The Cunningham Group!

Graduate Students

Raz Abbasi, PhD

Hometown: Tehran, Iran

Current Project:Improved Latex Coatings for Metals

Co-Supervisor: Dr. Philip Jessop

Manpreet Kaur, PhD

Hometown: Punjab, India

Current Project: Preparation of polymeric nanoparticles for in vivo genetic drug delivery

Co-Supervisors: Dr. Jagdeep Walia

Rachel Korchinsky, PhD

Hometown: Toronto, Ontario

Current Project: Lithium recovery from brine

Co-Supervisors: Dr. Philip Jessop

Amy Mombourquette, PhD

Hometown

Current Project

Co-Supervisors: Dr. Philip Jessop

Carolina Ordoñez Franco, PhD

Hometown

Current Project

Co-Supervisors: Dr. Pascale Champagne, Dr. Kevin De France

Sandra Smeltzer, PhD

Hometown: Harrow, Ontario

Current Project: Block-Random Copolymers as Stabilizers in Emulsion Polymerization

Shannon Whitty, MSc

Hometown: St. Catherines, Ontario

Current Project: Biodegradable CO2 Responsive Polymers

Co-Supervisor: Dr. Philip Jessop

Postdoctoral Members

Olga Torres Rocha

Hometown: Mexico City, Mexico

Current Project: Modification of biopolymers (CNC nanocrystals) using controlled radical polymerization

Co-Supervisor: Dr. Philip Jessop

Alumni Members

Research Associates

  • Ryan Roeder (2012 – 2013)

Visiting Researchers

  • Tomaz Pirman (2022)
  • Jan Frauholz (2022)
  • Michael Fink (2019)
  • Lilian Szych (2018)
  • Selin Vitas (2018)
  • Abbas Rezaee Shirin-Abadi (2016)
  • Jose Tenorio-Lopez (2016)
  • Weiji Fan (2015)
  • Maria Colam (2015)
  • Keita Nishizawa (2014)
  • Paul VanSteenberge (2013 & 2014)
  • Omar Garcia-Valdez (2013)
  • Roberto Gonzalez Blanco (2013)

Postdoc

  • Arthur Werner (2023)
  • Maedeh Ramezani (2023)
  • Ikenna Ezenwajiaku (2021)
  • Guilherme Dreschler Vilela (2020)
  • Anna Riabtseva (2020)
  • Ross Jansen van Vuuren (2019)
  • Xavier Solimando (2019)
  • Omar Garcia-Valdez (2016 & 2018)
  • Olga Lidia Torres Rocha (2016)
  • Hai-Dong Wang (2015)
  • Abbas Rezaee Shirin-Abadi (2014)
  • Ryan Dykeman (2014)
  • Smitha Chorakasseril Mathew (2013)
  • Tobias Robert (2012)
  • Julien Pinaud (2012)

PhD

  • Matthew Sanger (2024)
  • Connor Sanders (2023)
  • Alex Cormier (2023)
  • Jaddie Ho (2022)
  • Sarah Ellis (2021)
  • Jaime Cazotti (2020)
  • Joe Glasing (2018)
  • Joaquin Arredondo (2017)
  • Kyle Boniface (2017)
  • Xin Su (2017)
  • Sean George (2017)
  • Aaron Zhu (2016)
  • Vitaliy Kapishon (2015)
  • Kevin Payne (2015)
  • Eli Bultz (2015)
  • Ali Darabi (2015)
  • Jordan Pohn (2012)
  • Nicky Chan (2012)

MSc

  • Carlos Antonio Ramirez Foyo (2024)
  • Amanda Rigg (2022)
  • Marie-Soleil Lebrun-Chopra (2021)
  • Ayman Arif (2021)
  • Alex Fritz (2018)
  • Mingmin Zhang (2015)
  • Haixia Jin (2014)
  • Oxana Zaskoka (2014)
  • Jason Donaldson (2013)
  • Jennifer Li (2013)
  • Daniel Krasznai (2011)
  • Catherine O’Neil (2011)
  • Candnace Fowler (2011)