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Past Group Members (2005-2019)

Post-Doctorate Fellows

2020                Laura Minet, Ph.D. 

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

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


2017-2018       Joseph Okeme, Ph.D.

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

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

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

2015-2016        
Roxana Sühring, Ph.D. (visiting from Germany)
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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

2022      Samantha Athey, Ph.D. 

                Jacob Kvasnicka, Ph.D. Joint Influence of Human Activities and Indoor Microenvironments 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

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

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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