Alumni Postdoctoral Researchers & Research Assistants:

Alumni reunion in Saarbrucken: Joshua D. McGraw, Oliver Bäumchen, Sabrina Haefner & Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Alumni reunion in Saarbrucken: Joshua D. McGraw, Oliver Bäumchen, Sabrina Haefner & Kari Dalnoki-Veress

  • Paul Fowler, '15-'16, Polymer films & Nanorheology

  • Michael Massa, ’14, Control of diblock copolymer structures

  • Jessica Carvalho, ’10-’11, Polymer Crystallisation

  • Oliver Bäumchen, ’11-’13, Polymer entanglement, glass transition, nano-rheology
     

Alumni Visiting Researchers/Students:

  • Tanel Lorand, summer 2019, droplet adhesion

  • Albane Thery, 01.07.2018-18.09.2018, Collective motion in magnetotactic bacteria.

  • Lola Ciapa, 07.05.2018-24.08.2018, Droplets on fibers

  • Vincent Bertin, 15.02.2018-15.05.2018, Wetting fibers and levelling

  • Charlotte Demonsant, 05.2017-12.2017, Conductive fibers

  • Adrien Dangremont, 05.2017-12.2017, Conductive fibers

  • Michiel Hack, 09.2016-12.2015 Elasto-capillarity

  • Pauline Olive, 05.2015-08.2015 Levelling of stepped polymer films with elastic boundary conditions

  • Sabrina Haefner, 03.2013 - 07.2013 Plateau-Raleigh instabilities in coated fibers

  • Celine Ruscher, 06.2013 - 08.2013 Marangoni instabilities during spincoating

  • Laetitia Jubin, 07.2013 - 08.2013 Polymer nanorheology


Alumni PhD Students:

  • Carmen Lee, PhD ‘22, Driven flow of droplets and bubbles - Postdoc at North Carolina State University

  • Adam Fortais, PhD ‘21, Elastic deformations and instabilities in thin fibers and films - Council of Canadian Academies

  • Jean-Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, PhD ‘21, Droplets as model systems for investigating 2D crystals, glasses and the growth dynamics of granular aggregates - MesoMat

  • John Niven, PhD ‘20, Unstable Systems of Viscous and Elastic Polymer Thin Films - Bluelight Analytics

  • Rafael Schulman, PhD ‘18, Unstable Systems of Viscous and Elastic Polymer Thin Films - Shopify

  • Mark Ilton, PhD ’15, Diblock droplets, Nanorheology - Faculty at Harvey Mudd

  • Matilda Backholm, PhD ’15, Mechanical properties of C. elegans, Polymer nanorheology - Faculty at Aalto

  • Robert Peters, PhD ’14, Diblock copolymer film morphology - Bruce Power

  • Josh McGraw, PhD ’12, Polymer entanglement, nano-rheology, diblock morphology - Faculty at ESPCI ParisTech

  • Jessica Carvalho, PhD ’10, Polymer crystallisation

  • Marie-Josee Colbert, PhD ’10, Cell adhesion - Université de Sherbrooke

  • Adam Raegen, PhD ‘09, Micromechanics of polymer films - MesoMat

  • Andrew Croll, PhD ‘09, Diblock copolymer thin films - Faculty at North Dakota State University

  • Mike Massa, PhD ‘06, Crystallisation in thin polymer films - Faculty at Guelph
     

Alumni MSc Students:

  • Lauren Dutcher, MSc ‘21, Wrinkling in thin films

  • Johnathan Hoggarth, MSc ‘20, 2D aggregation of droplets

  • Hamza Khattak, MSc ‘20, Droplets on elastic surfaces

  • Carmen Lee, MSc ‘18, Polymer nano-rheology/Wrinkling instabilities

  • Clementine Fournier, MSc ‘18, Droplet migration on conical fibers - UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

  • Jean-Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, MSc '17, Soft-colloids & Water waves

  • Benjamin Davis-Purcell, MSc '17, Adhesion instabilities - PhD Carleton

  • Adam Fortais, MSc '16, Elasto-capillarity

  • Solomon Barkley, MSc ’15, Mircrofluidic droplet fabrication, soft colloids - PhD Harvard

  • Rafael Schulman, MSc ’14, Microswimmers

  • Paul Fowler, MSc ’14, Polymer nanorheology - MesoMat

  • Sara Cormier, MSc ’12, Nano-rheology of polymer droplets - Instructor at McMaster

  • Mark Healey, MSc ’11, Friction of living cells - Government of Alberta

  • Robert Peters, MSc ’10, DNA confinement

  • Marc-Antoni Goulet, MSc ‘08, Friction of cells on various substrates - PhD Simon-Fraser

