(Queen’s Mechanical and Materials Engineering), Director of Queen’s Sustainable Bio-Economy Centre, computational and experimental fluid dynamics with particular interest in turbulence, transport of wood pellets through pipelines, bioenergy; biomass conversion

(Chemical Engineering) - production of bioplastics (poly-3-hydroxyalkanoates) through fermentation processes

(Chemical Engineering) - biodecoloration of textile dye effluents, bioremediation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons, applications of immobilized soil bioreactors, high-densit microbial production of a biodegradable thermoelastomer

(Biology) – molecular control of gene development in plants; biomass crop development

(Chemistry and Chemical Engineering) - remedial technologies; environmental assessment; arsenic speciation; human health and ecological risk assessment

(Physics) - optical properties of polymer thin films for the development of novel optical devices

Civil Engineering) – contaminant migration through soil and rock, landfill design, containment of contaminated sites, geosynthetics (including geotextiles, geomembranes, geogrids, geonets etc.), reinforced embankments and walls, tunnels in soft ground, failure of slopes and excavations

(School of Computing) - computational biology; bioinformatics, machine learning, data and text mining

(Mechanical and Materials Engineering) - Applied Electrochemistry
Corrosion and Failure Analysis
Biomaterials Electrochemical
Processing of Thin Films and Coatings
Diffusion and Mass Transport in Electrochemical Systems

(Biology) – Research: My laboratory investigates the cellular mechanisms that plants use to cope with abiotic (cold, drought, etc.) and biotic (pathogen attack) stress. We are particularly interested in understanding the role of calcium ions as second messengers in stress-induced signal transduction pathways. Our research focuses on how calcium-binding proteins (often termed 'calcium sensors'), such as calmodulin and calmodulin-related proteins (CMLs), participate in the complex responses of plant cells to environmental stress.