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Past Group Members (2005-2022)

Post-Doctorate Fellows

2020                Laura Minet, Ph.D.  CLAIR Lab 

2017-2019      Jennifer K. Adams, Ph.D. Research Page 

2013-2017      Congqiao (Bella) Yang, Ph.D. 


2017-2018       Joseph Okeme, Ph.D. Research Page 

2017                 Lisa Melymuk, Ph.D. (visiting from Czech Republic) Research Page 

2016-2017       Jasmin Schuster, Ph.D. (visiting from Environment Canada)

2015-2016       Chelsea Rochman, Ph.D. (visiting from United States) Rochman Lab

2015-2016       
Roxana Sühring, Ph.D. (visiting from Germany) Sühring Lab 
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2010-2013       Emma Goosey, Ph.D.

2007-2009       Cristian Mugnai, Ph.D. (visiting from Italy)

2006-2010       Matthew Robson, Ph.D.


2005-2006       Marco Belmont, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Students

2024      Sara Vaezafshar, Ph.D. Exposure to Organophosphate Ester Flame Retardants Among Emergency Services in Ontario, Canada

2022      Samantha Athey, Ph.D. Microplastics and other Anthropogenic Contaminants: from Source to Sink in the Canadian Environment

2022       Jacob Kvasnicka, Ph.D. Joint Influence of Human Activities and Indoor Micro-environments on Contaminant Exposure: A Mass-
                Balance Modeling Investigation


2021       Timothy F. Rodgers. OPEs, What Do We Do? Modeling Emissions, Fate, and Mitigation of Organophosphate Esters in Urban
                Systems


2021       Linh Viet Nguyen. Assessing occupational exposure to flame retardants and plasticizers using silicone passive samplers and
                other measurement methods 

2020       Yuchao Wan. Impacts of Household Characteristics, Activities and Building Characteristics on Indoor Concentrations of Semi-
                volatile Organic Compounds

2017       Joseph Okeme. Development of passive samplers for measuring indoor air concentrations, and measurement of physical and 
                chemical properties of semi-volatile organic compounds.


2016       Aman Saini. Fabrics and semi-volatile organic compounds: towards understanding accumulation and release.

2015       Golnoush Abbasi. Stocks and flows of PBDEs in products from use to waste in the U.S. and Canada.

2014       Jennifer Sawyer. Evaluating the transfer and accumulation of polyunsaturated fatty acids in freshwater food webs: a
                modeling approach.


2013       Sri Chaudhuri.  Measuring and understanding the indoor fate of, and exposure to phthalate esters.

2012       Susan Csiszar. Estimating urban scale semi-volatile organic compound emissions and fate using a coupled multimedia and 
                atmospheric transport model.


2012       Lisa Melymuk. Semi-volatile organic contaminants in the urban atmosphere: spatial and seasonal distributions and implications
                for contaminant transport.


2011       Nilima Gandhi. Improvements in hazard and Life Cycle Impact Assessment method for metal in freshwaters: addressing issues of
​                metal speciation, fate, exposure and ecotoxicity.


2007       Elisabeth Galarneau. Particle-gas partitioning of PAH: analysis and modelling.


Masters Students

2024      Sarah Lavoie-Bernstein, M. A. Sc. Comparing Sampling Methods for Measuring Atmospheric  Microplastics in Rural and Urban Sites, using Laser    Direct Infrared Spectroscopy (LDIR)

2024      Elizaveta Zvereva, M.Sc.


2022      Jasmine Thea Yu. Advancing Methods for and Identification of Microplastics to the Great Lakes and Other Freshwater
               Environments 


2022      Diwen Yang. Identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals that bind to human nuclear receptors.

2019      Rachelle Robitaille. Determining the air-water partition coefficient (Henry’s Law constants) of targeted SVOCs in oil sands tailings
               ponds.


2018      Yaw Adjei-Kyereme. Multimedia indoor modelling of organophosphate esters.

2016       Jimmy Truong. Organophosphate Esters (OPEs) as emerging contaminants in the environment: Indoor sources and transport to
                receiving waters.


​2014       Daniela Serodio. Physical-chemical properties and persistence of organic flame retardants.


2014       Anna Krol. Development and evaluation of the Indoor Multimedia Assessment Model.

2013       Sumera Yacoob.  Examining Model Predictions of Zinc and Copper Aqueous Speciation and Freshwater Ecotoxicity: Case Study
                of Ross Lake, Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada.


2008        Xianming Zhang.  Measurement and modelling of indoor concentrations of PCBs and PBDEs.

2007        Lisa Melymuk. The multi-media movement of trace organic contaminants in an urban and urbanizing watershed.

2007        Liana del Gobbo.  Risks and benefits: Contaminant and omega 3 fatty acid concentrations in fish and seafood consumed by
                 the South-East Asian community.


2007       Susan Csiszar.  The fate of PCBs and PBDEs in urban areas: application of the Multimedia Urban Model. 

2007       Julie Sommerfreund. Evaluation of contaminant fate in the Venice Lagoon using a multi-segment fugacity/aquivalence model
​                and a probabilistic uncertainty analysis.


2006       Roshanak Razavi.  Contaminant fate in the Bay of Quinte: a modeling assessment. 

Research Associates

2022 - 2024             Sylvia Wolk, undergraduate research assistant

2022 - 2023             Jasmine Thea Yu, research associate 
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2019 - 2022            Anna Shalin, undergraduate research assistant

2018 - 2019            Emma Flanagan Martin, undergraduate research assistant

2017 - 2019            Emily Palaganas, undergraduate research assistant

2016 - 2017            Eva Webster, Ph.D. research associate

2014 - 2016            Clara Thaysen, undergraduate research assistant. 

2014 - 2015            Suman Dahl, part-time graduate assistant.

Visiting Graduate Students, Professors

2019 - present    Yan Wang, visiting Professor from China

2018 - 2019         Andrea Perís, Visiting researcher from Spain

2018                     Jakub Urík, Visiting Ph.D. from Czech Republic

2016                    María Lorenzo Martínez, Visiting Ph.D. from Spain

2015                    Noelia Domínguez Morueco, Visiting Ph.D. from Spain

2014 - 2015        Atousa Abdollahi, Ph.D. Visiting Professor from Iran
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