Danielle Salvatore
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD)
Optimization of Electrolyzers for CO2 Reduction
The applied sciences – architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, nursing, and planning – change society's conception of what is possible as a matter of course. Applied scientists make dreams real, turn ideas into practice. We embody the interface between present and future.
A community of diverse disciplines on campuses in two cities, we recognize the promise inherent in our differences. We are at our best when faced with problems considered by most to be impossible to solve, for it is there that our varied approaches, practice cultures, and discipline-specific languages, combined, become our greatest strength.
We are a Faculty of leaders. We take the initiative. We are defined by our integrity, excellence, innovative mindset, and passionate spirit of engagement. We are ideally positioned to address some of the greatest challenges of our time. From nurses and engineers working in First Nations communities and in Africa improving healthcare, to architects, landscape architects and community planners improving the built environment, our graduate students enlist their skills and networks to truly make a difference. As part of one of the world’s premier universities, it is not just our vision to educate the next generation of leaders, it is our responsibility.
Innovation and its application is our passion in the Faculty of Applied Science. We take pride in our ability to transfer knowledge and contribute to economic growth through research and entrepreneurship.
Mission
To create positive change in the world through the generation, professional embodiment, and innovative application of new knowledge.
Research Centres
Applied Science participates in a number of research centres and laboratories at UBC, some of which are inter-faculty collaborations and others of which are within Applied Science and involve inter-departmental collaborations.
Architecture and Landscape Architecture
- Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP)
- Design Centre for Sustainability
- The James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments
Community & Regional Planning
Engineering
- Advanced Materials & Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL)
- Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC)
- Institute for Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems (ICICS)
- Michael Smith Laboratories (MSL)
- Pulp & Paper Centre (PPC)
Nursing
Research Highlights
Through leadership and the relentless charge to improve professional practice, Applied Science researchers – often in interdisciplinary and pan-professional collaborations – advance knowledge, policies and technologies, and solve the global challenges facing society. In any specific year, over 100 leading companies partner with UBC APSC to advance their research agendas.
The UBC Applied Science research enterprise helps drive the reputation of one of the top research-intensive universities in the world. Our researchers claim the spotlight in the global arena in the following research themes:
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors in Faculty
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
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| Tang, Shuo | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biophotonics, biomedical optics, optical tissue imaging instrumentation, optical coherence tomography, multiphoton microscopy |
| Thorne, Sally | School of Nursing | Nursing, cancer care, chronic illness |
| Trajano, Heather | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Biomass (Energy), Wood, Pulp and Paper, Biorefining, Biochemicals, Biomass extractives recovery and utilization, Catalysis, Hemicellulose, Pretreatment, Kinetics |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Van Zyl, Dirk | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | The contributions that mining makes to sustainable development, life cycle systems, mine earth structures (tailings, heap leach, and rock disposal facilities) |
| 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 |
| Vaziri, Reza | Department of Civil Engineering | Finite element analysis, Mechanics of composite materials, Constitutive modeling of engineering materials, Plasticity, Damage mechanics, Process modeling of composite structures, Analysis of impact and blast loading of metallic and composite structures |
| Veiga, Marcello | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | effects of metals in the environment; pollution caused by mining; social effects of mining on communities; mercury pollution on fish, Biogeochemical cycle of heavy metals in the environment, Bioaccumulation and adverse health effects of metals in the environment, specially mercury, Artisanal and small-scale gold mining, Mercury pollution from gold mining and hydroelectric reservoirs, Acid Rock DrainageProcess mineralogy applied to mining and mineral processing, Sustainable development in mining, Mining communities and social issues related to mining, Mine closure and reclamation planning |
| Ventura, Carlos Estuardo | Department of Civil Engineering | Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, full scale vibration testing, shake table testing Seismic risk evaluation and hazard management studies Investigation of earthquake effects on man-made structures |
| Walus, Konrad | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Nanoelectronic devices and circuits, quantum-dot cellular automata, single-electron transistors, quantum mechanical simulations |
| Wang, Zhen | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering | Signal processing theory and applications, bioinformatics |
| Wang, Rizhi | Department of Materials Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering | Biomaterials, biomechanics Also, the structure and formation processes of biologically formed materials (eg seashells, silk, teeth) and applies the mechanisms to the design and processing of novel materials |
| Wang, Lele | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
| Weijs, Steven | Department of Civil Engineering | Water, Hydrological Cycle and Reservoirs, Drinking Water, Fresh Water, Information, Hydroelectricity, Ice and Snow, Hydrological Prediction, hydrology, water resources management, information theory, uncertainty, experimental hydrology, sensors, mountain hydrology, droughts, floods, control of water systems |
