Department of Physics
      Graduate Alumni

       

       

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      A

      • Gerald Aardsma (M.Sc. 1979)
        • Continued on to a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and is now the owner of Aardsma Research and Publishing in Illinois.
      • Marcela Alexander (M.Sc. 1991, Ph.D. 1997)
        • Now on a postdoc at Durham University.[11/98]
      • Frederick Allen (M.Sc. 1970)
      • Tom Andersen (Ph.D. 1997)
        • Partner in Sienna Software, Toronto.
      • Rafat Ansari (Ph.D. 1986)
        • Working with NASA in Cleveland.
      B
      • James Ball (B.Sc. 1985, M.Sc. 1987)
        • James obtained his B.Ed. at Queen's and is now a Physics Teacher in Rockwood.
      • Anthony Basile (M.Sc. 1988)
      • Katrina Belohorcova (M.Sc. 1996)
        • Katrina is now doing computer work with a phone company back in her home country of Slovakia.[07/97]
      • Peter Belohorec (Ph.D. 1997)
        • Peter is now working with a computer company in Slovakia.[07/97]
      • David Bettencourt (M.Sc. 1997)
        • Working with Sun Life in Toronto doing computing.[11/98]
      • Verne Biccum (M.Sc. 1998)
      • Andrew Blaber (M.Sc. 1986)
        • After obtaining his master's degree, Andrew went on to a B.Ed. at Western and then a Ph.D. in Kinesiology at Waterloo. He was based at Ryerson working as a research associate with Roberta Bondar. Andrew has now accepted a tenure track assistant professorship in Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University where his major role will be as an environmental physiologist, doing experiments in the environmental chamber and altitude/dive chamber. Most of his research will involve the effects of environmental challenges on cerebral blood flow regulation.[07/97]
      • Levis Bonneau (M.Sc. 1972)
        • We last heard that Levis was teaching high school in Chicoutimi, Que.
      • Ian Bostock (M.Sc. 1983)
        • Working with a Toronto computer software company WARDROP.
      • Ian Bowell (M.Sc. 1971)
      • Paul Bracken (M.Sc. 1982)
      C
      • Kenneth Cameron (M.Sc. 1993)
      • Jon Canaday (M.Sc. 1979, Ph.D. 1983)
      • Gerardo Celetti (M.Sc. 1992)
        • Working as an analyst with the Royal Bank (Toronto).[11/98]
      • Debbie Chaves (M.Sc. 1994, Ph.D. 1998)
        • Debbie is starting a postdoc in Jan 1999 at Miami.[12/98]
      • Jin-Long Chen (M.Sc. 1993)
      • Benny Chin (M.Sc. 1975)
      • Jeff Chizma (M.Sc. 1997)
        • Jeff is continuing on to a Ph.D. at Guelph in the fall.
      • M.C. Chon (Ph.D. 1997)
        • Now working with the Royal Bank in Toronto.[05/98]
      • Song Ho Chung (B.Sc. 1987, M.Sc. 1990, Ph.D. 1995)
        • Song Ho was a research scientist at the National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials in Japan and is now a postdoctoral fellow with S.G. Greenbaum at Hunter College of CUNY, New York.[11/98]
      • Richard Cleve (M.Sc. 1998)
        • Richard is in medical school at Western Ontario. [05/98]
      • Christopher Cooper (Ph.D. 1989)
        • We have heard that Chris is on faculty at Essex.
      • Lanny Cooper (M.Sc. 1969)
      • Thomas Craig (M.Sc. 1978, Ph.D. 1981)
        • Administrative Consultant for the Wellington County Board of Education.
      • Michael Crinson (M.Sc. 1991)
      • Leroy Crosse (M.Sc. 1976)
        • We have heard that Leroy is practicing environmental law.[11/98]
      D
      • Kari Dalnoki-Veress (B.Sc. 1992, M.Sc. 1995, Ph.D. 1998)
        • Kari is working as a postdoctoral fellow at Guelph and will take up an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at Sheffield, UK in the winter of 1999. [07/98]
      • Satish Deshpande (Ph.D. 1987)
        • Satish is both a post-doc at the University of Guelph and the Manager of Research (part-time) for Mine and Waste Engineering Tech. Inc.
      • Wayne Dimaline (M.Sc. 1995)
        • Working with Compucentre in Guelph.
      • Richard Dittman (M.Sc. 1987)
        • Owns a consulting firm (remote sensing) in Halifax.[11/98]
      • Charles Doekes (M.Sc. 1971)
        • Since 1989, Charles has been with the Ministry of Transportation, developing software for Transportation Engineering. He is living in St. Catherine's, Ont.[11/98]
      E
      • Margaret Edwards (M.Sc. 1969)
      • Kenneth Elder (M.Sc. 1984)
        • Ken is on faculty at the University of Oakland, Michigan.
      F
      • Shatha Faiq (M.Sc. 1981)
      • Jamie Forrest (M.Sc. 1990, Ph.D. 1994)
        • After a postdoc at Guelph and working as a Senior Scientist at Chalmers Technical University in Sweden, Jamie is now on faculty in the Dept. of Physics of the University of Sheffield in the UK.[11/98]
      • Yongling Fu (M.Sc. 1991)
        • Now a high school physics teacher in Simcoe, Ontario.[11/98]
      • Dean Fyfe (M.Sc. 1990)
      G
      • Porah Ghorayshi (M.Sc. 1985)
      • Peter Gibbs (M.Sc. 1973)
        • Peter is now head of the Physics Department at the University of the West Indies, Barbados.
      • Christian Gigault (M.Sc. 1994)
        • Christian is currently doing his Ph.D. at Guelph.
      • Robert Goble (B.Sc. 1968, M.Sc. 1970)
        • HP Technical Manager for Aptec Engineering Ltd.
      • Darrell Goddard (M.Sc. 1992)
        • Darrell went on to obtain a B.Ed. at Toronto and is now a teacher with the Simcoe County Board of Education.
      • Robert Gorman (M.Sc. 1973)
        • Works in software development for ManuLife Waterloo, and is a self-described "cynic".[11/98]
      H
      • Brad Hanna (M.Sc. 1992, Ph.D. 1997)
        • Brad, who also has a D.V.M. from Guelph, is currently doing a postdoc at Guelph. [07/98]
      • Robert Hartye (M.Sc. 1973)
        • We have heard that Robert returned to the U.S.[11/98]
      • Robert Hawkins (B.Sc. 1971, M.Sc. 1973, Ph.D. 1979)
        • Works as a research scientist in remote sensing with NRC.
      • Stuart Hayne (M.Sc. 1997)
          • Currently working with a computer company in Vancouver.[07/98]
      • Derek Higuchi (M.Sc. 1993)
        • Software tester with Labtronics in Guelph.
      • Andrew Hime (B.Sc. 1986, M.Sc. 1988)
        • After obtaining his D.Phil. at Oxford, Andrew was awarded the prestigious Oppenheimer Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he continues to work as a Physicist in the Physics Division.
      • Jane Horne (M.Sc. 1984)
        • Technician, Dept. of Psychology, Dalhousie University
      • John Huschilt (M.Sc. 1985)
        • We have heard that John is teaching in London, Ont.[11/98]
      I
      • Thomas Irving (B.Sc. 1978, M.Sc. 1984, Ph.D. 1990)
        • After working as a post-doc in Texas and as a staff scientist with the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Thom is now an Assistant Professor of Biology at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Thom is also the Associate Director of the BIOCAT project at the Advanced Photon Source (AJP) at Argonne Lab.
      J
      • Jennifer Jackman (M.Sc. 1978, Ph.D. 1983)
        • With Canmet
      • Thomas Jackman (M.Sc. 1974, Ph.D. 1980)
        • Works with NRC and is Head of the Microstructures Division.[11/98]
      • Andrew Jirasek (M.Sc. 1996)
        • After travelling in New Zealand, Andrew is now a Ph.D. student in physics at U.B.C.[11/98]
      • Harold Jorch (M.Sc. 1977, Ph.D. 1982)
        • Now Dean of Science at Georgian College, Barrie.[11/98]
      K
      • Rowland Kao (M.Sc. 1989, Ph.D. 1995)
        • Rowland is a research scientist with AgResearch in New Zealand.
      • Shon Key Kao (M.Sc. 1975)
      • John Katsaras (M.Sc. 1986, Ph.D. 1991)
        • Scientist with NRC at Chalk River Labs.
