U of T Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) alumni continue their Alma Mater’s tradition of excellence wherever they go. Meet some of our most innovative materials engineers, educators, entrepreneurs, researchers, and industry leaders below.
- MSE = Materials Science & Engineering (alumni who graduated in 2001 and later)
- MMS = Metallurgy & Materials Science (alumni who graduated prior to 2001)
Entrepreneurs
 Michael G. Helander | MSE PhD 1T2 President, OTI Lumionics |
 Ibraheem Khan | MSE 0T5 President & CEO, Smarter Alloys |
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 Gino Palumbo | MMS 8T3, MASc 8T5, PhD 8T9 President & CEO, Integran Technologies Inc |
 Shawn Xiaohua Qu | MMS PhD 9T5 Chairman, President & CEO, Canadian Solar Inc |
Materials Processing, Metallurgy & Mining
 Kirk Holz | MSE 0T5+PEY Senior Process Engineer, Vale Canada |
 Betty Lin | MSE 0T3, MASc 0T5 Lead Engineer & Project Manager, Backfill Systems Group, Hatch |
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 Adam Roop | MSE 0T1+PEY President & General Manager, H. C. Starck Canada |
Academia
 Donald R. Sadoway | MMS MASc 7T3, PhD 7T7 John F. Elliot Professor of Materials Chemistry, MIT |
 David S. Wilkinson | MMS MASc 7T4 Provost & Vice-President, Academic, McMaster University |
Finance
 Nicole Martin | MMS 7T9 Sr. Director, Corporate Ratings Group (Utilities), Standard & Poor’s |
 Jacqueline Przybylowski | MSE 0T1, MEng 0T5 VP and Metals & Mining Analyst, Desjardins Capital Markets |
Law
 Matthew Graff | MMS 0T0 Associate, Patent & Trademark Agent, Bereskin & Parr LLP |
 Robert B. Storey | MMS 7T7 Managing Partner, Bereskin & Parr LLP |
Manufacturing
 Jacqueline Lim | MSE 0T7 OEM Sales Engineer, NSK Limited |
 Diana Mollicone | MSE 1T0 Applications Engineer, IPEX USA LLC |
Medicine
Varuna Prakash | MSE 0T8
Doctor of Medicine (MD) student, University of Toronto
Clean Technologies
Ryan Gilliam | MSE 0T4, PhD 0T8
Chief Executive Officer, Chemetry & Calera Corporation
Electronic Materials
Dwayne R. Shirley | MSE 0T1, MASc 0T3, PhD 0T9
Senior Engineer, Advanced Packaging, Qualcomm
Energy
Josie Barbato | MSE MASc 0T9
Technical Engineer, Ontario Power Generation (OPG)