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Research Focus: Dr. Peter Brown studies small bodies of the solar system with particular emphasis on meteors, meteorites, meteoroids, and asteroids answering basic questions about the origin and evolution of small bodies in the solar system.

Katsuichiro Goda 
Research Focus: Dr. Katsuichiro Goda is developing an integrated multi-hazard framework for enhancing disaster risk preparedness and management related to earthquakes. He and his research team will integrate a wide range of new, state-of-the-art hazard and risk models into a comprehensive methodology by considering uncertainty associated with predictions of hazards and risks. The resulting assessment tools will improve current practices related to preparing multi-hazard maps. They will also improve the ability of households, municipalities, and insurers to bear financial risks.

What do three things as diverse as medical implants, drinking water quality, and that metallic smell in the subway have in common? They are all influenced by the never-ending interface between metals and biomolecules, where physical, chemical and electrochemical reactions happen constantly and influence each other.

By understanding these materials and their reactions, we can make better use of them in areas like health care. Dr. Yolanda Hedberg, Canada Research Chair in Chemistry, aims to increase the safety and use of biomedical materials. She and her research team are doing this by predicting reaction mechanisms and rates at metal-bio interfaces, such as for metallic implant materials and metal nanoparticles used in medicine. In particular, they are trying to understand these metal devices’ corrosion mechanisms, which depend on their composition, design and manufacture as well as on a patient’s infection status.

Miko Karttunen 
Research Focus: Dr. Karttunen is developing reliable, quantitative, predictive and faster computer simulations capable of accurately modelling bio-based materials. He uses computational modelling to understand biomaterial properties, to demonstrate how bio-inspired materials interact with biological materials, like cell membranes, and uses simulations to inform the development of biocompatible materials for drug delivery.

 
Research Focus: Dr. Fred Longstaffe's main focus is environmental chemistry and climate reconstructions of past environments. A recent advancement, however, has allowed his laboratory to expand into new research areas including the investigation of anthropological materials to examine past diet and agricultural practices, as well as the investigation of meteoritic material to better understand the building blocks of our solar system.

Research Focus: Stanimir Metchev's research is on planetary systems around nearby stars and on the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and exoplanets. He also uses the spectra of extrasolar planets to directly probe the physical extent of planetary systems and of the chemistry of exoplanetary atmospheres.

Research Focus: Interested in understanding how different animals, particularly invertebrates, perceive sounds and also vibrations. Natasha's research uses different experimental techniques like laser vibrometry and 3D uCT imaging, and couples them with physics and mechanics based modelling to understand how these two types of mechanosensory systems function.

Patrick O'Donoghue
Research Focus: The O’Donoghue lab investigates how proteome diversity, generated by either protein modification or mistranslation, impacts pathways to cancer and neurodegeneration. My lab established a leadership role in the area of genetic code expansion to investigate the role of disease-linked protein modifications. The lab engineers new methods to produce proteins with programmed modifications and elucidates their role in signaling pathways linked to disease. We recently developed novel fluorescent reporters to visualize errors in protein synthesis or mistranslation in live cells. The lab is now leading efforts to reveal the ability of naturally occurring transfer RNA (tRNA) mutants to induce proteome-wide mistranslation in models of neurodegenerative disease.

Over the past decade, the demand for transplant tissues and organs has greatly exceeded available donor organs. But tissue engineering and regeneration therapy are slowly becoming viable alternatives for clinicians, who may soon be able to replace injured tissues with living tissues designed and constructed to meet the specific needs of individual patients.

Dr. Arghya Paul, Canada Research Chair in Advanced Cell-instructive Materials and Biotherapeutics, is applying his expertise in bioactive nanomaterials and cellular engineering to design a new class of cell-instructive hydrogels (synthetic materials that can absorb large quantities of water or biological fluids). These hydrogels can be used to precisely control cell behaviour and 3D bioprint complex living tissue structures that can be implanted in our bodies.

By improving our understanding of how different materials influence cell behaviour at the cellular and molecular levels, Paul and his research team will shed light on how to design and develop new biomaterials for tissue engineering applications. In particular, his team uses acellular tissue components to engineer new hydrogels. Polymeric networks of these hydrogels are then reinforced with nanoparticles to enhance their structural stability and printability, and to introduce specific functions.

Manufacturing custom-made living tissues for musculoskeletal disorders is one of several applications Paul’s team is currently investigating. Ultimately, Paul’s innovative research will advance the field of regenerative tissue engineering and pave the way to developing fully personalized tissue implants for patients who need organ transplant or tissue replacement.

Christian Bravo Roman
Research Focus: Credit Scoring,  Artificial Intelligence,  Profit-driven Analytics .

TK Sham
Research Focus:  Experimental and theoretical investigation of the electronic structure of matter and its interplay with materials properties, materials performance in a designed functionality, and spectroscopy. Emphasis is placed on nanomaterials in general and energy materials and nanocarrier for drug delivery in particular. Major ongoing thrusts are (1) synthesis, assembly and characterization of nanomaterials and composites; (2) development and applications of synchrotron capabilities at the  , a national facility in Saskatoon, and the   at Argonne National Laboratory. A detailed description of research areas can be found at the research group homepage.

Research Focus: With the rapid advancement of technology in acquiring data, large data sets are becoming more accessible than ever before. However, the quality and complexity of data make it challenging to extract useful information for sensible decision-making. Yi’s work addresses these issues in an effort to generate valid, evidence-based results. This research aims to develop novel and flexible modeling, estimation, and learning tools to handle multi-dimensional data that has measurement error and missing observations. Through innovative methodology, this research targets to advance foundational work that leads to scientific applications in public health, medical studies, and data science.