pore network modeling software suite OpenPNM, and PoreSpy, an open source software toolbox for the analysis of 3D images of porous media. These contributions have enabled research groups around the world to tackle a great variety of problems in porous media multiphysics.  Prof Gostick has made seminal contributions to the description of two-phase flow in thin porous components of PEM fuel cell electrodes and was recently named an Emerging Leader by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering.