UBCO CMS Central Directory

Filsan Abokor | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | filsan.abokor@ubc.ca

Nijiati Abulizi | Laboratory Technician | nijiati.abulizi@ubc.ca | 250.807.8489 | SCI 103

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Designing and developing behavior change systems and persuasive technologies such as serious games and mobile/web applications; modelling the behaviour of online users in social networks and e-commerce systems; data science; social computing; ethics and trust in persuasive technologies.

Courses & Teaching: COSC 360 Web Programming. Winter, Term 2 2022/2023; DATA 540 Databases and Data Retrieval. Fall, Term 1 2022/2023; DATA 530 Computing Platforms for Data Science. Fall, Term 1 2022/2023; COSC 421 Network Science. Fall, Term 1 2022/2023; COSC 121 Computer Programming II. Winter, Term 2 2021/2022; COSC 419F/COSC 519F Social computing. Fall, Term 1 2021/2022.

Brittany Adams | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | bnadams@mail.ubc.ca

Sakiru Adebayo, PhD | Assistant Professor | English, English and Cultural Studies | sakiru.adebayo@ubc.ca | CCS 379

Research Interests: African Literature, The New African Diaspora, Postcolonial Studies, Black Studies, Migration Studies, Memory Studies, Melancholy Studies

Courses & Teaching: ENG 153: Readings in Narrative; ENG 291: African Literary Canon; ENG 391: Afropolitan Literature; ENG 491/CULT 490: Black Intellectual Traditions; ENG 522: Literature and Memory

Adeyemi Adebowale | PhD Student | Chemistry | adeyemi.adebowale@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Analytical Chemistry; Food Analysis; Food Chemistry.

Research Interests: Use of technology in the classroom; blended teaching and learning; scholarship of teaching and learning

Courses & Teaching: French language at all levels; grammar and composition; medieval and Renaissance French literature

Emmanuel Adoasi-Ahyiah | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | adoasi94@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Ecological connectivity; Landscape resilience; Sustainable resource management; Complex adaptive systems and complexity science; Natural resources management; Agroforestry; Modelling and GIS; Climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: The globalization of the "Justice for Janitors" campaigns; global unions; Eddie Melo: What were you? The Neoliberal University; whiteness; the Canadian Hinterland.

Courses & Teaching: Globalization and labour; urban sociology; sociology of tourism; race and racism; qualitative methods; urban studies.

David Ahlstrom | Visiting Associate Professor | Computer Science | dahlstro@mail.ubc.ca

Piotr (Peter) Ahmad | Lecturer | Sociology | p.ahmad@ubc.ca | ART 273

Research Interests: Sociology of identity, ethnic and political identities, national identity and citizenship, nationalism, political and social theory, sovereignty and Indigenous sovereignty, theory of cultural and minority rights.

Courses & Teaching: Nations and nationalism, Political sociology, Classical social theory, Introduction to sociology, (UBCO)

Amin Ahmadi Digehsara | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Faculty of Management | amin.ahmadidigehsara@ubc.ca | EME 4107

Research Interests: Network Optimization, Public transportation planning, Optimization under Uncertainty, Operational research methodologies

Philip Ainslie | Professor | Centre for Heart, Lung & Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | philip.ainslie@ubc.ca | 250.807.8089

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: The specific focus of Ainslie's research is directed to the integrated mechanisms which regulate human cerebral blood flow in health and disease.

Research Interests: Substance use; harm reduction; implementation science; arts-based research methods; photovoice; integrated knowledge translation; patient oriented research; older adults mental health; mental health; rural health; climate change events; integrated service delivery; health promotion

Ahmad Al-Dabbagh | Assistant Professor | ahmad.aldabbagh@ubc.ca | EME 4287

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Control systems; automation systems; fault diagnosis; cyber security; alarm management

Courses & Teaching: APSC 519 System Identification (upcoming); MANF 465 Digital Enterprise; ENGR 315 Systems and Control; ENGR 453 Internet of Things

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Smart materials; Seismic rehabilitation of steel, concrete, masonry; Seismic analysis and building design

Courses & Teaching: Seismic Analysis and Design of Buildings; Bridge Engineering; Design and Analysis of Tall Buildings; Finite Element Analysis; Prestressed Concrete

Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics; History; Political Economy

Ayse Alemdar Thomson | Project Manager | Research & Innovation Office (VPRI), School of Engineering | aalemdar@mail.ubc.ca

Richard Aleong | Lecturer | School of Engineering | richard.aleong@ubc.ca | EME 4269

Research Interests: Engineering education research; Interdisciplinary learning and practice; Human-centered design and systems thinking; Qualitative research methods; Educational development for engineering education transformation

Courses & Teaching: Engineering Communication Technical Communication for Engineering Research Engineering Leadership Materials Selection and Design

Courses & Teaching: CULT 101 Cultural Studies Practices; ENGL 309/CULT 371 Modern Critical Theory and Interdisciplinary Methods

Linda Allan | Associate Professor Emerita | Psychology | linda.allan@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Ageist attitudes and beliefs in different populations; the mitigation of ageist attitudes and behaviour; ageist treatment of the elderly; cognitive ageing; a cross sectional comparison of adults’ and university undergraduates’ attitudes and knowledge about elderly persons.

Courses & Teaching: Human development from a lifespan perspective including child, adolescence, adulthood and aging.

Corrie Allen | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | corrie.allen@ubc.ca

April Ambler | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | april.ambler@ubc.ca

Scott Minh An | MSc Student | Chemistry | scott.an@ubc.ca | FIP 378B

Research Interests: Single-molecule; optical tweezer; rolling adhesion, and instrumentation.

Angela Andersen | Sessional Lecturer | Creative Studies | angela.andersen@ubc.ca | Teaching remotely

Research Interests: Art and architecture of the Islamic world; vernacular and quotidian architecture; minority and marginalized Islamic communities; inter- and intra-religious interactions; architecture, art and human rights; oral history theory and collection

Courses & Teaching: ART 203: Global Contemporary Art

Research Interests: • Primary Care • Knowledge Translation

Courses & Teaching: • NRSG 424/425 Primary Care Nursing

Janet Anderson | Standardized Patient Trainer | janet.anderson@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Philosophy of science, formal epistemology, logic.

Courses & Teaching: Philosophy of science, logic, metaphysics, and epistemology.

Sofia Andreassi | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | sofia.andreassi@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Cellular Physiology; Cellular Culture; Insect Physiology.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Clustering and classification via mixture models with applications to bioinformatics.

Courses & Teaching: Statistics; data science.

Afra Antara Anjum | MSc Student | Computer Science | afra99@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Advanced Machine Learning; Generative AI; Time-Series Forecasting; Data Analytics and Modelling; Computer Vision; Optimization

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Transnational modernism; First World War poetry, 20th-century British and Irish literature; modernism and transatlantic modernism; peace and war studies; aesthetics.

Courses & Teaching: Teaching areas: English, Modernist literature, Twentieth-Century British and Irish literature, and World Literature. Recent graduate and undergraduate courses taught: IGS 590 Power and Ideas; WRLD 330 War in Literature; WRLD 331 “Best” International Feature Films; WRLD 332 Nobel Prize Literature; WRLD 360 Power and Literature (also upcoming in the fall of 2022).

