Education
• Postdoctoral Fellow 1980-1981 (Pennsylvania State University with Philip S. Skell) • PhD 1980 (University of California at Los Angeles with M. Frederick Hawthorne) • BSc 1975 (University of British Columbia) |
Professor R. Tom Baker
Professional Positions
• 09/2023 - present: Emeritus Professor (active), University of Ottawa (No longer accepting additional research co-workers) • 2008 - 2022: Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Catalysis Science for Energy Applications • 2008 – 2015: Director, Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation (CCRI) • 2008 – 09/2023: Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa • 2008 – 2013: Guest scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) • 1996 – 2008: Research chemist in the Inorganic Isotopes and Actinides Group, Chemistry Division, LANL • 1993 – 1996: Team Leader for homogeneous catalysis scouting, DuPont CR&D • 1981 – 1996: Research chemist in Homogeneous Catalysis group, DuPont CR&D Distinctions • 2019 – Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Chemistry - International Fellow of the ACS Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry • 2018 – Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science • 2013-2020 - Canadian Coordinator of FUNCAT Laboratoire International Associé with CNRS/Université de Lyon • 2010-2015 - Catalysis Theme Coordinator for NSERC strategic research network, LIGNOWORKS • 2009-2013 - Faculty participant in NSERC strategic research network, H2CAN • 2000-2013 - Founding member of NSF centers CATSB and CENTC managed by Prof. Karen Goldberg, University of Washington. • 1998-2006 - Worked with the Bercaw-Labinger team (Caltech) in BP-sponsored Methane Conversion Cooperative (MC2) |
The Group
(No longer accepting additional research co-workers)
PhD Student
Samantha Cormier ([email protected])
Samantha (AKA Sam) is from Winchester, Ontario. She completed her honours BSc at uOttawa. She did her honours project in the Fogg lab, where she synthesised new pseudohalide Ru catalysts. Now as PhD student, she is working on enabling nickel-catalysed olefin metathesis, co-supervised by Profs. Fogg and Baker. She enjoys going on long skating adventures on the Rideau canal during the winter.
Past members
uOttawa:
PDFs
Dr. Loïc Mangin (U de Montréal, Quebec)
Dr. Behnaz Ghaffari (Arkema CR&D, King of Prussia, PA, USA)
Dr. Fernanda Mendonca do Pim (MITACS, Ottawa)
Dr. Cassandra Hayes (Lund, Sweden)
Dr. Indira Thapa (Health Canada, Ottawa)
Dr. Daniel Harrison (3M, Minnesota)
Dr. Rima Isaifan (Qatar Foundation)
Dr. Chunfang Jiang (Toronto)
Dr. Hassan Kalviri (Sussex, Ottawa)
Dr. Baburam Sedai (Boron Specialties, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Dr. Ben Tardiff (Innospec, Calgary)
Dr. Matt Rankin (3M, Brockville, Ontario)
Dr. Cheng Fan (Nova Chemicals, Calgary)
Dr. William Wright (Motorex, Switzerland)
Dr. Sib Sankar Mal (Professor in Karnataka, India)
Dr. Richard Burchell (Waters, UK)
Dr. Timo Ott (Grillo Werke, Duisburg, Germany)
Dr. Giovanni Rachero (Syngenta, Abruzzo, Italy)
PhD students
Atousa Khanzadeh (Ottawa)
Saeed Ataie (PDF with Laurel Schafer at UBC)
Luana Porto (PDF at OHRI, Ottawa)
Matt Elsby (PDF with Nilay Hazari at Yale)
Alexandre Sicard (Ottawa)
Yahya Albkuri (Chalk River, Ontario)
Alex Daniels (uOttawa Safety Officer)
Nicholas Andrella (NRC, Ottawa)
Matt LeClerc (Nanalysis, Calgary)
Mehdi Mostajeran (Health Canada, Ottawa)
Kaitie Giffin (Total, Brussels, Belgium)
Graham Lee (Chemspeed, Basel, Switzerland)
Uttam Das (NRC, Ottawa)
Christian Díaz-Urrutia (Exxon Mobil, Brussels, Belgium)
Visiting PhD students
Raheleh Zafari (uOttawa Chemical Engineering)
Antonio Hernandes Manas (Univ. de Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)
Torsten Rinesch (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Andrea Cingolani (U di Bologna, Italy)
Dawei Zhang (ENS Lyon, France)
Xinnan Lu (ENS Lyon, France)
Andreia Nunes (CPE Lyon, France)
Johannes Thomas (Rostock, Germany)
Felix Gaertner (Rostock, Germany)
Thomas Hugle (TU Berlin, Germany)
Yann Gloaguen (LCC Toulouse, France)
MSc students
Joanne Woloszyn (PhD student at uOttawa Chemical Engineering)
