About

Prof. Gostick’s Bio

Professor Jeff Gostick is the Azzam-Dullien Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he runs the Porous Materials Engineering & Analysis Lab. Prior to joining UofW he was a Professor in Chemical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal from 2010 to 2016. His PhD work focused on multiphase transport phenomena in hydrogen fuel cells. Upon completion of his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2008 he did post-doctoral work at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where he used the ALS synchrotron to perform ‘cat scans’ on electrodes, which led to his current interest in volumetric image analysis. He is the lead developer of the open-source software projects OpenPNM and PoreSpy, both of which focus on understanding transport phenomena in porous materials at the pore-scale. Prof Gostick was named an Emerging Leader by the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering in 2019, and was honored with the Azzam-Dullien Professorship in Transport in Porous Media in 2022. With the help of his current and former graduate students, which include dozens of PhD and Master’s students, he has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, 6 book chapters, and given hundreds of talks at conferences around the world.