Philip Egberts

Philip Egberts

Professor, University of Calgary, 2023 - present

Associate Dean Engineering Physics, University of Calgary, 2023-present
Associate Head Research, University of Calgary, 2023 - 2024
Acting Head, Mechanical and Manufacturing, 2022-2023
Humboldt Fellow and Visiting Professor, University of Hamburg, 2019 - 2020
Associate Head Graduate Studies, 2015 - 2019
Associate Professor, University of Calgary, 2018-2023
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, 2013 - 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2013 
PhD, McGill University, 2006-2011 
M.A.Sc., University of Toronto, 2004-2006 
B.A.Sc., University of Toronto, 2000-2004 
P.Eng.

Phone: (403) 220-7678 
Fax: (403) 282-8406 
Email: philip.egberts@ucalgary.ca

Postdoctoral Fellows

Vinay Saini

Vinay Saini

Postdoctoral Fellow - June 2022 - Present
PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
MTech, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India
BTech, Mechanical Engineering, RIMT, Punjab Technical University, India

Email: vinay.saini1@ucalgary.ca
Office: MEB 221

Chaochen Xu

Chaochen Xu

Postdoctoral Fellow - October 2021 - Present

Postdoctoral Fellow - April 2019 - September 2021, Tsinghua University, China
PhD, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, US, joint with Experimental Solid Mechanics, Tianjin University, China
B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, China

Email: chaochen.xu@ucalgary.ca
Office: MEB313

Kasi

Kasimuthumaniyan S

Postdoctoral Fellow - June 2023 - Present
PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
MTech, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India
BTech, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India

Email: kasimuthumaniyan.sub@ucalgary.ca
Office: MEB 221

Graduate Students

Penny (Peng) Gong

Penny (Peng) Gong

PhD Student
Starting Date: May 2017
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Office: MEB 159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: peng.gong@ucalgary.ca

Malcolm Macdonald

Malcolm MacDonald

MSc Student
Starting Date: May 2021
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engienering

Office: MEB159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: malcolm.macdonald1@ucalgary.ca

Zuhaa Khan

Zuhaa Khan

MSc Student
Starting Date: September 2023
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engienering

Office: MEB159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: zuhaa.khan@ucalgary.ca

Hunter Marcelo

Hunter Marcelo

MSc Student
Starting Date: September 2023
Biomedical Engineering

Office: MEB159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: hunter.marcelo@ucalgary.ca

Mac Love

Mackinley Love

PhD Student
Starting Date: September 2023
Engineering Education
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Office: MEB 159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: mackinley.love@ucalgary.ca

Undergraduate Students

Yasmin Mobin

Yasmin Mobin

UCalgary PURE Summer Student
1st Year Engineering Student
Undergraduate Student
May 2024-August 2024
 

Email: yasamin.mobin@ucalgary.ca

Albert Kalayil

Albert Kalayil

UCalgary Havlena Scholarship Winner 
1st year Engineering Student 
Undergraduate Student 
May 2024 - August 2024 
 

Email: albert.kalayil@ucalgary.ca

Diana Balcinoiu-Dinu

Diana Balcinoiu-Dinu

UCalgary Havlena Scholarship
1st Year Science Student
Undergraduate Student
May 2024-August 2024

Email: diana.balcinoiudinu@ucalgary.ca

Aditya Tomar

Aditya Tomar

Mitacs Globalink
3rd Year Bachelor of Technology
Undergraduate Student
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
May 2024-August 2024

Email: aditya.tomar@ucalgary.ca

Krisa Hua

Krisa Hua

UCalgary PURE Summer Student
3rd Year Science Student
May 2024-August 2024

Email: simeng.hua@ucalgary.ca

Nicholas Cordoba

Mitacs Globalink
3rd Year Physics Major
Undergraduate Student
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
 

 

