Upcoming Exams

Defences held in person have locations listed with the date below. Zoom information for virtual exams is not listed; if you are interested in attending one of these  defences, please contact the candidate's department or graduate.doctoral@ubc.ca. Zoom links are available one week prior to the defence.

Thursday, 1 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200

Rebecca Sheppard
Department: English Language and Literatures
The Mind of the Criminal: Crime and Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Science, and the Law

Thursday, 1 May 2025 - 12:30pm - 167, Iona Bldg, 6000 Iona Dr

Giulia Lo Forte
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays on Intellectual Property and Innovation

Thursday, 1 May 2025 - 3:00pm - Room 203

Adam Martens
Department: Mathematics
Ricci Flow: Curvature Concentration and Sobolev Bounds

Friday, 2 May 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Xiaoting Li
Department: Statistics
Multivariate Extreme Value Inference Based on Tail Expansions of Copulas with Applications to Systemic Risk Analysis

Monday, 5 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200

Tristan Douglas
Department: Forestry
Mapping and Monitoring Microphytobenthic Biofilms in the Fraser River Estuary, British Columbia Using UAV-acquired Multispectral Imagary

Monday, 5 May 2025 - 10:00am - 1346, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall

Megan Wolf
Department: Genome Science and Technology
Characterization of Cytochrome P450 O-demethylases for Lignin Valorization

Tuesday, 6 May 2025 - 9:00am - 969, Henry Angus Building, 2053 Main Mall

Jaecheol Park
Department: Sauder School of Business
Strategic Roles of AI and Mobile Management on Performance: Evidence from U.S. Public Firms

Tuesday, 6 May 2025 - 2:00pm - Zoom

Jennifer Kwon
Department: Dentistry
Unveiling the Implicit: Exploring Professionalism and Professional Identity Formation in Dentistry

Wednesday, 7 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200

Ildiko Kovacs
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Participatory Planning Pedagogy and Curriculum for Environmental and Sustainability Education: A Children's Right to the City Initiative

Monday, 12 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200

Genpei Cai
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Combining CO2 Reforming and CH4 Pyrolysis: Multifunctional Liquid Catalysts with Integrated Carbon Separation

Monday, 12 May 2025 - 1:00pm - Zoom

Kheireddin Mufti
Department: Medical Genetics
Pharmacogenomic Study of Vincristine-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Patients with Pediatric Cancers

Tuesday, 13 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200

Mary Demarinis
Department: Educational Studies
Using Institutional Ethnography to Explicate the Story of Student Affairs Professionals Doing the Work of Supporting Students with Disabilities

Tuesday, 13 May 2025 - 12:00pm - Room 203

Pablo Andres Valenzuela Casasempere
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays in Displacement, Infrastructure, and Spatial Inequality

Tuesday, 13 May 2025 - 12:00pm - 1203, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 6250 Applied Science Lane

Shenliang Yang
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Modeling of Residual Stresses in Combined Additive Manufacturing and Machining Processes

Wednesday, 14 May 2025 - 9:00am - Dorothy Lam Boardroom, BC Cancer Research Institute, 675 West 10th Avenue

Forouh Kalantari
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The Functional Effect of ARID1A Mutation in Human Endometrial Epithelium

Wednesday, 14 May 2025 - 1:30pm - 202, Chemical and Biological Engineering Building, 2360 East Mall

Ruby Osei-Bonsu
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Biomass Valorization: Extraction, Characterization and Utilization of Cellulose Nanomaterials

Wednesday, 14 May 2025 - 4:00pm - Room 203

Breanna Nelson
Department: Experimental Medicine
Examining the Effects of COVID-19 and Prolonged COVID-19 Symptoms on Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures and Cognitive Performance

Thursday, 15 May 2025 - 10:00am - 11268, Gordon & Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre, 2775 Laurel St

Yu Han Zhang
Department: MD/PhD Program
Dissecting the Cell of Origin and Progression Events of DICER1 Syndrome-Associated Sarcoma

Tuesday, 20 May 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Lindsey Snyder
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Unboxing Object-Based Learning: Exploring Teachers' Object-Based Pedagogies with Museum Kits in Elementary Classrooms

Wednesday, 21 May 2025 - 9:00am - 5104, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall

Christina Draeger
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Towards Robust Predictions of Glacier Change Across Western Canada: Climate Downscaling, Surface Energy Balance Models, and Neural Networks

Wednesday, 21 May 2025 - 1:30pm - Zoom

Pan Deng
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Nanowell-Based Single Cell Imaging Assays to Investigate NETosis, Motility and Drug Screening

Thursday, 22 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200

Reid Vassallo
Department: MD/PhD Program
Towards Improved Ultrasound-Based Methods for Prostate Cancer Detection

Thursday, 22 May 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Desiree Fiaccabrino
Department: Chemistry
Development of Triaza-18-crown-6 Chelators for Radiotheranostic Metals

