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The Faculty of Applied Science comprises a unique constellation of professional disciplines including; Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Nursing and Community & Regional Planning. The core purpose shared across all of our four disciplines is to discover, create and apply knowledge, provide unwavering top-tier education and champion a community of responsible professionals devoted to serving a thriving, sustainable and healthy society. Our work and the professions which our graduates represent span the entire human-centred built environment.
The disciplines within the Faculty of Applied Science are celebrated for the scope, strength and impact of their research activities. Our Faculty claims the spotlight in the global arena for our research in clean energy, communication and digital technologies, health and health technology among many others. We offer disciplinary-specific research based graduate programs as well as a range of professional graduate programs and pride ourselves on our ability to open doors of opportunity to students beyond their time within our Faculty.
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Sinclair, Chadwick | Department of Materials Engineering | Modelization and Simulation; Theoretical Approach; Metals and Alloys; Material Design; Mechanical and Physical Processes; Materials Science and Engineering; Computational Materials Science; Manufacturing; Alloy Design; Solid State Physics; Mechanics |
| Smith, Kevin | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Fossil Fuels; Biomass (Energy); Chemical Processes; Applied catalysis |
| Soules, Matthew | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | relationship between contemporary capitalism and the built environment; three interrelated topics that collectively constitute a significant constellation within capitalism |
| Srebnik, Simcha | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Chemical engineering; Bioinspired engineering and biomimetic design; Carbon nanotubes; Developing models for interfacial polymerization membraned; Diffusion in nanostructured materials; Functional materials; Hierarchical modeling; Mechanical properties of polymers melts and polymer networks; Molecular simulation of polymers and composite materials; Molecular simulations; Optimization of protein-imprinted polymers; Polymers and biopolymers; Protein folding and stability; Statistical thermodynamics of polymers and biopolymers; Understanding polymer-carbon nanotube interactions |
| Staub-French, Sheryl | Department of Civil Engineering | Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Building Information Modeling (BIM), collaboration and integrated project delivery, design and construction coordination, 4D (3D + time) visualization, interactive workspaces |
| Steen, John Thomas | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | Strategy; Innovation; Network analysis; Projects; Mining industry |
| Stevens, Mark | School of Community and Regional Planning | evaluating the effectiveness of local and regional government land use planning efforts, with a goal of producing new knowledge that can help communities anticipate and adapt to changes according to the principles of sustainable development; plan-making and implementation, growth management, natural hazard mitigation, and legal issues in planning; (1) a study of municipal climate change planning in BC, (2) a meta-analysis of environmental policy adoption, (3) a plan evaluation study of award-winning plans, and (4) a study on the content and delivery of quantitative methods courses in urban planning programs |
| Stevens, Sara | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | history and theory of architecture and urban design, urban history, economic theory, and the history of infrastructure |
| Stoeber, Boris | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Microelectromechanical Systems, MEMS, Microfluidics, Sensor Technology, Biomedical Microdevices, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Microflow Phenomena, Sensor technology, Integrated microsystems for biomedical applications and for environmental control |
| Swei, Omar | Department of Civil Engineering | Asset Management, Life Cycle Modeling, Optimization Methods, Real Options, Reinforcement Learning, Risk Analysis, Sequential Decision-Making, Stochastic Modeling, Sustainable Infrastructure Management, Time-Series Methods, Uncertainty Estimation and Propagation |
| Taghipour, Fariborz | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Clean Technologies; Solar and Wind Energy; Drinking Water; solar fuels; Artificial Photosynthetic Systems; UV Photoreactors; UV-LED Reactors; UV Microplasma; Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Reactors; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) |
| Taiebat, Mahdi | Department of Civil Engineering | static and dynamic soil-structure interaction, Theoretical and computational geomechanics, constitutive modeling of engineering materials, geotechnical earthquake engineering, static and dynamic soil-structure-interaction |
| Takahata, Kenichi | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies |
| Tang, Shuo | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biophotonics, biomedical optics, optical tissue imaging instrumentation, optical coherence tomography, multiphoton microscopy |
| Taylor, Justin | ||
| Thorne, Sally | School of Nursing | Clinical oncology; Nursing; cancer care; chronic illness; Medical assistance in dying |
| Thrampoulidis, Christos | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
