Among the most critical elements of any doctoral exam, from the perspective of those who coordinate these complexities, is the search for a strong Chair. Yet this search serves as a perennial challenge to the Doctoral Examinations team. We consider ourselves very lucky indeed if we issue fewer than 10 invitations before confirming 1 chair for an upcoming exam. It is not at all unusual in some disciplines to invite 30 or more chairs before some gracious faculty member agrees to help us out.
If you would like to contribute your time and wisdom to UBC’s doctoral exams:
- Please have a look at the list of upcoming exams below and if one interests you, please send us an email to graduate.doctoral@ubc.ca
- Or send us an email detailing the areas that interest you and days/times that you might be generally available and we'll contact you as new exams are scheduled. Again, send an email to graduate.doctoral@ubc.ca
Please bear in mind that the chair cannot be affiliated with the candidate’s graduate program, or a member of the supervisor's department..
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 10:30 AM - 14th Floor Meeting Room, Bc Cancer Research Centre, 675 West 10th Ave, Vancouver, V5Z 1L3
Shreya Bendre
(Oncology)
Fibroblast Activation Protein-Targeted Radioligands for Cancer Imaging and Therapy
Supervisor(s): Professor Kuo-Shyan Lin
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 9:00 AM - Zoom
Luis Alejandro Rojas-Bernal
(Vancouver School of Economics)
Production Network Economies with Household Heterogeneity: A Sufficient Statistics Approach
Supervisor(s): Dr Michael Devereux
Monday, May 27, 2024 12:30 PM - Room 203
Mikhail Chernobai
(Mathematics)
On Problems of Regularity and Existence for Critical Drift Elliptic Equations and Navier-Stokes Equations
Supervisor(s): Professor Tai-Peng Tsai
Monday, May 27, 2024 12:30 PM - Room 200
Brandon Marshall Tomm
(Psychology)
Psychological Consequences of Financial Scarcity
Supervisor(s): Professor Jiaying Zhao
Friday, May 31, 2024 9:00 AM - 2108, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 938 W 28th Ave
Shayda Swann
(MD/PhD Program)
Reproductive Health, Hormones, and Age-Related Conditions Among Women Living with HIV
Supervisor(s): Professor Melanie Murray, Professor Helene Cote
Monday, June 3, 2024 9:00 AM - 506, Frank Forward Building, 6350 Stores Road
Mohammad Amin Shadi Diznab
(Mining Engineering)
Energy Effectiveness of Microwave Preconditioning Applications in Mining
Supervisor(s): Professor Ali Madiseh
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 9:00 AM - Zoom
Corinne Grunder Bassett
(Forestry)
Bridging Gaps in Urban Forest Management to Achieve Urban Sustainability Goals
Supervisor(s): Professor Cecil Konijnendijk, Professor Susan Day
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 12:30 PM - Room 200
Vincent Guy Clement Billy
(Zoology)
Diversity of Intestinal Eukaryotes With a Focus on Blastocystis, Its Relationships With Gut Bacteria and Consequences for the Host Health
Supervisor(s): Professor Laura Parfrey
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 12:30 PM - D213, Chemistry D Block, 2036 Main Mall
Jerome Sebastian Claveria Lozada
(Chemistry)
The Development of 18F-Fluorescent-RBF3 PET Tracers, New Radioprosthetic Trifluoroborates, and the Use of Tetrafluoroborate Salts for Organotrifluoroborate Synthesis
Supervisor(s): Professor David Perrin
Monday, June 24, 2024 9:00 AM - 1312, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Peter Grin
(Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Protease Regulation of Disease: SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro is Secreted and Cleaves Interferon-Lambdas, and MMP12 Regulates Substrates in Age-Related Fatty Liver Disease
Supervisor(s): Professor Christopher Mark Overall
Monday, June 24, 2024 12:30 PM - Room 200
Daniel Aaron Yates
(Physics and Astronomy)
Advances in Decay Spectroscopy of 160Gd and Developments for Transfer Experiments Using Radioactive Isotope Beams
Supervisor(s): Professor Reiner Kruecken