Meet The Current Members of Our Team
Research Associates
Scott Paulson
Research Associate
Project: Develop useful relationships between materials and electrochemically driven processes, with applications for sensors, fuel cells, corrosion, and structural materials
Email: spaulson@ucalgary.ca
Post-doctoral Associates
Azam Sayadi
Post-doctoral Associate
Project: Development of electrochemical biosensors for heart biomarkers
Industry partner: CardiAI
Email: azam.sayadi@ucalgary.ca
Post Doctoral Fellows
Arash Yahyazadeh
Post Doctoral Fellow
Project: Steam methane reforming reaction using solid oxide fuel cell (SOFCs) for hydrogen and electricity production
Email: arash.yahyazadeh@ucalgary.ca
Sandeep Bhattacharya
Post-doctoral Fellow - Momentum Materials Solutions
Fereshteh Vajhadin
MITACS Post-doctoral Fellow
Project: Electrochemical Cardiac Biomarker Sensor Development
Batuhan Bal
Post-doctoral Fellow
Project: Improving the performance of solid oxide electrolysis and fuel cells
Email: batuhan.bal@ucalgary.ca
Ahmed Hashem Ali
Post-doctoral Fellow
Project: Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ in Aqueous Media Using Advanced Membrane-Electrode Assemblies (MEAs)
Email: ahmed.ali6@ucalgary.ca
Graduate Students
Fatemeh Sadat Mousavizadeh Mojarad
PhD Student
Co-supervisor: Dr. Michelle Dolgos
Project: Nanoporous Carbon Materials as Hosts for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction Catalysts
Adam Bass
PhD Student
Project: Steam methane reforming reaction using solid oxide fuel cell (SOFCs) for hydrogen and electricity production
Email: adam.bass2@ucalgary.ca
Oliver Calderon
PhD Student
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Simon Trudel
Project: X-ray absorption studies of CO2 reduction catalysts
Email: oliver.calderon1@ucalgary.ca
Irfan Aydogdu
PhD Student
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Sathish Ponnurangaman, Chemical Engineering
Project: Developing force field for SOEC electrode materials by means of quantum chemistry methods and molecular dynamics (MD)
Email: irfan.aydogdu1@ucalgary.ca
Mykhailo Pidburtnyi
PhD Student
Project: Solid oxide electrolysis and fuel cells development
Milad Shamsi
PhD Student
Supervisor: Dr. Justin MacCallum
Project: Development of electrochemical pathogen sensors
Email: milad.shamsi@ucalgary.ca
Yuxuan Wang
PhD Student
Project: Developing New Generation Membrane Electrode Assemblies using Self-Supported Nanoporous Carbon Scaffolds
Email: yuxuan.wang@ucalgary.ca
Pezhvak Moghaddasisaen
M.Sc. Student
Supervisor: Dr. Michelle Dolgos
Project: Low temperature electrochemical CO₂ reduction
Sydnee Dronsfield
M.Sc. Student
Project: Electrochemical oxidation reactions on carbon-based materials
Sara Bouzidi
M.Sc. Student
Project: CO₂ reduction/CO oxidation on Ni- and Co-doped LCFCr catalyst materials in high temperature reversible solid oxide cells
Email: sara.bouzidi@ucalgary.ca
Hannah Cameron
M.Sc. Student
Project: CO₂ reduction at metal/carbon catalysts
Email: hannah.cameron1@ucalgary.ca
Hisham G. Elaqapa
M.Sc. Student
Tailored Carbon Support Architectures for PEM Fuel Cell Cathodes
Email: hisham.elaqapa@ucalgary.ca
Undergraduate Students
Andrea Martinez
Summer Student
Project: Biosensor Fabrication on Carbon Substrates
Email: maria.martinez1@ucalgary.ca
Matt Philipation
Summer Student
Project: Electrochemical Conversion of Methane in a Fuel Cell
Brandon Berdan
Research Assistant (Momentum Materials)
Project: Development of Functional Materials for Fuel Cells from Asphaltene Waste
Email: brandon.berdan@ucalgary.ca
Diego Vanderbiest
Undergraduate
Project: CO₂ reduction on N-doped carbons
