Postdoctoral Fellows

Ilya Vekhter (Ph.D., Brown)

• Continued on to a Director's Fellowship at Los Alamos Lab.
• Now Associate Professor at Louisiana State University
• Ilya can be reached at vekhter@phys.lsu.edu
• His current webpage

Belen Valenzuela (Ph.D., Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

• Continued on to be a postdoctoral fellow at the ICMM (CSIC), Madrid
• Belen is now a permanent tenured staff scientist at the ICMM (CSIC), Madrid
• She can be reached at belenv@icmm.csis.es
• Her current webpage

Vladimir Lukic (Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

• Vlada joined us from Tony Leggett's group at Urbana.
• continued to a postdoc in bioengineering at University of Pennsylvania

Mei-Rong Li (Ph.D., Nanjing; Humboldt Fellow, Germany)

• Mei-Rong joined us from Karlsruhe, Germany.
• She continued on to be a research associate at the Universite de Sherbrooke
• Meirong is now a Director with the Royal Bank of Canada

Ken Vos (Ph.D., Alberta; NSERC PDF, Queen's)

• Now Professor and Chair of the Physics Department at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta
• Ken can be reached at k.vos@uleth.ca

Heesang Kim (Ph.D., Purdue)

• Now a Professor at Soongsil University in Seoul, Korea.
• Heesang can be reached at hskim@ssu.ac.kr

Students

Kent Fisher

• Summer NSERC USRA and research assistant in our group
• Won NSERC CGSM award
• Continued on to M.Sc. work at Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo

Aidan Brown

• 4th year project student in our group
• Won Governor-General's silver medal and NSERC CGSM award
• Continued on to graduate work at Dalhousie

Adrien Borne

• Exchange student from Grenoble, France
• Did his M.Sc. thesis with us (two published research papers)
• Continued on to graduate work in Grenoble

James LeBlanc (B.Sc., M.Sc., University of Guelph)

• NSERC USRA (2006)
• Continued on to M.Sc. in our group
• Currently doing Ph.D. in our group at Guelph
• NSERC CGS(D)

Emilia Illes (B.Sc., M.Sc., University of Guelph)

• M.Sc. student in our group
• NSERC PGS(M), OGS
• currently doing PhD at Queens University

Greg Demand (B.Sc., M.Sc., University of Guelph)

• 4th year project student in our group
• Completed M.Sc. in subatomic physics at Guelph
• currently doing Ph.D. in condensed matter expt at Queen's

Patrick Bonnick (B.Sc., University of Guelph)

• summer NSERC USRA
• now doing graduate work at Dalhousie

Bill Wong - M.Sc. (Guelph), B.Sc. (Guelph)

• Awards: GWP2 Entrance Scholarship, University Graduate Scholarship from the University of Guelph.
• Bill remained to do his M.Sc. in superconductivity and then went on to work with Nortel.
• After working with Nortel, Bill is now embarking on setting up his own company.

Hitomi Kumakura - M.Sc. (Guelph), B.Sc. (Science University of Tokyo)

Awards: University Graduate Scholarship from the University of Guelph.
• Hitomi is now working with a company in the United States.

• Currently doing a M.D./Ph.D. at Washington U in the U.S.A.
• NSERC USRA (2003)

• Currently doing a Ph.D. at Guelph in General Relativity
• NSERC USRA (2004)

• Continued to M.Sc. at U of Toronto
• currently doing his Ph.D. at the IQC in Waterloo
• NSERC USRA (2004)

• Currently do MSc in Mars program at Guelph.
• URA (2004)

• Continued on to a M.Sc. at McMaster University
• NSERC USRA (2003)

• Continued on to graduate work in medical physics at McMaster.
• NSERC USRA (2003)

• Completed M.Sc. in experimental condensed matter at Guelph
• URA (2003)

Steven DeMille - B.Sc. Co-op (Guelph)

• Continued on to a M.Sc.. in AMO at Guelph
• Physics Dept USRA (1997), NSERC USRA (1999), NSERC PGS A (2000)

John-Paul Castellan - B.Sc. (Guelph), M.Sc., Ph.D. (McMaster)

• After completing his Ph.D. in condensed matter expt. (neutron scattering) at McMaster, John-Paul is now at Argonne National Lab on a postdoc. [2010]

Mike Fleischauer - B.Sc. (Guelph), M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Dalhousie)

• Completed Ph.D. at Dalhousie and continued to postdoc at Alberta.

Tom Davis - B.Sc. (Guelph), M.Sc. and Ph.D. (U.B.C.)

• Working in industry.
• Physics Dept USRA (1998), NSERC USRA (1999,2000)

Mike Massa - B.Sc. (Guelph), M.Sc. and Ph.D. (McMaster)

• Completed NSERC postdoc at Harvard, currently teaching at Guelph.
• University USRA (1998), NSERC USRA (1999), 1st prize 1999 CUPC poster competition

John Paul (JP) Archambault - B.Sc (Guelph)., M.Sc. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Carleton)

• After completing an M.Sc. in high energy theory at Alberta and a Ph.D. in high energy experiment at Carleton. J.P. is now working at the National Research Council as a Research Associate in the Ionizing Radiation Standards Lab doing research in the area of neutron spectroscopy and neutron standards. [2010]