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Available Research Projects
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First name | Research Interests | Desired start dates: | Project areas |
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| Chrostowski | Lukas | 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 | Any time / year round |
silicon photonic device and circuit design, nanofabrication, quantum computing, single photon devices |
| Ciocca | Valter | Auditory System; Perception and Representation; Recognition of Speech; Speech and Language Development Disorders; Auditory grouping of speech and non-speech sounds, also known as "auditory scene analysis"; perception and production of normal and disordered speech | Any time / year round |
Auditory scene analysis; perception and production of disordered speech |
| Conklin | Annalijn | Public health nutrition policy; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Social Determinants of Dietary and Metabolic Disorders; social nutritional epidemiology; Gender Epidemiology; women's health; Health Equity; Chronic Diseases in Elderly; Obesity; CVD risk factors; healthy ageing; food and nutrition policy; Indigenous health; Community Health / Public Health; disease management evaluation; healthcare quality improvement; Professional Practices; ethics of research and public health | 2025 |
Gender differences in symptoms and outcomes of patients living with COPD; Gender, social determinants and metabolic outcomes |
| Cookson | Tara | Public policy; Development; Social protection; Care work; Gender equality | Any time / year round |
Gender and development; social protection; care economy |
| Coops | Nicholas Charles | Forestry sciences; Telemetry (Remote Sensing, Radar); Space Techniques; Forestry Technology and Equipment; Plants and Forests | Any time / year round |
Application of remote sensing technologies to forest productivity and conservation issues |
| Cornelis | Jean Thomas | Earth and related environmental sciences; Pedology; Biogeochemistry; Soil-Plant Interactions | 2022 |
- determine the extent to which changes in soil processes controlling carbon storage and (micro)nutrient supply are driven by land use - understand soil abiotic controls on microbial and root nutrient-acquisition strategies and their role in agroecosystem resilience and food quality - determine agroecosystem adaptation to climate change via bio-weathering processes induced by... Read More |
| Cretu | Edmond | Nano-technology; Electronics; Medical and biomedical engineering; microsystems and nanotechnology; sensor clusters and networks; Signal processing and control; Ultrasound Imaging; Microinstrumentation; Inertial measurement units; wearable systems | Any time / year round |
- Polymer-based transducer arrays for ultrasound imaging - applications in biomedical imaging, or for non-destructive testing of materials and structures - Advanced microsystems for inertial navigation - Sensor microinstrumentation systems - Signal processing and modern control applied to MEMS transducers - Wearable body sensor systems |
| Cronk | Quentin Charles | Plant biology; botany; taxonomy; systematics; genomics | 2026 |
Molecular basis of dioecy and monoecy in flowering plants Taxonomy, systematics and evolution of tropical plant genera Taxonomy, systematics and evolution of plant genera in the Pacific Northwest |
| Cui | Wei | International trade law; Tax law; Tax law and policy; Carbon pricing and climate policy; industrial policy; Taxation and international trade; Chinese legislative system; Clean energy subsidies; Law and political economy; tax and development; Geo-economics | Any time / year round |
The history of international taxation in light of the evolution of international trade Compare redistributive policies in democratic v. authoritarian countries Carbon pricing Geo-economics |
| d'Arcy | Mitch | Earth and related environmental sciences; Geomorphology; Climate/palaeoclimate; Sedimentology; Geochronology; remote sensing | Any time / year round, 2021 |
Projects could involve field work, geochronology, geochemistry, modelling and remote sensing depending on what the student finds exciting and interesting. I’m particularly seeking students interested in working on these topics (but I’m open to other suggestions, too):
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| Daley | Denise | Bioinformatics; Asthma; Complex Trait Genetics; Epigenetics; gene-gene and gene-environment interactions; Genetic Diseases; genetic epidemiology; Genetics of Aging; statistical genetics; Susceptibility Genes | Any time / year round |
Genetics and epigenetics of common complex diseases including peanut allergy, food allergy, asthma, atopy, healthy aging, aortic valve stenosis. Longitudinal analyses of childhood birth cohorts. The lab is currently initiating several targeted whole genome bisulfate sequencing projects and we plan on integrating data from a variety of omics approaches. We are also developing genetic risk... Read More |
| Damascelli | Andrea | Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter and supraconductivity; Electronic Structure of Quantum Materials | Any time / year round |
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| Daniels | Megan | Classical religion; Archaeology of Greece and the broader eastern Mediterranean; Late Bronze Age to Hellenistic Period; Ancient religion, sanctuaries, votive objects; Cross-cultural interaction; Ancient economies and trade; Divine kingship; Digital/data science approaches to the ancient world, particularly ancient religion; Migration and mobility across Eurasia; Phoenician culture; Ceramic analysis |
Ancient Mediterranean, 3000-100 BCE; ancient Greek religion; ancient economies, trade, and exchange; migration and mobility in the ancient Mediterranean; cross-cultural interaction in antiquity; archaeological ceramics; diversity and inclusion in teaching ancient history and archaeology |
