Dr. Magdalena Krol is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Lassonde School of Engineering, at York University. Dr. Krol received her B.E.Sc. and M.E.Sc. from the University of Western Ontario in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Krol’s area of expertise is in environmental engineering, specializing in numerical modelling of subsurface fate and transport and the effect of heat on the subsurface environment. Her research activities include optimizing groundwater remediation technologies, assessing performance of underground storage of spent nuclear fuel, and geothermal optimization.
To date, Professor Krol has been awarded funding from various funding agencies. This includes the NSERC Discovery and Alliance Grants, the Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grant and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Grant. Most recently Professor Krol was awarded, as a co-investigator, a multi-institutional Ontario Research Fund to study the environmental impact of engineered materials degradation in clayey soils.
Professor Krol has served as the Chair of the NSERC Civil, Industrial and Systems Engineering Scholarships Committee (2017-2020), and the Geoenvironmental Division Chair for the Canadian Geotechnical Society. She has been an invited lecturer at numerous institutions, including Environment Canada and Climate Change, Community Meetings in Northern Ontario, and high schools in Jamaica. In addition, she has been very active at numerous outreach events including speaking at local girl guide meetings, GoEngGirls events, FIRST Robotics, and SHAD Canada.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Krol worked as a Remediation Engineer in Boston, MA on a diverse set of remediation projects dealing with a wide range of contaminants and sites. She is the author of numerous journal and conference publications and is a licensed professional engineer in the province of Ontario.