Bakr Barnawi (PhD student at Calgary)
Samira Behroozi (uOttawa PhD student)
Jessica Martin
Alexandra Rochon (Health Canada)
Brandon Fitchett (DND)
Karine Ghostine (Transport Canada)
Chris Godwin (Edmonton)
Wei-Ching Chen (Univar)
Nicole Hunter (pharmacy school)
Stephanie Granville (Teacher)
Visiting MSc students
Ervan Salvi (ENS Lyon, France)
Benedicte Grebille (ENS Lyon, France)
Elise Thorr (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Morgane Le Fur (Caen, France)
Jason Enguehard (Paris, France)
Remi Tirfoin (Paris, France)
Undergrad researchers
Christina Price (ICE UG, Memorial), Kelly O’Neill (ICE undergrad, Memorial), Grace Ahn
(UBC UG, GS, Texas A&M), Amani Farhat (GS, Ottawa), Lauren Gough (Health Canada),
Amanda Comeau (Renfrew physician), William Nicola (uOttawa undergrad), Stan Giesbrecht
(ICE undergrad, Manitoba; Lawyer), Emily Mattiussi (Doctors without Borders, UK), Marc-
André Légare (Laval UG; McGill Chem Prof.), Tony St.-Jacques (NRC), Lorena So
(Opthalmology, uOttawa), Charlie Kivi (Instructor, Toronto), Will McKay (CENTC UG, GS,
Cambrex), Matt McCann (?), Perry Scheetz (CENTC UG, GS, Bloom Energy, Santa Clara, CA),
Nishaan Brar (Toronto Med School), Kyle Leckett (?), Julia Bayne (GS, Toronto), Kareem
Shareefa (?), Logan Shepard (GS, Labtech at Exxon Mobil, Bytown, TX), Lisa Wallis (?),
Alyssa Perrozzo (CENTC UG, MIT), Jin Lin Zhou (?), Lorraine Pua (GS, Nanyang U,
Singapore), Alicia Leung (?), Sarah Piotrkowski (Queen’s GS), Jennifer Daccache (uOttawa
Med School), Tom Zakharov (?), Thalia Rashid (?), Michael Reynen (?), Faith Leroux(?), Jason
Da Gama (Toronto pharmacy), Peixian Zang (UCBerkeley Chem. Eng.), Alyssa Napier (CENTC
UG, MIT), Jeremy Koob (CENTC UG, Brandeis), Thomas McFarland (UBC Med school),
Patrick Gautier (?), Yardley Cuthbert (?), Karen Liu (uOttawa), Renée Diedrich (?), Hawa Keita
(CENTC UG, Wisconsin), Raquel Edjoc (Toronto Chem), Cullen Walsh (UG, Rochester),
Therese Chan (MSc uOttawa), Ahmed Musa (Toronto Med. School), Nancy Xu (Toronto
pharmacy), Angeli Reyes (current uOttawa), Keshia Gaudet (ICE UG, Alberta), Siham
Abouhadjar, Frédéric Vachon, Alec McDermott (La Cité College), Chuangyue Guo (?), Jenny Li
(current uOttawa), Alexander Watson (ICE UG, Western), Emeraude Tapé (current uOttawa Co-
op), Abdul Al Nabulsi (ICE UG, McMaster), Moutasem Seifi (ICE UG, USRA, Windsor),
Nathalie Rowlinson (WISE; ACS SURF; Honours, RA), Seth Hogeterp (Co-op; Honours;
research assistant), Laure Hakizumwami (Co-op), Samantha Dudra (ICE UG, Dalhousie), Nicole
Johnson (ICE UG, Calgary), Scott Kim (ICE UG, Western), Odhran Cruise (ICE UG, Victoria),
Maxwell Lohoar (ICE UG, Dalhousie).
Los Alamos:
PDFs
Dr. Susan Hanson (Los Alamos, NM)
Dr. Ryan Trovitch (Chemistry Prof. at Arizona State)
Dr. Steve Obrey (Los Alamos)
Dr. Kevin John (Los Alamos)
Dr. Carl Iverson (Los Alamos)
Dr. Tianshu Li (RA at TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Dr. Ahmad Dehestani (Sylvatex, Walnut Creek, CA)
Dr. Charles Hamilton (Cabot Microelectronics, Aurora, IL)
Dr. Vincent Pons (Patent attorney, Lyon, France)
Dr. Frances Stephens (teaching in Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Dr. Hongbo Li (Versum Materials, Allentown, PA)
Dr. Ches Simpson (PNNL, WA)
Dr. Jeff Cross (Entegris, Batavia, IL)
Dr. Melissa Petruska* (Entegris, Danbury, CT)
Dr. Rich Keaton* (Dow Freeport, TX)
Dr. Michael Harmjanz* (Professor in Pondichéry, India)
Dr. Ned Hardman (Monolith, Houston, TX)
Dr. My Hang Huynh (unknown)
Dr. Kevin John (Los Alamos)
Dr. Mike Abrams (Arkema, King of Prussia, PA)
Dr. Charles Carter (Nova Chemicals, Calgary)
Dr. Grace Mann (BN ImmunoTherapeutics, South San Francisco)
Dr. Andrea Appel (Continental Tire, Hanover, Germany)
Visiting PhD student
Lindsay Roy (Savannah River National Lab)
Visiting Undergrads
Tom Cameron (Entegris), Karen Gagnon (UC Davis), David Norman (Crane Currency), Joseph
Rule (3M), Melanie Pribisko (Chemistry Prof., CSU Channel Islands), Carl Myers (Colgate-
Palmolive, New York), Johanna Blacquiere (Chemistry Prof., Western University, London, ON),
Jonathan Webb (Imperial Oil, Sarnia)
DuPont CR&D
Visiting PhD student
Kate Mason from Bristol (?)
