Research infrastructure funding awarded to Waterloo researchers

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Congratulations to University of Waterloo researchers who have been awarded research infastructure funding from the Government of Canada through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to ensure they have the labs and equipment they need to carry out world-class research and technology development. The following researchers from the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science have been awarded John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) funding:

Chris Bachmann

Faculty: Engineering

Department: Civil and environmental engineering

Project grant: $174,850

Project: Virtual Mobility Lab (VML) for Innovative Transportation Research

Dayan Ban

Faculty: Engineering

Department: Electrical and computer engineering

Project grant: $145,000

Project: An advanced evaporator for dedicated high-quality and high-precision indium deposition

Slim Boumaiza

Faculty: Engineering

Department: Electrical and computer engineering

Project grant: $270,000

Project: Realistic Over-the-air Test System for Researching Wireless and Satellite Communications at up to 44 GHz

Joyce Kim

Faculty: Engineering

Department: Civil and environmental engineering

Project grant: $160,000

Project: An integrated digital platform for occupant-centric building operation

Ewan MacDonald

Faculty: Engineering

Department: Systems design engineering

Project grant: $80,000

Project: Measurement Systems for Investigating Speech Communication

Jozef Nissimov

Faculty: Science

Department: Biology

Project grant: $100,000

Project: Experimental modelling of aquatic microbial hosts and their viruses

Serhiy Yarusevych

Faculty: Engineering

Department: Mechanical and mechatronics engineering

Project grant: $180,000

Project: Infrastructure for the analysis of multi-phase flows for airborne disease mitigation and pollution control

Shunde Yin

Faculty: Engineering

Department: Civil and environmental engineering

Project grant: $90,000

Project: Laboratory investigation of geosynthetics reinforced pavement system in response to low temperature and climate change