Quantum Matter Institute
SBQMI identifies and explores quantum materials and phenomena, and exploits its knowledge to discover, design and build the quantum technologies of the future.
Since its 2010 inception, Blusson QMI has been recognized for world-class research, reflected by eight Canada Research Chairs, exceptionally high impact publication metrics, major national and international awards, and partnerships with the world’s leading universities and research institutes.
Campus
Vancouver
Open Research Positions
This list of possible research projects is non-exhaustive. It only shows positions that are specifically advertised in the G+PS website.
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Aronson, Meigan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | heavy-ferromagnetic compounds; charge density waves; magnetic nanoparticles |
| Berciu, Mona | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter and supraconductivity; Physical sciences; condensed matter theory; polarons, bipolarons; strongly correlated systems |
| Berlinguette, Curtis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Combinatorial Chemistry; CO2 conversion and utilization; clean energy; advanced solar cells; electrochromic windows; dynamic windows; hydrogen fuels production; catalysis; robotics and automation; machine learning / artificial intelligence |
| Bonn, Douglas Andrew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Condensed matter, high temperature superconductors, microwave measurements, crystal growth |
| Burke, Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Scanning probe microscopy, organic materials, nanoscale materials, surface physics, photovoltaics |
| Chrostowski, Lukas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Optics and Photonics; Micro and Nanoelectronics; Nanotechnologies; Manufacturing Processes; biophotonics; biosensors; optics; optoelectronics; photonics; quantum computing; semiconductor lasers; silicon photonics |
| Damascelli, Andrea | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electronic structure of solids, strongly correlated electron systems, low dimensional spin systems, thin films and nanostructures, transition metal oxides, high-Tc superconductors, linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopies, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy, synchrotron based spectroscopies., Electronic structure of novel complex systems in nanostructured materials |
| Dierker, Steve | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Physical sciences; Collective dynamics of condensed matter systems; Dependence on reduced dimensionality, strong interactions, disorder, and mesoscale structure |
| Folk, Joshua | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Physical sciences; Fractional quantum Hall effect; Majorana fermions; Quantum devices; Strongly correlated electronics; Topological phenomena; Vanderwaals heterostructures |
| Franz, Marcel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Condensed matter theory |
| Hallas, Alannah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Physical sciences; quantum phenomena; magnetism; Materials design and discovery; Quantum materials |
| Jones, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Atomic, optical and molecular physics,Ultrafast Optics, Spectroscopy |
| Kiefl, Robert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Physical sciences; condensed matter physics; magnetism; multiferroics; polarons; quantum phenomena; superconductivity |
| MacLachlan, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Supramolecular inorganic chemistry; Inorganic materials; Supramolecular organic chemistry; Synthesis of materials; Functional materials in materials chemistry sciences; Supramolecular Chemistry; Nanomaterials; Biomaterials; Cellulose nanocrystals; Chitin; Materials Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry |
| Nojeh, Alireza | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nanostructures (esp based on carbon nanotubes), controlled nanofabrication, electron emission phenomena, electron microscopy, modeling and simulation of nanoscale systems |
| Raussendorf, Robert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Measurement-based models for quantum computation, fault-tolerant quantum computation under geometric constraints, quantum cellular automata |
| Rottler, Joerg | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Physical sciences; Condensed Matter and Materials Physics; Nanomaterials; Polymers; Soft Matter; Solids |
| Soni, Abhishek | Postdoctoral Fellow | Carbon capture engineering; Material Science, Self-driving experiments, machine learning, clean energy, CO2 electrolysis |
| Ye, Ziliang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Physical sciences; Nanomaterials; Optics and Photonics |