Cynthia Araujo | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics, Physics | cynthia.araujo@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Safe and effective use of radiation for the treatment of cancer including external beam and brachytherapy technique development and verification; implementation of new technology in radiation therapy; use of imaging in treatment planning and treatment verification.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Healthcare Operations, Supply Chain, Business Analytics

Abul fazal Arif | Lecturer | Manufacturing, School of Engineering | abul.arif@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Synthesis of Multifunctional Conductive and Magnetic Nanomaterials; Polymer Processing and Forming; Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites; Gas Sensors; 3D Printed Polymer Nanocomposites; Circular Economy and Plastic Recycling

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 469: Polymer Engineering ENGR 375: Energy System Design

Research Interests: Indigenous philosophies; Okanagan Syilx thought and environmental ethics coded into Syilx literatures.

Courses & Teaching: Indigenous perspectives; traditional ecological methodologies

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; Metacognition; Mindsets and Academic Success; Curriculum & Program Development; Instructional Design; Enhancing Learning with Technology; Ethical use of Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Teaching, Learning and Research.

Vivek Arulnathan | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow | Biology | vivek.arulnathan@ubc.ca | FIP 226

Miho Asano | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | m.asano@ubc.ca | ART166

Research Interests: Miho is interested in: (a) program development & evaluation, (b) wellness & health promotion, and (c) health services utilization & decision sciences.

Courses & Teaching: HES 356 - Health Behavior Change for Chronic Disease Management

Muhammad Ashraf | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Chemistry | muhammad.ashraf@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Political ecology; governmentality; environmental governance; forest-based climate change mitigation; wildfires; nature conservation; global development; community engagement; Nigeria, Ghana, Canada (British Columbia and Alberta).

Courses & Teaching: Human Geography: Resources, Development and Society Climate Change and Society Political Ecology

Daniel Austin | Adjunct Professor | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | daniel.austin@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Environmental and engineering providing GIS services in support of a multidisciplinary field of professionals ranging from Biologists to Engineers.

Tal Avgar | Assistant Professor | Biology | tal.avgar@ubc.ca | SCI 162

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Animal habitat-selection and movement ecology, wildlife population biology, consumer-resource interactions, ecological modelling and biometry

Marisa Aviani | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | maviani@mail.ubc.ca

Kim Bailey | Site Program Coordinator, (UG/PG), VJH-Vernon | Southern Medical Program | Kim.Bailey@interiorhealth.ca

David Bakker | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | dbakker3@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Novel topological nucleic acid nanostructures; single-molecule force spectroscopy

Research Interests: Strong interest in community health, adolescent sexual health, teaching and learning

Courses & Teaching: Team Lead for UBC SON Year 2: Community & Mental Health Nursing Nursing 111 - Foundation of Health Nursing 228 - Community Health Nursing 238 - Community Health in Practice Nursing 428 - Advanced Community Health

Research Interests: The spatial ecology of mountain goats in Cathedral Provincial Park

Wouter Bam | Assistant Professor | Manufacturing, School of Engineering | wouter.bam@ubc.ca | EME3271

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Decision support systems; sustainable development; economic complexity; multi-objective optimization; regional development; applied machine learning; industrial policy; circular supply chains; location decisions; global value chains

Courses & Teaching: Life Cycle Analysis and Sustainability (MANF 450); Fundamentals of Sustainable Engineering Design (APSC 169)

Louzanne Bam, PhD | Lecturer | Manufacturing, School of Engineering | louzanne.bam@ubc.ca

Nicole Bamber | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Biology | nbamber@mail.ubc.ca

Phil Barker (On Leave) | Professor | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biology, Biotechnology | philip.barker@ubc.ca | SCI 316

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Neurodegenerative disease, signal transduction, neurotrophin biology, cell biology, fly and mouse genetics.

Jessica Barker | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | jessica.barker@ubc.ca

Chris Barnes | Postdoctoral Fellow | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | christopher.barnes@ubc.ca | FIP 352

Research Interests: Tectonics; geochronology; structural geology; metamorphic petrology; geochemistry

Courses & Teaching: EESC 323 - Geochemistry

Jen Baron | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | jen.baron@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Fire ecology and management; wildfire science; landscape ecology; historical ecology; disturbance dynamics; ecosystem restoration.

Courses & Teaching: Landscape Ecology and Management

Melissa Barrera | Sessional Lecturer | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | melissa.barrera@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Geomorphology; anthropogenic-environmental interactions; coastal dynamics and evolution; geosciences applied to hazard assessment and environmental recovery-conservation.

Courses & Teaching: GEOG 109 Earth Systems: Landscape Dynamics

Deidre Batchelar | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics, Physics | dbatchelar@bccancer.bc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Advanced Imaging in Brachytherapy; high precision radiotherapy.

Battsetseg (Tseegii) Batchuluun | Assistant Professor of Teaching and MEDD 419/429, 449 (FoS/FLEX) Site Director | Southern Medical Program | tseegii.batchuluun@ubc.ca

William Bates | Associate Professor Emeritus | Biology | william.bates@ubc.ca

Bernard Bauer | Professor Emeritus | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | bernard.bauer@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Process geomorphology; hydrology; environmental science; understanding how wind systems, water currents, and ocean waves pick up and transport sediments, leading to problems of erosion and sedimentation on beaches, dunes, and river (levee) banks.

Courses & Teaching: Geomorphology (introductory, fluvial, coastal), sediment transport mechanics, environmental science. Specifically: EESC 222/GEOG 222 Geomorphology; EESC 422/GEOG 422 Fluvial Geomorphology; EESC 436/GEOG 436 Coastal Geomorphology and EESC 434 Sediment Transport Mechanics.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Convex analysis and optimization, monotone operator theory, projection methods, and applications.

Courses & Teaching: Mathematics.

Jared Baylis | Medical Education Simulation Lead, Interior | Southern Medical Program | jbaylis@alumni.ubc.ca

Alison Beaumont | North Okanagan Site Coordinator, FP PGME, VJH-Vernon | Southern Medical Program | alison.beaumont@interiorhealth.ca | Vernon Jubilee Hospital

Nathan Becker | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics | nathan.becker@bccancer.bc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: image-guided RT, adaptive RT, quality control, and automation

Enjulie Bedi, MEB | Project Manager | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | enjulie.bedi@ubc.ca

Christina Behme | Sessional Instructor | Philosophy | christina.behme@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Philosophy of language (especially questions of language acquisition and language evolution); philosophy of mind; early modern philosophy, (especially the work of Rene Descartes); critical thinking; political philosophy (especially questions relating to freedom of speech and freedom of expression); philosophy of motivation, and environmental philosophy.

Courses & Teaching: PHIL 460, PHIL 111, PHIL 331

Janice Bell | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | jmbell@ucalgary.ca

Robert Belton, PhD | Dean Emeritus | Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies | robert.belton@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Art theory, criticism, and historiography; modern and contemporary European and North American art and architecture; cognitive science and art; film and cultural studies; experimental music

Courses & Teaching: Art History & Visual Culture; Music

Susan Belton | Curator, Public Art Collection | Library Services, Public Art Collection | susan.belton@ubc.ca | 250.807.8634

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Research interests include: youth mental health (e.g. clinical high-risk to psychosis, first-episode psychosis, anxiety, depression); early intervention in mental health; identity development and mental illness; cultural, relational, and community-based approach to early psychosis; digital divide among youth; mental health service use decision-making equity; and youth engagement in research.

