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Graduate Research Supervisors and Research Areas

Physics - Experiment


laser spectroscopy studies of collective excitations in artificially-structured materials, biological systems, and those exhibiting unconventional dimensionality; light-hypersound interaction.


reproducibility of cantilever sensors; development of cantilever sensors for detecting heavy metals in fresh water.

biophysics; proteins; lipids; solution NMR; solid state NMR, lung surfactant, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome; antimicrobial resistance.
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.

laboratory and computational geophysics: wave propagation, non-linear wave interactions, seismic imaging, subsurface characterization; medical imaging; uncertainty quantification and inverse problems.

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).


structural and physical properties of naturally occurring and lab-synthesized materials. Applications in nanoscience, semiconductor physics, archaeology, geoscience, biomineralization, sensors, coatings, medical materials.
Physics - Theory and Computation
 
theoretical nuclear and particle physics, hadron structure and strong interactions, physics beyond the Standard Model, dark matter.

particle physics; search for physics beyond the Standard model.


general relativity, black hole physics, geometry and dynamics of black hole horizons, gravitational energy and angular momentum, fluid-gravity duality.

theory of electronic, magnetic and structural properties of quantum materials such as frustrated magnets, unconventional superconductors or topological materials.

nonequilibrium processes in solids, stochastic dynamics, surface science, atomic friction, solar cells, betavoltaics.

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.
James LeBlanc 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.

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.

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

oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics using laboratory experiments and numerical simulations.

mathematical modeling of regional climate of Subpolar North Atlantic Ocean and Atlantic Canada, including model development and model studies of Subarctic climate.

ocean dynamics of the North Atlantic including ocean observations, ocean ecosystems, climate change, ice-ocean interactions and circulation and biophysical modelling.

internal waves and ocean mixing using stratified fluid dynamics experiments, numerical models, and data science applied to oceanographic datasets.

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.

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.