Researchers across TMU receive NSERC Discovery Grants

August 30, 2023

TMU campus buildings lit up against the night sky.

Sixteen Toronto Metropolitan University researchers have been awarded Discovery Grants.

Sixteen Toronto Metropolitan University researchers have received Discovery Grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Additionally, three of the researchers received an NSERC Discovery Launch Supplement, which provides early career researcher support.

This funding will advance projects spanning three faculties and ranging in topics from supply chain management to road safety to enhancing biodiversity conservation and more. In total, the researchers have secured more than $3.3 million in funding over five years through the Discovery Grants program.

“Congratulations to all of the researchers on this success,” said Steven N. Liss, TMU’s vice-president, research and innovation. “This funding will support a diverse array of ongoing research, advancing natural sciences and engineering knowledge that will deliver benefits for Canadians in fields such as health care, building science and clean energy.”

2023 NSERC Discovery Grants from TMU

Faculty of Arts

Frank Russo: Extending the neurocognitive understanding of listening effort with concurrent fNIRS-EEG and neurostimulation

Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science

Umberto Berardi: Innovative coatings incorporating nanotechnologies for more resilient buildings
Daolun Chen: Lightweight high-entropy alloys: Structure and properties
Kazem Fayazbakhsh: A holistic approach to additive manufacturing of fiber reinforced thermoplastics for industrial applications
Saman Hassanzadeh Amin: Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chain design using data-driven optimization
Mohamad Jaber: Sustainable supply chains: New models for a modern era
Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi: Aerial continuum manipulation: A new paradigm for unmanned robotic manipulation in unstructured environments
Krishna Kumar: Design, dynamics and control of smart spacecraft
ChungHyuk Lee: Alternative electrode structures for clean electrochemical energy conversion and storage
Bhagwant Persaud: Advancing innovation in developing and applying methodologies for science-based road safety management
Medhat Shehata: Evaluation and mitigation of the long-term effects of aggregate reactions in combination with other distress modes
Krishnan Venkatakrishnan: Scalable manufacturing platform using high power pulse laser and its applications

Faculty of Science

Eric Da Silva: Development of X-ray fluorescence spectrometry systems for bone metal quantification using soft X-rays
Kunquan Lan: Fixed point theory in product Banach spaces, basic theory for fractional differential equations and applications to elliptic population models
Stephanie Melles: Enhancing biodiversity conservation and ecosystem functioning in urban watersheds
Guennadi Saiko: Video plethysmography: Going beyond blood oxygenation and heart rate detection

Learn more about the recently announced NSERC Discovery Grants (external link) .