Appendix A: TISED Members

Program 2020 ChangeMakers

Elena Corella Puertast Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. candidate. Sylvain Coulombe & Viviane Yargeau, Supervisors Sustainable Industrial Processes and Manufacturing From lightning to clean water: Removal of challenging pharmaceutical pollutants through plasma-based technologies

Elena’s research explores new plasma-based water treatment technologies, through the development of a pin-to-liquid discharge reactor. Her work focuses on degrading a challenging pharmaceutical pollutant, diatrizoate. The ultimate goal of her research is to identify novel technologies for treating hospital wastewaters.

Bruno Castilho Mining and Materials Engineering, Ph.D. Candidate Richard R. Chromik & Christian Moreau, Supervisors Sustainable Industrial Processes and Manufacturing Reducing energy and material waste in harsh environments: How to make our flights more sustainable

Bruno’s research focuses on understanding and developing multiple component coatings to provide reduced friction and wear in hightemperature applications. The overarching goal of his work is to reduce energy and material loss, maintenance costs as well as to increase the lifetime of turbine parts.

Rana Yekani

Mining and Materials Engineering, Ph.D. Candidate George P. Demopoulos, Supervisor Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Stable Perovskite Solar Cells; Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Solar Technology

Rana’s research focuses on the relationship between cell architecture, fabrication methods and cell performance. The ultimate goal of her work is to optimize the perovskite cell design with respect to cost, stability and environmental impact.