Email: cordobagarzonnicolas@gmail.com

Group Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellow Alumni

Babak Soltannia

Babak Soltannia

Postdoctoral Fellow - July 2021 - August 2022
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta
MASc, Civil Engineering, Dalhousie University
MSc, Mechanical Engineering, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (National Technical University)
BSc, Mechanical Engineering, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (National Technical University)

Email: babak.soltannia@ucalgary.ca
Office: MEB 306

Jitendra Panda

Jitendra Narayan Panda

Current Position - Senior Engineer, CTK Bio Canada, R&D Division

Postdoctoral Fellow - June 2019 - May 2021
PhD, Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi
M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi
B.Tech, Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology

Email: jitendra.panda@ucalgary.ca

Stephanie Kedzior

Stephanie Kedzior

Now: Head of Research & Product Development, MgO Systems

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2020
PhD, McMaster University 
B.A.Sc., University of Waterloo

Email: stephanie.kedzior@ucalgary.ca

PhD Alumni

Zahra Aboolizadeh

Zahra Aboolizadeh

Current Position: Mitacs Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Calgary, Supervisor: Dr. Seonghwan Kim

PhD Defence - April 2021
Starting Date: January 2016
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering 
Co-supervised with Dr. Leszek Sudak

Email: zahra.abooalizadeh@ucalgary.ca

Nicholas Chan

Nicholas Chan

Current Position: Research Engineer, Nova Chemicals

PhD student
Starting Date: September 2016
Completion: September 2020
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Office: MEB 159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: ncechan@ucalgary.ca

Jesus Resendiz

Jesus Resendiz

PhD Defence - June 2019
Starting Date: September 2013
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Co-supervised with Dr. Simon Park

Hossein Jiriyaeisharahi

Hossein Jiriyaeisharahi

Current Position: Integrity & Research Engineer at Stantec

PhD Defence - October 2018
Starting Date: September 2014
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering 
Co-supervised with Dr. Sam Kim

MSc Alumni

Jackson

Jackson Uhryn

MSc Student
Dates: May 2021 - April 2023
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engienering

Office: MEB159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: jackson.uhryn@ucalgary.ca

Mackinley Love

Mackinley Love

MSc Student
Dates: September 2021 - August 2023
Engineering Education
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Office: MEB 159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: mackinley.love@ucalgary.ca

Thomas Mathias

Thomas Mathias

MSc Student
Dates: September 2021 - August 2023
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Office: MEB 159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: thomas.mathias@ucalgary.ca

Edwin Yanez Orquera

Edwin Yanez Orquera

MSc Student
Dates: 2019 - 2021
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engienering

Office: MEB159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: edwin.yanezorquera@ucalgary.ca

Arun Mohanty

Arun Mohanty

MEng Project Student Student
Starting Date: September 2020
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engienering

Office: MEB159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: arun.mohanty@ucalgary.ca

Brandon Wong

Brandon Wong

Currently: Automation Engineer at Ice Edge Business Solutions

MSc Student
Starting Date: September 2017-2019
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Office: MEB 159
Phone: (403) 220-2764
Email: bcwong@ucalgary.ca

Peng Gong

Peng Gong

MSc Student
September 2014 to December 2016
Current Status: PhD Student, Nanotribology Group, University of Calgary

Nicholas Chan

Nicholas Chan

MSc Student
September 2014 to September 2016
Current Status: PhD Student, Nanotribology Group, University of Calgary

Undergraduate Alumni

Vicky Nguyen

Vicky Nguyen

NSERC USRA Summer Student
2nd Year Science Student
Undergraduate Student
May 2023-August 2023

Email: vicky.nguyen1@ucalgary.ca

Hardik Tiwari

Hardik Tiwarihardik

Mitacs Globalink
3rd Year Bachelor of Technology Undergraduate Student
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
May 2023-August 2023

Email: hardik.tiwari@ucalgary.ca

Farhaan Alam

Farhaan Alam

Mitacs Globalink
3rd Year Bachelor of Technology Undergraduate Student
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
May 2023-August 2023

