Mike Morrow (Memorial University – Physics & Physical Oceaonography)
Erika Merschrod (Memorial University – Chemistry) Nanomechanical mapping of biomaterials including natural tissue; mechanical response in hierarchical materials.
Kris Poduska (Memorial University – Physics & Physical Oceaonography) Structural disorder and materials properties in solids, including soft materials.
Ivan Saika-Voivod (Memorial University – Physics & Physical Oceaonography)
Stefan Wallin (Memorial University – Physics & Physical Oceaonography) Computational studies of protein folding, interactions and evolution.
Nova Scotia
Laurent Kreplak (Dalhousie University) Structure and mechanics of protein filaments
Andrew Rutenberg (Dalhousie University) Collagen fibril structure, biological physics, theory.
Prince Edward Island
Maria Kilfoil (University of Prince Edward Island) Dynamics and mechanical properties of biological and active materials, such as cell cytoskeleton and DNA networks
James Polson (University of Prince Edward Island) Computer simulations to study the physical properties of polymers in crowded and confined environments.
Reghan J. Hill (McGill University – Chemical Engineering) Electrokinetics and microhydrodynamics, especially of nanoparticles, hydrogels and their nanocomposites.
Ontario
Greg van Anders (Queen’s University) Theoretical and computational soft matter; colloids; nanostructured materials; inverse design approaches.
Jeff Chen (University of Waterloo) The current thrust of my research group is to establish a fundamental understanding of the structures, states, and dynamics of soft matter systems such as semiflexible polymers, as well as liquid crystals and their defect structures.
Kari Dalnoki-Veress (McMaster University) Experiments in soft and living matter at surfaces and interfaces
Eric De Giuli (Toronto Metropolitian University) Statistical physics of complex systems (amorphous materials, chemical reaction networks, syntactic structure)
Colin Denniston (Western University) Multiscale modelling of nanostructured soft materials
John Dutcher (University of Guelph) Soft matter and biological physics at surfaces
Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan (Western University) Computational and theoretical soft and biological matter, cell and tissue mechanics, collective cell behaviour, developmental biophysics, physics of viruses, polymers
Bae-Yeun Ha (University of Waterloo) Theoretical soft matter and biophysics; confined polymers; biomolecular crowding; chromosome organization; interactions between peptide antibiotics and membranes; bacterial outer membranes
Zhao Pan (University of Waterloo – Mechanical & Mechanotronics Engineering) Droplets and bubbles, biofluids for plants and animals, bio-inspired design, high-speed imaging.
Erica Pensini (University of Guelph) Investigates how molecular and interfacial interactions govern self-assembly, phase behavior, transport phenomena, and the macroscopic properties of soft matter and complex fluids. Her research combines experimental characterization, thermodynamics, and molecular modelling to understand phenomena ranging from molecular association and mesoscale organization to phase separation and mechanoelectric responses in functional soft materials.
An-Chang Shi (McMaster University) Theoretical soft condensed matter physics
Russell Thompson (University of Waterloo) Theory of block copolymers, nanocomposite materials, self-assembled nanostructures, self-consistent field theory, computational physics
Robert Wickham (University of Guelph) Theoretical Soft Matter Physics
Anand Yethiraj (University of Guelph) Investigates non-equilibrium structure and dynamics in colloids, emulsions and macromolecular complexes, using NMR, optical microscopies, rheology and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.
Megan Engel (University of Calgary) Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, differentiable molecular dynamics simulation, biomolecular materials design.
Giovanniantonio Natale (University of Calgary) We employ a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches to investigate bulk and interfacial rheological properties of complex and biological fluids, colloidal suspensions and their nonequilibrium behaviour (active colloids)
Zhiwei Peng (University of Alberta) Theoretical and computational mechanics of active matter
Philip Y. K. Choi (University of Alberta) Molecular simulations and theory of polymer solution thermodynamics and polymer dynamics
British Columbia
John Bechhoefer (Simon Fraser University) Information theory and experimental tests in statistical physics
Gwynn Elfring (University of British Columbia) Research into the mechanics of soft matter, including cell biomechanics, mechanics of active suspensions, interfacial rheology and instabilities, and non-Newtonian flow physics
James J. Feng (University of British Columbia) Complex fluids, interfacial flows, and modeling of biological cells and tissues
