Date Posted: 09/17/2026Req ID:50234Faculty/Division: Faculty of Applied Science & EngineeringDepartment: Dept of Mechanical & Industrial EngCampus: St. George Downtown TorontoExisting Vacancy: Yes Description: About us The Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering is home to about 60 professors leading research on a very broad range of topics. On the Industrial Engineering side, research areas include Operations Research, Information Engineering, Human Factors, and Applied Machine Learning, all of which seek to improve the systems we as humans rely on to navigate our world. On the Mechanical Engineering side, research areas include Robotics, Mechanics & Design, Materials, and Thermofluids, topics that are applied to applications including manufacturing, energy production, and bioengineering. We are also home to about 2,000 very talented students: about 1,300 undergraduates are enrolled in the Industrial Engineering and in the Mechanical Engineering BASc programs. We have about 350 Master of Engineering MEng students, a professional program for students taking courses with us for a year or two. And we have about 350 MASc and PhD students, who work individually on research projects with a particular professor. Description The Bazylak group in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering MIE is looking to fill a Senior Research Associate position. The group carries out research in the areas of fuel cells, water electrolysis, carbon dioxide electrolysis, and fundamental transport in porous media. The Senior Research Associate will work directly under the supervision of Prof. Aimy Bazylak of the MIE Department on projects related to clean electrochemical energy conversion and fundamental transport in porous media. The duties will include: developing and executing the research and commercialization vision with Prof. Bazylak to achieve publication and commercialization goals and knowledge dissemination; oversee the operation of a dynamic R&D group through tracking and monitoring research activities, maintaining project records for multiple research projects, and coordinating day-to-day project activities supervise students, postdoctoral fellows, and coordinate their research activities within research streams writing grant and funding applications and patent applications including verifying the accuracy and completeness of financial elements in grant submissions, and drafting commercialization plans liaising and developing communication plans with various stakeholders to foster and maintain research collaborations preparing technical reports and presentations for partners and funders conducting systematic literature reviews, narrative crafting, editing and proofreading manuscripts, and analyzing research results managing revision and resubmission process, compiling and managing a list of scientific reviewers and academic journal editors, and ensuring materials that conform to specific editorial styles and accommodate target audi
