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March 20, 2021
We welcome Amirhossein Farzi and Alaleh Esfandiari as our new PhD students. The group is happy to have you here.
March 20, 2021
March 16, 2021
So happy that our proposal for the Resources for Research Groups (rrg) through Compute Canada is awarded. The awarded cpu-times will be used to run our computational projects (DFT and ML) for materials discovery for biomass oxidation and CO2 reduction. Thanks Compute Canada!
March 16, 2021
January 1, 2021
We congrats our own Sebastian to complete his bachelor studies and are happy to have him in our group as a M.Eng student.
January 1, 2021
November 1, 2020
Canada Research Chairs (CRC) has announced the Fall 2020 recipients and we are so glad that Prof. Seifitokaldani's CRC (Tier II) in "Electrocatalysis for Renewable Energy Production and Conversion" application is awarded. This program is going to be supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI-JELF) to build the Electrocatalysis Lab. A big thank you to all those who supported our application in this process!
November 1, 2020
September 1, 2020
We welcome Andrew Carkner to our group. Andrew is going to do his PhD thesis on lignin upgrading under supervision of Profs. Jan Kopyscinski and Ali Seifitokaldani.
We are also so happy that Kevin is starting his M.Eng. in our group. Kevin, congrats for completing your bachelor studies!
September 1, 2020
August 6, 2020
Congrats to Mahdi for his publication in the journal ACS Catalysis. We are so proud of this impressive in collaboration with Prof. Dinh at Queen's University. It is highly recommended to check out this comprehensive review paper on Fundamentals of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Single-Metal-Atom Catalysts!
August 6, 2020
May 1, 2020
We are happy to have Xiao as SURE student, and Hasan and Juliano as EUL summer students working on computational materials discovery for CO2 conversion and biowaste upgrading.
Juliano, welcome to the group!
May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020
We congrats Roger, Kevin, Lucy and Patel for their publication in the journal Catalysts. We are so proud of this impressive work led by our undergrad students. It is highly recommended to check out this comprehensive review paper on Electrochemical Reactors for CO2 Conversion!
May 1, 2020
January 1, 2020
We congrats our own Roger Lin to complete his bachelor studies and are happy to have him in our group as a M.Eng student. Congrats Roger for receiving the FRQNT Master's Scholarship.
We also welcome Jiashuai (Sebastian) as new undergrad students who is going to work with us in 2020.
January 1, 2020
November 12, 2019
I am glad that I participated in SERI 8 Montreal. An interesting networking event between universities and companies in Montreal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-FF82D322s
November 12, 2019
September 1, 2019
We welcome our first generation of grad students, Mahdi (PhD candidate), Ashwini, Yiwei and Poojan (MEng students) to join our lab!
We also welcome Daniel and Xiao as new undergrad students who are going to work with us in fall 2019.
September 1, 2019
May 1, 2019
We welcome our first SURE students (summer undergrad research in engineering), Kevin and Roger to join our lab! Kevin and Roger will help us to set up our experimental lab.
We welcome Hasan as an EUL awarded summer student to join our lab. Hasan will start his research experience by learning and running DFT computation.
We also welcome our highly motivated volunteer undergrad students, Portia, Minnan, and Lucy to join our lab. Minnan will work on DFT projects, Portia will employ Machine Learning in our daily research, and Lucy will run CO2RR experiments.
May 1, 2019
April 23, 2019
We are so happy that our proposal for the McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI) Ideas Fund got awarded! This fund will foster our research efforts in developing a viable electrochemical system for the CO2 reduction reaction to valuable fuels and chemicals.
April 23, 2019
January 1, 2019
We are so excited to start our lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering at McGill University!
January 1, 2019