Sahej Sidhu

Title: Graduate Student
Room: MESC Annex
Building: 4CM Centennial Hall
Email: sidhu-s13@webmail.uwinnipeg.ca

Degree: Master of Science
Supervisor: Dr. Ed Cloutis
Entry: Fall 2022

Research Interests:
I’ll be conducting thermal experiments under asteroid-like environmental conditions on various meteorites and track what spectral and mineralogical changes occur as a result.  As part of the Planetary Science stream, I’m interested in studying the origin and evolution of asteroids, specifically carbonaceous chondrite asteroids. Dark asteroids provide a window into the early Solar System as they preserve pre-solar chemistry and can also help us address important questions such as the delivery of organics and other volatiles to an early Earth. I’ll be conducting various thermal experiments using vacuum ovens and collecting data using a few different spectrometers. 

Biography:
My name is Sahejpal Sidhu. I completed my undergraduate BSc in Geography here at the University of Winnipeg. During my undergrad, I fell into the orbit of Dr. Ed Cloutis and his planetary science world, and here we are. I chose the MESC program to have the opportunity to continue to study at the C-TAPE laboratory and take advantage of the wide variety of equipment and learning opportunities available.