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Mansoor Barati, BSc (Isfahan), MSc (Isfahan), PhD (McMaster), PEng
Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Research Area: Sustainable materials processing; Production and refining of high quality metals and alloys; Alternative metals Processing routes; Recycling of wastes; Fundamentals of interactions and properties in pyrometallurgical systems. |
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Will Bawden, BASc (Queen's), MASc, (Illinois), PhD (Toronto), PEng (Retired Professor) Research Area: Geomechanical mine design; Geomechanical design of cemented backfill systems; Ground support design and optimization, particularly in late stage, high stress mining horizons; Instrumentation; Mine induced seismicity. |
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Constantin Christopoulos, BIng, MSc (Ecole Polytech.), PhD (Calif.).
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Research Area: Structural dynamics and earthquake engineering. |
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John Curran, BASc, MEng (Toronto), PhD (Calif.), PEng
Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering Research Area: Rock mechanics, geotechnical design and computational geomechanics, including development of boundary element and finite element techniques for 2D and 3D; Stress analysis used in mine design and geotechnical applications; Applied rock mechanics. |
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Murray Grabinsky, BASc (UBC), MASc, PhD (Toronto), PEng
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Research Area: Geomechanical design of cemented paste backfill systems; Integrated mine waste management; Economically and environmentally sustainable mining; In-situ instrumentation for paste backfill; Liquefaction of paste backfill; Non-destructive test methods for paste backfill. |
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Giovanni Grasselli, (UNIPR) (Italy), PhD (EPFL)
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Research Area: Rock mechanics; Numerical modeling (FEMDEM); Influence of fractures on the hydro-mechanical behavior of rock masses; X-ray micro-CT for the characterization of rock microstructure. |
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John Hadjigeorgiou, BASc (Ottawa), Dipl. Eng. Geology (McGill), MEng, PhD (McGill), PEng, ing.
Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Chair in Mineral Engineering; Director Lassonde Institute and Lassonde Mineral Engineering Program Research Area: Rock characterization; Slope stability; Tunneling; Reinforcement and support; Mine design; Ore pass design. |
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John Harrison, BSc(Eng) MSc, DIC, PhD (Imperial College, University of London), CEng
Keck Chair; Associate Director Lassonde Mineral Engineering Program Research Area: Engineering rock mechanics; Modelling the progressive failure of rock; Geometry and hydro-mechanical behaviour of natural fracture; Application of rock mechanics principles to the conservation of stone sculpture. |
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Kamran Esmaeili, BSc(Kerman), MSc (Tehran), PhD (Laval), Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Research Area: Geomechanical mine design; Numerical modeling in geomechanics (Discrete Fracture Network (DFN), Synthetic Rock Mass (SRM)); Feasibility assessment of mining projects; Application of Geostatistical techniques in mine planning and design
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Oh-Sung Kwon, MS (Hanyang University), MS, PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Research Area: Structural engineering with emphasis on earthquake engineering; Seismic soil-structure-interaction; Hybrid simulation; Seismic fragility analysis. |
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Qinya Liu, BS (University of Science & Technology of China), PhD (California Inst. of Technology)
Assistant Professor, Physics Research Area: Seismology; Numerical simulations of seismic wave propagation; Active and passive seismic imaging; Microseismicity; Mining induced seismic monitoring. |
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Bernd Milkereit, PhD (Kiel University)
Teck Chair of Exploration Geophysics Research Area: Exploration seismology; Exploring meterorite impact crater; VSP studies, Mallik Gashydrates; Hardrock seismic exploration; Scientific drilling. |
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Bibhu Mohanty, BSc, MTech (I.I.T., India), MA, PhD (Toronto), PEng
Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering Research Area: Dynamic fracture process in rock due to explosive and impact action; Blast modeling and design for open-pit and underground mines; Fracture and dilution control; explosion seismology; Physics of detonation, explosion hazards and blast-resistant structures; Instrumentation for shock wave, impact and vibrations. |
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James Mungall, BSc (Waterloo), MSc, PhD (McGill)
Norman Keevil Chair in Ore Genesis
Associate Professor, Department of Geology Research Area: Field, experimental and theoretical studies of the petrology and petrogenesis of magmatic ore deposits of Cr, Ni, Cu, Pt, Pd, Fe, Ti, V and Au; Geochemical and physical controls on phase separation and transport in ore-forming magmas. |
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Vladmiros Papangelakis, Dipl. Eng. (Athens), MEng, PhD (McGill), PEng
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry Research Area: Aqueous process engineering; chemical process metallurgy; hydrometallurgy; process modelling; electrolyte solution chemistry; mineral-water interfaces; recycling of inorganic wastes; environmental remediation from mining and metallurgical activities. |
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Brent E. Sleep, BASc, MASc, PhD (Waterloo), PEng
Professor, Civil Engineering
Research Area: Flow and Transport Processes in the Subsurface; Geochemical and Biological Processes in the Subsurface; Numerical Modelling of Subsurface Processes; Hydrogeology; Groundwater Remediation. |
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Edward Spooner, BA (Cambridge), PhD, (Manchester),
Keck Chair in Geology Research Area: Economic mineral deposits of elements in current and future demand - geological/geochemical characteristics, controls on origin and geological/geochemical exploration criteria; e.g. Fe (Schefferville and Wawa areas; Au-Ag; Te; REE; elements required for electric; energy elements (e.g. U; Th). |
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Kaiwen Xia, BS (Mech. Eng.) (Science & Technology) (China), MS (Geophysics) (Cal Tech), PhD (Mech. Eng) (Cal Tech).
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Research Area: Rock Dynamics; Dynamic fracture mechanics; Rock fragmentation; Dynamic responses of materials; Standardization of rock dynamic testing methods; Dynamic response of rocks under static confinement; Earthquake physics; Monitoring of rock mass; Structural health monitoring. |
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Paul Young, BSc (Lond.), MSc (Newcastle), Postgraduate Cert. Ed. (Lond.), PhD (C.N.A.A.), C.Geol., CEng
Vice-President Research, University of Toronto Research Area: Fundamental and applied research at the interface between seismology and rock mechanics; Rock fracture physics, earthquake processes, geophysics and geomechanics. |
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