Visiting undergrad
Tim Glassman (NSI, Portland)
PDFs
Dr. Loïc Mangin (U de Montréal, Quebec)
Dr. Behnaz Ghaffari (Arkema CR&D, King of Prussia, PA, USA)
Dr. Fernanda Mendonca do Pim (MITACS, Ottawa)
Dr. Cassandra Hayes (Lund, Sweden)
Dr. Indira Thapa (Health Canada, Ottawa)
Dr. Daniel Harrison (3M, Minnesota)
Dr. Rima Isaifan (Qatar Foundation)
Dr. Chunfang Jiang (Toronto)
Dr. Hassan Kalviri (Sussex, Ottawa)
Dr. Baburam Sedai (Boron Specialties, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Dr. Ben Tardiff (Innospec, Calgary)
Dr. Matt Rankin (3M, Brockville, Ontario)
Dr. Cheng Fan (Nova Chemicals, Calgary)
Dr. William Wright (Motorex, Switzerland)
Dr. Sib Sankar Mal (Professor in Karnataka, India)
Dr. Richard Burchell (Waters, UK)
Dr. Timo Ott (Grillo Werke, Duisburg, Germany)
Dr. Giovanni Rachero (Syngenta, Abruzzo, Italy)
PhD students
Atousa Khanzadeh (Ottawa)
Saeed Ataie (PDF with Laurel Schafer at UBC)
Luana Porto (PDF at OHRI, Ottawa)
Matt Elsby (PDF with Nilay Hazari at Yale)
Alexandre Sicard (Ottawa)
Yahya Albkuri (Chalk River, Ontario)
Alex Daniels (uOttawa Safety Officer)
Nicholas Andrella (NRC, Ottawa)
Matt LeClerc (Nanalysis, Calgary)
Mehdi Mostajeran (Health Canada, Ottawa)
Kaitie Giffin (Total, Brussels, Belgium)
Graham Lee (Chemspeed, Basel, Switzerland)
Uttam Das (NRC, Ottawa)
Christian Díaz-Urrutia (Exxon Mobil, Brussels, Belgium)
Visiting PhD students
Raheleh Zafari (uOttawa Chemical Engineering)
Antonio Hernandes Manas (Univ. de Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)
Torsten Rinesch (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Andrea Cingolani (U di Bologna, Italy)
Dawei Zhang (ENS Lyon, France)
Xinnan Lu (ENS Lyon, France)
Andreia Nunes (CPE Lyon, France)
Johannes Thomas (Rostock, Germany)
Felix Gaertner (Rostock, Germany)
Thomas Hugle (TU Berlin, Germany)
Yann Gloaguen (LCC Toulouse, France)
MSc students
Joanne Woloszyn (PhD student at uOttawa Chemical Engineering)
Bakr Barnawi (PhD student at Calgary)
Samira Behroozi (uOttawa PhD student)
Jessica Martin
Alexandra Rochon (Health Canada)
Brandon Fitchett (DND)
Karine Ghostine (Transport Canada)
Chris Godwin (Edmonton)
Wei-Ching Chen (Univar)
Nicole Hunter (pharmacy school)
Stephanie Granville (Teacher)
Visiting MSc students
Ervan Salvi (ENS Lyon, France)
Benedicte Grebille (ENS Lyon, France)
Elise Thorr (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Morgane Le Fur (Caen, France)
Jason Enguehard (Paris, France)
Remi Tirfoin (Paris, France)
Undergrad researchers
Christina Price (ICE UG, Memorial), Kelly O’Neill (ICE undergrad, Memorial), Grace Ahn
(UBC UG, GS, Texas A&M), Amani Farhat (GS, Ottawa), Lauren Gough (Health Canada),
Amanda Comeau (Renfrew physician), William Nicola (uOttawa undergrad), Stan Giesbrecht
(ICE undergrad, Manitoba; Lawyer), Emily Mattiussi (Doctors without Borders, UK), Marc-
André Légare (Laval UG; McGill Chem Prof.), Tony St.-Jacques (NRC), Lorena So
(Opthalmology, uOttawa), Charlie Kivi (Instructor, Toronto), Will McKay (CENTC UG, GS,
Cambrex), Matt McCann (?), Perry Scheetz (CENTC UG, GS, Bloom Energy, Santa Clara, CA),
