Principal Investigator
Dr. Carlos Escobedo, P.Eng.
Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University. He received his BSc from UNAM (2000), Mexico, his MSc from University of Toronto (2002) and PhD form University of Victoria (2011), Canada. He worked in the R&D biomedical industry between 2002 and 2007, as Head of Mechanical Engineering of Innovamedica R&D, focusing on the development of a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD), which has been successfully implanted in patients. He has lectured at four different universities in Canada and Mexico since 2002. From 2011 to 2013, he was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow with tenure at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland. He served as Technical Chair in MEMS and Nanotechnology for the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME) for 4 years. He was awarded the prestigious Early Research Award (Government of Ontario) in 2018, the competitive Excellence in Research Award (Queen's University) in 2019 and most recently the Engineering Society Golden Apple Award (teaching).
Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University. He received his BSc from UNAM (2000), Mexico, his MSc from University of Toronto (2002) and PhD form University of Victoria (2011), Canada. He worked in the R&D biomedical industry between 2002 and 2007, as Head of Mechanical Engineering of Innovamedica R&D, focusing on the development of a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD), which has been successfully implanted in patients. He has lectured at four different universities in Canada and Mexico since 2002. From 2011 to 2013, he was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow with tenure at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland. He served as Technical Chair in MEMS and Nanotechnology for the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME) for 4 years. He was awarded the prestigious Early Research Award (Government of Ontario) in 2018, the competitive Excellence in Research Award (Queen's University) in 2019 and most recently the Engineering Society Golden Apple Award (teaching).
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Juan Manuel Gomez
Juan Manuel obtained a BSc from Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico. He has been always interested in the application of electronics in Biology, which motivated him to pursue a M.Eng. at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM), Mexico. His masters' research involved magnetic sensor design, with the aim of detecting magnetic fields as small as those of cells, with which he achieved honorable mention. In 2021, he received a Ph.D. from both UNAM (Mexico, supervisor: Prof. G. Ascanio) and Queen´s University (Canada, supervisor: Prof. C. Escobedo). His research is focused on the development of optofluidic (bio)sensors, utilizing periodic nanostructures, through theory, computational and experimental approaches.
Juan Manuel obtained a BSc from Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico. He has been always interested in the application of electronics in Biology, which motivated him to pursue a M.Eng. at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM), Mexico. His masters' research involved magnetic sensor design, with the aim of detecting magnetic fields as small as those of cells, with which he achieved honorable mention. In 2021, he received a Ph.D. from both UNAM (Mexico, supervisor: Prof. G. Ascanio) and Queen´s University (Canada, supervisor: Prof. C. Escobedo). His research is focused on the development of optofluidic (bio)sensors, utilizing periodic nanostructures, through theory, computational and experimental approaches.
Dr. Mahyar Mazloumi (co-supervised with Prof. Georges Sabat)
Dr. Mahyar Mazloumi is a research associate at RMC working with Dr. Sabat on advanced optical materials, plasmonics and metasurfaces. He earned his PhD in 2013 from University of Waterloo on nanotechnology and then worked at national research council of Canada on metrology of nanomaterials. He has a multi-disciplinary background on materials science, nanomaterials, optics, chemistry and characterization techniques. His interests are: hybrid nanomaterials, metasurfaces and characterization techniques.
Dr. Mahyar Mazloumi is a research associate at RMC working with Dr. Sabat on advanced optical materials, plasmonics and metasurfaces. He earned his PhD in 2013 from University of Waterloo on nanotechnology and then worked at national research council of Canada on metrology of nanomaterials. He has a multi-disciplinary background on materials science, nanomaterials, optics, chemistry and characterization techniques. His interests are: hybrid nanomaterials, metasurfaces and characterization techniques.
Ph.D. Students/Candidates
Amy MacLean (co-supervised with Prof. Hans-Peter Loock; Ph.D. Candidate)
Amy hails from the small town of Truro, Nova Scotia. She did her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Mount Allison University, and gained experience researching hydrogen free radical reactions using exotic antimatter probes. In 2013, she moved to Kingston, and started her Ph.D. in the labs of Drs. Carlos Escobedo and Peter Loock. While being co-supervised, she is still technically a chemist. Her research goal is to characterize NHC-gold chemistry in gold plasmonic sensors. As opposed to thiol-gold bonds, which are more traditional but prone to removal from the gold surface, NHC-gold bonds are much more robust and can withstand harsher conditions. Kinetic studies will help point to a mechanism for NHC self-assembling monolayer formation.