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| Dao Duc | Khanh | Genomics; Mathematical biology; Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling; combine mathematical,computational and statistical tools to study fundamental biological processes; regulation and determinants of gene expression and translation; Machine Learning for Biological Imaging and Microscopy; Database development and management; Biological and Artificial Neural Networks for geometric representation | 2023, 2024 |
Learning Spatial Representation from Brain recordings, in collaboration with Manu Madhav's lab at UBC |
| Darvin | Ron | ESL, TESOL, LOTE and sign language curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; identity and investment in language learning; critical applied linguistics; race, ethnicity, and social class; Digital Literacies; generative AI | 2025, 2026, 2027 |
issues of power and inequality confronted by L2 speakers, racialized migrants, diasporic communities and under-resourced students; critical digital literacies; generative AI; critical pedagogy |
| Dee | Derek | Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Proteomics; Nanofabrication, growth and self-assembly; Food chemistry (including fermentation); Protein Folding; protein stability; protein aggregation; protein engineering; funtional amyloid; bacterial amyloid; protein nanofibrils; food proteins; legume proteins; aspartic proteases; psychrophilic enzymes; precision fermentation; Biophysics; food chemistry; alternative food proteins; optical tweezers; single molecule force spectroscopy; cryoEM | Any time / year round |
1. bacterial biofilm amyloid: assembly mechanism and drug targeting 2. functional and engineered amyloid from plant (legume) proteins 3. protein (enzyme) engineering to control stability |
| Dennis | Jessica | Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Complex Trait Genetics; genetic epidemiology; statistical genetics; Psychiatric conditions; neurodegenerative disease; Precision Health; Administrative health data; Electronic health records; Machine Learning | Any time / year round |
The last decade has seen an unprecedented explosion of data. In medicine, data are increasingly being generated and linked across electronic health records, administrative databases, and biobanked samples. These resources hold tremendous promise for improving human health and achieving precision medicine, which will only be realized by thoughtful study designs and innovative analyses. ... Read More |
| Diamond | Adele | executive functions; prefrontal cortex; dopamine; working memory; self-control; self-regulation; cognition; COMT gene; Sex differences; stress; ACEs (adverse childhood experiences); ELS (early life stress); resilience; social determinants of health; ADHD; depression; PTSD; Physical Activity; the arts; mindfulness |
In traumatized youth, can prefrontal cortex communication with the amygdala be restored by a stress-reduction program (e.g., Niroga’s yoga-based mindfulness program)? Are the benefits of music for improving executive functions (EFs), mood, and quality of life greater when the experience of listening to the music is socially shared? Can the benefits of listening to the spoken word be as great... Read More |
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| Dollinger | Stefan | English language; Language Contact and Linguistic Changes; Linguistic Variation and Society; Lexicography and Dictionaries; Language Interactions; Language Rights and Policies; Bilingualism and Multilingualism |
Projects revolving around the recently completed www.dchp.ca/dchp2, possibly towards a third edition. For my work, see https://ubc.academia.edu/StefanDollinger for a nearly complete list and downloadable books/papers/squibs/reviews. |
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| Dong | Xuesen | Cancer progression and metastasis; Gene and molecular therapy; Prostate Cancer; Drug development; RNA splicing and Gene Regulation; Hormone Dependent Cancers; Endocrine Regulation | Any time / year round |
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| Donner | Simon | Atmospheric sciences; Oceanography; Other media and communication; Climate Science; climate change impacts; Climate policy; Coastal Ecosystems; Marine Environment; Climate modelling and prediction; Science communication; Net-zero emissions; Coral reefs | Any time / year round, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
I am a climate scientist focused on helping the world prevent and prepare for climate change. I serve as a member Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body, which advises the Canadian government on climate change solutions, and was a lead author on the most recent assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments. My research program lies primarily at the intersection... Read More |
| Douglas | Jennifer | Personal recordkeeping and archives; Community archives; Person-centred archival theory and practices; Grief and recordkeeping and archives; Emotions and recordkeeping and archives; Archival arrangement and description | Any time / year round |
Personal and/or community archives and recordkeeping; grief and recordkeeping and archives; archival creation; archival representation. |
| Dutta | Souradeep | Reinforcement learning; Cyber-physical systems; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning | Any time / year round, 2025, 2026 |
Reinforcement learing, robotics, formal methods, cyber-physical systems |
| Effros | Bonnie | Humanities and the arts; History of archaeology; Antiquarianism and collecting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Late antique and early medieval history and archaeology; Gender history and archaeology | Any time / year round |
history of archaeology, history of collecting and museums, medievalism, early medieval history and archaeology, early medieval gender |
| Elliott | Alison | Other health sciences; rare disease; genomics; Congenital Malformations; Skeletal and limb anomalies; Genetic Counselling; Health services implementation science |
Genetic counselling Birth defects Health Implementation Science |
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