2020 Graduates
John Niven
- Degree: Ph. D.
- January 24, 2020
- Thesis: Mechanical and Fluid Instabilities in Thin Polymer Films
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Dalini Maharaj
- Degree: Ph. D.
- April 14, 2020
- Thesis: Neutron Studies on Rare-Earth and Double Perovskite Magnetic Oxides with Frustrated Tetrahedral Architectures
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Daniel Ruiz
- Degree: M. Sc.
- April 27, 2020
- Thesis: Investigation of Point-Particle Effective Field Theory for the Inverse-Square Model
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Ian Roberts
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July 31, 2020
- Thesis: Galaxy Clusters and Their Role in Galaxy Evolution
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Dusan Vukmirovic
- Degree: Ph. D.
- July 15, 2020
- Thesis: Natural Consumer Products in Dietary Radioprotection
- Supervisor(s): Carmel Mothersill
Athanasios Psaltis
- Degree: Ph. D.
- August 14, 2020
- Thesis: Radiative Alpha Capture on 7Be with DRAGON at vp-process Nucleosynthesis Energies
- Supervisor(s): Alan Chen
Sachin Kotecha
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 10, 2020
- Thesis: The Effect of Cosmic Web Filaments on Quenching in Galaxy Clusters
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley and Charlotte Welker
Hamza Khattak
- Degree: M. Sc.
- August 19, 2020
- Thesis: Direct Force Measurement of Microscopic Droplets Pulled Along Soft Surfaces
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Matthew Alessi
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 1, 2020
- Thesis: Connecting the Observed Properties of Exoplanet Populations to Their Formation
- Supervisor(s): Ralph Pudritz
Dennis Gallant
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 21, 2020
- Thesis: Supperbubble Feedback in RAMSES
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
Markus Rose
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 21, 2020
- Thesis: Single molecule fluorescence microscopy image analysis for the study of the 2D motion of cellulases and Bcl-2 family proteins
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin and Jose Moran-Mirabal
Laszlo Zalavari
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 28, 2020
- Thesis: Size Matters: Reduction of Nuclear-Size Related Uncertainties in Atomic Spectroscopy
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Rachna Singh
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 22, 2020
- Thesis: Dose Prediction for Advanced Stage Lung Cancer
- Supervisor(s): Marcin Wierzbicki
Johnson Liang
- Degree: Ph. D.
- September 23, 2020
- Thesis: Spectroscopic studies on 39-Ca for classical nova endpoint nucleosynthesis
- Supervisor(s): Alan Chen
Melodie Cyr
- Degree: M. Sc.
- September 25, 2020
- Thesis: Detection of Gadolinium in Liver and Kidney Phantoms Using X-Ray Fluorescence
- Supervisor(s): David Chettle and Fiona McNeill
Jacqueline Wightman
- Degree: M. Sc.
- October 2, 2020
- Thesis: Environmental Dependence of H-alpha disks in Nearby Star-forming galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Laura Parker
Xingzhi (Steven) Cheng
- Degree: M. Sc.
- October 16, 2020
- Thesis: Development of a Transmission-type Ultra-thin ScCVD Diamond ∆E Detector for Alpha Particles
- Supervisor(s): Soo Hyun Byun
Ashley Bemis
- Degree: Ph. D.
- October 19, 2020
- Thesis: Variations in Dense Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
- Supervisor(s): Christine Wilson
Peter Hayman
- Degree: Ph. D.
- November 11, 2020
- Thesis: Point-Particle Effective Field Theory and the Helium Ion
- Supervisor(s): Cliff Burgess
Armin Hodaei
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 23, 2020
- Thesis: Evolutions of Dimeric Protein Interfaces after Gene Duplication
- Supervisor(s): Paul Higgs
Zachary Cronkwright
- Degree: M. Sc.
- November 19, 2020
- Thesis: Materials Preparation and Characterization of the Quasi-Two Dimensional Triangular Rare-Earth Magnets Ba6Yb2Ti4O17 and ErMgGaO4
- Supervisor(s): Bruce Gaulin
Johnathan Hoggarth
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 18, 2020
- Thesis: Spreading of a two-dimensional granular analogue of a liquid puddle: Predicting structure through a “granular capillary length”
- Supervisor(s): Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Hector Robinson
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 15, 2020
- Thesis: Realistic Galaxy Simulations: Feedback, Magnetic Fields and the ISM
- Supervisor(s): James Wadsley
Mohammad Ahmad Mahmood
- Degree: M. Sc.
- December 16, 2020
- Thesis: Characterizing a Single Plane Illumination Microscope for Imaging Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
- Supervisor(s): Cecile Fradin