Amy hails from the small town of Truro, Nova Scotia. She did her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Mount Allison University, and gained experience researching hydrogen free radical reactions using exotic antimatter probes. In 2013, she moved to Kingston, and started her Ph.D. in the labs of Drs. Carlos Escobedo and Peter Loock. While being co-supervised, she is still technically a chemist. Her research goal is to characterize NHC-gold chemistry in gold plasmonic sensors. As opposed to thiol-gold bonds, which are more traditional but prone to removal from the gold surface, NHC-gold bonds are much more robust and can withstand harsher conditions. Kinetic studies will help point to a mechanism for NHC self-assembling monolayer formation.
Yazan Bdour (Ph.D. student)
Yazan completed his BASc in Nanotechnology Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he focused his studies on biotechnology and material science. He has previously worked on organic material synthesis at Soochow University and polymeric nanoparticle drug delivery system at Harvard Medical School. He obtained a MSc from Queen's, under the supervision of Dr. Escobedo and Dr. Sabat (RMC) in 2018. His research is currently focused on developing of new generation nanostructured sensors.
Yazan completed his BASc in Nanotechnology Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he focused his studies on biotechnology and material science. He has previously worked on organic material synthesis at Soochow University and polymeric nanoparticle drug delivery system at Harvard Medical School. He obtained a MSc from Queen's, under the supervision of Dr. Escobedo and Dr. Sabat (RMC) in 2018. His research is currently focused on developing of new generation nanostructured sensors.
Betsy Bustillo (Ph.D. student)
Betsy completed her MSc in Molecular Biology from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) in Mexico City. Her current research involves the development of organ-on-a-chip platforms.
Betsy completed her MSc in Molecular Biology from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) in Mexico City. Her current research involves the development of organ-on-a-chip platforms.
Brianna Bradley (Ph.D. student)
Brianna's research is focused on the study of microswimmers for applications in biology and medicine.
Brianna's research is focused on the study of microswimmers for applications in biology and medicine.
Lucas Karparien (co-supervised with Prof. Georges Sabat)
Lucas research is focused on plasmonic nanostructured materials.
Lucas research is focused on plasmonic nanostructured materials.
M.Sc. Students
Stephanie Walton (MSc student)
Stephanie's research focuses on microfluidic platforms for cell studies.
Stephanie's research focuses on microfluidic platforms for cell studies.
Undergraduate Students
Annalise Foster
Alumni
(Position at Queen's; current position)
- Matthew Panetta (4th year UG thesis student, Queen's)
- Dr. Hannah Dies (PhD student; MD student, Queen's)
- Dr. Srijit Nair (PhD student; Postdoc at Crudden Lab, Queen's)
- Dr. Saeed Yazdi (PhD student co-supervised with Prof. Peter Davies; Abbott Point-of-Care, Canada)
- John Minor (Undergraduate student)
- Brianna Bradley (4th year UG thesis student, Queen's; PhD student, Queen's)
- Steacy Coombs (4th year UG thesis student, Queen's)
- Yazan Bdour (MSc; PhD student, Queen's)
- Dr. Reza Nosrati (postdoctoral fellow; Lecturer at Monash University, Australia)
- Dr. Karla Karina Gomez-Lizarraga (visiting researcher, PhD co-supervised, UNAM; Principal Investigator at ICAT, UNAM)
- Dr. Ali Faridkhou (postdoctoral fellow; Smart & Biggar IP law firm)
- Jared Roth (Undergraduate student; graduate student, Waterloo)
- David Vogel (MSc thesis student, UniBasel, Switzerland; PhD student, Switzerland)
- Kristian Kraemer (Undergraduate student; graduate student, Queen's)
- Adam LeClaire (Undergraduate student)
- Hilda Rodriguez (MSc thesis student, Universidad Michoacana, Mexico; PhD student, Mexico)
- Sebastieen Goodchild (Undergraduate student)
- Matthew Bastin (Undergraduate student)
- Yuting Wang (Visiting Summer Researcher, Hunan Agricultural University, China)
- Isabella Cusano (Undergraduate student; J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School, USA)
- Sean Stuart (Undergraduate student)