The Research Group

The group after Malick's defence, May 2024:

2024 Graduate Students

• Nick Zinck (PhD) "Unimolecular Reactions of OPAH ions - sources of CO and H2O in the Interstellar Medium?"

• Edgar White Buenger (PhD) "Ionized terpenes and their oxidation products"

• Sandesh Gondarry (PhD) "Reactions dynamics of protonated guaiacol and its derivatives"

• Reshmi Karamel (PhD) "Reaction dynamics of ionized terpenes and terenoids"

• Peace Emele (PhD) "Reaction Dynamics of Aldehydes in the Gas Phase"

• Lisa Shi (MSc) part-time with Laboratory Services Division, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

• Angela Radhoff - starting Sept 2024.

Visitors

• Spring 2024  Amina Asfalou, Alexandra Berthaud, Eloise Agnel, Naimah Silahi and Emmy Bousquet joined us from the IUT Montpellier, France for a 10-week internship.

• Summer/Fall 2023   Sisonke Signoya, Durban University of Technology, South Africa

• Winter 2023    Alejandro Cardona, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina

Undergraduates

2024 Summer Crew

• Hydrosols and Plant Extracts: Grace McDermott, Monica Dimitrova, Joey Li, Batoul al Hussein and Halimo Daher

• Gas Phase Ion Chemistry of SF6: Shiven Joshi

• With Dr. Rachel Kozlowski, MALDI-TOF applications in lipidomics:  Fynn Murphy, Abdelrahman Fahmy (NSERC USRA) and Temi Oyaluade.

2024 High School COOP

• Kaiser Gerard, Lisgar HS, Ottawa

2023-24 Honours students

• The hydrosol crew:  Kiran Nandi, James Moaddel, Rachael Lee, Sam Sheldrick

• LC-MS and MS/MS of pharmaceuticals: Emilie Drouin

• Maldi-TOF: Ryan McIntyre

2023 Summer students

• PAH ion chemistry: Joseph Costello and Sofia Zaman

• The hydrosol crew:  Jame Moaddel, Kiran Nandi, Kadidja Houssein, Rose Anderson-Duval, Serena Bezanson, Rachael Lee

2022-23 Honours students

• The hydrosol crew: Nicole St. Aubin, Kaitlyn Jang, Eelana Surendran

• Ion chemistry of Perfluorinated ions: Samuel Charpentier-St-Pierre

2022-23 High School CO-OP

• Laila Rashad and Emily Jette, St. Matthew High School, Ottawa

Recent Alumni

• Malick Diedhiou (PhD, 2024) "Reactions of Formates with Atmospheric Water"

• Bethany Lowe (PhD, 2023) "Pyrolysis and Ion Chemistry of Formates"