CHBE - Key Persons


A. Paul Watkinson

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Andrés Mahecha-Botero

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor
  • Senior Executive
  • Research / Teaching Areas
  • Research Summary
Andrés is a senior executive engineer specializing in driving growth and innovation within the Clean Technology sector. With extensive expertise in thermochemical and electrochemical process technologies, he has a proven track record in intellectual property development, technology scale-up, pilot plant design, industrial project execution, business development, and commercialization of new technologies. He has authored over 100 international technical publications, including book chapters, academic journal articles, and industrial conference proceedings. His research and industrial contributions span clean process technology, catalytic reactors, hydrogen production and purification, CO2 capture and utilization, lithium refining, gas and sulfur species conversion and pollution control, bioproducts and green chemicals, and chemical systems integration. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where his work focused on advanced reactor modeling and experimental validation. He also contributed to academic research and taught at both graduate and undergraduate levels at UBC. Andrés has held various roles in heavy industries and clean technology, including process engineering, project engineering/management, and plant commissioning/start-up. Andrés holds six international patent disclosures and oversees the development and management of NORAM Group's global IP portfolio. He is also the Director of Business and Intellectual Property Development at BC Research Inc. (BCRI), the innovation and technology arm of the NORAM Group of Companies.

Anthony Lau

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Associate Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Anthony Wachs

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Axel Meisen

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Bhushan Gopaluni

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Brittany Ji

Job Titles:
  • Student Services Manager

Bruce D. Bowen

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research / Teaching Areas

C. Jim Lim

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research / Teaching Areas

CB Hughesman

CB Hughesman, XJD Lu, KYP Liu, Y Zhu, CF Poh, C Haynes. A robust protocol for using multiplexed droplet digital PCR to quantify somatic copy number alterations in clinical tissue specimens. PloS One. 2016; 11 (8).

Chester Upham

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Christina Carnovale

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student and Communication Coordinator

Colin Oloman

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Curtis P. Berlinguette

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

David P. Wilkinson

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Head
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas
P.J. Petzold, JTH Kwan, A. Bonakdarpour and D.P. Wilkinson, Deconvoluting reversible and irreversible degradation phenomena in OER catalyst coated membranes using a modified RDE technique, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 168 (2), 026507 (2021).

Dhanesh Kannangara

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Doug Yuen

Job Titles:
  • Workshop Supervisor

Dr. Charles Haynes

Job Titles:
  • Department Head
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas
Dr. Charles Haynes is a Professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Interfacial Biotechnology within the Michael Smith Laboratories, and is currently serving as Head of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of the University of British Columbia.

Dusko Posarac

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

E. Johan Foster

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • NSERC Canfor Industrial Research Chair in Advanced Bioproducts
  • Research / Teaching Areas

E.W.R. Steacie

Job Titles:
  • Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecturer, American Chemical Society and the Kavli Foundation, 2018

Előd Gyenge

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Emily Cranston

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas
  • UBC President 's Excellence Chair in Forest Bioproducts

Enpei Hsu

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student Coordinator

Eric W. Lees

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Erin Hagen

Job Titles:
  • Safety and Technical Coordinator

Ezra Kwok

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Fariborz Taghipour

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas
Mohaghegh Montazeri M, Taghipour, F. (2023) Virtual prototyping and characterization of a point-of-entry UV-LED water disinfection reactor with the synergic effect of radiation, hydrodynamics, and inactivation kinetics, Water Res. 230, 119581.

Gabriel Potvin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Teaching

Graham Liebelt

Job Titles:
  • Engineering Technician

Heather Trajano

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas
  • Theme Lead, Theme 4 - Biorefinery Systems, UBC BioProducts Institute

Iain Angus

Job Titles:
  • Student Services Manager

Ida Leung

Job Titles:
  • Financial Process Specialist

James Feng

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director, Laboratory for Complex and Non - Newtonian Fluid Flow
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas
Feng, J. J. & Hedtrich, S., A similarity scaling approach for organ-on-chip devices. Lab Chip 22, 3663-3667 (2022),

James M. Piret

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Jane Emily Hill

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Jiujun Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

John M. Frostad

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Jonathan Verrett

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Teaching

Joyce He

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Jurgen Stumper

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Kelly Tan

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Finance & Human Resources

Ken Wong

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Lab Technician

Kevin Smith

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Kristi Chow

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Coordinator

Lester Maxwell

Job Titles:
  • ENVE / ENVL Administrative Assistant

Louise Creagh

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Madjid Mohseni

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Mahyar Montazeri

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Mark Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas / Transport

Marko Kryworuchko

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Marlene Chow

Job Titles:
  • Director of Academic Programs, Administration and Resources

Michael Forbes

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas / Design and Application of Advanced Control Algorithms With a Focus on Ease - of - Implementation, and Ease - of - Use

Michael G. Schoen

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Research / Teaching Areas

Mona Rahmani

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

MT Kalathottukaren

MT Kalathottukaren, S Abbina, K Yu, RA Shenoi, AL Creagh, C Haynes, JN Kizhakkedathu. A polymer therapeutic having universal heparin reversal activity: molecular design and functional mechanism. Biomacromolecules 18 (10), 3343-3358. A Mafi, S Abbina, MT Kalathottukaren, JH Morrissey, C Haynes, JN Kizhakkedathu, J Pfaendtner, KC Chou. Design of polyphosphate inhibitors: a molecular dynamics investigation on polyethylene glycol-linked cationic binding groups. Biomacromolecules 19 (4), 1358-1367

Naoko Ellis

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Nikolay Stroganov

Job Titles:
  • Workshop Technician

Orlando Rojas

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

P. Eng

Job Titles:
  • Member of the UBC Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory

Peter Englezos

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Pranav Chintalapati

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Teaching

Richard Branion

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Richard Kerekes

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Roland Clift

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Rose Roberts

Rose Roberts, James W. Smyth, John Will, Payton Roberts, Christina L. Grek, Gautam S. Ghatnekar, Zhi Sheng, Robert G. Gourdie, Samy Lamouille, E. Johan Foster. Development of PLGA nanoparticles for sustained release of a connexin43 mimetic peptide to target glioblastoma cells. Materials Science & Engineering C. 2020. 108. Pg 110191.

Royann Petrell

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Emerita
  • Research / Teaching Areas / Associate Habitat Restoration, Aquacultural Engineering, Bio - Sensor Design Including Bio - Implants, Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer in Aquatic Systems

Roza Vaez Ghaemi

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Research / Teaching Areas

S. Alireza Bagherzadeh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Teaching

Savvas G. Hatzikiriakos

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Seoeun Kim


Serge Milaire

Job Titles:
  • Electronics Shop Technician

Sergio Berretta

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Practice / Research / Teaching Areas

Shahab Sokhansanj

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Simcha Srebnik

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Susan A. Baldwin

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Thomson Reuters

Job Titles:
  • Highly Cited Researcher

Tobias Donaldson

Job Titles:
  • Engineering Technician

Vikramaditya G. Yadav

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Vladan Prodanovic

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Teaching

Xiaotao Bi

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research / Teaching Areas

Yankai Cao

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Zeina Baalbaki

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Research / Teaching Areas