      • Karen Kelly (M.Sc. 1991)
        • Karen went on to obtain a B.Ed. at St. Thomas University, N.B. and is now a high school physics teacher in Staten Island, N.Y.
      • Douglas King (M.Sc. 1984, Ph.D. 1989)
        • Owns his own software development business which does contract work for the Dept. of National Defence.
      • Teorin Kurg (M.Sc. 1975)
      L
      • Denis Langlais (M.Sc. 1990, Ph.D. 1995)
        • After working as a research associate at Simon Fraser University, Dennis is now working for a company in Vancouver.[11/98]
      • Ross Lamonica (M.Sc. 1996)
        • Ross is working in his father's business.
      • Steve Leonard (M.Sc. 1997)
        • Steve is continuing on to a Ph.D. in laser optics at Toronto.
      • Sam Leong (M.Sc. 1973)
      • Quanning Li (Ph.D. 1994)
        • Currently doing post-doctoral research in the Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Bristol
      • Joseph Lin (M.Sc. 1968)
      • Apichart Linhananta (M.Sc. 1991, Ph.D. 1997)
        • Api worked as a postdoc at Guelph and is now continuing on to further postdoctoral work in Australia. [05/98]
      • Philip Licthenberger (M.Sc. 1971)
        • With Ontario Hydro (Metallurgy) and received a Ph.D. in about 1975.[11/98]
      • Margot Loosley-Millman (B.Sc. 1977, Ph.D. 1980)
        • Margot went on to obtain her M.D. at McMaster and works as both an obstetrician/gynecologist in Hamilton and as an assistant clinical professor at the McMaster U. Medical School.
      M
      • Jennie Wai-Tak Ma (M.Sc. 1975)
        • Jennie went on to obtain a Ph.D. in space science at York and is now a Senior Lecturer with the Morrison Hill Technical Institute in Hong Kong.
      • Joseph MacDonald (M.Sc. 1983)
      • John MacTaggart (M.Sc. 1968)
        • In business in Toronto.[11/98]
      • William MacTaggart (M.Sc. 1965)
        • Is a Manager with Midland Walwyn, Guelph.[11/98]
      • Augustine Mao (M.Sc. 1970)
      • Mark Matsen (Ph.D. 1992)
        • Mark went on to post-doc positions at Washington and Minnesota and he is now on faculty at the University of Reading in the U.K.
      • John Maxwell (Ph.D. 1982)
        • John is self-employed as a scientific software consultant.
      • Peter McGhee (M.Sc. 1984, Ph.D. 1989)
        • Head, Medical Physics, Thunder Bay Regional Cancer Centre
      • Larry McNelles (M.Sc. 1971)
        • Larry did his Ph.D. in 1974 and is now a scientist with Scintrex, Toronto.
      • Timothy Meadley (M.Sc. 1971)
        • Was Information Head of Uranium Institute, London, U.K.[11/98]
      • Mike Milburn (M.Sc. 1987, Ph.D. 1990)
        • Environmental Consultant working in Waterloo.
      • James Miller (M.Sc. 1988, Ph.D. 1992)
        • Was an NSERC Industrial Postdoctoral fellow at Dalsa Corporation, Waterloo, and is now on permanent staff there.
      • Gerry Moran (M.Sc. 1995, Ph.D. 1999)
        • Currently teaching at Brock University.[01/99]
      • Michel Moreau (M.Sc. 1991)
        • Michel has completed his Ph.D. in medical biophysics at Western and is now working as a postdoc at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak (a suburb of Detroit). He and his wife live in Windsor, ON and are expecting their first child.[07/97]
      • John Morrison (M.Sc. 1974)
        • After obtaining an M.B.A. at Wilfrid Laurier, John went on to a B.Ed. at Windsor and is now a teacher of math, physics and business with the Dufferin County Board of Education.
      • John Mulchinock (M.Sc. 1971)
      • Daniel Murray (Ph.D. 1991)
        • On faculty at Okanagan College, B.C.
      N
      • Zdenek Nejedly (M.Sc. 1994)
        • Zdenek completed his Ph.D. at the Tech. U. in Prague and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Guelph.[11/98]
      • Su-Long Nyeo (B.Sc. 1982, M.Sc. 1984, Ph.D. 1986)
        • Su-Long went on to several post-doc positions at SUNY, Hamburg (as a Humboldt Fellow) and in Taiwan and is now an Associate Professor at the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
      O
      • Peter O'Brien (B.Sc. 1970, M.Sc. 1971)
        • Peter is Chief Physicist at the Toronto-Sunnybrook Cancer Centre.
