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.
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 - 9:00am - 129, Reichwald Health Sciences Centre, 1088 Discovery Avenue
LIISA WAINMAN
Department: Experimental Medicine
The Effects of Acute Intermittent Hypoxia on Cardiovascular Function in a Murine Model of Spinal Cord Injury
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 - 9:00am - Zoom
Chun-Yin Huang
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Enhancing Privacy and Efficiency in AI Models through Data-Oriented Learning Strategies
Wednesday, 28 May 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Jie Ying Huang
Department: Forestry
Monitoring Urban Green- and Bluespaces Using Landscape Indicators and Spatial Prioritization
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
Friday, 30 May 2025 - 10:00am - Room 203
Jiaqi Yao
Department: Asian Studies
Journeying to “Authentic” Borderlands: Modern Chinese Travel Narratives in Western China (1921-1945)
Monday, 2 June 2025 - 12:00pm - Room 203
Pascuel Plotkin
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Three Essays in Labor Economics
Monday, 2 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Zoom
Daeyoung Goh
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Reimagining Citizenship in Unification Education: The Discursive Formation of Naturalized Citizens in a Divided Korea
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
Friday, 6 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Amir Hassanpour
Department: Civil Engineering
Human-Electric Hybrid Vehicles: Implications of Emerging Personal Mobility Devices for Street Design and Policy
Monday, 9 June 2025 - 9:00am - Room 203
Xin Wang
Department: Sauder School of Business
The Impact of Plant-Level Mandatory Climate Disclosure on Firm-Level Voluntary Environmental Disclosure
Monday, 9 June 2025 - 12:00pm - D213, Chemistry Bldg, 2036 Main Mall
Yihan Shi
Department: Chemistry
Responsive Supramolecular Materials Assembled with Cellulose Nanocrystal Matrices
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 - 9:00am - Room 200
Cole Lord-May
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Turbulent Heat Fluxes and Katabatic Flow at Glacier Surfaces: Insights from Measurements and Modeling
Thursday, 12 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Iljung Kim
Department: Music
Beompae: Korean Buddhist Chant and its Adaptability in Contemporary Practice
Friday, 13 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Benjamin Yeremy
Department: Chemistry
Chemically Genetics-Guided Discovery and Modification of Anti-mitotic and Anti-inflammatory Bioactive Natural Products
Friday, 13 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Wajiha Mehdi
Department: Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Violent Geographies and Muslim Women's Citizenship Struggles in India
Monday, 16 June 2025 - 9:00am - 2264, Diamond Health Care Centre, 2775 Laurel St
Almira Zhantuyakova
Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Tumor Immune Microenvironment and STING Signaling in Low-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer: Implications for Oncolytic Virus Therapy
Monday, 16 June 2025 - 9:30am - Zoom
Yasmin Koop-Monteiro
Department: Sociology
Earthling Ties and Moral Cries: Theorizing Recruitment into Animal Rights Activism
Monday, 16 June 2025 - 12:30pm - 1209, Neville Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall
Cristina Soto Quintero
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Pablo Superstar: Public Pedagogies and Generation Z's Cultural Memory of Escobar and Narco-Trafficking
Tuesday, 17 June 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Jiangze Han
Department: Sauder School of Business
Probabilistic Design in the Operation of Service Systems
Tuesday, 17 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Max Norton
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays in Public Finance and the Economics of Multi-Level Governance
Tuesday, 17 June 2025 - 2:00pm - 203, Mathematics Bldg, 1984 Mathematics Rd
Kenneth Moore
Department: Mathematics
Topics in Discrete and Convex Geometry
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
Thursday, 19 June 2025 - 10:00am - Room 203
Mukul Rai Choudhuri
Department: Mathematics
Stick Kakeya Sets in Four Dimensions
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-19 Response
Wednesday, 25 June 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Rafael Candido Ribeiro
Department: Forestry
Landscape Genomics of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii): Adaptive Potential for Future Climatic Conditions
Wednesday, 25 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Kaili Vesik
Department: Linguistics
Gradual Error-Driven Learning and Typology of Finnic Vowel Interactions
Wednesday, 25 June 2025 - 12:30pm - 3113, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 950 West 28th Avenue
Li Ying Dai
Department: Experimental Medicine
Defining the Role of Infant Gut Microbiota in Child Health
Thursday, 26 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Karlie Edwards
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Epigenetic Underpinnings of Pediatric Immune System Development
Thursday, 26 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Zoom
Yoonseok Choi
Department: Psychology
Motivation in Context: the Role of Sociocultural Contexts in Shaping Everyday Goal Pursuit Across the Adult Lifespan
Thursday, 26 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Jack Hughes
Department: Mathematics
Bifurcation Analysis of a Mass-Conserved Reaction-Diffusion Model for Actin Waves: Unravelling Motility Modes of Cells
Thursday, 3 July 2025 - 9:00am - Room 203
Shadab Ahamed
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Deep-Learning-Guided Image Generation, Enhancement and Analysis: With Applications to Nuclear Medicine Imaging
Tuesday, 8 July 2025 - 10:00am - Zoom
Ashley Battaglini
Department: Psychology
Intra- and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Flexibility
Thursday, 10 July 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Passant Reyad
Department: Civil Engineering
Advancing Intersection Safety with Adaptive Traffic Signal Control in Evolving Connected Autonomous Vehicle Networks
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