Nishaan Brar (Toronto Med School), Kyle Leckett (?), Julia Bayne (GS, Toronto), Kareem
Shareefa (?), Logan Shepard (GS, Labtech at Exxon Mobil, Bytown, TX), Lisa Wallis (?),
Alyssa Perrozzo (CENTC UG, MIT), Jin Lin Zhou (?), Lorraine Pua (GS, Nanyang U,
Singapore), Alicia Leung (?), Sarah Piotrkowski (Queen’s GS), Jennifer Daccache (uOttawa
Med School), Tom Zakharov (?), Thalia Rashid (?), Michael Reynen (?), Faith Leroux(?), Jason
Da Gama (Toronto pharmacy), Peixian Zang (UCBerkeley Chem. Eng.), Alyssa Napier (CENTC
UG, MIT), Jeremy Koob (CENTC UG, Brandeis), Thomas McFarland (UBC Med school),
Patrick Gautier (?), Yardley Cuthbert (?), Karen Liu (uOttawa), Renée Diedrich (?), Hawa Keita
(CENTC UG, Wisconsin), Raquel Edjoc (Toronto Chem), Cullen Walsh (UG, Rochester),
Therese Chan (MSc uOttawa), Ahmed Musa (Toronto Med. School), Nancy Xu (Toronto
pharmacy), Angeli Reyes (current uOttawa), Keshia Gaudet (ICE UG, Alberta), Siham
Abouhadjar, Frédéric Vachon, Alec McDermott (La Cité College), Chuangyue Guo (?), Jenny Li
(current uOttawa), Alexander Watson (ICE UG, Western), Emeraude Tapé (current uOttawa Co-
op), Abdul Al Nabulsi (ICE UG, McMaster), Moutasem Seifi (ICE UG, USRA, Windsor),
Nathalie Rowlinson (WISE; ACS SURF; Honours, RA), Seth Hogeterp (Co-op; Honours;
research assistant), Laure Hakizumwami (Co-op), Samantha Dudra (ICE UG, Dalhousie), Nicole
Johnson (ICE UG, Calgary), Scott Kim (ICE UG, Western), Odhran Cruise (ICE UG, Victoria),
Maxwell Lohoar (ICE UG, Dalhousie).
Los Alamos:
PDFs
Dr. Susan Hanson (Los Alamos, NM)
Dr. Ryan Trovitch (Chemistry Prof. at Arizona State)
Dr. Steve Obrey (Los Alamos)
Dr. Kevin John (Los Alamos)
Dr. Carl Iverson (Los Alamos)
Dr. Tianshu Li (RA at TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Dr. Ahmad Dehestani (Sylvatex, Walnut Creek, CA)
Dr. Charles Hamilton (Cabot Microelectronics, Aurora, IL)
Dr. Vincent Pons (Patent attorney, Lyon, France)
Dr. Frances Stephens (teaching in Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Dr. Hongbo Li (Versum Materials, Allentown, PA)
Dr. Ches Simpson (PNNL, WA)
Dr. Jeff Cross (Entegris, Batavia, IL)
Dr. Melissa Petruska* (Entegris, Danbury, CT)
Dr. Rich Keaton* (Dow Freeport, TX)
Dr. Michael Harmjanz* (Professor in Pondichéry, India)
Dr. Ned Hardman (Monolith, Houston, TX)
Dr. My Hang Huynh (unknown)
Dr. Kevin John (Los Alamos)
Dr. Mike Abrams (Arkema, King of Prussia, PA)
Dr. Charles Carter (Nova Chemicals, Calgary)
Dr. Grace Mann (BN ImmunoTherapeutics, South San Francisco)
Dr. Andrea Appel (Continental Tire, Hanover, Germany)
Visiting PhD student
Lindsay Roy (Savannah River National Lab)
Visiting Undergrads
Tom Cameron (Entegris), Karen Gagnon (UC Davis), David Norman (Crane Currency), Joseph
Rule (3M), Melanie Pribisko (Chemistry Prof., CSU Channel Islands), Carl Myers (Colgate-
Palmolive, New York), Johanna Blacquiere (Chemistry Prof., Western University, London, ON),
Jonathan Webb (Imperial Oil, Sarnia)
DuPont CR&D
Visiting PhD student
Kate Mason from Bristol (?)
Visiting undergrad
Tim Glassman (NSI, Portland)