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
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) | condensed matter theory; polarons, bipolarons; strongly correlated systems; Condensed matter theory, Polarons, bipolarons, Strongly correlated systems |
| Berlinguette, Curtis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | CO2 conversion and utilization; clean energy; advanced solar cells; electrochromic windows; dynamic windows; hydrogen fuels production; catalysis; robotics and automation; machine learning / artificial intelligence; Advanced solar cells, CO2 conversion and utilization, Catalysis, Clean energy, Combinatorial Chemistry, Dynamic windows, Electrochromic windows, Hydrogen fuels production, Machine learning / artificial intelligence, Robotics and automation |
| Burke, Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Scanning probe microscopy, organic materials, nanoscale materials, surface physics, photovoltaics |
| Chrostowski, Lukas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Optics and Photonics; Micro and Nanoelectronics; Nanotechnologies; Manufacturing Processes; biophotonics; biosensors; optics; optoelectronics; photonics; quantum computing; semiconductor lasers; silicon photonics; 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 Quantum Materials; Electronic Structure of Quantum 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) | 2D materials and Vanderwaals heterostructures; Quantum electronics; Thermodynamics of quantum systems; Strongly correlated phenomena; Topological phenomena; Quantum transport; 2D materials and Vanderwaals heterostructures, Quantum electronics, Thermodynamics of quantum systems, Strongly correlated phenomena, Topological phenomena, Quantum transport |
| Franz, Marcel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Condensed matter theory |
| Hallas, Alannah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Quantum materials; Materials design and discovery; magnetism; Disorder; superconductivity; Quantum materials, Materials design and discovery, Magnetism, Disorder, Superconductivity |
| Jones, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Atomic, optical and molecular physics,Ultrafast Optics, Spectroscopy |
| Klein, Bern | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mineral Processing; rheology of mineral suspensions; comminution; sensor based sorting; mineral processing, rheology of mineral suspensions, comminution, sensor based sorting |
| MacFarlane, Andrew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Chemical physics, Electronic and magnetic properties of crystalline solids, especially strongly correlated materials such as the cuprate high temperature superconductors |
| MacLachlan, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Supramolecular Chemistry; Nanomaterials; Biomaterials; Cellulose nanocrystals; Chitin; Materials Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; 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 |
| Rottler, Joerg | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Condensed Matter and Materials Physics; Nanomaterials; Polymers; Soft Matter; Solids; Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Nanomaterials, Polymers, Soft Matter, Solids |
| Ye, Ziliang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nanomaterials; Optics and Photonics; Nanomaterials, Optics and Photonics |