  • Josh McGraw, MSc ‘08, Entanglements in polymer films

  • Joseph Parete, MSc ‘08, Laser lithography, co-supervised with John Preston

  • Jessica Carvalho, MSc ‘06, Ellipsometry as a probe of thin copolymer films

  • Adam Raegen, MSc ’04, Adhesion at polymer interfaces

  • Andrea Collis, MSc 2005, High-throughput adhesion testing, co-supervised with Robert Pelton

  • Marie-Josee Colbert, MSc 2005, Cell Adhesion, co-supervised with Cecile Fradin

  • John Hudson, MSc 2004, Laser lithography of block copolymer films, co-supervised with John Preston

  • Lun Si, MSc 2003, Crazing in thin polymer films

  • Mike Massa, MSc ’02, Kinetics of crystallisation in polymer films
     

Alumni Undergraduate Research Assistants:

  • Aileen Shanzeela 22’

  • Lisa Bhatia 22’

  • Julia Azzi 21’/22’

  • Shania Ramharrack-Maharaj, 22’

  • Angela Moskal, 21’/22’

  • Eshan Merali 20’/21’

  • Darren Tran 20’/21’

  • Cameron Burns, 20’/21’

  • Julia Azzi, 20’

  • Felipe Rivera-Madrina, 19’/20’

  • Michael Costa-Parke, 19’/20’

  • Abigail Buller, 19’

  • Bram Bussin, 19’

  • Katarina Mioc, 18’/19’

  • Elsie Loukiantchenko, 17’,19’

  • Lauren Dutcher, 18’

  • Yasmeen El-Rayyes, 18’,20’

  • Gurkaran Chowdhry, 17/18’

  • Christian DiMaria, Elastocapillarity, '16

  • Kieran Doyle-Davis, Capillary levelling, 16/'17

  • Maximillian Lauch, Water waves, '16/'17

  • Kathleen Charlesworth, Elasto-capillarity of fibers and droplets, '15/'16

  • Katelyn Dixon, Levelling of stepped polymer films on a deformable membrane, '15/'16

  • Margaret Oswald, Soft actuators, '15/16

  • Christian DiMaria, Growth and collapse of holes in thin polymer films, ’15

  • Samantha Scarfe, Microfluidic production of droplets via snap-off mechanism, ’15

  • Benjamin Davis-Purcell, Relaxation of as cast polymer films & Electro-hydrodynamic instabilities, ’15

  • Miles Couchman, Levelling of free standing films, ’14-’15

  • Alexandra Kasper, Microswimmers (C. elegans) at a liquid interface and in viscous liquids, ’14-’15

  • Adrian Solyom, Wetting on conical fibres, ’14-’15

  • Claire Preston, Crystallisation in fibres, ’13 Wetting on conical fibres, ‘14

  • Johnson Liang, Imaging ellipsometry as a probe for polymer nanorheology, ’13-’14

  • Andrew del Fatti, Laser lithography of diblock copolymer films, ’13-’14

  • Sean Ridout, Mechanical properties of muscle cells, ’13

  • Eric Hempel, Stability of diblock fibres, ’13

  • Hurmiz Shamana, Thin polymer film glass transition, ’13

  • William Forrest, Segregation in bi-disperse blend films, ’13

  • Gordon Vanderwoude, Water permeability in thin polymer films, ’12-’13

  • Richard Parg, Mechanical properties of hydrogel beads, ’12

  • Scott Culbert, Water permeability in thin polymer films, ’12

  • Paul Fowler, Entanglement in thin polymer films, ’11-’12

  • Tim Govey, Mechanical properties of hydrogel beads, ’12

  • Chris Miranda, Mechanical properties of hydrogel beads, ’12

  • Bram Evert, ’11

  • Zachariah Levine, ’11

  • Melissa Ferrari, ’10-’11

  • Nick Jago, ’10

  • Mike Somers, ’10

  • Ian Rowe, ’09-’10

  • David Tran, ’08-’09

  • Nan (Allison) Lin, ’09-’11

  • Senny Foo, ’09

  • Sara Cormier, ’08

  • Robert Peters, ’08

  • Nicholas Ellens, ’08

  • Robert Welch, '07

  • Matt Farrar, ’05-’06

  • Rachel Morris, ’05-’07

  • Michelle Lee, ’04-’05

  • Joseph Parete, ’04-’05, co-supervised with John Preston

  • Joanna Jarecki, ’03-’04

  • Stephen Miscione, ’04, co-supervised with An-Chang Shi

  • Maarten Mulder, ’03

  • Jessica Carvalho, ’02-’03

  • Marie-Josee Colbert, ’02-’03

  • John Oreopoulos, ’01-’02

  • Joanna Grinyer, ’02

  • Nick Jin, ’02

  • Siobhan Wilson, ’02

  • Josie Lee, ’01, co-supervised with An-Chang Shi