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
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
Rasa Rejali Ph.D. student, Otte group (TU Delft)
Ultrafast AFM/KPFM
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