Dr. Leili Tafaghodi

Expertise: Sustainable high temperature materials processing, Extraction and refining of metals and alloys, Reutilization of waste materials in metals and minerals industries

Research Cluster: Manufacturing and Infrastructure, sustainability

Email: tafaghodi@mcmaster.ca

Office: JHE 353

Achievements:

• Young Leaders Award, TMS Extraction and Processing Division, 2019.

  Best Paper Award, TMS Light Metal Division, JOM, 2012.

Some of the recent/current projects are listed below:

1. Metallurgical refining of silicon and its alloys

2. Pyrometallurgical processing of nickel laterites

3. Utilization of waste materials produced in metals and minerals industries such as ferrochromium slag and zinc plant residues.

Dr. Nana Ofori-Opoku

Expertise: Materials modelling, microstructure evolution, phase-field methods

Research Cluster: Energy, Micro-Nano Systems

Email: noforiopoku@mcmaster.ca

Office: JHE 258

Achievements:

• NIST-MGI Fellowship, 2015-2017

Research

• Understanding and predicting evolution in materials process and its consequence on materials behavior

• High-performance computing, mathematical modelling, non-equilibrium thermodynamics

• Applications in solidification process of additive manufacturing, precipitation reactions, and microstructure behavior in nuclear materials

Dr. Hatem Zurob

Chair of the Materials and Engineering Department

Email: zurobh@mcmaster.ca

Office: JHE 357/D

Dr. Joseph McDermid

Undergraduate Associate Chair

Email: mcdermid@mcmaster.ca

Office: JHE 343/C

Dr. Kathryn Grandfield

Graduate Associate Chair

Email: kgrandfield@mcmaster.ca

Office: ABB C305

Dr. Neslihan Dogan

Expertise: Manufacturing materials; Computational materials; High temperature materials processing, primary and secondary steelmaking, reaction kinetics

Email: dogann@mcmaster.ca

Office: JHE 213B

Ask about Current Projects:

Fundamentals of Inclusion Removal by Slag

1. Inclusion modification by Calcium Treatment in Liquid Steel Processing

2. Experimental Investigation of Inclusion Formation in High Manganese Steel Production

3. Comprehensive Kinetic and Modelling Study of Basic Oxygen Steelmaking

4. Optimization & Control of Basic Oxygen Steelmaking

Dr. Nabil Bassim

Expertise: Computational materials; Structure-Processing-Property Relationships, Electron Microscopy, Focused Ion Beam Microscopy, Nanomaterials, 2-D materials, Image Processing, Beam-Sample interactions

Email: bassimn@mcmaster.ca

Office: JHE 258

Ask about:

• CCEM

• Undergraduate research positions

• Graduate research positions

Courses:

• MATLS 724: Materials Characterization by Electron/Ion Microscopy

Dr. Oleg Rubel

Expertise: Computational materials; Materials modeling; density functional theory; solar cells; lasers; LEDs; quantum materials; 2D materials

Email: rubelo@mcmaster.ca

Office: JHE 359

Ask about:

• Intelligent energy systems

• Computational Materials

• Undergraduate research positions

• Graduate research positions

Courses:

• MATLS 3M03: Mechanical Behavior of Materials

• MATLS 4NN3: Computational Modelling in Materials Engineering at the Nano-scale

Dr. Andre Phillion

Expertise: Computational materials; Manufacturing Materials; Solidification of Engineering metals; Mathematical modelling of materials and Processes; X-ray tomographic imaging; 4D materials science

Email: philliab@mcmaster.ca

Office: ETB 107

Ask about:

• Manufacturing and Infrastructure Materials

• Computational Materials

• Undergraduate research positions

• Graduate research positions

Courses:

• MATLS 4Z06 A/B: Materials Engineering Capstone

• MATLS 4NP3: Computational Modelling in Materials Engineering at the Process-scale

Dr. David Wilkinson

Expertise: Manufacturing Materials, Ductile fracture of metals and alloys; lightweight materials for fuel efficient vehicles; advanced high strength steels.

Email: wilkinso@mcmaster.ca

Office: JHE 249

Ask about current projects:

• building HATCH

• His academic career

• Automotive Materilas

Courses:

• MATLS 751: Mechanical Properties of Materials

Dr. Dmitri Malakhov

Expertise: Manufacturing Materials, Chair of the Materials Department, Microstructural evolution in engineering materials and the effect of microstructure on mechanical properties

Email: malakhov@mcmaster.ca

Office: JHE 357/B

Courses:

• MATLS 3C03: Applied Thermodynamics

• MATLS 4LA2: Heat-Treatable Al Alloys

• MATLS 4LS2: Physical Metallurgy of Steels

• MATLS 721: Advanced Thermodynamics and Phase Transformations (Offered: Winter 2023)

Dr. Hatem Zurob

Expertise: Manufacturing Materials, Chair of the Materials Department, Microstructural evolution in engineering materials and the effect of microstructure on mechanical properties

Email: zurobh@mcmaster.ca

Office: JHE 357/D

Ask about current projects:

• Modeling the nucleation of recrystallization and the interaction between recovery and recrystallization.

• Investigation of the interfacial conditions during the decomposition of austenite in Fe-C-X using traditional precipitation experiments as well as controlled decarburization.

• Undergraduate Summer research positions

• Graduate research positions

Courses:

• MATLS 2B03: Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials

• MATLS 3T04: Phase Transformations

Dr. Gianluigi Botton

Expertise: Smart Materials, nanostructures; energy materials; battery materials; fuel cells; light-emitting diodes; plasmonics; oxides electronics; corrosion; structure of alloys

Email: gbotton@mcmaster.ca

Ask about:

• Science Director of the Canadian Light Source

• Founding Director of the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy

• Brockhouse Institute of Materials Research