      • Brian Orr (B.Sc. 1973, M.Sc. 1975)
        • Brian obtained an M.B.A. from Toronto in 1985. He is now Chief Human Resources Officer for the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
      P
      • Jeremy Pencer (M.Sc. 1997)
        • Jeremy is continuing in the Ph.D. (BIG) program at Guelph.
      • Adolfo Perujo (Ph.D. 1987)
        • Research scientist with Euratom at Ispra, Italy.
      • James Polson (M.Sc. 1990)
        • James completed his Ph.D. at U.B.C. and is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Amsterdam.
      • Scott Prosser (M.Sc. 1989, Ph.D. 1992)
        • After post-doctoral positions in Stuttgart, Germany, and at the University of California at San Diego, Scott is now on faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Kent State University.
      Q
      • Jin Qian (Ph.D. 1997)
        • Working in Toronto.[11/98]
      R
      • Thomas Racey (M.Sc. 1976, Ph.D. 1982)
        • Thomas is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the Royal Military College in Kingston.
      • Rasika Rajapakshe (M.Sc. 1991)
        • Rasika went on to a Ph.D. in medical physics at the University of Manitoba and is now a medical physicist with the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver.
      • Mark Rance (Ph.D. 1981)
      • Allan Richardson Jr. (M.Sc. 1991, Ph.D. 1998)
        • Just finished his Ph.D., Al is busy playing gigs as far away as Montreal and London, ON. [05/98]
      • Winston Roberts (M.Sc. 1985, Ph.D. 1988)
        • After post-doctoral work in Grenoble and at Harvard, Winston is now an Assistant Professor with the Old Dominion University, Virginia.
      • John Root (B.Sc. 1981, M.Sc. 1983, Ph.D. 1986)
        • John is a Research Scientist at AECL, Chalk River Labs.
      • Robert Rowe (B.Sc. 1971, M.Sc. 1972)
        • After working as a design engineer with Hammond Manufacturing and Canadian General Electric, Robert is now President of Tensor Resources Inc. in addition to being a professor at Conestoga College.
      • Dilip Roy (M.Sc. 1971)
      • Antonio Ruggiero (M.Sc. 1996)
      • Sean Russell (M.Sc. 1980)
        • Health Physicist with Ontario Hydro.
      • Andrew Rybakowski (M.Sc. 1972)
      S
      • Bernie Schattka (M.Sc. 1994)
        • Bernie is working as a research associate at the University of Manitoba.
      • Robert Schimmel (M.Sc. 1986)
        • Working as a Chemical Engineer with 3-M in London, Ont.
      • Christian Schulte (M.Sc. 1973)
        • Restauranteur in the Caribbean.
      • Peter Schultz (B.Sc. 1976, M.Sc. 1978, Ph.D. 1981)
        • After time spent as a research associate at Brookhaven National Labs. and then as a Full Professor in the Dept. of Physics at the University of Western Ontario, Peter is now living in British Columbia and is President of Kitchen Cowboy Food Store and Cafe Inc. and Schultzco Holdings Inc.[11/98]
      • Mats Selen (B.Sc. 1982, M.Sc. 1983)
        • Mats went on to a Ph.D. at Princeton and a post-doc at Cornell and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He has won very many prestigious awards.
      • Mohammad Shaikh (M.Sc. 1975)
      • Fredrick Shanes (Ph.D. 1990)
      • Robert Shaw (M.Sc. 1978)
      • David Siminovitch (Ph.D. 1982)
        • After post-doctoral work at MIT and at NRC, David is now an Associate Professor in the Physics Dept. at the University of Lethbridge.
      • Bakshi Sinha (Ph.D. 1981)
      • Harold Smith (M.Sc. 1971)
        • Formerly with AECL and Ontario Hydro, Harold is now an independent nuclear energy consultant and has been working in Russia since 1995.
      • William Smith (M.Sc. 1967)
      • Mark Staley (Ph.D. 1995)
        • Mark is working as an Analyst/Trader with Wood-Gundy Securities in Toronto where he is modeling and programming derivatives for the bond markets.
