Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

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Spotlight on Faculty

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Deborah Powell

My research focuses mainly on personnel selection, with an emphasis on finding valid and fair methods of hiring the best employees. Most recently, I have investigated employment interviews as a promising approach to measuring personality in job applicants. My research also...

Email: dpowell@uoguelph.ca

Sofie Lachapelle, Department Chair and Professor Department of History College of Arts | University of Guelph

Sofie Lachapelle

My present research project explores the intersections between the normalisation of voice sounds and understandings of national identity.

Email: slachap@uoguelph.ca

Tricia Van Rhijn

Tricia Van Rhijn

My research interests include parent-child relationships, child development, early childhood education and care, child and family well-being, family relations, various aspects of work-life integration (as well as school-life or school-work-life integration), and the experiences of non-traditional students in formal post-secondary education, in particular mature students and student parents. 

Email: tricia.vanrhijn@uoguelph.ca

Portrait of Dr. Alejandro Marangoni

Alejandro Marangoni

Guelph has the top Food Science program in the world. We do exciting research at the forefront of the Food Science endeavor.

Email: amarango@uoguelph.ca

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Margaret Lumley

Abnormal Development, Child/Adolescent Depression, Childhood Maltreatment, Self-Schema Structure and Content

Email: mlumley@uoguelph.ca

Professor Gary Grewal

Professor Gary Grewal

My general research interests are interdisciplinary, and straddle the disciplines of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Currently, I have particular interest in developing algorithmic solutions to optimization problems that arise in both FPGA and VLSI design flows. My other active areas of research include...

Email: gwg@cis.uoguelph.ca

Portrait of Dr. Emmanuelle Arnaud

Emmanuelle Arnaud

I study glacial deposits to reconstruct past climate change and to better understand how these deposits affect the movement of groundwater and contaminants today.

Email: earnaud@uoguelph.ca

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Marcel Schlaf

The ultimate goal of our research is to develop technology that helps to enable a shift of our carbon resource from fossil non-renewables (crude oil, natural gas and coal) to renewable biomass in form of agricultural and forestry byproducts such as corn stover, straws, wood chips and bark, etc.

Email: mschlaf@uoguelph.ca