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.
