Professor, University of Calgary - Faculty of Law

Benjamin Tutolo is an associate professor in geoscience at the University of Calgary. In his research, he quantifies biogeochemical reactions using laboratory experiments, field measurements, and geochemical models.  His group has been performing experiments and simulations to understand carbon cycling in the oceans and in rocks.  You can find out more about Ben and his research group here.

Dr. Radovic’s research interests and expertise interface areas of environment and energy, including fate and impacts of marine pollution, environmental remediation, and more recently, energy transition and carbon dioxide removal. During his international research career, he contributed to major industry and academia projects in Europe, United States and Canada. Dr. Radovic’s work combines state-of-the-art analytical methods, laboratory experiments, and field observations to generate innovative technological solutions to some of the pressing societal issues. He is leading co-founder of AVECS-Carbon spinout venture, developing alternative solutions for large-scale carbon removal.

Steve Larter is a Professor of Geochemistry at the University of Calgary. He is an experienced geochemist, deep biosphere researcher and  technology startup co-founder. Steve is interested in technologies for solving climate and energy challenges and ways of  raising ambition and shortening timescales of delivery in academic and industrial invention and innovation domains.

Prathap is a PhD Student supervised by  Prof. Venkataraman Thangadurai in the Advanced Ionics for Sustainable Energy Lab (AISEL) in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Calgary.

Researcher, University of Calgary Department of Geoscience

Dr. Venkataraman Thangadurai is a professor of chemistry at the University of Calgary. After receiving his PhD in 1999 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, he conducted his postdoctoral research at the University of Kiel, Germany, with a prestigious fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn. In 2004, he received the Habilitation degree from the University of Kiel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom, Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden and Fellow of The Electrochemical Society. He received the prestigious Keith Laidler Award and Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry Award from the Canadian Society of Chemistry.  His research focuses on the design, synthesis and characterization of novel solid-state electrolytes and electrodes for next generation solid-state batteries, solid oxide fuel cells, and gas sensors. He has 200+ publications (h-index 57), which have been cited over 14,500 times.

Dr. Kibria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at University of Calgary, Canada. He received MSc and PhD degrees from McMaster and McGill University, respectively. He worked as Banting Fellow at University of Toronto. He is interested in heterogeneous catalysis for CO2 capture and conversion for the synthesis of renewable feedstocks and fuels, large scale CO2 removal, artificial photosynthesis, nanomaterials, waste to value added products, system design, techno-economic and life-cycle analysis for sustainable energy and environment. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in refereed Journals, including Science, Nature Communications, Nature Catalysis, Advanced Materials, Energy and Environmental Science, Journal of American Chemical Society, 5 book-chapters, 8 patents (filed) and over 50 conference presentations. Dr. Kibria is a recipient of Academic Gold Medal, Tomlinson Doctoral fellowship from McGill University, Green Talents Award from German Federal Ministry.