      • Kevin Strawbridge (B.Sc. 1987, M.Sc. 1990, Ph.D. 1994)
        • Kevin is a research scientist with the Centre for Atmospheric Research Experiments, Environment Canada.
      • James Sullivan (M.Sc. 1979, Ph.D. 1983)
      • Liping Sun (M.Sc. 1994)
        • Currently a Ph.D. student at Queen's.
      • Maria Svaikauskas (M.Sc. 1996)
        • Maria gave birth to two children while finishing her M.Sc. and now works part time as a TA in our department.
      • Steven Sweeney (M.Sc. 1995)
        • Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in oceanography at the University of Victoria.
      T
      • Nathaniel Tagg (M.Sc. 1996)
        • Nathaniel is working on his Ph.D. at Guelph.
      • Scott Teare (M.Sc. 1987, Ph.D. 1991)
        • Scott is now a research associate with the University of Illinois working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California developing a laser guided adaptive optics system on the 100" Hooker Telescope.[06/98]
        • email: teare@astro.uiuc.edu
      • Murray Thomson (M.Sc. 1971)
        • Working as a high school teacher in Windsor, Ontario.[11/98]
      • Broto Tjipto Margo (Ph.D. 1989)
      • Dennis Tokaryk (M.Sc. 1988, Ph.D. 1992)
        • Denis worked as a research associate both at NRC and the University of Toronto and now he is on faculty at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick.[02/98]
      • Bruno Tomberli (M.Sc. 1994, Ph.D. 1998)
        • Currently doing a postdoc at Guelph with Peter Egelstaff, Bruno has switched into neutron scattering. [07/98]
      • Eric Tribe (M.Sc. 1992)
        • Owner of a software consulting company.
      • Alexandre Trottier (M.Sc. 1998)
        • Alex is doing his Ph.D. in physics at Guelph.[12/98]
      • Wai Mai Tsang (M.Sc. 1969)
      • Douglas Turner (M.Sc. 1976)
      V
      • Monique Van Prooyen (M.Sc. 1988)
        • Monique did her Ph.D. at Waterloo and was a postdoc at Queen's.
      • Margus Vist (M.Sc. 1985)
        • In Ottawa, working for a spin-off of AECL.[11/98]
      • Harishchandra Vyas (M.Sc. 1970)
      • Jon-Paul Voroney (M.Sc. 1995)
        • Just completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at Guelph.[11/98]
      W
      • Glen Wagner (M.Sc. 1995)
        • Glenn is a teacher at Center Wellington High School in Fergus and the recent Sigma Xi winner for best science high school teacher.
      • Zihuang Wang (Ph.D. 1996)
        • Zihuang is currently doing an M.Sc. in computer science at Carleton University.
      • Joan Watton (M.Sc. 1990)
        • Joan is working as a research assistant at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
      • Phil Weetman (M.Sc. 1997)
        • Phil is working on his Ph.D. at Waterloo.
      • Stephen Weisnagel (M.Sc. 1988)
        • Stephen went on to a B.Eng. in electrical engineering at Concordia and is now working as a software engineer in research and development at Cimmetry Systems Inc., Montreal.
      • Beatrice Williams (M.Sc. 1988)
        • Beatrice went on to obtain a D.Phil. in Physiology at the University of Oxford in 1992 and then did post-doctoral research in Bordeaux, France. She is currently a post-doctoral research associate with the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.
      • Jimmy Williams (M.Sc. 1994)
        • Jimmy is nearly finished his Ph.D. at Guelph.
      • Bob Winkel (M.Sc. 1967)
        • Bob has recently retired from the University of Guelph and is living in Victoria. He was a faculty member of the Dept. of Physics and was an Academic Counsellor in the CPES Dean's Office.
      • William Wong (M.Sc. 1998)
        • Bill is working as a software developer with Nortel in Brampton and living in Guelph.[11/98]
      Y
      • Jian Yang (M.Sc. 1991)
        • Did a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at U of Toronto.[11/98]
      • Jianhao Yang (M.Sc. 1994)
        • Did a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at U of Toronto.[11/98]
      • James Youden (M.Sc. 1988, Ph.D. 1992)

       Last updated: May 26, 1997 by E.J. Nicol