Women in Research: How Thinking Like a Researcher Can Catapult Your Career

In today’s fast paced world, the need to innovate, stay up to date and continuously professionally develop drives industry. This presentation will review how thinking like a researcher can catapult and launch your career into the next level. Successful recent research projects in the Freire-Gormaly Laboratory at York University will be highlighted. Lessons learned and transferrable skills and principles that are relevant to anyone in their career will be highlighted and prompt a lively Q&A discussion.

Speaker: Dr. Marina Freire-Gormaly

Dr. Marina Freire-Gormaly is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at York University in Toronto. Her primary research interests are in experimental and computational fluid dynamics modeling, modeling & simulation of nuclear materials, computational models of aerosol transmission of COVID-19 for safer indoor environments, and development of new materials for energy sustainability. Dr. Freire-Gormaly received a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science with a Major in Energy Systems, and her Masters (M.A.Sc.) and Doctorate (Ph.D.) at the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering. She spent one year as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. Freire-Gormaly has received several awards including the York University Lassonde Media Outreach Award in 2021. She serves as a Board of Director in the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. She is passionate about researching and teaching about energy systems to develop innovative technologies to tackle society’s growing sustainability challenges. Dr. Freire-Gormaly has also previously worked at Ontario Power Generation on the Darlington New Nuclear Project and the Darlington Refurbishment Project. She has experience consulting for the energy industry in several projects including a World Bank project evaluating Canada’s Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE).