The Research Group

2026 Convocation

2026 Graduate Students

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

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

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

• Lily Bounsanga (MSc) "Chemical Analysis of Canadian Bee Balm and its Medicinal Properties"

Visitors

• 2026 Celia Rose, Valentin Burgos and Lilian Doucet-Ginestet joined us from the IUT Montpellier, France for their undergraduate internship.  Ethan Guyot did likewise from the Universite de Rennes, France.

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

• 2025/6  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

2026-27 Honours Students

• Hydrosols and Plant Extracts: Ahmad Al-Khoubbi, Jaan Sarine, Therese Mwika Kalombo

• MALDI-TOF Analysis of Organic Gun Shot Residue Components: Kyla Tremblay

• Investigating chemical changes to fragrances during soap production: Manaal Suleiman

• Employing Mass Spectrometry to Study In Situ Chemical Oxidation: Kameron Ott

• Biochemical Mass Spectrometry: William Lee

2026 Summer Crew

• Hydrosols and Plant Extracts: Amelia Mohr, Keanna Tam, Yitong Wang, Chouaib Djail, Charlotte Hou, Chidinma Okechukwu, Nicholas Collins Mayer, Tomi Opapeju, Paria Salari

• MALDI-TOF Analysis of Organic Gun Shot Residue Components: Tomas Chacin, Kyla Trembley

• Gas Phase Ion Chemistry of Protonated Metformin: Samuel Francis Roxburgh

2025-26 High school COOP

• Jessica Pham (West Carleton), Sean Polo Muthukuda (St. Matthews HS), Jonah Drake (St. Matthews HS) and Yara Zitoun (St. Patrick's HS)

2025-26 USRO

• Manaal Suleiman:  Investigating chemical changes to fragrances during soap production

2025-26 Honours students

• Natural Products Crew: Calixa Fox, Jack Miner, Josemaria Benson and Tahi Keita

• Gas Phase Ion Chemistry of Caffeine and Analysis of Mati: Areij Al Qader

• TRESI mass spectrometry: Gabriel Charbonneau

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

• • Edgar White Buenger (PhD, 2026) "Exploring the unimolecular chemistry of representative terpenes under protonated and pyrolysis conditions"  - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta

• Sandesh Gondarry (PhD, 2026) "A Comprehensive Investigation of the Unimolecular Decomposition of Guaiacol and Its Derivatives: A Comparison of Neutral, Protonated, and Radical Cation Forms" - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria

  • Angela Radhoff  (MSc, 2026) "Investigating the Unimolecular Breakdown Products and Pyrolysis Products of Short Chain Per/Polyfluorinated Compounds"  R&D Scientist, Nova Medical Testing Inc, Edmonton, Canada 

• 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) "The Interaction of Formates with Water Cluster Ions"

• Bethany Lowe (PhD, 2023) "Probing the Pyrolysis and Ion Chemistry of a Selection of Formates and Chloroformates"