People

yilanDr. Yilan Liu, LSS Principal Investigator

Office: E6-4018 
 
Yilan got her MASc from Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. She pursued her PhD from Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. She worked as a Research Associate for 1 year in Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She conducted her post-doctoral training at University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 2016 to 2018, and carried on her post-doctoral training and Research Associate working in University of Toronto from 2018 to 2022. In Jan. 2023, Yilan joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo as a faculty member and currently leads her LSS team.
 
 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Current group members

Research Associate and Assistants

jinjin

Dr. Jinjin Chen, LSS group manager

 

Office: E6-4112 

Jinjin got her PhD degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences in Jan. 2016. From 2016 to 2023, she worked in Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Nebraska and University of Toronto successively. Now she is a Research Associate in the LSS group.

 

 

Nazia Baig

Master degree, Research Assistant

 

Brian ZubrzyckiBrian Zubrzycki

Undergraduate student, part-time Research Assistant

Brian is a third-year undergraduate student in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo. Driven by his strong interest in microbial biotechnology, genetic engineering, and synthetic biology, he joined our group as a volunteer from April 24 to July 31, 2024. Recognizing his exceptional learning abilities, we have now appointed him as a part-time Research Assistant in our group.

 

 

 

 


PhD students

BaharehBahareh Arab

PhD student, co-supervised by Prof. C. Perry Chou
 
Office: E6-4106 

Bahareh got her Sc.Eng. from Sharif University of Technology in 2019 and then stayed there as a Research Assistant. In 2021, she started her PhD study.

 

 

 

AlirezaAlireza Yari

PhD student, co-supervised by Prof. C. Perry Chou
 
Office: E6-4108 
 

Alireza completed his Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in Iran from 2014-2021. During 2021-2023, he entered the food and pharmacy industry in Tehran, Iran. In Jan. 2024, he joined our LSS group. He is currently on a temporary break from his studies due to family commitments. He plans to resume his academic journey once his personal circumstances allow.

 

Master students

WiwekaIda Putu Wiweka Dharmasiddhi

Masters Student
 
Office: E6-4106 
 

Wiweka obtained his Bsc from University of Waterloo in Apr. 2023. He joined the LSS group in August 2023.

 

 

 

 

Ellie
Ellie Zarnke

Masters Student, co-supervised by Prof. Valerie
 
Office: E6-4106

Ellie obtained her BSc at the University of Waterloo in Honours Science. She received an Engineering Excellence Master’s Fellowship and an Engineering Dean’s Entrance Award, and joined the LSS in May 2024.

 

 

 

Ching

Ching Lan

Masters Student, co-supervised by Prof. C. Perry Chou

Email: ching.lan@uwaterloo.ca

Ching graduated from the Department of Food Science at National Taiwan Ocean University. She received the Graduate Research Studentship and the International Master's Award of Excellence Fellowship. She joined the LSS group in September 2024.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tarun Nair

Masters Student, co-supervised by Prof. Elisabeth Prince

 

 

 

Undergradute students

Julia Li 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Past members

1. Ezgi Soylemezoglu----Research Assistant, June-August 2023.
2. Jin Li----Research Assistant, Oct 2023-Jun 2024.