Current group members:
- Vasiliy Triandafilidi, PhD student in
Chemical Engineering (co-supervised with Prof. S.
Hadzikiriakos), since Jan 2015
"Theory and modeling of the piezoionic effect in hydrogels"
- Derek Fujimoto,
QuESt PhD student (fujimoto at phas.ubc.ca), since
Jan 2016
"NMR experiments and molecular simulations of relaxation in polystyrene films"
(co-supervised with Profs R. Kiefl and W.A. Macfarlane) - Daniel Bruns,
QuEST PhD Student (dbruns at phas.ubc.ca), since Jan
2017
"Heat transport in carbon nanotubes and the heat trap effect"
(co-supervised with Profs A. Nojeh and S. Phani)
- Daniel Korchinski,
QuEST PhD Student (djkorchi at phas.ubc.ca), since Jan
2019
"Mesoscopic models of driven disordered solids"
- Celine Ruscher,
SBQMI postdoctoral fellow, since Jan 2018
"Physics of amorphous materials" - Debashish Mukherji,
SBQMI research associate, since Aug 2018
"Nanoscale modeling and simulation of materials"
Former group
members:
Postdocs:
Graduate Students:
Postdocs:
- Mona Habibi,
postdoctoral fellow, Aug 2014 - Aug 2017
"Protein force spectroscopy with atomistic and coarse-grained simulations" - Michael Greenwood,
postdoctoral fellow, Jan 2009 - Jan 2011
"Phase field crystal modeling" - Joel Berry, Postdoctoral
Fellow, Jan 2012-Nov 2013 (based at McMaster
University)
"Phase field crystal modeling of microstructure evolution" - Evgeniya
Dontsova, Postdoctoral Fellow, April 2013-July 2015
(jointly with Prof. Chad Sinclair)
"Dynamical variational Gaussian methods for diffusion in alloys"
Graduate Students:
- David Thompson,
MSc thesis (Sept 2005-Aug 2007):
"The Local Coulombic Monte Carlo Algorithm: Applications to the electric double layer" - Aleksy Jones, MSc
thesis (Sept 2006-Aug 2008, jointly with Prof. Tom
Tiedje):
"Kineticall determined surface topology during epitaxial growth" - Bruce Krayenhoff, MSc thesis
(Jan 2007-Mar 2009):
"Nonlocal dielectric effects on the dielectric barrier of an ion channel" - Alex
Morriss-Andrews. MSc student (Sept 2007-Aug
2009, jointly with Prof. Steven Plotkin)
"Coarse grained modeling of DNA using ellipsoids" - Mya Warren,
PhD thesis (Jan 2006 - Dec 2009).
"Aging and memory in glassy materials" - Amy Liu, MSc
thesis, (Jan 2008 - Dec 2009):
"Physical aging in polymer glasses and nanocomposites" - Matthew Badali, MSC thesis (Sept 2010-Sept 2012)
"Nonlocal dielectric response of water" - Anton Smessaert, PhD thesis (Jan
2011-April 2015)
"Microscopic Perspective of Polymer Glasses During Physical Aging and Mechanical Deformation:
A computational study of dynamical heterogeneity, plasticity, and soft vibrational modes as the link to the molecular structure." - Shahzad Ghanbarian, PhD
student (Sept 2009 - April 2015)
"Atomistic and coarse-grained simulations of DNA electrostatics" - Liam Huber, PhD student
(Sept 2009 - Dec 2015)
"Quantum simulations of the interaction between solutes and defects in metals"
(jointly with Prof. M. Militzer, Materials Engineering) - Amanda Parker, PhD
student (parkeram at phas.ubc.ca), (Sept 2011-Dec 2017)
"Mechanics of nanostructured copolymers"
Undergraduate Honours Theses:
- "Estimating the Elastic Moduli of the Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC) Hydrogel" (Sept 2017-May
2018)
- "Simulating mult-cell migration in monolayers using a mass-spring cell model" (Sept 2017-May
2018)
- "Prediction of Molecular Properties with Graph Convolution-Based Neural Networks" (Sept 2017-May
2018)
- "Phase field models for cell dynamics" (Sept 2015-May
2016)
- "Simulations of stable glasses via vapour deposition"
(Sept 2015-May 2016)
- "Atomistic simulations of the iron-carbon system"(Sept
2008-April 2009)
- "Atomistic simulations of physical aging in
polyethylene", UG Honour's thesis (Sept 2007-April 2008)
- "Phase field models for disordered solids", (Sept
2006-April 2007)
- "Molecular dynamics simulations of the force-extension
relation in simple models of semiflexible biopolymers",
(Sept 2005-April 2006)
- "Simulating effects of shearing on the ordering of
bilayer systems" (Sept 2005-April 2006)
Summer USRAs:
- David MacNeill, Summer USRA (May-Aug 2010):
"Atomistic yield criteria for polymer glasses" - Kimberley Chang, Summer USRA (May-Aug 2014):
"Mechanical properties of a coarse-grained model of DNA"