CHIME is the first major research telescope to be built on Canadian soil in more than 30 years. Matt Dobbs will work with his team collaborators to develop new techniques for commissioning and calibrating the instrument.
Dr. Doyon’s research programs are focused on developing new state-of-the-art astronomical instruments designed to detect and study extrasolar planets, in particular rocky ones like our own. The ultimate goal of this endeavor is to find evidence of biological activity outside the solar system.
With the dwindling of fossil resources, under-utilized plant-based biomass waste could potentially provide alternative raw materials for future sustainable chemical products. This can be done through the process of biorefinery.
Dr. Yong Baek Kim is a theoretical physicist studying quantum materials, where quantum mechanical motions of electrons are responsible for new electrical and magnetic properties.
Dr. Pinfold is an internationally renowned particle physicist who, in 1997, became the youngest ever leader of an international collider experiment.
Dr. Doolittle’s publications (more than 300) are both experimental (chloroplasts and nuclear origins, archaeal genetics, gene transfer and metagenomics) and theoretical (origins of genes, “selfish DNA”, meaning of the Tree of Life, levels of selection).
