The Research Group

The group at the 41st CSMS Student Conference, August 2025

2025 Graduate Students

• 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"

• Angela Radhoff  (MSc) "Exploring the Degradation of Perfluorinated Substances"

• Samuel Charpentier-St-Pierre (MSc) "Computational Studies in the Degradation of  Perfluorinated Substances"

Visitors

• 2025 Jeanne Cezard, Sarah Bayle, Maelys Boissel, Cerine Karouia, Julie Maziere joined us from the IUT Montpellier, France for their undergraduate internship.

• 2025  Prof. Vijanaka Fernando, Open University of Sri Lanka

• 2024 Shahram Kowsarimehr, PhD student from Iran

• 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

2025 Summer Crew

• Hydrosols and Plant Extracts: Rojvan Abdullah, Maximiliano Araneda Suárez, Ahona Deb, Tabeeb Howlader, Sum Ki Kelsie Ling, Laranya Namasivayam, Noah Rabuka, Josiah Smith, Tomi Opapeju, Julian Giorgi

• Gas Phase Ion Chemistry of Coronene-Metal ion clusters: Samuel Francis Roxburgh

2024-25 Honours students

• Hydrosol crew: Alyssa Montgomery and Cindy Yao  

• Metal intercalation of PAHs with MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry: Natashia Saltarelli and Victor Lee 

• Extraction of PFAS from Soil: Victoria Flatt

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

• Lisa Shi (MSc, 2024): "Comparative Use of Two Radiometric Techniques for Determining Radium Activity in Simulated Surface Waters to Assess Method Suitability"

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

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