Core Faculty

Pauline Barmby

Professor and Department Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Observational studies of star formation and stellar populations in nearby galaxies; Astroinformatics

Shantanu Basu

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Theoretical Astrophysics, Star Formation, Planet and Brown Dwarf Formation, Circumstellar Disk Evolution, Computational Gas Dynamics

Peter G. Brown

Professor and Canada Research Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Meteors and Comets

Alex Buchel

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Superstring Theory, Quantum Gravity, Black Hole Thermodynamics, Gauge Theory, Cosmology

Jan Cami

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Observational Astronomy; Evolved stars (including planetary nebulae); interstellar matter; astrochemistry; molecular spectroscopy

Margaret Campbell-Brown

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Meteor Physics

Blaine A. Chronik

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Medical physics; Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Colin Denniston

Professor and Undergraduate Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: SoftSoft Condensed Matter Physics, Complex Fluids, Granular matter, Theory and simulation of micro and nano-fluidic devices, Developing numerical methods and analytical techniques to study the above

Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Biological Physics, Soft Matter, Theory and Computational Models of Biological Processes, Cell and Tissue Mechanics, Morphogenesis, Developmental Biophysics, Physics of Viruses

Giovanni Fanchini

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: CarbonSolar-cell physics, Light-matter interaction at the Nanoscale, Two-dimensional materials, Carbon nanomaterials, Organic quantum materials and Organic electronic devices and sensors

Sarah Gallagher

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Extragalactic astrophysics: active galaxies and quasars, compact galaxy groups; Philosophy of astrophysics

Lyudmila Goncharova

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Nanomaterials

Martin Houde

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Astrophysical processes, quantum coherence and superradiance in astrophysics, fast radio bursts, star formation, magnetic fields and turbulence

Jeffrey L. Hutter

Professor and Associate Dean (Academic - Science Programs) - Faculty of Science

Research Interests / Specializations: Solidification, Soft Materials, Atomic Force Microscopy

Carol E. Jones

Professor and Associate Dean (Faculty/Staff/Infrastructure) - Faculty of Science

Research Interests / Specializations: Circumstellar Disk-like Distributions of Material, Computational Astrophysics, Emission-line stars, Be stars

Mikko Karttunen

Professor (Joint Appt w/ Chemistry) and Canada Research Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Computational chemistry & biological physics

Yanping Li

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Multi-hazard Risk and Assessment

Allan B. MacIsaac

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Computational Physics, Condensed Matter Theory

Stan Metchev

Professor and Canada Research Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Brown dwarfs, extrasolar planets, low-mass stars, trans-Neptunian objects, robotic telescopes, space telescopes

Amir Mirzaei

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Physical Vapor Deposition, Plasmas, Functional Thin films, Protective Coatings, Nanomaterials, High Entropy Materials, Corrosion Science, Hydrogen Embrittlement

Alexei Ouriadov

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Low and High Field Xenon-129 including Lung and Brain, Clinical and pre-Clinical; RF Coil Development; Deep Learning Based Data Analysis

Els Peeters

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Interstellar medium, Circumstellar medium, Star formation.

Tamie L. Poepping

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Aneurysms, atherosclerosis, blood flow models, cell mechanobiology, hemodynamics, lab-on-a-chip, laser particle image velocimetry, microfluidics, ultrasound

Lisa Schielicke

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: atmospheric physics, multi-scale vortex dynamics, atmospheric blocking and impacts, severe weather, climate change, boundary-layer processes with respect to wind engineering

Yu Shi

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Biophysics, Active matter physics, Cell mechanics, Super resolution microscopy, Single molecule imaging

Robert J. Sica

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: My research expertise is measurements of atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics in Earth’s atmosphere. My current research effort is establishing the Canadian Micro-Pulse Lidar Network (MPLCAN)

Aaron Sigut

Professor 

Research Interests / Specializations: Massive Stars, Radiative Transfer, Stellar Atmospheres, Circumstellar Disks, Optical Interferometry, Star Clusters, Machine Learning

Mahi R. Singh

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanomedicine, plasmonics, nano-photonics, nano-optics, Graphene and graphene nanostructures, photonic crystals, metamaterials, High-T superconductivity, Semiconductor nanostructures (quantum dots. Quantum wells), quantum optics, phonon-transport, condensed matter physics

Andrea Soddu

Associate Professor and Graduate Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Medical Physics, Neuroscience

Olga Trichtchenko

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Mathematical and computational methods for nonlinear differential equations, dispersive equations, fluid mechanics with a focus on water waves and waves under ice, mathematical modelling, perturbation theory and asymptotics, stability analysis

Bogdan Tudose

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Classical Limit of Quantum Theory: Rydberg Wave Packet and Squeezed States, Geometrical and Topological Methods In Quantum Physics, Geometric Quantization The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Francesca Vidotto

Assistant Professor (Joint Appt w/ Philosophy) and Canada Research Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Loop Quantum Gravity, Cosmology, Foundations of Physics

Paul Wiegert

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Our Solar System; Asteroids, comets, meteor showers; Exoplanets

Eugene Wong

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Radiaton Oncology, Pre-clinical imaging and radiotherapy, Molecular radiation biology