Members
| Name | Area | Contact |
Mohsen Akbari Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering | Biomedical engineering (Bio-MEMS) and energy tissue engineering, organs-on-chip, microfluidics, sustainable energy |
Office: Engineering Office Wing Room 331 |
Thomas E. Baker Assistant Professor Physics and Astronomy | Quantum computing, quantum matter, condensed matter theory, density functional theory, tensor networks, error-correction |
Office: Elliott 118 |
Magdalena Bazalova-Carter Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Medical Physics Physics and Astronomy | Medical physics, dose-enhanced radiotherapy with nanoparticles, small animal conformal radiotherapy, cost-effective radiotherapy x-ray source design |
Office: Elliott Room 109 |
Rustom Bhiladvala Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering | Nanoscale materials, mechanics & transport, fluid and biomedical sensor development, energy and sustainable development, nanoscale synthesis and fabrication techniques |
Office: Engineering Office Wing Room 521 |
Arthur Blackburn Assistant Professor Physics and Astronomy | Advanced electron microscopy |
Office: Elliott Room 108 |
Cornelia Bohne Professor Chemistry | Supramolecular dynamics, kinetics, host-guest, gels, soft materials, photophysics, photochromism, asphaltene |
Office: Elliott Room 246 |
Alexandre G. Brolo Chair of Chemistry, Professor Chemistry | Surface-enhanced spectroscopy, biosensing |
Office: Elliott Room 317 |
Heather Buckley Associate Director, Assistant Professor Civil Engineering | Green chemistry, molecular sensors for water contaminants, safer prevention of fouling |
Office: Engineering & Computer Science Room 418 |
Devika Chithrani Associate Professor Physics and Astronomy | Medical physics, synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles, development of nanoparticle based systems for multimodal imaging and therapeutics, nanoparticle based radiosensitizers, drug delivery, intracellular fate of nanoparticles. |
Office: Elliott Room 107 |
Byoung-Chul Choi Professor Physics and Astronomy | Nonequilibrium spin dynamics in nanoscale magnets, magnetoelectronics, micromagnetic finite element modeling |
Office: Elliott Room 115 |
Rogerio de Sousa Associate Professor Physics and Astronomy | Electrical control of magnetism in multiferroic materials, semiconductor spintronics, quantum computation |
Office: Elliott Room 117 |
Caetano Dorea Associate Professor Civil Engineering | Water and sanitation for low resource contexts, drinking water quality and treatment, wastewater treatment and resource recovery
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Office: Engineering & Computer Science Room 304a |
Sadik Dost Professor and Canada Research Chair, Semiconductor Crystal Growth Mechanical Engineering | Single crystal growth of semiconductors, liquid phase diffusion, crystal growth and diffusion in microgravity under magnetic fields, material purification |
Office: Engineering Office Wing Room 523 |
Katherine Elvira Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, New Materials and Techniques for Health Applications Chemistry | Microfluidics, artificial cells, droplets, in vitro drug assays, patient analytics, simulation |
Office: Elliott Room 306 |
Reuven Gordon Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering | Plasmonic properties of nanostructured metals, applications of plasmonics to biosensors, raman scattering, nonlinear optics, enhanced optical interaction with materials, optical trapping |
Office: Engineering Office Wing Room 433 |
Rishi Gupta Professor Civil Engineering | Advanced materials for structures, structural health monitoring of infrastructure, durability and corrosion studies of reinforced concrete, sustainable construction technologies: rammed earth, pervious concrete, insulated wall systems |
Office: Engineering Office Wing Room 343 |
David Harrington Professor Chemistry | Electrodeposition, surface electrochemistry, microfluidic electrochemistry, electrocatalysis for fuel cells, thin oxide films |
Office: Elliott Room 316 |
Rodney Herring Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering | Development of imaging and diagnostic systems based on electron, lasers, acoustic, and radio wave beams to study mass and heat transfer in solids, fluids, and plasma for materials, fluids, medical and atmospheric sciences |
Office: Engineering Office Wing Room 337 |
