
Stéphane Bayen
Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Food Science & Agricultural Chemistry
Stéphane obtained a PhD (Chemistry) from the National University of Singapore. Since 2014, he has been building a research program at McGill University concentrating on developing novel analytical approaches, i.e. non-targeted analysis (NTA), to monitor contaminants and to provide a more in-depth understanding of the human exposome. He was the recipient of Agilent Thought Leader Award 2021.
Lan Liu
Research Associate
Skills and expertise : Chromatography; Mass Spectrometry ; High-Performance Liquid Chromatography; Sample Preparation.
Manager of the Macdonald Mass Spectrometry Platform
Louis Thomas
PhD candidate - International cotutelle : McGill University and LABERCA (Oniris, France - cosupervisor Dr. Dervilly)
Master A3M, Université Nantes, France
Louis' s research focuses on the contribution of plastics to consumer exposure to chemicals. It aims to provide new data on food contamination by microplastics and chemical contaminants, particularly among French and Canadian consumers
Previous lab members
<2025
Postdocs
Dr. Nausheen Sadiq (2017-2018)
Dr. Caroline Simonnet-Laprade (cosupervision LABERCA, 2018-2019)
Dr. Lei Tian (2021-2024)
Dr. Shawninder Chahal (2022-2024)
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Graduate Students:
Lin Hefei, MSc Food Science (2015-2017)
Tian Lei, MSc Food Science (2015-2016)
Annie vonEyken, PhD Food Science (2015-2019)
Daniel Furlong, MSc Food Science (2017-2019)
Pablo Elizondo, MSc Food Science (2017-2019)
Tian Lei, PhD Food Science (2016-2020)
Anca Baesu, PhD Food Science (2017-2021)
Peiying Wang, PhD Food Science (2018-2022)
Ali Mawof, PhD Bioresource Engineering (2015-2021)
Caren Akiki, MSc Food Science (2021-2023)
Patrice Hurtubise, MSc Food Science (2021-2023)
Gabriel Leung, PhD Food Science (2019-2024)
Zhi Hao Chi, PhD Food Science (2019-2024)
Ziyun Xu, PhD Food Science (2018-2024)
Alexandra Roginski, MSc Food Science (2022-2024)
MSc non-thesis:
2015: Salma Khalil; Yi Xin Li; Taresh Garewal; Shereen Taki; 2016: Al Amir Al-Weshahy; Xi Lin; Lan Lin; Samareh Arooni; 2017: Jinyung Zheng; Ricardo Claudio; Chao-Chuan Chen; 2018: Anila Xhufi; Xue Cao; Yizhen Deng; Swaroopini Ramachandran; 2019: Harmanjeet Kaur, Harinder Kaur; 2020: Shaghig Bilamjian, Anshika Grover, Kirandeep Ahluwalia; 2022: Cailyn Wolberg; 2024: Donald Bimpong, Sally Mawusi. 2025: Kaiyue Wen, TJ Hui.
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) & Honours students: Nancy He, BSc Food Science/Nutrition Science (2018) - Best Poster Award 3rd/28; Hamza Chugthai, BSc Food Science (2019) - Best Poster Award 1st/28; Sharvani Ram, BSc Food Science (2022); Ririka Saito, BSc Food Science (2023)- Best Poster Award 2nd/28; Michelle Effendy (2024) - Honours; Jiani Yao (2025) - Honours; Samuel Uline, BSc Food Science (2025); Zachary Aubin, BSc Food Science (2025).
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Visiting researchers:
Adrián de la Fuente Ballesteros, visiting PhD (University of Valladolid, Spain; 2024); Cassandre Jeannot, visiting PhD (LABERCA/ANSES, France; 2025); Thomas LeBouill, visiting MSc (LABERCA, France; 2025).