Industrial Bioproduct LabWestern Engineering

Current Group Members

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Dr. Chunbao (Charles) Xu

Professor, Director of IBL

cxu6@uwo.ca

Principal Investigator

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Dr. Zhongshun (Sean) Yuan

Research Associate

R&D Director of Western Maple Bio Resources Inc.

zyuan25@uwo.ca

Bio-based polymers and green chemical technologies

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Fang (Flora) Cao

Research Technician

fcao3@uwo.ca

Various projects

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Dr. Hongwei (Lilly) Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

02/2018-01/2023 

lihongweinvahai@163.com

Production of hydroponic growing medium from greenhouse wastes and crop residues 

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Dr. Kasanneni Tirumala Venkateswara Rao

Postdoctoral fellow

venkatiict.kasanneni@gmail.com

Catalytic conversion of carbohydrates and cellulosic biomass into HMF and FDCA

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Dr. Qiang Wei

Postdoctoral fellow

qwei46@uwo.ca

Development of bio-based materials from agricultural/forestry biomass

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Mohamed Kaddour

PhD student, co-supervision with Dr. Mamdouh Abou-Zaid at NRCan

09/2017-04/2021 

mkaddou@uwo.ca

Lignin depolymerization for bio-based chemicals

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Ramon Beims

PhD student

09/2018-08/2022

rbeims@uwo.ca

Hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass for fuels and high-value bioproducts

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Dennise Sosa

PhD student

09/2018-08/2022

dsosacar@uwo.ca

Production of lignin nanoparticles from crop residues and application as biofillers in tires or other rubber composites

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 Rosa Arredondo

PhD student

09/2018-08/2022

rarredon@uwo.ca

Production of bio-based water absorbing polymers

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Aristide Laurel Mokale Kognou

PhD student

Co-supervision with Dr. Wensheng Qin at Lakehead Univ

09/2018-08/2022

amokale@lakeheadu.ca

Bioconversion of cellulose/sugars into platform chemicals

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Haoyu Wang

PhD student, joint supervision with Dr. Yimin Zeng at CanmetMATERIALS, NRCan

01/2019-12/2022

hwang928@uwo.ca

Reactor corrosion behaviors in thermochemical conversion of biomass

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Haoyang Li

PhD student, joint supervision with Dr. Yimin Zeng at CanmetMATERIALS, NRCan

09/2019-08/2023

hli778@uwo.ca

Reactor corrosion behaviors in biomass gasification processes

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Thanh Vo

PhD student

09/2019-08/2023

nvo25@uwo.ca

Production of bio-plastics from cellulose and starch 

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Anthony Johnson

MESc student

09/2019-08/2021

ajohn468@uwo.ca

Production of bio-based water absorbing polymers

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Mingyuan Zhang

PhD student

09/2021-08/2025

mzhan582@uwo.ca

Bio-oil hydro-de-oxygenation upgrading and reactor corrosion behaviors

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Glen DSouza

PhD student, joint supervised with Drs. Mita Ray and Anand Prakash

01/2021-01/2025

gdsouza6@uwo.ca

Produciton of bio-PF forms from lignins for various applications

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Taizong Shen

PhD student

01/2021-01/2025

tshen54@uwo.ca 

Produciton of platform green chemicals from sugars

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Yujian Wu

PhD student (visiting)

06/2021-06/2022

ywu2644@uwo.ca 

Catalytic pyrolysis of biomass