Theo Bendit | Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer | Mathematics | theo.bendit@ubc.ca

Emerald Benzmer, MFA | Sessional Lecturer | Creative Studies, Media Studies | emerald.benzmer@ubc.ca | CCS 364

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Physical Education; Health Education; Early Learning; Children's Physical Activity; Action Research.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Critical studies of neoliberalism; geographies of academic knowledge production; place and the politics of identity; postcoloniality; white supremacy.

Courses & Teaching: GEOG128 Introduction to Human Geography; GEOG359 Culture, Space and Politics; GEOG 474 Qualitative Research Methods; GEOG 480 Advanced Seminar in Critical Geography; IGS - Society, Space and Identity; IGS; Professional Development Seminar; IGS - Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences; IGS – Urban Theory.

Adam Bergren | Affiliate Professor | Chemistry | adam.bergren@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor. Not currently considering graduate students.

Research Interests: Host-microbiota interactions; Glycobiology

Courses & Teaching: BIOL420 Functional Glycoscience; BIOL314 Medical Microbiology

Mike Bergunder | Year 1 & 2 Site Director & Portfolio Site Lead | Southern Medical Program | mike.bergunder@ubc.ca

Pankaj Bhowmik | Adjunct Professor | Biology | pankaj.bhowmik@ubc.ca | 306.203.2714

Research Interests: Plant Tissue culture, transformation, gene editing; Application of cell technologies - protoplasts and microspore-based genetic manipulation for crop improvement; Genetic enhancement of protein, off-flavour, anti-nutritional quality and processability in pulse crops.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Advanced characterization of materials; New alloy development; Manufacturing processes

Courses & Teaching: Manufacturing processes; Fundamental and advanced topics in materials science; Professional development (law and ethics for engineers)

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Conceptualizations of kindness in children and adolescents; Measuring kindness in schools; Social and Emotional Learning; Canine-assisted interventions; Assessment of therapy dogs; University student well-being

Courses & Teaching: Research Methods Social and Emotional Learning Child and Adolescent Development

Landon Birch | MSc Student | Biology | ljbirch@mail.ubc.ca | 250.301.5884

Research Interests: Seasonal range conditions and their impact on Stone's sheep body condition; habitat quality and conservation strategies; climate change effects on wildlife habitat and survival.

Thor Bjarnason | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics, Physics | thor.bjarnason@interiorhealth.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Quality control; radiation safety; patient dose reduction; image quality assessment in planar x-ray and CT.

Derek Blair | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | derek.blair@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance studies; short narrative genres; German language and culture.

Courses & Teaching: German; English

Kwame Boateng | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | kwame.boateng@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Custom microwave techniques for measuring electromagnetic properties of materials; low-temperature conductivity and penetration depth of unconventional superconductors; complex permittivity of waste-activated sludge.

Courses & Teaching: Experimental physics; electronics; solid state physics; statistical mechanics.

Joyce Boon | Associate Professor Emerita | Biology | joyce.boon@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Leadership in Higher Education, Critical Policy Studies, Change Management, Emotional Labour and School Choice

Research Interests: Health promotion, health behaviour change, cancer prevention, smoking cessation, men's health, family health, knowledge translation

Courses & Teaching: Previous courses taught: NRSG 554 Advanced Research Methods, NRSG 581 Leadership in Knowledge Application and Translation, Qualitative Research Supervisory Eligibility MSN thesis and PhD Nursing co-supervisor or committee member (pending approval by the School of Nursing Graduate Program and College of Graduate Studies) MSN (course work) Capstone Faculty Facilitator Graduate Supervision (last 5 years) Bawumia, Ali R. - MSN (thesis) - committee member (in progress) Vignau, Fernanda - MA - Supervisor, 2023 Sharp, Paul, PhD - Committee member, 2021 MSN Capstone Faculty Facilitator (last 5 years) Mitchell, P. - MSN (in progress) Shukaliak, C. - MSN 2022 Sellinger, T. - MSN 2021 Taccayan, M. - MSN 2020 Watson, J. - MSN 2020

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Geographic information sciences; spatial analysis and statistics; movement ecology; remote sensing.

Courses & Teaching: Geographic information sciences; spatial analysis.

Olivia Boven | MSc Student | Biology | oboven@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: The use of genetic tools to inform conservation; marine and freshwater fisheries; research centered on furthering Indigenous goals.

Jessica Bradford | Sessional Lecturer | Creative Studies, Creative Writing | jesbrad@mail.ubc.ca | Working remotely

Courses & Teaching: CRWR 250: Workshop in Creative Writing: Screenwriting

Gadia Braga | Research Finance Analyst | Finance | gadia.braga@ubc.ca | EME 4243

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Computational statistics, with applications to fire science; statistical process control; statistical education. Most recently, I have been focusing on visualization methodology, using a class of techniques called Data Sharpening.

Courses & Teaching: Modelling and Simulation. Predictive Modelling. Data Visualization.

Sherry Breshears | Sessional Lecturer | English and Cultural Studies | sherry.breshears@ubc.ca | Working remotely

Courses & Teaching: CORH 205 | ENGL 109 | ENGL 112

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics; Turbomachinery; Multiphase turbulent flows; Hydrogen; Wind energy; Biofluid mechanics

Courses & Teaching: Mechanics of materials; Alternative energy systems; Turbulence; Computational fluid dynamics; Aircraft conceptual design & aerodynamics

Amanda Brobbel | Senior Manager, Writing & Language Learning Services | Centre for Scholarly Communication, Student Learning Hub | amanda.brobbel@ubc.ca | 250.807.9874

Noah Brooks | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | nbrooks0@mail.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Citizenship; Social Studies Methods; History Education; History of Education and Curriculum; Culture and Education; Alternative and Holistic Educational Practices from an Ecological Perspective.

Courses & Teaching: Graduate level courses including: Global Education, Citizenship, and Cross-Cultural Conceptions of Teaching and Learning; Curriculum Issues and Theories; and Readings and Discourse in Education Bachelor of Education, focus areas include social studies; holistic education; anti-racist and critical pedagogy.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Combinatorial design theory and graph theory.

Courses & Teaching: Calculus; cryptography; applied abstract algebra

Sandra Broughton, MSc | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | sbroughton@bccancer.bc.ca

Frances Brouse | Dean's Office Administrator & Property Manager | Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies | frances.brouse@ubc.ca | CCS 323

Kendrick Brown | Adjunct Professor | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | kendrick.brown@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca

Research Interests: Quaternary ecology; climatology and environmental change; paleofire reconstruction; water resource sensitivity to climate change; paleoenvironmental applications in landscape restoration.

Jacqueline (Jacqui) Brown | Senior Department Administrator | Economics, Philosophy and Political Science | jacqui.brown@ubc.ca | ART 260

Stephen Brown | Sessional Lecturer | Mathematics | stephen.brown@ubc.ca | FIP 309 or 310

Morgan Brummet | Centre for Scholarly Communication Coordinator | Centre for Scholarly Communication | morgan.brummet@ubc.ca | LIB 215

Joanne Brunel | French Educator Network Facilitator, B.C. Southern Interior | Education | joanne.brunel@ubc.ca

Leslie Bryant MacLean | Adjunct Professor | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | leslie.bryantmaclean@ubc.ca

Christina Buesching | Adjunct Professor | Biology | christina.buesching@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Race and empire; crime and punishment; socio-legal studies; religion and secularity; urban geographies; social and cultural theory.

