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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aamlid, Solveig | Postdoctoral Fellow | Condensed matter physics; Solid State Physics; High entropy oxides; Quantum matter; Density functional theory |
| 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 |
| Burke, Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Scanning probe microscopy, organic materials, nanoscale materials, surface physics, photovoltaics |
| Chatterjee, Suman | Postdoctoral Fellow | Photonics, optoelectronics and optical communications |
| 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 and magnetic properties of condensed matter and supraconductivity; 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) | Physical sciences; 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) | Condensed matter experiments; Solid state chemistry; 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 and beneficiation; Mineral Processing; rheology of mineral suspensions; comminution; sensor based sorting |
| MacFarlane, Andrew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter and supraconductivity; Nuclear chemistry; Development and applications of spectroscopic and structural techniques; Surfaces and structural properties of condensed matter; Solid state chemistry; Characterization of materials; Condensed matter experiments; Condensed matter characterization technique development; Condensed matter physics |
| 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 |
| Rottler, Joerg | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Physical sciences; Condensed Matter and Materials Physics; Nanomaterials; Polymers; Soft Matter; Solids |
| Singh, Ashutosh | Postdoctoral Fellow | Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter and supraconductivity; Condensed matter experiments; condensed matter physics; Solid State Chemistry; magnetism |
| Ye, Ziliang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Physical sciences; Nanomaterials; Optics and Photonics |