The following Faculty members are available to supervise students wishing to apply to Trent University's Materials Science Graduate Program:
Chemistry
Igor M. Svishchev, Professor
Theoretical and experimental investigation of supercritical water and its many applications including SCW-oxidation technology.
Email: isvishchev@trentu.ca
Andrew Vreugdenhil, Associate Professor
Development and characterization of hybrid organic-inorganic materials for applications in sensors, coatings and interface modification.
Email: avreugdenhil@trentu.ca
Eric Keske, Assistant Professor
Organic Synthesis, Organometallic Chemistry, Homogeneous Catalysis, and Reaction Mechanism Elucidation. Development of Efficient Synthetic Methods for Conjugated Organic Materials. Ligand Design for Asymmetric Catalysis.
Email: erickeske@trentu.ca
Steven Rafferty, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry
Bioinorganic chemistry, especially heme proteins of the parasitic protist Giardia intestinalis
Email: srafferty@trentu.ca
Mark Parnis, Full Professor, Chemistry
Methods for stimating, evaluating and applying partitioning in the determination of chemical fates in complex media such as soils, plastics, and polymeric media
Email: mparnis@trentu.ca
Kate Stewart-Abernethy, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Tailoring polymeric materials for target applications including gas and aqueous sensor; understanding the mechanisms by which sensing materials and analytes interact
Email: kstewartabernethy@trentu.ca
Physics and Astronomy
Bill Atkinson, Professor, Condensed Matter Physics
Theoretical and computational studies of quantum materials: superconductors, ferroelectric metals, and oxide interfaces.
Email: billatkinson@trentu.ca
Carlo Bradac, Assistant Professor, Quantum Nanomaterials
Study of 2D and 3D nanomaterials for quantum-enabled sensing and metrology
Email: carlobradac@trentu.ca
Suresh Narine, Professor, Biomaterial Physics
Biomaterials precursor synthesis, formulation and materials characterization.
Email: sureshnarine@trentu.ca
Rayf Shiell, Associate Professor, Ocular biomechanics
Optical and physical properties of the cornea, development of devices for ophthalmology.
Email: rayfshiell@trentu.ca
Aaron Slepkov, Associate Professor, Biomaterial Physics
Nonlinear photonics, optical properties and characterization of organic and biomaterials, microscopy, microwave photonics.
Email: aaronslepkov@trentu.ca
Balaji Subramanian, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Optical properties of nanostructure LI-tungsten bronzes and graphene based transition metal oxide films for energy saving applications.
Email: balajisubramanian@trentu.ca
Rachel Wortis, Associate Professor, Condensed Matter Physics
Condensed matter theory: strongly correlated and disordered systems.
Email: rwortis@trentu.ca
Mathematics
Wesley Burr, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Applied Statistics: Time Series, Spectrum Estimation, and Statistical Modelling.
Research projects in environmental epidemiology, physics, statistics education, and forensic science.
Email: wesleyburr@trentu.ca
Forensic Science
Sanela Martic, Assistant Professor, Forensic Science
biological biomarker identification, detection and toxicology screening using a variety of bioanalytical and biochemical tools.
Email: sanelamartic@trentu.ca