Courses & Teaching: SOCI 209: Foundations of Sociological Thought (Term 1); SOCI 496D: True Crime Sociology (Term 1); SOCI 377: Contemporary Sociological Theory (Term 2); SOCI 496N: Sociology of Religion (Term 2)

Hung Bui | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | hung.bui@ubc.ca

Leslie Burkholder | Sessional Instructor | Economics, Philosophy and Political Science | leslie.burkholder@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: Computer ethics, symbolic logic, scientific reasoning

Kim Buschert | Faculty of Management Librarian | Faculty of Management, Library Services | kim.buschert@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: Subject librarian for: Management, Psychology

Deborah Buszard | Professor Emerita | Biology | deborah.buszard@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Sustainability; agriculture; plant science and plant breeding. My academic discipline is plant science with a focus on fruit crops.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Optimal risk management strategies in neuroscience; risk management in finance.

Courses & Teaching: Financial derivatives; linear algebra; calculus.

Neil Cadger, MFA | Associate Professor Emeritus | Creative Studies, Theatre | neil.cadger@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Object theatre, puppetry, theatrical masks, live installations, dance/theatre.

Courses & Teaching: Theatre

Sarah Ann Camacho | Lecturer | School of Nursing | Sarah.Camacho@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Visual art, media arts, interactive installation; screen-based interactive animation; traditional & digital media arts; digital design.

Courses & Teaching: Visual Art; Media Studies, Digital Media

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Educational Technology; Instructional Design; Curriculum Development; Technology Innovation; Integration.

Éowyn Campbell | Lecturer | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | eowyn.campbell@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: GEOG 108 001 | EESC 398 001 | 2023 Winter Term 1

Research Interests: Reconfigurable control of robots; Supervisory control switching; Precision mechatronic system

Courses & Teaching: System Dynamics (APSC246); Engineering Analysis III (APSC248); Instrumentation and Data Analysis (APSC254); Design of Machine Elements (ENGR380); Digital Control (ENGR487/587); Robot Modeling and Control (ENGR486/586)

Research Interests: Global Contemporary Art History; Performance Art and its Mediation; Contemporary Art and Transculturation; Geographies of Art; Digital Humanities

Courses & Teaching: Global Contemporary Art; Performance Art in History, Theory and Practice; Eco-Art

Research Interests: Evolutionary economics applied to historical technological change and sustainable long term economic growth; application in policy analysis of economic growth, development and sustainability as well in the development of measurement methodology; analysis of issues of socially just wealth distribution.

Courses & Teaching: Macroeconomics; strategic thinking; economic growth; productivity and technological change.

Marco Carlone | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics, Physics | marco.carlone@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Simulation of linear accelerators; use of magnetic fields in radiotherapy; quality assurance in radiotherapy.

Margaret Carlyle | Assistant Professor | History | margaret.carlyle@ubc.ca | ART 247

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: History of medicine, science, & technology; history of reproduction and the life sciences; gender and women's studies; history of the body; material culture & medical technologies; medical science and race in the French Atlantic world.

Courses & Teaching: HIST 118: History of Science, Medicine, and Technology From Antiquity, HIST 218: Science and Empire, HIST 308: The Scientific Revolution, HIST 310A: Reproduction & Motherhood (1700–present), HIST 373: History of Race, Gender, & Science in the Atlantic World, HIST 374: History of Science and the Enlightenment, HIST 375: History of Pandemics, HIST 460A: History of Reproductive Technologies, HIST 475A: History of the Body (1500–1900), HIST 495A: History of the Body—Medicine, Religion, Law (1500–1900), HIST 492/IGS 592: History, Theory, & Method. Undergraduate Honours, Graduate Student Supervision: I supervise undergraduate/graduate/postdoctoral research.

Samantha Carron, PhD | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | French, Languages and World Literatures | samantha.carron@ubc.ca | CCS 336

Research Interests: Early Modern Feminist and Queer studies, 17th century women’s literature, New France and Ancien Régime, Canadian colonial literature and spirituality in 17th century

Courses & Teaching: FREN 221 Term 1 and FREN 215 Term 2

Research Interests: Sociolinguistics; language, gender identity and education; corpus linguistics; bilingual code-switching.

Courses & Teaching: Beginners’ Spanish I and II, Advanced Beginners’ Spanish I and II, Intermediate Spanish I and II, The Sounds of Spanish, Spanish & English in Contrast, and History of the Spanish Language.

Simone Castellarin | Associate Member | Biology | simone.castellarin@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Molecular and hormonal signals in ripening grapes; cis-regulatory code for transcriptional regulation in grapevines; impact of deficit irrigation and crop size on fruit and wine aroma and quality; canopy management.

Courses & Teaching: Grapevine and berry crop biology; advances in food biotechnology.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: 19th-century studies, including gothic studies and psychoanalysis (Freud/Jung); critical animal studies; ecofeminism; critical and literary theory, film and media studies; feminist and queer theory; ethics; social activism.

Courses & Teaching: English; Cultural Studies

Tarryn Cawood | Assistant Professor | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | tk.cawood@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Structural and economic geology; mineral deposit formation; effect of deformation and metamorphism on mineral deposits.

Courses & Teaching: Field techniques, mineral deposits.

Melissa Caza | Adjunct Professor | Biology | Melissa.Caza@interiorhealth.ca | 250.862.4300 ext 25907

Research Interests: Diagnostic molecular microbiology, Next-generation sequencing, antimicrobial resistance, development of diagnostic assays and tools for optimising antimicrobial use through whole-genome sequencing (WGS).

Alberto Ceccacci | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Economics, Philosophy and Political Science | alberto.ceccacci@ubc.ca | ART 255

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Network Information Theory; Interference Mitigation; Wireless Communications; Optical Wireless Communications; Coding Theory

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 562 Information Theory (2019); ENGR 463 Communication Networks (2018-2020 Term 1); ENGR 418/518 Applied Machine Learning for Engineers (2020 Term 1); APSC 177 Engineering Computation and Instrumentation (2017-2020 Term 2); APSC 173 Engineering Analysis II (2018-2019 Term 2)

Ian Chambers | MSc Student | Mathematics | ianjc@student.ubc.ca

Jenny Chan | Biostatistician | Southern Medical Program | jenilyn@mail.ubc.ca

Jessica Chan | Assistant Professor | Education | jessica.chan@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Language and Literacy Development; Literacy and Numeracy; Language-based Disorders; Community-based initiatives; Family Literacy

Courses & Teaching: English Language Arts and Literacy Literacy in Action Foundations of Reading Development Inclusive Education

Connor Charlesworth, MFA | Sessional Lecturer | Creative Studies, Visual Arts | connor.charlesworth@ubc.ca | 250.807.8913

Research Interests: Contemporary studio practice, colour praxis, metaphysics and philosophy of art, land and physics based pedagogy, intersection of language and vision, history of art.

Courses & Teaching: Drawing, Painting, Studio

Kerrie Charnley, PhD | Assistant Professor of Teaching | English and Cultural Studies, Nłeʔkepmx Language Fluency, Nsyilxcn Language Fluency (BNLF), St’at’imc Language Fluency | kerrie.charnley@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Indigenous Epistemologies, Salishan Intellectual Traditions and Literatures (Interior Salish Literatures and Coast Salish Literatures), Indigenous Literatures, Indigenous Storywork, Indigenous Oral Traditions, Indigenous Literacies, Indigenous Land/Ocean-Based Pedagogies, Indigenous Languages, Multimodal and Multi-sensory Literacies, Cognitive Maps and Geography, Rhetoric, Discourse Analysis, A/r/tography and Arts-Based Research, Autoethnography and Memoir, Mixed Genre Writing, Writing Education

Courses & Teaching: English 114: Studies in Composition: Aboriginal Perspectives, English 387/Cultural Studies 350: Indigenous Literatures: Intellectual Tradition, and other English and Cultural Studies courses. CORH 206: Communicating Indigeneity in the Certificate in Communication and Rhetoric.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Dr. Chau also conducts research with individuals and communities in transition that experience social marginalization and social exclusion due to race and ethnicity, racialized identities, and racism, class (e.g., homeless populations), and other factors that influence their access to services in the health and social care systems in “large”, “midsized”, and “small” cities in Canada. As well, youths at risk of becoming homeless/houseless, including youths transitioning out of care (child prote

Courses & Teaching: 2022-2023: SOCW 531: Antiracist anti-oppressive practice for clinical social work (Fall and Winter terms), SOCW 553: Research and evidence-informed practice for clinical social work. 2021-2022:SOCW 531: Antiracist anti-oppressive practice for clinical social work (Fall and Winter terms), SOCW 553: Research and evidence-informed practice for clinical social work. 2020-2021: SOCW 531: Antiracist anti-oppressive practice for clinical social work (Winter), SOCW 553: Research and evidence-informed practice for clinical social work. 2019-2020: SOCW 512: Direct theories of social work practice, SOCW 553: Research and evidence-informed practice for clinical social work (Fall and Winter)

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Optics; sensors; wearables; immersive tech; tech entrepreneurship; higher ed change

Courses & Teaching: Capstone design, engineering electromagnetics, technology entrepreneurship, user-centred design

Research Interests: Communication; Rhetoric and Composition; Second language writing; Critical Discourse Analysis

Courses & Teaching: Writing studies; Rhetoric and Communications

Gurnoor Chawla | Web Content and Design Specialist | gurnoor.chawla@ubc.ca

Yuan Chen | Associate Professor Emerita | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | yuan.chen@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Mineralogy; petrology; geochemistry and geologic resources; the environment; research used to predict the solubility, transportation and potential bioavailability of trace elements through surface processes and to establish environmentally friendly operating procedures for the mining industry.

Courses & Teaching: Physical geology; historical geology; mineralogy; optical mineralogy and petrology; geochemistry.

Yuehao (Crystal) Chen | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | crystal.yuehao.chen@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Geological sources of methane emissions; thermal springs geochemistry; hydrogeology; stable isotope biogeochemistry; laser spectroscopy.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: • Digital and Robotic Fabrication • Building Information Modeling • Supply Chain Integration • Platform and System Design • Circular Economy Student opportunities: Dr. Chen is looking to recruit PhD students in the field of digital construction engineering and construction circular economy. Interested candidates can email Dr. Chen, providing their motivation letter and CV.

Courses & Teaching: • ENGR 433 & ENGR 533 - Construction Engineering and Management • ENGR 331 - Infrastructure Management I • ENGR 330 - Reliability and Risk Analysis for Civil Engineering • ENGR 409 & APSC 509 - Construction Digitalization and Informatics

Zhenhao Chen | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | shczh@mail.ubc.ca

Yiwen Chen | PhD Student | Mathematics | yiwchen@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Derivative-free optimization; numerical optimization; discrete geometry

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Wireless Digital Communications Theory; Optical Wireless Communications Theory; 5G Wireless Networks and Beyond; Robotics Communications; Machine Learning and Deep Learning; Wireless Location Technology

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 350 Linear Circuit Theory (2011, 2012); ENGR 361 Signals and Communication Systems (2019); ENGR 460 Probability and Stochastic Processes for Engineers (2009-2018); ENGR 461 Digital Communications (2009, 2010, 2016-2018); ENGR 502 Technical Communication for Engineering Research (2019); ENGR 550 Stochastic Processes (2016, 2018); ENGR 560 Probability and Stochastic Processes for Engineers (2009-2018); ENGR 564 Fundamentals of Digital Communications (2009, 2011, 2012, 2017)

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Leadership, professional learning and development, educator well-being; learning communities and school organizing; reflective practice.

Courses & Teaching: Educational leadership; Diversity and Inclusion in Education

Helen Chiang | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | helen.chiang@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Studies, Internet, Neoliberalism

Kevin Chong, MFA | Associate Professor | Creative Studies, Creative Writing | kevin.chong@ubc.ca | CCS 337

Research Interests: Creative writing, fiction, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, dramatic writing.

Courses & Teaching: Creative writing, novel, short story, memoir, personal essay, lyric essay, literary journalism.

Rishma Chooniedass | Assistant Professor of Teaching | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | rishma@mail.ubc.ca | ART 341

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Maternal and child health; food allergy and anaphylaxis; equity and social justice

Courses & Teaching: NRSG 120 Introduction to Nursing Research NRSG 126 Health and Healing I NRSG 136 Nursing Practice I NRSG 313 Relational Practice (Connecting Across Difference) HINT 320 Global Health NRSG 338 Nursing Practice with Childbearing Families NRSG 339 Nursing Practice in Child Health

Rina Garcia Chua, PhD | Academic Integrity Program Manager | Library Services, Student Learning Hub | rina.chua@ubc.ca

Research Interests: digital geographies; data studies; GIS and society; science and technology studies; urban studies; surveillance; digital and visual methods; alternative urbanism.

Graduate student supervisor. Not considering Psychology graduate students for September 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Human sexuality; forensics; student-driven research program based on Directed Studies and Honours work

Courses & Teaching: Psychological Aspects of Human Sexuality I & II [PSYO 353 & 354]; Intro to Data Analysis [PSYO 271]

Selena Clark | Sessional Lecturer | Languages and World Literatures, Spanish | sele.clark@ubc.ca | CCS 350

Research Interests: Dialectology, Phonetics, Sociolinguistics, Heritage Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics

Courses & Teaching: SPAN 101-005

Allan Clarke | Adjunct Instructor | Social Work | allan.clarke@ubc.ca

Lisa Clarke | Library Services Assistant – Collections | Library Services, Okanagan Special Collections and Archives | lisa.clarke@ubc.ca | 250.807.9460

Graeme Clarke | Library Services Assistant - Records Management | Library Services, Okanagan Special Collections and Archives | graeme.clarke@ubc.ca | 250-807-9251

Research Interests: Management communications; Science and engineering communications; Interdisciplinary and intercultural communications; Creative writing; Contemporary Canadian fiction and memoir; Contemporary East African writing and cultural productions; Intersectional feminisms; Survivor narratives; and writing that inspires social change.

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 112 Studies in Composition; MGMT 240 Introduction to Management Communications; CORH 321 Personal and Professional Identity and Interpersonal Communication; CRWR 217 Intermediate Workshop in Creative Writing: Fiction

Bill Cohen | Assistant Professor | Education | billy.cohen@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: My research interests are extended family pedagogies informed by traditional Indigenous knowledge: particularly a Syilx children-centred model informed by capti̓kʷɬ stories to transform schools to be more appreciative and sustaining of place-based relationships and cultural and ecological diversity.

Ian Cole | PhD Student | Biology | ian.cole@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Exploring the chemistry of inflorescences from Breadfruit, a tropical fruit tree that grows well in many countries plagued by mosquito-vectored diseases, for their ability to repel mosquitos that carry diseases.

Hannah Collier | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | hannah.collier@ubc.ca | 250.807.8513

Christopher Collier, PhD | Associate Professor | Electrical, School of Engineering | christopher.collier@ubc.ca | EME3285

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Bio-photonics and bio-optics; Digital microfluidics; Hyperspectral imaging; Lab-on-a-chip systems; Microfluidics for agriculture and food; Optofluidic elements; Terahertz spectroscopy

Courses & Teaching: APSC 254 Instrumentation and Data Analysis APSC 255 Electric Circuits and Power ENGR 362 Digital Signal Processing I ENGR 472 Fibre Optics and Photonics ENGR 572 Fibre Optics and Photonics ENGR 498P Biophotonic Engineering ENGR 598C Biophotonic Engineering

Erwin Concepcion | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | erwin.concepcion@ubc.ca

Hannah Connon, PhD | Lecturer | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | hannah.connon@ubc.ca | ART129

Courses & Teaching: HES 211 - Exercise Testing HES 493 - Community Practicum HES 494 - Advanced Community Practicum

Alison Conway, PhD | Professor | English and Cultural Studies, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies | alison.conway@ubc.ca | LM4 620

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Literary and cultural history of the long eighteenth century in Britain; narrative studies; and gender and sexuality theory.

Courses & Teaching: English; Gender & Women Studies

Adrienne Cook (On Leave) | Faculty Programs Assistant | Faculty of Management | adrienne.cook@ubc.ca | EME 4157

Shawna Cook, B.A. | Lecturer | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | shawna.cook@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: HES 350 - Clinical Assessment HES 352 - Exercise Testing for Clinical Populations: Lab HES 353 - Clinical Exercise Prescription: Lab HES 354 - Clinical Exercise Physiology Applications in Chronic Conditions: Cardiovascular Disease

Helen Copeland | Community Liaison and Instructional Coordinator | St’at’imc Language Fluency | helen.copeland@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Geography; ethnobiology; cartography; exploration, facilitation and promotion of community and ecosystem-based models of land and resource use in communities in Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and British Columbia, Canada

Courses & Teaching: Resource management policy and practice; the history of environmental thought; cartography and society

Lesley Cormack | Principal and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor | History | ubco.principal@ubc.ca | ADM 102

Research Interests: History of science, history of geography, mathematics, early modern England

Colombe Cormier | BEd French Pathways Advisor | Education | colombe.cormier@ubc.ca

Patricia Corner | Professor Emeritus | Faculty of Management | trish.corner@ubc.ca

Donny Cosby | AV Support Analyst | Southern Medical Program | donny.cosby@ubc.ca

Vanessa Costa da Silveira | Head’s Assistant, Undergraduate Program and Events Support | Creative Studies | vanessa.costadasilveira@ubc.ca | CCS 153

Allyssa Costerton-Grant, MM, BAPC | Director, Strategic Initiatives and Operations | Faculty of Management | allyssa.costerton-grant@ubc.ca | EME 4101

Jeannine Costigan | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | jeannine.costigan@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Popular culture; sustainable practices in printmaking; innovations in print-related media; curatorial practices; artist books

Courses & Teaching: Visual Art, Printmaking (ultra-violet screen printing; stone lithography; etching; relief printing; letterpress printing); drawing; introductory photography

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Urban Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Courses & Teaching: Principles of Microeconomics, Urban Economics

Research Interests: History of Political Philosophy; Politics and Literature; Politics and Art; Politics and Myths; Classical Political Thought; Plato

Rose Cresswell | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | rose.cresswell@ubc.ca | 250.807.9115

Corinne Crocket | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | corinne.crockett@ubc.ca

Cameron Crookston, PhD | Lecturer | Cultural Studies, English and Cultural Studies | cameron.crookston@ubc.ca | CCS 351A

Research Interests: Drag, LGBTQ2+ history, Queer Popular Culture, Transgender Studies

Courses & Teaching: Media and Popular Culture

Sharon Crux | Field Education Coordinator | Social Work | sharon.cruxrasi@ubc.ca

Meghan Currie (On Leave) | Accessibility Advisor — Coordinator, Inclusive Technology Lab | Inclusive Technology Lab, Library Services | meghan.currie@ubc.ca | 250.807.8041

Suzie Currie | Vice-Principal and Associate Vice-President, Research and Innovation | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | suzie.currie@ubc.ca | ADM006M

Research Interests: Comparative animal physiology, focused on understanding how fish will cope with ongoing climate warming.

Jeff Curtis | Associate Professor Emeritus | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | jeff.curtis@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Biogeoclimatic control of water quality; inferring hydrologic flowpath from geochemical indicators; optical properties of natural waters; interaction of metals and natural organic ligands; scavenging of nutrients and trace elements in biogenic calcite; fate and transport of endocrine disrupters.

M.J. D'Elia | Adjunct Instructor | Faculty of Management | mj.delia@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Cell signaling; molecular mechanisms underlying development and progression of cancer.

Courses & Teaching: Biology for science majors; genetics; cell signaling; molecular biology.

Research Interests: Macroeconomics; Monetary Economics; Applied Econometrics; Time Series Analysis; Index Number Theory

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Dr. Dalton’s research interests focus on understanding the sensorimotor control of the human nervous system using various models of study (neuromuscular fatigue, healthy adult aging, and traumatic brain injury.

Courses & Teaching: Dr. Dalton currently teaches HMKN 202 – Human Motor Behaviour I and HMKN 499 – Project in Human Kinetics.

Parandis Daneshgar | Research Associate | Chemistry | parandis.daneshgar@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Discovering new biosynthetic enzymes and pathways; generating specialized metabolites structural and functional diversities; re-constituting natural products metabolism in synthetic biology chassis.

Courses & Teaching: Biochemistry

Amanda Darbyshire | Auxiliary Laboratory Manager | Chemistry | amanda.darbyshire@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Movement ecology; predator-prey dynamics; optimal foraging theory; anthropogenic disturbance and species distribution modelling.

Sandy Davidson-Hunt | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | alexander.davidsonhunt@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Conservation Genetics; Evolutionary Biology; Ecological Genetics

Paul G Davies | Professor | Psychology | paul.g.davies@ubc.ca | FIP 326

Graduate student supervisor. Not considering Psychology graduate students for September 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Intergroup relations; stereotypes; prejudice; discrimination; diverse forms of social identity threat; perceived stereotypicality; levels of prejudice and discrimination that target stigmatized individuals.

Courses & Teaching: Introductory psychology; social psychology; intergroup relations.

Research Interests: Arithmetic geometry; algebraic number theory; elliptic curves; diophantine equations.

Courses & Teaching: Linear algebra.

Matthew Davis | Lecturer | Digital Humanities, English and Cultural Studies | mdavis14@mail.ubc.ca | CCS 346

Courses & Teaching: DIHU 220-101, DIHU302-001/ENGL 306-001, IGS 501D-001

Graduate student supervisor

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: Topic coverage includes operations management, health economics, clinically applied economic evaluation, multiple imputation of missing data, research methods, and biostatistics. Graduate Courses: Topics taught include epidemiological methods (led problem-based learning groups), research methods in rehabilitation: taught multiple imputation of missing data, conducting systematic reviews and instructor for a web-based course – Quality of Life Program: A CIHR Training Program in Rehabilitation Research.

Matt Davison | Honourary Affiliate | Statistics | mdavison@uwo.ca

Research Interests: Energy finance; options pricing; portfolio optimization; Real options (with application inDefense and Medicine).

Nicole de Bosch Kemper, RN, MSN, CCNE | Associate Professor of Teaching | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | nicole.deboschkemper@ubc.ca | ART 146

Courses & Teaching: Chair of the School of Nursing Program Evaluation Committee Courses taught include NRSG 329_O and 339_O: Child Health (theory and clinical practice), NRSG_O 112: Introduction to the Profession of Nursing Part 1, NRSG_O 122: Introduction to the Profession of Nursing Part 2, NRSG_O 140: LPN Access to the BSN Program, HINT_O 320 Global Health, NRSG_O 431/434: Nursing Preceptorship

Graduate student supervisor. Not considering Psychology graduate students for September 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Emotion and emotion regulation; child development; adolescence; inequality; adversity; poverty;

Courses & Teaching: Lifespan Development (PSYO220)

Andres de Leon | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Biology | adeleone@mail.ubc.ca

Antonella De Michelis | Sessional Lecturer | Art History, Creative Studies | antonella.demichelis@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: ARTH 395: Renaissance Europe in a Global Context ; ARTH 396: Seventeenth-Century European Art in a Global Context

Fes de Scally | Associate Professor Emeritus | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | fes.descally@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Historical and modern tropical cyclone risks in the Cook Islands, South Pacific Ocean; differentiation of debris flow, streamflow and snow avalanche fans in mountain environments and implications for risk management in the Southern Alps, New Zealand.

Courses & Teaching: Physical geography; natural hazards management; mountain environments.

Luis Del Rio | Sessional Lecturer | Chemistry | lfdelrio@mail.ubc.ca | SCI 216

Liam Dempsey | Sessional Instructor | Economics, Philosophy and Political Science | liam.dempsey@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of emotion, and early modern philosophy.

Courses & Teaching: Recent courses taught include philosophy of mind, philosophy of art, early modern philosophy, critical thinking, and introduction to ethics.

Jacqueline Denison, MSN RN | Associate Professor of Teaching | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | jacqueline.denison@ubc.ca | ART 339

Research Interests: Health Equity and cultural safety; Nursing education; curriculum innovation

Courses & Teaching: Jackie has taught across all years of the BSN program with interests in professional practice, relational practice, maternal-child health and leadership. Recently taught courses: Nursing 112: Professional Practice I Nursing 126: Health and Healing I Nursing 432: Capstone Community Project

Jacen Dennis, MFA | Sessional Lecturer | Creative Studies, Media Studies | jacen.dennis@ubc.ca | CCS 348

Courses & Teaching: Digital Media, Animation

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Mathematical ecology and insect dispersal.

Courses & Teaching: Applied mathematics; vector calculus; differential geometry; complex analysis.

Research Interests: Autobiography, Intercultural Studies, Disability Studies, German Studies and the Environment

Courses & Teaching: German Studies/World Literature – German language, literature and culture; world literature in a comparative context, particularly in terms of autobiography; intercultural studies

Michael Deyholos (On Leave) | Professor | Biology, Biotechnology | michael.deyholos@ubc.ca | SCI 316

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Genetics and genomics of plants, especially in relation to pectin, cell walls, and fibers.

Courses & Teaching: Biochemistry, bioinformatic.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Computational studies of i) radical reactions involving organic, inorganic, biological and solid-state systems; ii) noncovalent interactions; iii) oxygen-centred radical induced damage of proteins.

Courses & Teaching: Physical and computational chemistry.

David Ding | Emeritus Faculty | Political Science | david.ding@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Chinese politics; Northeast Asian politics; international relations.

Jody Dlouhy-Nelson | BEd French Pathways Coordinator and Lecturer | Education | jody_dlouhy.nelson@ubc.ca

Long Do | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | long2911@mail.ubc.ca

Marjorie Docherty | Clerkship Site Leader, Rural Family Practice | Southern Medical Program | mdochert@mail.ubc.ca

Robin Dods | Associate Professor Emerita | Anthropology | robin.dods@ubc.ca

Research Interests: North America (mostly Canadian Boreal Forest and Boreal/Deciduous Ecotones); Egypt, Botswana, and Jordan; ancient pyrotechnology in the management of forests; landscape constructs in ancient times as indicators of cultural realities; science and traditional knowledge; subsistence systems.

Courses & Teaching: Cultural anthropology; futurist anthropology; materials analysis; Algonquian ethnography, specific American and world archaeology areas, archaeological theory.

Research Interests: Nexus of psychiatry and law; socio-legal studies of the everyday life of law; institutional ethnography; science, technology, and regulation; expert knowledge; regulatory spaces and pharmaceutical governance, psychedelics and drug policy, feminist and qualitative methodologies.

Courses & Teaching: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Introduction to Sociology, Law and Gender, Health Law, Qualitative and Ethnographic Research, Institutional Ethnography

Daniela Dominguez Aldama | MSc Student, IGS | Biology | ddomingu@student.ubc.ca | FIP 224

Research Interests: Sustainable Food Systems Management

Michael Donison | Sessional Instructor | Political Science | mdonison@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Canadian central government institutions; English and Canadian constitutional history

Courses & Teaching: POLI 230

David Doody, MFA | Lecturer | Creative Studies, Visual Arts | david.doody@ubc.ca | FIP 319

Research Interests: Contemporary sculpture practice;

Courses & Teaching: VISA 102/VISA 103 Drawing and Two-Dimensional Art Practices; VISA 322M/322N Advanced Practice in Sculpture; VISA 460k Community Art Practices, VISA 289 Advanced Drawing Practices; VISA 104/ VISA 105 Intro Sculpture

Jorden Doody, MFA | Sessional Instructor | Creative Studies, Visual Arts | jorden.doody@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: VISA 285A Public Art: Mural Painting; VISA 460R Go Global: Spain Street Art

Graduate student supervisor. Focus: EAL Teaching and Learning in Adult and Post-Secondary Contexts.

Research Interests: English as an Additional Language (EAL) Teaching and Learning in Adult and Post-Secondary Contexts; Teaching English as an Additional Language (TEAL); Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL); Applied Linguistics; English Language Teaching (ELT); Curriculum and Materials Design; English for Academic Purposes (EAP); English Language Learning (ELL); EAL Short-Term Study Abroad

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses EDUC 407 Concept Studies Module 1—Developing Instructional Strategies ESL/FSL EDUC 436 Developing Curricular Vision for a Democratic Society EDUC 459 ESL in Secondary Education Post-Baccalaureate Courses LLED 494 Introduction to Additional Language Teaching and Learning LLED 495 Curriculum and Materials Design in Additional Language Teaching and Learning LLED 496 Theory and Practice in Additional Language Teaching and Learning Graduate Courses EDUC 560 Directed Studies in Education: TESOL Inquiry IGS 620 Advanced Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies: TESOL Frameworks EDUC 524 Language Teaching and Learning EDUC 562 Special Topics in Education: TESOL Materials

Kathryn Douglas-Campbell | Projects and Administration Coordinator | Faculty of Health and Social Development | katdoug@mail.ubc.ca

Sarah Dow-Fleisner, PhD | Associate Professor (Tenure) | Social Work | sarah.dow-fleisner@ubc.ca | Landmark

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Development trajectories and resilient functioning of children and families in high-risk contexts; Parent-child and sibling relationships in families experiencing parental mental illness and substance use; Intervention and prevention programs for families and children; Utilization of advanced statistical methodology to examine complex social phenomenon.

