Graduate Research Supervisors and Research Areas
| Physics - Experiment | |
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Dr. Todd Andrews |
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Dr. Luc Beaulieu |
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Dr. Valerie Booth biophysics; proteins; lipids; solution NMR; solid state NMR, lung surfactant, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome; antimicrobial resistance. |
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Dr. Qiying Chen ultrafast nano-photonics and laser applications; interactions of lasers and materials with temporal resolution of femtoseconds and spatial resolution of nanometers and their interdisciplinary applications. |
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Dr. Alison Malcolm laboratory and computational geophysics: wave propagation, non-linear wave interactions, seismic imaging, subsurface characterization; medical imaging; uncertainty quantification and inverse problems. |
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Dr. Michael Morrow soft condensed matter (microgel colloids), biophysics (lipid protein interactions relevant to lung surfactant and antimicrobial peptide activity), and biological materials (lipid bilayers and bilayered micelle phase behaviour). |
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Dr. Kris Poduska |
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Dr. Anand Yethiraj physics of soft materials; dynamics of self-assembly in colloids and emulsions; dynamics of macromolecules in cell-like environments. Experimental techniques used: confocal microscopy, pulsed-gradient NMR and rheology. |
| Physics - Theory and Computation | |
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Dr. Aleksandrs Aleksejevs theoretical nuclear and particle physics, hadron structure and strong interactions, physics beyond the Standard Model, dark matter. |
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Dr. Svetlana Barknova particle physics; search for physics beyond the Standard model. |
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Dr. Ivan Booth |
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Dr. Stephanie Curnoe theory of electronic, magnetic and structural properties of quantum materials such as frustrated magnets, unconventional superconductors or topological materials. |
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Dr. Mykhaylo Evstigneev nonequilibrium processes in solids, stochastic dynamics, surface science, atomic friction, solar cells, betavoltaics. |
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Dr. Jolanta Lagowski electronic, optical and charge transport properties of organic semiconductors using density functional theory: conjugated polymers, fullerenes, nanotubes with applications to solar cells, and light-emitting diodes. |
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Dr. James LeBlanc correlated electron systems, computational Monte Carlo methods to study the interplay between spin and charge dynamics of quantum materials such as graphene and high-temperature superconductors. |
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Dr. Ivan Saika-Voivod molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo computer simulations to study simple, network-forming and colloidal liquids, with a focus on crystal nucleation, glassy dynamics and phase diagrams. |
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Dr. Stefan Wallin development of techniques for biomolecular simulation and their applications in biophysics: protein folding, interactions, flexible proteins, molecular evolution. |
| Physical Oceanography - Field Measurements, Modelling and Experiment | |
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Dr. Iakov Afanassiev (Yakov Afanasyev) oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics using laboratory experiments and numerical simulations. |
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Dr. Entcho Demirov mathematical modeling of regional climate of Subpolar North Atlantic Ocean and Atlantic Canada, including model development and model studies of Subarctic climate. |
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Dr. Brad de Young ocean dynamics of the North Atlantic including ocean observations, ocean ecosystems, climate change, ice-ocean interactions and circulation and biophysical modelling. |
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Dr. James Munroe internal waves and ocean mixing using stratified fluid dynamics experiments, numerical models, and data science applied to oceanographic datasets. |
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Dr. Lev Tarasov Earth systems dynamics in a glacial context with coupled ice sheet/Earth/climate models, uncertainty quantification in modelling, and reconstruction of past ice sheet evolution. |
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Dr. Len Zedel application of acoustic systems to oceanographic measurements. Areas of development include: Doppler sonar for turbulence and for fisheries applications, and natural sources of underwater sound. |