Email: farhaan.alam@ucalgary.ca

Chirag Bhardwaj

Chirag Bhardwaj

Mitacs Globalink
3rd Year Bachelor of Technology Undergraduate Student
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
May 2023-August 2023

Email: chirag.bhardwaj@ucalgary.ca

Aleks Berezowski

Aleks Berezowski

NSERC USRA Summer Student
2nd Year Software Engineering Undergraduate Student
May 2022-August 2022

Email: aleksander.berezowsk@ucalgary.ca

Rosivaldo Oliveira

Rosivaldo Oliveira

Mitacs Globalink
4th Year Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Federal University of Paraná (UFPR)
May 2022-August 2022

Email: rosivaldogabriel14@gmail.com

Sahil Masoom

Sahil Masoom

Mitacs Globalink
3rd Year Bachelor of Technology Undergraduate Student
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
May 2022-August 2022

Email: sahilmasoom619@gmail.com

Haider Riaz

Haider Raiz

Mitacs Globalink
4th Year Engineering Physics Undergraduate Student
Carl von Ossietzky Universität
July 2022-October 2022

Email: haider.riaz@uni-oldenburg.de

Preet Patel

Preet Patel

Mitacs Globalink Undergraduate Researcher
4th Year Chemical Engineering Student
Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur
June 2021 - October 2021

Email: patel.preet5383@gmail.com

Raksha Achar

Raksha Achar

NSERC USRA Summer Student
2nd Year Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Student
May 2021-August 2021

Email: raksha.achar@ucalgary.ca

David Svoboda

David Svoboda

SSE Scholarship Summer Student
2nd Year Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Undergraduate Student
May 2021-August 2021

Email: david.svoboda@ucalgary.ca

Carrie Lin

Carrie Lin

Mechanical Engineering 
3rd Year Undergraduate Student
Summer 2017 & Summer 2018

NSERC USRA Award Winner in 2017 and 2018

Carolyn Pathrick

Mechanical Engineering 
2rd Year Undergraduate Student
Summer 2018

UofC PURE Award Winner

Email: carolyn.pethrick@ucalgary.ca

Lin Yuan

3rd Year Physics
Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)
Mitacs Undergraduate Scholarship Winner
Summer 2016

Email: ly31@rice.edu

Martin Bobek

Mechanical Engineering 
3rd Year Undergraduate Student
Summer 2016

NSERC USRA Award Winner

Office: MEB159 

Phone: (403) 220-2764 
Email: martin.bobek@ucalgary.ca

Mary Chen

2nd Year Undergraduate Student
Nanoengineering Program
University of Waterloo 
Winter 2016

Office: MEB159 

Phone: (403) 220-2764 
Email: j442chen@uwaterloo.ca

Jan Czibor

4th Year Undergraduate Student
Mechanical Engineering Program
University of Windsor
Fall 2015

Calvin Wong

2nd Year Undergraduate Student
Nanoengineering Program
University of Waterloo 
Winter 2016

NSERC USRA Award Winner

Nicholas Simin

Mechanical Engineering 
3rd Year Undergraduate Student
Summer 2015

Email: NSimin@ucalgary.ca

Michael Bianchini

Chemical Engineering
3rd Year Undergraduate Student
Summer 2015

NSERC USRA Award Winner

Email: mbianchini2@gmail.com

Jorge Zapote

Biomedical Engineering 
2nd Year Undergraduate Student
Fall 2014

Email: zapotejb@gmail.com

Karolyn Mackowiak

2nd Year Undergraduate Student
Nanoengineering Program
University of Waterloo 
Winter 2015

NSERC USRA Award Winner

Email: k2mackow@uwaterlvoo.ca

Ruvimbo Chinake

Chemical Engineering 
2nd Year Undergraduate Student 
NSERC URSA Award Winner
Summer 2014

Email: ruvimboc1@hotmail.com

Mayesha Tashnil

Chemical Engineering 
2nd Year Undergraduate Student 
PURE Award Winner
Summer 2014

Email: mtashnil@ucalgary.ca