Black Holes and Quantum Information, Dark Energy and Dark Matter, Early-Universe Cosmology, Effective Field Theories, Quantum Hall Systems and ADS/CFT Duality

Experimental nuclear astrophysics; radiative alpha- and proton-capture reactions; charged-particle transfer reactions; recoil separators and magnetic spectrographs

The study of novel materials using x–ray and neutron scattering techniques

Astronomy, Indigenous astronomy, teaching track

Soft and living matter at surfaces and interfaces: Polymeric materials, but also C. elegans (a small nematode), bacteria, living cells and soft-colloidal systems.

Radiation therapy & dosimetry, Medical Physicist at the Juravinski Cancer Centre

Motions and conformational changes of proteins, pore formation in lipid membranes, swimming bacteria.

Medical physics, teaching track

Geometrically frustrated magnets, Quantum Magnets with singlet ground states, High temperature superconductors

Evolution of Bacterial Genomes and Horizontal Gene Transfer, The RNA World and the Origin of Life, Codon Usage, Translational Efficiency and Dynamics of Ribosomes

Quantum spin liquids, low dimensional quantum magnetism, quantum criticality, unconventional superconductivity, strongly correlated electrons, NMR spectroscopy, low temperature physics.

Mathematical and theoretical aspects of black holes, within the framework of general relativity and its extensions in string theory

Strongly Correlated Quantum Many-Body Systems, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Critical Phenomena, Non-Fermi Liquids, Holography

Muon spin relaxation, Crystal growth, Electronic properties, Magnetism, High pressure, High magnetic fields

Development of radiation-based biomedical devices for the painless, in vivo measurement of toxic metals such as Pb, As, F, Al and Gd in bone, liver, and kidney.

Introductory physics, teaching track

Ultracold atoms

Observational studies of galaxy evolution, galaxy groups and clusters, and dark matter halos.

Star formation, planet formation, astrobiology

Theoretical soft condensed matter physcis, Self-assembly of block copolymers, Statistical mechanics of macromolecules and bilayer membranes

Nature of dark matter and dark energy, origin and evolution of structures in the universe, formulation of the quantum theory of gravity

Blue Straggler Stars, Globular Cluster Formation and Dynamics

Condensed Matter Theory. Computational Quantum Many-Body Physics, Frustrated Magnets, Quantum Information, Numerical Methods, Parallel Computing.

Computational Astrophysics: Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, Star Formation, Protoplanetary Disks, Hydrodynamics, Numerical Methods, Parallel Computing

Light Echoes from luminous transient events like supernovae

Star formation and the interstellar medium in galaxies; observational radio and far-infrared astronomy