Reghan J. Hill’s research group


Reghan J. Hill

Associate Professor


Canada Research Chair in Colloids for Advanced Materials (2002-12)

B.E. (1st class honours) Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Auckland

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Cornell University

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University


Room 4280 Wong Building

Department of Chemical Engineering

McGill University

3610 University Street

Montreal, Quebec,H3A 0C5,Canada


Tel.: 514.398.6897, Fax: 514.398.6678, E-mail: reghandothillatmcgilldotca


Research


Micro-hydrodynamic and electrokinetic phenomena; polymer-inorganic nano-composites; hydrogel nano-composites; rheology; nano-particle gel electrophoresis; electrophoresis soft nano-particulates; electrical micro-rheology of hydrogels and hydrogel nano-composites; electro-acoustic and dielectric spectroscopy; nonlinear hydrodynamics in porous media; computational fluid dynamics and lattice-Boltzmann simulation


Peer reviewer for >60 leading engineering and scientific journals.


Teaching 

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Advanced graduate courses:


CHEE 688 Advanced Materials in Chemical Engineering 

(with Prof. Dorval-Courchesne, winter 2022-present)

CHEE 641 Chemical Reaction Engineering (2021-present)

CHEE 611 Heat & Mass Transfer (2014-present)

CHEE 631 Foundations of Fluid Mechanics (2005-2013) 

CHEE 621 Thermodynamics (2009)


Technical complimentary (open to advancing undergraduates and graduates in sciences and engineering):


CHEE 585 Foundations of Soft Matter (2007-present)


Core undergraduate courses:


CHEE 231 Data Analysis and Design of Experiments (fall, 2022-present)

CHEE 204 Chemical Engineering Principles II (winter 2021)

CHEE 455 Process Control (2014-2019)

CHEE 204 Chemical Manufacturing Processes (2003-2013)

CHEE 314 Fluid Mechanics (2003)

Buoyancy-driven convection. Lattice-Boltzmann simulation (CHEE 611).