Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

Spotlight on Faculty

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Paola Mayer

I am interested in German and Austrian literature and thought from the late 18th to the early 20th century. My focus is on the fantastic and uncanny, myth and fairy tales. My current research deals with the aesthetics of terror in the romantic period.

Email: pmayer@uoguelph.ca

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Leah Levac

My community-engaged research collaborations focus on the interplay between citizens – particularly young women and women in northern communities – and the framing and development of public policy.​

Email: llevac@uoguelph.ca

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Olga Smoliak

I examine professional interactions in the context of therapy. I use discourse and conversation analysis to study the micro-details of social interaction.

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W. David Lubitz

I combine experiments, simulations, and theory to tackling problems like improving small hydropower systems, modeling the climate inside greenhouses, and studying airflow in both industrial processes and outdoors.

Email: wlubitz@uoguelph.ca

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Madhur Anand

Humans and their environment are coupled systems and we need to study them as such to improve life for all.

Email: manand@uoguelph.ca

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Shawki Areibi

One of my main research activities addresses the development of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools for Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) which are used today in all types of applications including security systems, consumer products, medical equipment, manufacturing systems, robotics to name just a few.

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Stacey Scott

I am passionate about designing computing technologies that support small groups of people working and socializing in face-to-face environments.

Email: stacey.scott@uoguelph.ca