Discover innovators transforming our world
Phil De Luna: Using technology, policy, and finance to create climate change solutions
For Phil De Luna (MSc ‘15), a scientist and research capitalist working to advance climate technology, curiosity has always been a core component of his life. Phil explains that his job as a scientist is to be professionally curious—to experiment and understand what happens when we change things and interact with the world.
Sensor Cortek: uOttawa alumni launches company to improve autonomous vehicle safety
Sensor Cortek, a company started by uOttawa alum Fahed Hassanat, is using AI and deep learning to improve autonomous vehicle safety.
Meet engineering alumna Vida Gabriel, an entrepreneur under 30 tackling carbon capture
Meet the uOttawa engineering grad who built one of Ontario’s top cleantech companies
Belinda Gilbey (BASc ’14) combined her entrepreneurship and engineering skills to establish BONDI Energy. The company focuses on retrofitting commercial and multi-unit residential buildings with energy efficient heat pumps.
Pascale Marceau on managing risks - during an expedition and in business
She loves the polar regions, “the vast spaces where there are no answers, no paths, no trails,” and she loves ... calculated risks. But rather than be called “brave”, this explorer, mountain climber and risk management consultant by the name of Pascale Marceau (BScAp in Chemical Engineering ’99) prefers to be called “curious” and “tenacious.”
Celebrating women in engineering
Four uOttawa Alumna from the Faculty of Engineering are sharing their experience since graduating university and are offering their best advice to current engineering students. Meet Caroline, Rukkya, Imane and Vanessa, four women who are shaping the future through their profession.
Anna Ampaw, PhD, an emerging scientist and leader in STEM
The two passions that unite Anna Ampaw’s academic career and her extracurricular efforts are her love of chemistry and her desire to see more women of colour represented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Anaïs Dagrou (MA ’22): Feminist and community leader
Feminist and community leader Anaïs Dagrou opens up about her journey at the University of Ottawa.
Trailblazers x uOttawa: Alumna Edem Dovlo uses teaching and engineering
Before she discovered the world of math and science and a career that could combine them both, Edem Dovlo (MASc ’11, BASc ’09) knew that she loved learning. As last year, we’ve teamed up with Ridley-Padmore and Ndema-Moussa to celebrate Black History Month and add a new portrait and poem of Black uOttawa alumna who has made a significant mark on the University.