Monday, 26 May 2025 - 1:00pm - Zoom

Gail Markin
Department: Educational Studies
Principal and Vice Principal Psychological Safety in British Columbia: An Institutional Ethnography

Tuesday, 27 May 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom

Martin Smith
Department: Psychology
The Equivalence and Relative Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for the Treatment of Depressive Disorders: A Meta-Analytic Test of Standardized Mean Differences and Rates of Response, Reliable Improvement,

Tuesday, 27 May 2025 - 9:00am - 5108, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall

Justin Roy
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Spalling and Strainbursting in Deep Mining Tunnels - Data Driven and Numerical Analyses to Improve Ground Support Design and Tunnel Reliability

Wednesday, 28 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200

Hariharan Umashankar
Department: Materials Engineering
Atomistic Simulations of Crystalline Defect Interactions in Metallic Alloys

Wednesday, 28 May 2025 - 2:00pm - 224, Biodiversity Research Centre, 2212 Main Mall

Herath Ranasinghe
Department: Zoology
Genomic and Biochemical Insights into Hybridization Dynamics and Carotenoid-Driven Colour Evolution in Asian Flameback

Thursday, 29 May 2025 - 12:30pm - X836, ICICS, 2366 Main Mall

Dujian Ding
Department: Computer Science
Towards Efficient Machine Learning Management Systems

Thursday, 29 May 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Hilary Agro
Department: Anthropology
Community Medicine: Abolitionist Worldbuilding among Drug Use Liberation Activists on Turtle Island

Thursday, 29 May 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 203

Angel Cruz
Department: Mathematics
Point Configurations: A Topic in Harmonic Analysis and Geometric Measure Theory

Friday, 30 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200

Yucheng Liu
Department: Mathematics
Critical and Near-critical Scaling in High-dimensional Statistical Mechanics

Monday, 2 June 2025 - 12:00pm - Room 203

Pascuel Plotkin
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Three Essays in Labor Economics

Monday, 2 June 2025 - 2:00pm - Zoom

Elizabeth Zambrano Garza
Department: Psychology
Strengths and Vulnerabilities Associated with Social Partners: Correlates and Consequences of Daily Life Experiences for Older Adults' Well-Being

Tuesday, 3 June 2025 - 9:00am - Room 203

Darcy Sutherland
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Unlocking Antimicrobial Peptides as Therapeutics Against Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria

Tuesday, 3 June 2025 - 12:00pm - Zoom

Yuning Liu
Department: Theatre and Film
Accidental Encounters: A Journey of Developing the Subjectivity of Taiwan's Contemporary Xiqu Form

Monday, 9 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Atieh Yekta
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Sociotechnical Perspective on Work: Contemporary Realities of Immigrants’ Occupations within the Platform Economy

Monday, 9 June 2025 - 12:30pm - 1330, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall

Puja Biswas
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
Regulation of Fat Storage in Drosophila Melanogaster Females

Monday, 9 June 2025 - 12:30pm - 167, Iona Bldg, 6000 Iona Dr

Mila Markevych
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Shifting Tastes, Advancing Technologies, and Managerial Influence: Essays on Forces Shaping Economic Inequality

Thursday, 12 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Iljung Kim
Department: Music
Beompae: Korean Buddhist Chant and its Adaptability in Contemporary Practice

Tuesday, 17 June 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200

Jiangze Han
Department: Sauder School of Business
Probabilistic Design in the Operation of Service Systems

Wednesday, 18 June 2025 - 2:00pm - F414, BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre, 4500 Oak Street

Sarah Bowers
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Adenosine Deaminase 2 (ADA2) in Immune Cell Development and Activation

Monday, 23 June 2025 - 12:30pm - 233, Henry Angus Building, 2053 Main Mall

Siying Wang
Department: Sauder School of Business
Quantitative Evaluations of Urban and Environmental Policies in Spatial Equilibrium

Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200

Megan Zeni
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Expanding Understandings of Outdoor Play and Learning in K-8 Elementary Schools

Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - 9:00am - Room 203

Jens Ulrich
Department: Plant Science
Insect Pollinators in Urban Landscapes: Impacts of City Design and Management on Species Abundance and Occurrence

Wednesday, 25 June 2025 - 9:00am - Room 203

Leah Shipton
Department: Political Science
The Politics of Public-Private Partnerships in Global Health Governance: Insights from the COVID-10 Response

Thursday, 26 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Karlie Edwards
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Epigenetic Underpinnings of Pediatric Immune System Development

Monday, 14 July 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Tuve Mikael Omstedt
Department: Geography
Grounding Money: Capital and Difference in the Federal Reserve System

Monday, 25 August 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200

Jennifer Nagtegaal
Department: French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Expanded Comics: Multimediality, Performance, and Extra Multimodality under Post-Postmodernism