CERCL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto
Job Titles:
- Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering
Brad Saville is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto, and is the Faculty Coordinator for Occupational Health and Safety. He obtained his B.Sc. (1985) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees in Chemical Engineering at the University of Alberta, specializing in bioreactors, drug metabolism, and bioprocessing.
Professor Saville is interested in bioprocess technology, with particular emphasis on the performance, characteristics and applications of enzymes to biofuels, in starch processing, and in pulp and paper. He holds several patents related to enzyme technology and the industrial application of biocatalysts. In addition, he has published several articles related to the kinetics and mechanistic aspects of enzyme function, including pharmacokinetics, and is the co-author of "An Introduction of Chemical Reaction Engineering and Kinetics", published by John Wiley and Sons in 1999.
Professor Saville provides advice on issues related to occupational health and safety, bio/enzymatic processing, general chemical engineering process technology, and technical/process analysis in support of insurance claims and litigation.
Professor Yip received his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1996. He was the first recipient of the Molecular Imaging's Outstanding Young Biological Scanning Probe Microscopy Investigator of the Year award. His research has been supported by NSERC, MRC/CIHR, ORDCF, CFI, OIT, PREA, in addition to Eli Lilly, Battelle Memorial Institute and the US Department of Energy (Sandia National Laboratories).
Dr Yip's research focuses on single molecule biophysics, emphasizing the design and control of organic and protein self-assembly, design of novel instrumentation for single molecule imaging and functional characterization, and computational techniques for simulation of molecular self-assembly and self-organization.
Job Titles:
- Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering
Charles Jia is an Associate Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto . He obtained his B.E. (1982) and M.E. (1984) degrees in Material Engineering at Chongqing University and a Ph.D. degree (1994) in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at McMaster University. Prior to his appointment to this department in 1996, he had been an NSERC postdoctoral fellow for two years. He is a member of Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering (CSChE), Air and Waste Management Association (A&WMA), Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), and Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), and a registered engineer in Ontario.
Professor Jia's research is concerned with applying sciences and engineering principles to environmental problems in industry and creating innovative solutions for maximizing the value of natural resources and minimizing the impact of resource-based industries to ecosystems. His areas of expertise include pollution abatement technologies, secondary materials and by-product utilization and treatment technologies, environmental applications of inorganic sulphur chemistry and modeling the fate and transport of pollutants in the environment. Current projects aim at re-generable flue gas desulphurization (FGD), mercury emission control using sulphur-impregnated active carbon (SIAC), non-ferrous metals recovery from smelter slags, utilization of petroleum fluid coke and engineering sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) for water pollution control. He has published over 20 papers in refereed journals and has two patents.
Professor Jia provides advice on pollution abatement technologies, resource recovery from industrial wastes, behaviour of pollutants in natural and controlled environment, in particular, sulphur-related pollution control and pollutants behaviour and impact.