Chemistry
Master of Science
Department of Chemistry
As one of the world’s leading Chemistry Departments, we create an exceptional research and learning environment for advancing and sharing knowledge that emphasizes excellence, equity and sustainability.
Outstanding facilities and resources accommodate more than 500 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty that call the Department of Chemistry home. The Department has one of the most comfortable and up-to-date research spaces in North America, and offers MSc and PhD degrees - both degrees require graduate courses and research work reported in a thesis.
Courses offered in the Chemistry Department cover a wide range of subject matter, from synthetic organic chemistry to chemical physics and theory.
Graduate Degree Programs
Open Research Positions
This list of possible research projects is non-exhaustive. It only shows positions that are specifically advertised in the G+PS website.
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Algar, Russ | Luminescent Materials; Bio/Chemical Sensing; Materials synthesis and biofunctionalization; Understanding the nanoparticle interface; New energy transfer configurations for sensing and imaging; Point-of-care diagnostic devices; Intracellular sensing |
| Andersen, Raymond | Chemicals produced by marine organisms |
| Berlinguette, Curtis | 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 |
| Bertram, Allan | Atmosphere (Including Chemical Aspects); Physical and analytical chemistry of atmospheric aerosols |
| Bizzotto, Dan | Electrochemical Systems; Surface Characterization; Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Layers; Sensors and Devices; Electrochemical and Fuel Cells; Electrochemistry; interfacial analysis; biosensors; spectroelectrochemistry; electrocatalysis; self assembled monolayers; fluorescence microscopy |
| Brooks, Donald | microgravity research (space station, etc); diagnostic testing device; Centre for Blood Research; biomaterials, Organic chem, blood research |
| Brumer, Harry | Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis; Enzymes; polysaccharides; carbohydrates; biomass; cellulose; plant cell walls; microbiota |
| Burke, Sarah | Scanning probe microscopy, organic materials, nanoscale materials, surface physics, photovoltaics |
| Chen, David | Instrumentation |
| Chou, Keng Chang | Chemical physics |
| Ciufolini, Marco | organic chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis, synthetic methodology, natural products, Environmentally responsible preparative reactions |
| Dake, Gregory | Organic, bioactive, metal as catalyist |
| Fryzuk, Michael | energy; fuel cells; hydrogeny economy; nitrogen fixation, Metal, energy |
| Gates, Derek | Inorganic chemistry, materials science, polymer chemistry, catalysis |
| Grant, Edward | Spectroscopy, molecular electronic structure, Chemical physics |
| Hein, Jason | discovery, design and study of new organometallic and organocatalytic reactions; investigating complex systems where multiple pathways compete, partitioning the active catalyst among many possible pathways |
| Hepburn, John | Chemical physics |
| Huan, Tao | Metabolic measurements; Metabolomics; Cellular Metabolism |
| Hudson, Zachary | Synthesis of materials; Functional materials in materials chemistry sciences; Organic chemical synthesis; Optical properties of materials; Luminescent materials; Organic electronics; Polymer chemistry; Organic chemistry; Organic light-emitting diodes |
| Jetter, Reinhard | Analytical Chemistry; Plant Ecophysiology; Plant Biochemistry; Molecular Genetics; Biological Chemistry |
| Kennepohl, Pierre | spectroscopy, electronic structure, paramagnetic resonance, X-ray absorption, X-ray emission, sulfur radicals in biology, enzymatic catalysis, transition metal catalysis, Relationship between electronic structure and reactivity in catalytic systems |
| Krems, Roman | Theoretical chemistry, Molecular Spectroscopy, Dynamics of few- and many-body molecular systems in electromagnetic fields |
| Li, Hongbin | Biophysical chemistry, biomaterials, single molecule studies, biological, atomic force, polymer chemistry |
| MacFarlane, Andrew | Chemical physics, Electronic and magnetic properties of crystalline solids, especially strongly correlated materials such as the cuprate high temperature superconductors |
| MacLachlan, Mark | 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 |
| McIntosh, Lawrence | Protein structure-dynamics-function; Regulation of gene expression; Signal transduction; Cancer; Enzyme mechanisms |
| Mehrkhodavandi, Parisa | Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds; Polymers; Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis; Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry; Polymer Chemistry and Characterization; catalysis; Green Chemistry; Bioproducts; Bio-based polymers |
| Momose, Takamasa | Spectroscopy, Chemical physics |
| Nichols, Eva | |
| Orians, Kristin | Chemical Oceanography, Trace metals in seawater |
| Orvig, Christopher E | Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis; Imaging; Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds; Nuclear medicine; Chemical Processes; Chemotherapy; medicinal inorganic chemistry; coordination chemistry; radiopharmaceutical chemistry; bioinorganic chemistry; ligand design and synthesis |
| Patey, Grenfell | Liquid dynamics, chemical physics |
| Perrin, David | Bioorganic Chemistry, Combinatorial Chemistry Enzyme Mimics Antisense Therapies, Radiopharmaceuticals |
| Reid, Jolene | |
| Rojas Gaona, Orlando | Nanopolysaccharides (based on cellulose, chitin, starches and others); Bacterial nanocelluloses; Cellulose derivatives; Lignins, colloidal lignins, nanolignins and their uses; Renewable biopolymers (hemicelluloses, proteins, chitin and chitosan, alginates and others); Multiphase systems (emulsions, foams, dispersed systems), gels, aerogels; Films, filaments and hybrid materials; Nanocomposites; Bioactive systems; Fiber processing; Pulp and paper |
| Ryan, Katherine | drug molecules in use today are organic compounds isolated from organisms such as bacteria, plants, and fungi; understand how natural products are made. |
| Sammis, Glenn | Methods development, natural product synthesis, organic free radicals, radical fluorination |
| Schafer, Laurel | catalysis, chemical synthesis, heterocycles, titanium, zirconium, yttrium, tantalum, hydroamination, hydroaminoalkyltion, biodegraable polymers, sustainable synthesis, Green Chemistry, Organometallic and organic chemistry |
| Sherman, John | Molecular structure of protein |
| Straus, Suzana | Proteins; Antimicrobial peptides; Viral membrane proteins; Structure-function; Protein-protein interactions |
| Tanner, Martin | Enzymes responsible for the biosynthesis of the sialic acids in mammals |
| Thachuk, Mark | Reaction dynamics, mathematical techniques, Chemical physics |
| Wang, Yan | Quantum chemistry, Chemical physics |
| Withers, Stephen | Enzymes and Proteins; Blood Substitutes; Organic Molecules and Biomolecules; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Diabetes; Drug development; enzyme inhibition; carbohydrates; glycobiology; metagenomics; directed evolution |
| Wolf, Michael | materials chemistry; polymer light-emitting devices; chemical sensors; conductive polymers, Electronic or photonic polymers |
