Successful Year for the Queen’s Corrosion Group

It’s been a successful and exciting year for graduate students in the Queen’s Corrosion Group led by Prof. Suraj Persaud. Students have presented oral and poster presentations at national and international conferences, with audiences of academic and industry experts in the nuclear and corrosion fields. The presentations have all been well received, and during this time, several student awards were won: 

• E. Jervis Award to Hooman Gholamzadeh, for excellence in research and development carried out by a full time graduate student in nuclear engineering or related fields, at the 2022 CNS (Canadian Nuclear Society) Conference.
• Shared 1^st Place Poster Presentation Award to Hooman Gholamzadeh for best PhD submission at the 2022 CNS Conference.
• Shared 1^st Place Poster Presentation Award to Victor (Udo) Okoro for best PhD submission at the 2022 CNS Conference.
• 1^st Place Poster Presentation Award to Yasaman Ghaffari at the NACE SOSS (National Association of Corrosion Engineers Southern Ontario Student Section) 12^th Annual Student Symposium.
• 3^rd Place Poster Presentation Award to Hooman Gholamzadeh at The NACE SOSS 12^th Annual Student Symposium.
• 1^st Place Poster Presentation Award to Yasaman Ghaffari at the UNENE (University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering) 2022 R&D Workshop
• 1^st Place Oral Presentation Award to Hooman Gholamzadeh at the UNENE (University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering) 2022 R&D Workshop
• Dennis B. Dutton Award to Victor (Udo) Okoro, for Student Leadership Excellence, at the 2023 AMPP (Association for Materials Protection and Performance) Conference.
• AMPP Graduate Student Book Award to Victor (Udo) Okoro, at the 2023 AMPP Conference.

Presentation of the Dennis B. Dutton Award at AMPP 2023. Left to Right, Professor Joseph Kish (McMaster), Yuki Ando (McMaster), and Victor (Udo) Okoro (Queen’s)

Hooman Gholamzadeh and Yasaman Ghaffari with their award certificates from the UNENE 2022 R&D Workshop

Additionally, Adriano Yaedu was awarded a department travel grant, to assist in his travel to The University of Manchester, to perform unique gaseous corrosion testing, and Pascal Livolant was awarded travel assistance through a CREATE grant, to perform corrosion and electrochemical experiments at McMaster University in summer 2023.

The Persaud Corrosion Group continues to grow and is actively hiring students interested in Master’s, PhD, or Post-Doctoral positions covering a range of corrosion and surface characterization applications.