Fraser Hof Director, Professor Chemistry | Bio-organic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, biochemical sensors, bio-analytical chemistry, fluorescent and colorimetric chemical sensors, custom affinity materials, peptidic materials, diagnostics, biological sample preparation |
Office: Elliott Room 233c |
Mina Hoorfar Dean of Engineering and Computer Science, Professor Mechanical Engineering | Nanostructured microfluidic artificial olfaction for real-time gas monitoring, monitoring and extraction of hydrogen from hydrogen blended natural gas, breath analysis by nanostructured gas sensors for health and safety applications, micro/nanoscale mechanics and sensing materials for chemical and biological sensors, wearable microfluidic sensing for personal health monitoring/diagnostics, micro/nano-encapsulation for food and pharmaceutical applications, label-free microfluidic isolation and biosensing for health and environmental applications
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Office: Engineering Office Wing 248 |
Dennis Hore Professor Chemistry | Adsorbate structure at solid-liquid surfaces, solvent structure at solid-liquid interfaces, visible-infrared 3-wave mixing spectroscopy, ellipsometry, interfacial molecular dynamics simulations |
Office: Elliott Room 318 |
Tobias Junginger Assistant Professor Physics and Astronomy | Superconductors, thin films, multilayers |
Office: Elliott Room 216 |
Peter Loock Dean & Professor Science | Laser spectroscopy, fiber optics, instrument design, sensors and detectors, optical cavities and material science. |
Office: Elliott Room 166 |
Tao Lu Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering | Biophotonics, nanophotonics, narrow linewidth laser |
Office: Engineering Office Wing Room 321 |
Sardar Malek Assistant Professor Civil Engineering | Additive manufacturing, sustainable building materials, bio-inspired structures, sustainable energy solutions |
Office: Engineering Office Wing Room 329 |
Ian Manners Professor and Canada 150 Research Chair Chemistry | Catalytic main group chemistry: mechanisms and applications on molecular, polymer, and materials synthesis. Metal-containing polymers and applications as functional materials. Crystallization-driven self-assembly of molecular, polymeric, and block copolymer amphiphiles and applications in nanoelectronics, biomedicine, catalysis, and liquid crystal science |
Office: Elliott Room 312 |
Irina Paci Professor Chemistry | Nanostructured surfaces, nanocomposite materials, functional materials, biosensors, supercapacitors, materials modeling |
Office: Elliott Room 309 |
Makhsud Saidaminov Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Advanced Functional Materials Chemistry & Electrical and Computer Engineering | Functional materials, solid-state chemistry, self-assembly, clean energy, perovskites, optoelectronics, solar cells, light emission, photon sensing |
Office: Elliott Room 234 |
Levi Smith Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering | Terahertz Engineering, optical Sensing
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Office: Engineering Office Wing Room 319 |
Thomas Tiedje Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering | Growth and properties of the dilute bismide semiconductor, atomic basis for continuum growth equation in GaAs molecular beam epitaxy |
Office: Engineering Office Wing Room 339 |
Marie-Ève Tremblay Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Neurobiology of Aging and Cognition Division of Medical Sciences | Biological materials |
Office: Medical Sciences Room 322 |
Frank van Veggel Professor Chemistry | Lanthanide based nanoparticles, near-infrared quantum dots, gallium nitride nanopartiles | |
Stephanie Willerth Professor and Canada Research Chair, Biomedical Engineering Mechanical Engineering | Tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, biomaterials scaffolds for controlling stem cell differentiation |
Office: Engineering Office Wing Room 513 |
Jeremy Wulff Professor and Canada Research Chair, Bioactive Small Molecule Synthesis Chemistry | Synthetic organic chemistry, chemical biology, medicinal chemistry |
Office: Elliott Room 311 |
Xuekui Zhang Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Mathematics and Statistics | Bioinformatics, machine learning, biomedicine, genomics, single-cell sequencing |
Office: David Turpin Room A523 |