Group News

June 2018:

• Dr. Peng Wang (Ph.D. 2013) joined Queen's University as a tenure track Assitant Professor.

• Hamed Bakhshi joined the group as visiting Ph.D. student from Tarbiat Modares University (Tehran, Iran).

May 2018:

• Timothy Lo (B.Sc. 2015) successfully tranferred to the Ph.D. program.

• Shaochang Song (B.Sc. 2018) joined the group as a M.Sc. student.

• Anastasiia Evstifeeva joined the group as visiting summer student from Huntington University (IN, USA).

• April Cheng and Tiffany Ng joined the group as summer students.

April. 2018:

• Dr. Fang Yuan (Ph.D. 2017) joined the group of Prof. C. Thompson as a postdoc.

Jan. 2018:

• Sergei Novikov joined the group as a M.Sc. student.

• April Cheng and Tiffany Ng joined the group as Chem 3RP3 students.

Nov. 2017:

• Dr. Scott Forbes (Ph.D. 2015) joined University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada) as an X-ray technician.

Sep. 2017:

• Binyu Ye joined the group as a Chem 3RP3 student.

Aug. 2017:

• Allan He (B.Sc. 2015) defended his M.Sc. thesis and joined the UC Davis for Ph.D. studies (group of Prof. S. Kauzlarich).

May 2017:

• Dr. Fang Yuan joined our group as a postdoc.

March 2017:

• Dr. Fang Yuan successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis.

Dec. 2016:

• Benson Shu Ip accepted position at Apotex.

Sept. 2016:

• Timothy Lo joined the group as a M.Sc. student.

• Marc Muise joined the group as a thesis student.

• Dr. Scott Forbes joined the group of Prof. R. Cava at Princeton University as a postdoc.

July 2016:

• Prof. Zhigang Zheng joined the group as visiting research scholar from South China University of Technology (Guanzhou, USA).

May 2016:

• Sean Grixti, Timothy Lo, Aaron Insanalli and Kevin Wyszatko graduated with Honours B.Sc. degrees.

Sept. 2015:

• Allan He joined the group as a M.Sc. student.

• Dr. Scott Forbes successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.

June 2015:

• Fang Yuan was awarded a McMaster International Excellence Award.

• Fang Yuan and Scott Forbes won Departmental Travel Awards.

May 2015:

• Sean Grixti, Timothy Lo and Aaron Insanalli joined the group as summer undergraduate research students. They will stay in the group as thesis students during Sept. 2015-March 2016.

April 2015:

• Allan He and Violet Connelly successfully completed their thesis courses.

May 2014:

• Scott Forbess was awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

Dec. 2013:

• Fang Yuan transferred to the Ph.D. program.

Sept. 2013:

• Chivarubhen Raiju Murugaanandan joined the group as a M.Sc. student.

April 2013:

• Dr. Peng Wang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. He is starting a postdoctoral appointment with Dr. M. Kanatzidis at Northwestern University, USA, in June, 2013.
  
• Chivarubhen Raiju Murugaanandan (thesis student) and Laura Ogilvie (thesis student) graduated with Honours B.Sc. degrees.

Nov. 2012:

• Dr. Jinlei Yao accepted an Assitant Professor position at Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, China.

Sept. 2012:

• Fang Yuan (M.Sc.) and Mehdi Esmaeli (Ph.D.) joined the group.

• Janice Cheung successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis. Janice works as a quaility control specialist for the Apotex in Toronto.