| Wijewickreme, Dharmapriya | Department of Civil Engineering | Geotechnical, pipeline geotechnical engineering |
| Wilkinson, David | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Electrochemistry, electrocatalysis, electrochemical power sources, advanced electrolysis, , hydrogen production and storage, waste water and drinking water treatment, solar fuels, carbon dioxide conversion, clean and sustainable energy and water |
| Wilton, Steven | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Integrated Circuits, Computer Architecture, Computer Hardware, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, Computer-Aided Design Algorithms, High-Level Synthesis |
| Wong, Vincent | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Telecommunication networks, Computer Systems, Network Analysis (Information), wireless networks, communication systems, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile computing, Internet, smart grid, energy systems, machine learning, protocol design |
| Wong, Sabrina | School of Nursing | Primary Health Care, Primary Care, vulnerable populations, marginalized groups, ethno-cultural, patient experiences, quality of care, Organization and delivery of health care, informing practice and system level interventions that seek to decrease health inequalities among Canadian residents, including people who face multiple disadvantages in accessing and using the health care system such as those who have language barriers and live in poverty |
| Wu, Lyndia | Department of Mechanical Engineering | |
| Xia, Guangrui | Department of Materials Engineering | Group IV semiconductors in microelectronics; Si compatible lasers; 2D semiconductors; 3D integration of Ics; Raman spectroscopy |
| Yadav, Vikramaditya | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering | Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Biomass (Energy), Bioremediation, Bioactive Molecules, Biomaterials, Structural Tissue Engineering / Biomaterials, Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms, Synthetic biology, Metabolic engineering, Biocatalysis, Bioprocess engineering, Bioremediation, Medical biotechnology, Tissue engineering, Drug delivery, Drug discovery & development, Technoeconomics, Vaccines |
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Recent Thesis Submissions
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Robust control of miniaturized optical image stabilizers for mobile phone cameras (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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A UBC fluidized bed reactor investigation of K-struvite (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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A fully-integrated complementary metal-oxide semiconductor receiver with avalanche photodetector (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Position control of a floating offshore wind turbine system using aerodynamic force (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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An optimal control strategy for an integrated solar thermal hydronic system with a heat pump (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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A two-step bio-oil upgrading study using carbon supported molybdenum carbide catalysts (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Modelling of drinking water treatment and disinfection by-product formation with artificial neural networks (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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A reduced-order power-system dynamical model and applications in design and monitoring of power systems (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Core movement during processing of sandwich panels (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Improved power loss estimation for device- to system-level analysis (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Photovoltaic systems classification and sizing based on the historical power flow data (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Multisensor data fusion for sleep apnea monitoring and classification (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Lithium extraction from brine with ion exchange resin and ferric phosphate (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Three-layer control strategy for LLC converters : large-signal, small-signal, and steady-state operation (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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An efficient middle-out prediction structure for light field video compression using MV-HEVC (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Cupric ammoniacal thiosulfate leaching of natural acanthite ore in a continuous circuit (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Scalp and intracranial EEG quantitative analysis : robust detection and prediction of epileptic seizures (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Video annotations in helping locate in-video information for revisitation (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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A microfluidic platform to study real-time tumour cell and tumour spheroid response to chronic and transient hypoxia (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Experimental and computational study of an air-breathing micro liquid fuel cell with an extended active anode catalyst region (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Enabling practical deployment of silicon ring resonator-based systems (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Effect of thiourea on the dissolution of chalcopyrite in acidic ferric solutions at different temperatures (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Variational direct modeling for computer-aided design (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Innovations in natural organic matter removal using ion exchange (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Data structure splicing (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Shear strength of soil-pipeline interfaces under low confining stresses and large displacements (Civil Engineering - PHD)
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Design, microfabrication, and characterization of a moulded PDMS/SU-8 inkjet dispenser for a lab-on-a-printer platform technology (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)