Advisor List
Here you will find the list of possible Advisors for the Collaborative Specialization Program required in your thesis.The current order is Alphabetically per Department, and alphabetically in each department.
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Girma Bitsuamlak
Civil & Environmental EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: Contributing towards optimal resiliency of the build environment under sustainability constraints

Horia Hangan
Civil & Environmental EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: simulation and impact of high intensity winds, wind energy and wind environmental impacts

Han-Ping Hong
Civil & Environmental EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: Structural and Infrastructure

Greg Kopp
Civil & Environmental EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: Wind Engineering and Environmental Fluid

Bing Li
Research Interests / Specializations: micro-earthquake monitoring and fracture imaging in rocks at the field scale of mining, civil, and energy applications, as well as using laboratory-scaled models using machine learning methods
Craig Miller
Research Interests / Specializations: surface wind field models
Reza Najafi
Research Interests / Specializations: Water Resources Management
Tim Newson
Research Interests / Specializations: Structural and Infrastructure, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental
Hassan Peerhossaini
Research Interests / Specializations: convective heat transfer, heat transfer and process intensification, energy efficiency, bio-resourced energy, and in particular on chaotic advection and its technological applications
Clare Robinson
Research Interests / Specializations: Environmental and Geoenvironmental
Ayan Sadhu
Research Interests / Specializations: Structural and Infrastructure
Abouzar Sadrekarimi
Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental
Wenxing Zhou
Research Interests / Specializations: Structural and InfrastructureDepartment of Earth Sciences
Hadi Ghofrani
Research Associate / Adjunct Research Professor - Earth SciencesResearch Interests / Specializations: Engineering Seismology with the focus on Seismic Hazard Analysis due to Natural and Induced Earthquakes; Developing Ground-Motion Prediction Equations; Simulation of Earthquake Ground-Motions; Site Characterization and Seismic Microzonation

Katsu Goda
Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment - Earth Sciences and Statistical & Actuarial SciencesResearch Interests / Specializations: Earthquake, Tsunami, Risk Assessment, Catastrophe Modeling
Sheri Molnar
Assistant Professor - Earth SciencesResearch Interests / Specializations: Seismology

Cindy Mora Stock
Postdoctoral ResearcherResearch Interests / Specializations: Seismology, Volcano Seismology

Robert Shcherbakov
Associate Professor - Earth SciencesResearch Interests / Specializations: Non-Linear Geophysics, Statistical Seismology
Department of Geography

Peter Ashmore
GeographyResearch Interests / Specializations: Fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport

James Voogt
GeographyResearch Interests / Specializations: Urban climatology

Jinfei Wang
GeographyResearch Interests / Specializations: Remote sensing and GIS
Department of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences

Marcos Escobar-Anel
Statistical & Actuarial SciencesResearch Interests / Specializations: Stochastic Processes: Multivariate, Stochastic Covariance, First passage time Financial Mathematics: Pricing exotic products, Dynamic portfolio optimization

Jiandong Ren
Statistical & Actuarial SciencesResearch Interests / Specializations: Insurance, Actuarial Science, Risk management

Douglas Woolford
Statistical & Actuarial SciencesResearch Interests / Specializations: Forest / wildland fire science; Forest / wildland fire management; Forest / wildland fire occurrence prediction; Risk assessment and risk modelling