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Marianne Hatzopoulou, Ph.DAssistant Professor Department of Civil
Engineering, McGill University E-mail | marianne.hatzopoulou@mcgill.ca EducationBSc (Physics, American University of Beirut,
Lebanon, 1999) BiographyMy research area bridges between transportation and environmental modelling. My research interests lie in the development of integrated multi-model applications linking daily activities of urban populations and their resulting travel patterns with the generation, dispersion, and exposure to road transport emissions. I am particularly interested in studying the patterns of fuel consumption and air pollutant emissions on a household basis and contrasting them with the patterns of exposure to air pollution of cyclists, pedestrians, drivers, and transit riders. I have also extensive experience in the development of evaluation tools for bridging transport policy analysis with decision-making. I examine ways in which the sustainability impacts of transport policy scenarios can be quantified through the development of performance measures linked with large-scale land-use and transport models. After finishing my MSc and before returning to academia, I was an environmental consultant and have lead a number of Environmental Impact Studies for large infrastructure and urban development projects in the Middle East and North Africa, funded by the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). I have also prepared Environmental Management training workshops for directors of World Bank funded projects in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, and Yemen. |
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Laure Deville CavellinBEng, Civil Engineering, Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) M. Eng - Non Thesis Department of Civil Engineering, McGill University E-mail | laure.devillecavellin@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyLaure was born in Bordeaux (France). She is currently in an exchange program between Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) and McGill University. Her project involves the measurement of air pollution at fixed locations across Montreal and the development of land-use regression models. During an internship in France, she worked as a researcher for OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) on how to get freshwater as a by-product. She loves biking, bodysurfing, singing and traveling. |
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Junshi XuB.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Chongqing University M.Eng- Thesis Student Department of Civil Engineering, McGill University E-mail | junshi.xu@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyJunshi grew up in Wuhan, China. He completed a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering at Chongqing University in 2013. In 2012, he took part in the Globalink program held by Mitacs, and conducted a summer internship at the University of Alberta. His research involves linking travel demand models with emission models in order to investigate individual-level emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases. He loves sports like basketball, badminton, swimming and he is keen on cooking, especially Chinese food. |
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Miguel Dominguez-MichelenBSc. in Civil Engineering, Universidad Iberoamericana -UNIBE- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. M.Eng - Thesis E-mail | miguel.dominguezmichelen@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyMiguel is from the Dominican Republic, a country best known for their beautiful beaches and tropical weather. He completed his BSc in Civil Engineering at UNIBE. Transportation is definitely an area of improvement in Santo Domingo, the lack of professionals and efficient policies encourage Miguel to choose the area of transportation as his tool to improve and make a change. His research involves the development of a scenario-based policy evaluation tool aimed at assisting transportation decision-makers in the appraisal of long-range transportation plans. |
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Ahsan AlamB.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University
of Engineering & Technology E-mail | ahsan.alam2@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyAhsan is from the ever-green country, Bangladesh. He completed his B.Sc in Civil Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) where he conducted his research to evaluate the performance of two recently built flyovers. Later he obtained his M.A.Sc in Civil Engineering from The University of British Columbia. His Masters research involves the quantification of the road safety benefits of sustainable transportation modes. In 2011, he started his PhD in Civil Engineering at McGill University. At present, he is working in the Transportation and Air Quality group under the supervision of Dr. Marianne Hatzopoulou. His current research involves investigating the effect of speed aggregation on the simulation of traffic emissions. It attempts to improve the precision of traditional regional emission modelling techniques using macro and micro scale emission modeling. He also microsimulated the operations and emissions of transit buses along a busy transit corridor in Montreal and quantified the effects of different fuels as well as a set of driving conditions on emissions. He loves traveling, biking, cooking and watching sports. |
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Maryam ShekarrizfardB.Sc. in Water Engineering, Shiraz University E-mail | maryam.shekarrizfard@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyMaryam grew up in Shiraz. She received her M.A. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Shiraz University (as top student). Her M.A. thesis comprises the development of two stochastic and deterministic air quality models in Tehran metropolitan area. She has published more than 8 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences during the past years. Currently, she is involved in an air quality project for the Montreal Metropolitan region and her main research interest is in the development of integrated traffic emissions and dispersion models for large metropolitan areas. She loves sports especially playing basketball. |