| Trajano, Heather | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Chemical engineering; Biomass (Energy); Wood; Pulp and paper; Biochemicals; Biomass extractives recovery and utilization; Biorefining; catalysis; Hemicellulose; Kinetics; Pretreatment |
| Tran, Martino | School of Community and Regional Planning | systems science, predictive modelling and simulation for understanding and tackling societal challenges in energy and sustainability |
| Troczynski, Tom | Department of Materials Engineering | ceramics, coatings, biomaterials, refractories, fracture, Medical applications, Processing, microstructure and properties of ceramics |
| Upham, David Chester | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Chemical engineering; Energy Transformation and Energy Using; catalysis; Energy; Greenhouse gas mitigation |
| van der Loos, Hendrik | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Rehabilitation Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Design for Safety, Design Methodology and Design Coaching, Roboethics |
| Van Duzer, Leslie | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Body and Space, Contemporary Theory, Design Thinking |
| Varcoe, Colleen | School of Nursing | How the inequities of ethnicity, class, place and ability are central to violence against women, enhancing practice and policy in the context of violence and inequity |
| Vassos, Troy | Wastewater treatment (including water treatment processes); Water Reclamation Reuse and Conservation; Water Treatment Technology; Wastewater Resource Recovery; Biosolids Management, Treatment and Resource Recovery; Bioenergy |
This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Applied Science.
| Year | Citation | Program |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Dr. Esfandiari developed a system that uses medical image processing algorithms and artificial intelligence to enable surgeons to more clearly and accurately see where spine implants have been placed during a surgery, rather than waiting for a postoperative assessment. His system will reduce the re-operation rate for spine surgery patients. | Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2020 | Dr. Canning studied how people living with advanced dementia in long-term care continued to experience meaningful engagement. Despite significant losses they demonstrated a range of enduring abilities and skills. Her findings support ways for caregivers to connect with residents during both structured activities and informal interactions. | Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD) |
| 2020 | Dr. Dara developed an innovation for the simultaneous conversion of waste brines and carbon dioxide produced during industrial operations to re-usable water and chemicals. The first of a kind technology is now being commercialized by Mangrove Water Technologies and has the potential to reduce lithium battery costs leading to increased EV adoption. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2020 | To accommodate the rapidly growing amount of data demanded by mobile users in wireless networks, Dr. Saberali developed caching techniques to prevent congestion of the telecommunications links. He proposed methods to encode the data demanded by multiple users into a smaller number of coded messages and decode them at the final destinations. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2020 | Dr. Lopes da Costa analysed if securitisation could be a viable solution to the growing issues surrounding reclamation funding scarcity and regulatory inefficiency in mining. He explored key securitisation drivers that may increase the degree of financing and regulative success, which might lead to new funding sources for the mining industry. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mining Engineering (PhD) |
| 2020 | Dr. Adhami explored the experiences of patients in Cardiac Rehabilitation programs and found they were shaped by intersections of personal, social, and political contexts that overlap at the individual, healthcare provider, and healthcare system level. This suggests a need for a shift from one-size-fits-all to a person-centered care approach. | Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD) |
| 2020 | Dr. Shoman invented a photonic reflection-cancellation circuit and used it to demonstrate the first stable quantum-well laser against varying reflections without traditional expensive and bulky magneto-optic isolators. His invention promises the large-scale, low-cost production of electronic-photonic chips for computing, communication and sensing. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2020 | Dr. Ashkani developed a methodology for seismic assessment of reinforced concrete bridges. He also investigated the role of soil-structure interaction in the probability of collapse of reinforced concrete bridges and studied variation of the bridge foundation motions from the earthquake ground motions at the ground surface. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2020 | Dr. Espid collaboratively designed, fabricated and tested a new photo-electro-chemical sensing technology to analyze contaminants in water and air, aiming to determine the level and type of treatment needs. This research illuminates the role of novel UV-LEDs to develop low cost and high performance sensors to monitor and control indoor air quality. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2020 | Dr. Gubran studied the hardware architecture of low-power integrated computer chips of mobile devices. He created modeling tools and developed hardware techniques that can aid researchers and chip architects in understanding, designing, and improving the performance and power-efficiency of mobile chips. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |