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Sally Valbuena successfully defended her PhD Thesis; Study of the ¹⁹⁸Hg(d,d’) Inelastic Scattering Reaction on Thursday, September 10, 2026.

Habib Yousefi Dezdarani successfully defended his PhD Thesis; Conformal Prediction for Nuclear Physics on Monday, August 10, 2026.

Mahdi Lavasani successfully defended his PhD Thesis; NMR-Guided investigation of Membrane-Regulated Conformational Plasticity and LC3B Recognition of α-synuclein: Implications for understanding protein-membrane interactions, Aggregation and Neurodegeneration on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. 

Bryn Knight successfully defended his PhD thesis; Degeneracy corrections to neutron capture rates in neutron-dense.

Hassan Khalvati Successfully Defended his PhD Thesis; Science with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals: Accuracy, Fundamentals, and Beyond Vacuum on Monday, September 8th, 2025.

Beau Greaves successfully defended his PhD Thesis; β-Oslo Constraint of the Astrophysically relevant Neutron-capture rates of ⁹⁰Sr and ¹⁴⁰Cs.

Eamonn Corrigan successfully defended his PhD Thesis; Balancing the Equation: Examining Gender Gaps in Physics and Stem Across Canadian Classrooms on Friday, December 15, 2023.

Department of Physics alum Erin Flannigan BSc (2015), MSc (2017) successfully defended her PhD Thesis (University of Ottawa); "Installation and testing of the Isobar Separator for Anions at the A. E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory using chlorine-36 analysis."

Georgios Palkanoglou successfully defended his PhD Thesis; Pairing in nuclear and cold atomic systems on Wednesday, August 30, 2023.

Farzaneh Nasrollahzadeh successfully defended her PhD Thesis; Structuring Plant-Based Foods Using Less Refined Plant Proteins and High Moisture Extrusion on Monday, May 1, 2023.