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Laura MinetB.Eng, Civil Engineering, Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) E-mail | laura.minet@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyLaura grew up in Tahiti (French Polynesia) and then in Toulouse (France). She is currently doing a double degree program between Ecole Centrale de Nantes and McGill University. Her research project involves the evaluation of individual exposure to air pollution in different means of transportation. She loves rugby, knitting and travelling. |
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Ryan TackB.Eng. in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University (2012 - ongoing) E-mail | ryan.tack@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyRyan was born an hour's drive outside of Toronto in the quiet and hip city of Guelph, Ontario. Having dreamed of studying in Montréal since he was 14, he finally moved there in September of 2012 to study at McGill University. After being intrigued by Professor Hatzopoulou's research on cyclists' exposure to traffic pollution, he worked with a doctoral student Ahsan Alam on investigating several factors that influence bus emissions. In the summer of 2014, he worked with Master’s student Laure Deville-Cavellin recording air pollution with portable electro-chemical and semi-conductor sensors at more than 60 locations on the island of Montréal. Given the promise of portable sensors in improving our understanding of pollution in dense urban environments with highly variable emission sources, he is interested in developing a data acquisition and validation protocol for their usage as well as a review on pollution monitoring technology. |
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An WangB.Eng. in Transportation Engineering, Chang’an University (China) E-mail | An.wang2@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyAn was born and raised in a traditional Chinese family. He finished his bachelor degree in transportation engineering at Chang’an University in 2014. He witnessed the severe air pollution caused by traffic in metropolitan areas of China, which motivated him to study traffic related air pollution. An plays soccer and other sports, he loves watching sports and cooking. |
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William J. FarrellB.Eng. in Civil Engineering, McGill University E-mail | william.farrell@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyWilliam grew up in New York, in a town near the eponymous city. After high school, he went north to Montr?al in order to acquire his Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from McGill University. He has worked in a number of jobs in and around New York City in the fields of surveying, utilities, and pedestrian safety. During this time he became captivated with the idea of complete streets, and he wanted to create ways to maximize not just the vehicular capacity but the utility to all users of the street depending on the unique context of each one. Currently, he is conducting research in urban cyclists exposure to traffic pollutants and evaluating near-roadway air pollution levels under various streets and cycling facility designs. |
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Amin SazavarB.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of
Tabriz? E-mail | amin.sazavar@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyAmin was born in 1988 in Tehran. He has joined the transportation engineering research group at McGill since fall 2011 after completion of his Bachelors in Civil Engineering at University of Tabriz. His research involves definition of a potential multi-agent method of urban commodity delivery and its evaluation based on sustainable transportation planning objectives (i.e. traffic emission reduction). His research focuses on a concept that introduces a new supply chain which has the capacity to be industrialized later. He does oil-painting professionally. |
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Golnaz GhafghaziB.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Isfahan University of
Technology E-mail | golnaz.ghafghazi@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyGolnaz grew up in Isfahan, Iran. After completing her Bachelors in Civil Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology in 2010, she moved to Montreal to start her Masters studies. Her research involved developing a combination of microscopic traffic simulation and emission modeling to quantify the environmental effects of traffic calming measures. She also examined the effects of traffic calming schemes with air dispersion modeling. She loves traveling, biking, cooking and shes a big fan of sitcoms. |
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Timothy SiderB.Eng. in Civil Engineering, McGill University E-mail | timothy.sider@mail.mcgill.ca BiographyTim grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, and completed a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering at McGill in 2010. His main area of interest is focused on building traffic models and applying them to assess and quantify the environmental and social impacts of our transportation systems. His research involved the development of both regional and detailed traffic models for the Montreal region, while estimating the levels of transport-based emissions of greenhouse gases and local air pollutants. His favorite areas of procrastination include bike repair, watching sports and cooking breakfast. He is a Pisces, and has a yellow belt in karate. |