Our People

Meet the faculty in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences' five academic units: Department of Chemistry, School of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Department of Physics.

Lorna Deeth headshot

Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53034

Email: ldeeth@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 548

Keywords: Infectious Disease Modelling, Spatial and Spatiotemporal Disease Analysis, Environmental Effect Monitoring and Surveillance Methods, Computational Statistics

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Associate Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 56512

Email: fdefersh@uoguelph.ca

Office: THRN 2403

Keywords: Mechanical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing System Analysis, Cellular Manufacturing Systems, Modular Manufacturing Systems, Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, Part Sequencing, Production and Inventory Planning, Vehicle Routing, Transportation Network Optimization, Supply Chain Modeling, Life Cycle Analysis

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Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair Tier 2 and MCTI Director

School of Computer Science

Phone: (519) 824-4120 x52999

Email: adehghan@uoguelph.ca

Office: REYN 3326

Keywords: Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Forensics, Internet of Things, Industrial Internet of Things, Internet of Battlefield of Things

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Professor; Interim Director, School of Engineering

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 58391

Email: ideiab@uoguelph.ca

Office: RICH 2521

Keywords: Machining, Fixture Dynamics, Additive Manufacturing, Industrial Automation, Intelligent Manufacturing, Applications of AI in Manufacturing, Sustainable Machining, Environmentally Benign Machining, Environmentally Friendly Design and Manufacturing (EFD/EFM) and Computer Aided Design, Manufacturing and Engineering CAD/CAM/CAE.

Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Email: mdemers@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacN 543

Keywords: Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning, Mathematical imaging, Iterated function systems and fractals, Evolutionary algorithms, Differential equations

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Associate Professor Emeritus

Department of Chemistry

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53820

Email: mdenk@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 334

Keywords: Inorganic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Hydride Transfer Reactions, Folates, NADH, Prebiotic Chemistry, Carbenes, Computational Chemistry, Thermochemistry

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Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 52293

Email: tdesmond@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacN 523

Keywords: Survival Analysis, Reliability modelling, Statistics in finance, Statistical learning (Big Data), Stochastic processes, History of statistics

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Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53084

Email: jrdonald@uoguelph.ca

Office: THRN 2503

Keywords: Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Engineering Leadership, Technological Stewardship, Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning

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Associate Professor Emeritus

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53458

Email: rdony@uoguelph.ca

Office: THRN 2341

Keywords: Biological engineering, Biomedical engineering, Area Heads, AI Affiliated Faculty, Audio signal processing, Digital image processing, Digital processing for hearing aids, Engineering education and licensing, Medical image processing, Professional engineering regulations

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Professor, CEPS Research Chair in Novel Sustainable Nanomaterials and Director Nanoscience

Department of Physics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53950

Email: dutcher@uoguelph.ca

Office: MACN 451

Keywords: Sustainable Nanomaterials, Polymers, Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Bacterial Biophysics, Self-Assembly and Pattern Formation, Surfaces and interfaces

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Professor, Founding Director of Bio-Renewable Innovation Lab (BRIL)

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 52441

Email: adutta@uoguelph.ca

Office: RICH 3509

Keywords: Biomass, Agri and Agri-food Waste, Hydrogen from biomass, Biobased Hydrogen Storage materials development, Plastic Waste Conversion, Bio-economy and Circular Economy, Bio and Activated Carbon, Combustion, Gasification, Pyrolysis, Heat Integration, Boiler Design, CO2 separation and capture, Advanced Energy Systems, Life Cycle Analysis, Microplastics

Hermann Eberl

Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 52622

Email: heberl@uoguelph.ca

Office: MacN 508

Keywords: Mathematical Biology, Engineering Mathematics, Computational Biomathematics, Applied Differential Equations, Scientific Computing, Microbiology and biofilms, Apiculture and honeybees, Agriculture and Food, Environmental/Chemical/Bioprocess Engineering

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Associate Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 56933

Email: aelsay01@uoguelph.ca

Office: THRN 2523

Keywords: Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Materials, Automotive Materials, Light Metals, Materials Processing, Metal Casting, Solidification

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Associate Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 58973

Email: melsharq@uoguelph.ca

Office: RICH 3513

Keywords: Mechanical Engineering, Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Geothermal Energy, Salinity Gradient Energy, Refrigeration Systems, Sustainable Energy Systems, Seawater Desalination, Water Thermophysical Properties, Heat and Mass Exchangers, Waste Energy Recovery

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Assistant Professor

School of Engineering

Phone: 519-824-4120 ext: 53838

Email: cfarrow@uoguelph.ca

Office: RICH 1515

Keywords: Environmental Engineering, Engineering Education and Pedagogy, Water/Wastewater Treatment