Core Faculty
Pauline Barmby
Professor and Department ChairResearch Interests / Specializations: Observational studies of star formation and stellar populations in nearby galaxies
Shantanu Basu
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Theoretical Astrophysics, Star Formation, Planet and Brown Dwarf Formation, Circumstellar Disk Evolution, Computational Gas Dynamics
Peter G. Brown
Professor and Canada Research ChairResearch Interests / Specializations: Meteors and Comets
Alex Buchel
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Superstring Theory, Quantum Gravity, Black Hole Thermodynamics, Gauge Theory, Cosmology
Jan Cami
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Observational Astronomy
Margaret Campbell-Brown
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Meteor Physics
Blaine A. Chronik
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Magnetic Resonance Systems Development, Medical physics, MRI
Colin Denniston
Professor and Undergraduate ChairResearch Interests / Specializations: Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Complex Fluids, Granular matter, Theory and simulation of micro and nano-fluidic devices
Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan
Assistant ProfessorResearch 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
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Carbon-based nanomaterials and Nano-optoelectronics
Sarah Gallagher
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Active Galaxies and Black Holes
Lyudmila Goncharova
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Condensed Matter, Surface Science, Ion Scattering
Martin Houde
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Astrophysical Processes, Star Formation, Instrumentation
Jeffrey L. Hutter
Professor and Associate Dean (Academic - Science Programs) - Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Solidification, Soft Materials, Atomic Force Microscopy
Carol E. Jones
Professor and Associate Dean (Faculty/Staff/Infrastructure) - Faculty of ScienceResearch 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 ChairResearch Interests / Specializations: Computational chemistry & biological physics
Yanping Li
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: TBA
Allan B. MacIsaac
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Nanomagnetism, Ultra-thin magnetic films, Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena, Statistical Mechanics, Computer Simulation, Monte Carlo Simulation, Cellular Automata
Stan Metchev
Professor and Canada Research ChairResearch Interests / Specializations: Extrasolar planets, Brown dwarfs
Silvia Mittler
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Photonics of Surfaces and Interfaces: biomedical interface microscopy and sensors
Alexei Ouriadov
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: MRI Systems Development
Els Peeters
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Interstellar medium, Circumstellar medium, Star formation.
Tamie L. Poepping
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Medical Physics - Ultrasound flow measurements, Particle image velocimetry, Computational modelling of flow, vascular mechanics, and vascular networks
Robert J. Sica
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: I use a high power laser and 2.5 m telescope (a lidar) to measure dynamics of Earth's atmosphere from the surface to the edge of space
Aaron Sigut
Professor and Graduate ChairResearch Interests / Specializations: Circumstellar disks, radiative transfer, stellar atmospheres, computational astrophysics
Mahi R. Singh
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: The study of plasmonics, nanooptics, nanoelectronics, polaritonics and many body theory in nanomaterials and nanotechnology
Andrea Soddu
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Medical Physics, Neuroscience
Olga Trichtchenko
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Water waves, nonlinear phenomena, computational fluid dynamics, stability theory
Bogdan Tudose
Assistant ProfessorResearch 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 ChairResearch Interests / Specializations: Quantum Gravity, Cosmology, Foundations of Physics
Paul Wiegert
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Asteroids, Comets and Planetary Dynamics
Eugene Wong
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Medical Physics
Martin Zinke-Allmang
ProfessorTeaching: Undergraduate Teaching
