Graduate Students

Matheus Adam

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Lyudmila Goncharova & Dr. Peter Simpson
Research Interests / Specializations: Nanomaterials and Surface Science

John Adams

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Blaine Chronik
Research Interests / Specializations: MRI simulations

Navid Afrasiabian

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Colin Denniston
Research Interests / Specializations: Polymer Physics, Fluid Dynamics

Nadia Aiaseh

Physics MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Olga Trichtchenko
Research Interests / Specializations: Nonlinear Waves

Sheyda Alavi

Physics MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Colin Denniston
Research Interests / Specializations: Computational Condensed Matter Physics

Charmi Bhatt

Astronomy PhD Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Jan Cami
Research Interests / Specializations: Interstellar and Circumstellar Medium

Sage Buchanan

Physics MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Lyudmila Goncharova & Dr. Mark Biesinger
Research Interests / Specializations:

Emma Caruso

Physics MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Mahi Singh
Research Interests / Specializations:

Dakota Cecil

Astronomy PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Margaret Campbell-Brown
Research Interests / Specializations:

Setareh Changizrezaei

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Colin Denniston
Research Interests / Specializations: Computer Simulation of Confined Plymer/Colloid Systems in Flow

Ariel Chitan

Astronomy PhD Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Gallagher
Research Interests / Specializations:

Ian Chow

Astronomy MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brown
Research Interests / Specializations:

Hannah Christie

Astronomy MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Pauline Barmby
Research Interests / Specializations:

Nicholas Clark

Astronomy MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Els Peeters & Dr. Jan Cami
Research Interests / Specializations: PAHs in Planetary Nebulae

Callum Dewsnap

Astronomy PhD candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Pauline Barmby & Dr. Sarah Gallagher
Research Interests / Specializations: Extragalatic Astronomy

Logan Dewsnap

Astronomy PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Margaret Campbell-Brown
Research Interests / Specializations:

Dilanjan Diyabalanage

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Soddu
Research Interests / Specializations: Medical Physics (Neuroscience)

Tammy Do

Astronomy MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brown
Research Interests / Specializations:

Matheus do Carmo Carhalho

Astronomy MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Pauline Barmby
Research Interests / Specializations: Extragalatic Astronomy

Chinenye Ekeruche

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Lyudmila Goncharova & Dr. Peter Simpson
Research Interests / Specializations: Materials, Surface Science, Photonics: Optoelectronics, Solar: Photovoaltaics

Ningyan "Louis" Fang

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Martin Houde & Dr. Feresteh Rajabi
Research Interests / Specializations:

Pietropaolo Frisoni

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Francesca Vidotto & Dr. Dan Christensen
Research Interests / Specializations:

Chris Fox

Astronomy PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Paul Wiegert
Research Interests / Specializations:

Cole R. Gregg

Astronomy PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Paul Wiegert
Research Interests / Specializations: Dynamical Astronomy and Minor Body Detection

Jamie Griffiths

Astronomy MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Carol Jones
Research Interests / Specializations: Be Stars

Adrien Hélias

Astronomy PhD candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Pauline Barmby & Dr. Sarah Gallagher
Research Interests / Specializations: Galaxy Kinematics, Dwarf Galaxies, Active Galactic Nuclei, Observational Astronomy

Alexander Henry

Physics MSc candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Lyudmila Goncharova & Dr. Peter Simpson
Research Interests / Specializations:

Yasoda Vasura Jayaweera

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Robert Sica & Dr. Alexander Haefele 
Research Interests / Specializations: Atmospheric Physics

Xintong Jiang

Physics MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Mahi Singh
Research Interests / Specializations:

Baria Shafiq Khan

Astronomy MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Els Peeters 
Research Interests / Specializations: Astrochemistry, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), Interstellar and Circumstellar Medium

Yung Ellen Kipreos

Astronomy PhD candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Peter Brown, Dr. Margaret Campbell-Brown & Dr. Paul Wiegert 
Research Interests / Specializations: Meteoroid Stream Simulations

Aishwarya Kumar

Astronomy PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Martin Houde
Research Interests / Specializations: Physics of the Interstellar Medium

Bryan Lailey

Astronomy PhD Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Aaron Sigut
Research Interests / Specializations: Stellar Astrophysics; Machine Learning

Samantha Lambier

Astronomy MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Stan Metchev
Research Interests / Specializations: Exoplanets, Brown Dwarfs

Xiyuan Li

Physics MSc candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Shantanu Basu & Dr. Sree Ram Valluri
Research Interests / Specializations: Gravitational Waves, Relativity, Black Holes

Diego Martinez

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Blaine Chronik
Research Interests / Specializations:

Luke McFadden

Phsyics PhD Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brown
Research Interests / Specializations: Polymer Physics, Fluid Dynamics

Carlos Mendes

Physics MSc candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Giovanni Fanchini & Dr. T.K. Sham
Research Interests / Specializations:

Qingzhou Meng

Physics MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Mahi Singh
Research Interests / Specializations:

Yasamin Modabber

Physics MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan & Dr. Mikko Karttunen
Research Interests / Specializations:

Mateo Pascual Gomez-Cuetara

Physics PhD Candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Francesca Vidotto & Dr. Chris Smeenk
Research Interests / Specializations:

Sofia Rose Maria Pasquini

Astronomy MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Els Peeters
Research Interests / Specializations: Astrochemistry and Machine Learning

Samuel Perron

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Alexei Ouriadov 
Research Interests / Specializations: MRI Physics

Victoria Pinnegar

Astronomy PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Sica
Research Interests / Specializations:

Rina Rast

Astronomy MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Carol Jones
Research Interests / Specializations: Be Stars

Karnav Raval

Physics MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Olga Trichtchenko
Research Interests / Specializations:

Anusha Ravikumar

Astronomy PhD candidate< 
Supervisor: Dr. Aaron Sigut
Research Interests / Specializations: Stellar Astrophysics

Lamies Sati

Physics MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Mahi Singh
Research Interests / Specializations:

Bethany Reid Schefter

Astronomy PhD candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Jan Cami & Dr. Els Peeters
Research Interests / Specializations: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and Fullerenes

Ramanpreet Kaur Sembhi

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Alexei Ouriadov
Research Interests / Specializations: Brain Imaging

Steven Silber

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Mikko Karttunen
Research Interests / Specializations: Materials Simulations

Charlotte Smith-Perez

Physics MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Els Peeters
Research Interests / Specializations:

Farshid Soltani

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Francesca Vidotto & Dr. Dan Christensen
Research Interests / Specializations: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity

Noah Stocek

Physics PhD candidate< 
Supervisor: Dr. Giovanni Fanchini
Research Interests / Specializations:

Mark Suffak

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Carol Jones
Research Interests / Specializations: Be Stars

Emily Tracey

Physics MSc Candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Sica
Research Interests / Specializations:

Claudia Tugulan

Physics PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Olga Trichtchenko
Research Interests / Specializations: 

Annika Vetter

Astronomy MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Carol Jones
Research Interests / Specializations: 

Maximilian Vovk

Astronomy PhD candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brown
Research Interests / Specializations: Meteor Physics

Xin Wei

Physics MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Giovanni Fanchini
Research Interests / Specializations: Organic Photovoltaics

Kasia Wisniewski

Physics MSc candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Peter Brown
Research Interests / Specializations:

Jared Wogan

Physics MSc candidate 
Supervisor: Dr. Francesca Vidotto
Research Interests / Specializations: Quantum Gravity

Wei Zhu

Physics MSc candidate 
Supervisors: Dr. Lyudmila Goncharova & Dr. Eric Johlin
Research Interests / Specializations: