Former Group Members

Name

Current Affiliation

SPM Group Research

XueYing Chua 

Ananda Devices (Montreal)

Mechanical Detection of Neuronal Signals 

Madeleine Anthonisen 

Data Scientist at Sia Partners (Montreal)

Neurons and Synapse Formation  

Tyler Enright 

SPM Experimentalist at Canadian Bank Note Ltd. (Ottawa)

Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy 

Omur Erdinc Dagdeviren 

Assistant Prof., École  de Technology Supérieure (Montreal)

Time resolved EFM

Rikke Plougmann Ph.D. student,  Surfcat group, DTU (Copenhagen)

Inorganics & Ultrafast AFM

Software Engineer, Sonder.com

Single Electron Spectroscopy of Molecules 

Matthew Rigby 

Professor, CEGEP Sainte Anne (Montreal)

Neurons and Synapse Formation 

Aaron Mascaro Data Scientists, Mindgeek (Montreal)

Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy 

Andreas Spielhofer

Project Manager R&D at Ferrovac (www.ferrovac.com) 

Organic Thin Film Conductivity in UHV

Assistant Professor, Texas State University

Nanoelectronics, Nanomechanics 

Rasa Rejali Ph.D. student, Otte group (TU Delft)

Ultrafast AFM/KPFM 

Antoine Roy-Gobeil 

Plotly  (Montreal)

Quantum Dot Spectroscopy 

Connor Aiken Ph.D. Student, Dahn group, Dalhousie  Uni. 

Ultrafast AFM/KPFM 

Zeno Schumacher 

Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH Zürich 

Ultrafast AFM/KPFM 

Ann-Lauriene Haag Venture Architect, Sparrow Ventures (Zurich)

Electrochemical Cantilever Sensing 

Oscar Iglesias Freire Hardware Designer, Mantu (Montreal)

Nanomechanics & Transport 

Abutaleb Haidary 

Senior Analytics Engineer, Mashey (Montreal)

High-speed force microscopy 

Monserratt Lopez 

Cell Communication & Manipulating Neurons 

William Paul 

Senior Systems Architect, Apple     (San Francisco)

Nanomechanics & Transport 

James Hedberg 

Lecturer, City College of New York 

Director, CCNY Planetarium

100mK, 16 T AFM, graphene 

David Oliver Senior mobile developer, nventive (Montreal)

Nanomechanics & Transport

Antoni Tekiel 

Bank of Montreal (Toronto)

Molecular Electronics 

Stella (Shu) Xing                                 Medical Physics resident (Harvard Medical School) 

Cell-Cell Signaling 

Mohammad Hadi Izadi 

RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center 

MEMS Biochem sensors 

Jean-Benoit Lalanne 

M.Sc. candidate, McGill (Prof. Paul Francois) 

Nanomechanics & Transport (Summer Student) 

Aleks Labuda 

Asylum Research (Santa Barbara)

Atomic Resolution AFM with Electrochemical Control

Jessica Topple 

Defence R&D Canada (Halifax)

Molecular Electronics 

Lynda Cockins 

Quantum Dot Spectroscopy

Michael Feldmann 

PhD student Munster 

Friction of Nanoparticles 

Xueling Quan 

PhD Student DTU (Denmark)

MEMS Biochem sensors 

Jorge Dulanto 

Research Scientist, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

MEMS Biochem Sensors 

Hélène Bourque 

Planar Patch Clamp 

Yoshihiko Nagai 

Research Scientist, Genome Innovation Centre  (Montreal)

MEMS Biochem sensors 

Jean-Christian Lemay 

M.Sc. Student, Laval 

TDS of Graphene 

Fernando Suarez Sanchez 

Neurons & Synapse Formation 

Till Hagedorn 

Business Development, Deutsche Bahn (Frankfurt, D)

Nanomechanics & Transport 

Shawn Fostner 

SPM Analyst, TechInsights (Ottawa)

Molecular Electronics 

Mehdi El Ouali 

Director Strategy, Power Corp. of Canada (Montreal)

Nanomechanics & Transport 

Siméon Morvan 

CEA-LETI 

TDS of Graphene 

François Castonguay 

VP Corporate, GenAlta Power Inc. (Calgary)

Microcantilever in fluid environment 

Ashwin Lal 

I2N Technologies

Ultra Low Temp SPM 

Cristian Cojocaru

cristian.cojocaru at imi.cnrc-nrc.gc.ca 

National Research Council Canada-Industrial Material Institute 

Magnetic nanostructure (Post-Doc) 

Jeffrey LeDue


NeuroImaging and NeuroComputation Centre (UBC) 

Biophysics and SNOM (Research Assistant) 

Sarah Burke


Assoc. Prof., UBC 

Growth of organic molecules on insulators (Ph.D. Student) 

Nela Durisic 

Research Fellow, Brain Institute (U. Queensland)

AFM and single photon fluorescence detection 

Manuel Pumarol

Research Associate, Lancaster University 

Fabrication of metallic nanostructures (Ph.D. Student) 

Matthieu Nannini

Project Manager, Teledyne DALSA (Bromont)

McGill NanoTools Micromachining Fab (Post-Doc); Fab Manager

Jeffrey Mativetsky 

Assoc. Prof. Binghamton University 

Atomic Scale Electrical Contacts (Ph.D. Student) 

Gesche Nahrwold


Ph.D. student, University of Hamburg 

Fabrication of metallic nanostructures on Si/SiO2 with the AFM (diploma thesis) 

Patricia Davidson

Scientific Project Manager, 4Dcell (F) 

Deposition and Characterization of Protein Thin Films (M.Sc. Student) 

Tanya Monga

tanya.monga at gmail.com 

CEO GenMark (member of Roche Group), Carlsbad (CA, USA) 

Cantilever-Based Sensing (M.Sc. Student) 

Alex Wlasenko

wlasenko at gmail.com 

Facility Manager, U. Victoria 

Atomic Scale contacts (Ph.D. Student) 

Vincent Tabard-Cossa

vtabar at physics.ubc.ca 

Assoc. Prof., University of Ottawa 

Microchemical Chemical Sensor (Ph.D. Student) 

Romain Stomp

romain.stomp at gmail.com 

Application Engineer, Zurich Instr. (Strasburg, F) 

Low-T AFM (Ph.D. Student) 

Sean Collins


Strategic & Institutional Research Initiatives Specialist (York U.)

Mangetic Force Microscopy (M.Sc. Student)

Anne-Sophie Lucier

anne-sophie.lucier at hec.ca 

General Manager, Air Liquid (Paris)

UHV/STM/FIM/AFM (M.Sc.) 

Michel Godin

mgodin at uottawa.ca 

Assoc.. Prof., University of Ottawa

Microchemical Chemical Sensor (Ph.D. Student) 

Benjamin Smith

bsmith at physics.ubc.ca 

Brandeis University 

Biophysics (Ph.D.) 

Yan Sun

sunyan at physics.mcgill.ca 

KLA-Tencor 

UHV/STM/FIM/AFM (PhD. Student)

Henrik Mortensen

hejm at topsoe.com 

Haldor Topsoe A/S, R&D 

UHV/STM/FIM/AFM (Post-Doc) 

Luc Beaulieu

beaulieu at physics.mun.ca 

Professor, Memorial University

Microchemical Chemical Sensor (Post-Doc) 

Sacha Schaer

schaers at physics.mcgill.ca 

EMPA Thun (CH) 

UHV/STM/FIM/AFM (Post-Doc) 

Xiaobin Zhu

xiaobin.zhu at seagate.com 

Seagate Technologies 

Magnetic Force Microscopy of nanomagnetic structure (Ph.D. Student) 

Regina Hoffmann

Professor, Potsdam (D)

UHV-NC-AFM (Post-Doc) 

Mark Roseman

Director, Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives (York U.) 

Cryogenic Magnetic Force Microscopy - Superconducting samples (PhD) 

Valentin Yakimov

UHV/STM/FIM/AFM (Post-Doc) 

Philip LeBlanc

leblancp at corning.com 

Senior Manager, Corning, NY 

SNOM (PhD) 

Graham Cross

Graham.Cross at tcd.ie 

Assoc. Professor, Trinity College Dublin Ireland 

UHV/STM/FIM/AFM (PhD) 

Andre Schirmeisen

schira at uni-muenster.de 

Professor, U. of Münster  (D)

UHV/STM/FIM/AFM (PhD) 

Yanzhang Liu

zanzhang_m_liu at notes.seagate.com 

Seagate in Minneapolis 

MFM/Dissipation imaging (PhD) 

Minming Gu

minming_gu at yahoo.com 

Cisco Systems in Ottawa 

SNOM (Post-Doc) 

Alain Stalder

astalder at webshuttle.ch 

iT_SEC in Zurich 

UHV FIM/STM/AFM (Post-Doc) 

Brett Ellman

bellman at kentxi.edu 

Professor, Kent State University 

Low-T (Post-Doc) 

Antonella Badia

badiaa at chimie.umontreal.ca 

Professor, U. de Montreal 

Chemical self-assembled etch masks (Post-Doc) 

Zixiao (George) Zhang


PhD UC Davis

Ramin Yazdaanpanah



PhD at Northwestern