Philip Gamboa is a licenced professional engineer originally from Ontario with work experiences in Canada and the United States who now resides in Montréal, Québec. He completed his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2016, having served his first two co-operative work terms operating a titanium dioxide solvent extraction and precipitation pilot-plant process at Process Research Ortech inc. in Mississauga ON and rare-earth recovery processes at SGS Minerals Services in Lakefield ON. He diversified his work experiences by completing additional work terms in analytical services, silicone, automotive, and pharmaceutical manufacturing, where he spent his post-graduation career working in industry as a process engineer and project manager.

He began his full-time MSc. studies in Materials Engineering under the supervision of Professor George Demopoulos at McGill University in September 2022. As part of the HydroMET group, he is currently investigating low-temperature and low-caustic iron electrolysis in aqueous media under the mentorship of PhD Candidate Arian Norouzi whose project is sponsored by ArcelorMittal. His recent research goals include optimizing deposit purity considerations and washing procedures to contribute to the fundamental electrochemistry research in this area while sharing the insights learned from this carbon-free process with industry.