Courses & Teaching: Courses: SOCW525: Human Development for Clinical Social Work SOCW553: Research Methods and Evidence in Clinical Social Work Practice SWK382: Social Work Research Methods II SWK707: Research for Social Work Practice Directed Studies: SOCW541: Directed Studies in Human Development in the context of forced family separation SOCW541: Directed Studies in Research Methods and Statistical Analysis in Child Welfare Research PSYO509: Directed Studies in Applied Mixed Methods Research HMKN 545: Special Topics in Health and Exercise Sciences: Resilience and quality of life among survivors of intimate partner violence related brain injury

Linda Drew, RN, BSN | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | linda.drew@ubc.ca | CCS252

Jessica Driscoll | Lecturer | Psychology | jessica.driscoll@ubc.ca | ASC 286

Courses & Teaching: PSYO 512 Ethics and Professional Standards in Clinical Psychology

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Computer Vision/Graphics; Machine/Deep Learning; Image/Video Processing; Pattern Recognition; Biometrics; Video Surveillance Systems

Courses & Teaching: Image Processing and Applications; Computer Graphics; Software Engineering; Web Programming

Klara du Plessis | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies | klara.duplessis@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Contemporary Canadian poetry, literature in performance, sound, curatorial, and archival studies, and listening as critical method.

Matt Duarte | AV Coordinator | matt.duarte@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Nanogeology; microstructures; correlative microscopy; diffusion processes; segregation of critical minerals; earthquake nucleation and propagation mechanisms

Courses & Teaching: Mineralogy

Morgan Duclos | Program Coordinator, Emergency (UG/PG), Interior | Southern Medical Program | morgane.duclos@interiorhealth.ca

Charles-Olivier Dufresne-Camaro | Sessional Lecturer | Computer Science | charlo.dufresnecamaro@ubc.ca | FIP 309 or 310

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Visual art, new media, video, drawing 2D; media for social change; climate change; interactive art; experience design.

Courses & Teaching: Visual Art; Media Studies; Digital Media

Courses & Teaching: HMKN 200: Exercise Physiology I HMKN 310: Exercise Physiology II HMKN 311: Exercise Prescription HMKN 312: Laboratory Techniques in Cardiorespiratory Physiology HMKN 391: Advanced Functional Anatomy HMKN 495K: Advanced Training Techniques HMKN 336: Tissue Injury & Repair

Mackenzie Dunlop | Executive Coordinator | Faculty of Management | mackenzie.dunlop@ubc.ca | EME 4145

Daniel Durall | Associate Professor Emeritus | Biology | daniel.durall@ubc.ca | 250.807.8759

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Fungi in forest and wine systems; determining the structure of fungal networks connecting trees and the strains of yeast responsible for fermentation.

Courses & Teaching: Microbiology; mycology; botany; ecology.

Jonathan Durynek | Faculty Administrator | Faculty of Health and Social Development | jonathan.durynek@ubc.ca | ARTS 360F

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Metamorphic petrology; tectonics & microstructure; evolution of planetary lithosphere and electron-beam microscopy.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to metamorphic petrology; introduction to graduate studies.

Michelle Earl | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | michelle.earl@ubc.ca

Nathan G. Earley | MSc Student | Biology | earley@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Native fruit fly diversity; classical biological control of insect pests; community dynamics of parasitic wasps

B. Curtis Eaton | Adjunct Professor | Economics | eaton@ucalgary.ca | 250.872.9511

Research Interests: Applied microeconomic theory; evolutionary game theory; the economics of social interaction and well-being.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Power electronics; High power switching converters; Gate drive techniques

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 558 Power Electronics; ENGR 458 Power Electronics; ENGR 320 Electromechanical Devices; ENGR 499 Engineering Capstone Design Project; APSC 255 Analog and Digital Systems; APSC 172 Engineering Analysis I

Marissa Eberle | Engineering Advisor | School of Engineering | marissa.eberle@ubc.ca | EME3261

Courses & Teaching: UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: MGMT 201 / 301 Introduction to Financial Accounting MGMT 202 / 302 Introduction to Managerial Accounting MGMT 330 Introduction to Organizational Behaviour MGMT 360 Business Conditions Analysis MGMT 401 Intermediate Managerial Accounting MGMT 403 Auditing and Assurance Services MGMT 405 Advanced Managerial Accounting MGMT 419H Special Topics in Management: Corporate Governance GRADUATE COURSES: MGMT 531 Leadership

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Contemporary Art Practices; Material Studies; Diaspora Research; Memorialization.

Courses & Teaching: Sculpture; Advanced Art Practices; MFA Graduate Colloquium.

Cameron Egan | Adjunct Professor | Biology | camegan@usc.edu

Research Interests: Botany; Ecology; Mycology; Microbiology; Ecological Restoration

Research Interests: Restoration and 18th-century theatre, especially the plays of Edward Ravenscroft; theories of comedy during the late 17th century; political satire on and censorship of the stage during the 1720s and 1730s.

Courses & Teaching: English

Meilan Ehlert, PhD | Lecturer | Languages and World Literatures | meilan.ehlert@ubc.ca | CCS 391

Research Interests: Educational sociolinguistics; multilingual literacies; plurilingualism and intercultural education; foreign language learning and teaching; Intercultural communication, context and business

Courses & Teaching: CHIN 100 101, KORN 100 101, WRLD 150, WRLD 151, WRLD 152, WRLD 382, WRLD 388

Research Interests: Diversity & Inclusivity in Higher Education

Courses & Teaching: Inter-cultural communication; Technical communication; Undergraduate and Graduate writing and research

Research Interests: Engineering education; engineering entrepreneurship education; engineering leadership; professional development; experiential learning; work-integrated learning.

Courses & Teaching: Currently teaching: APSC201 - Technical Communication ENGR411/ENGR511 - Technology Entrepreneurship ENGR499 - Engineering Capstone Design Project Previously taught: APSC503 - Startup Engineering Practicum APSC505/ENGR405 - Engineering Leadership ENGR542 - Engineering and Society

Research Interests: Chinese politics; social movements; labor; authoritarianism.

Courses & Teaching: Politics of China (POLI 314); Social Movements and Contentious Politics (POLI 413); Authoritarianism (POLI 322); Problems in International Relations: Chinese Foreign Relations (POLI 464H); Introduction to Comparative Politics (POLI 220); Global Studies Panorama (IGS 588).

Ayman Elnaggar | Associate Professor of Teaching | Electrical, Engineering, School of Engineering | ayman.elnaggar@ubc.ca | EME4261

Research Interests: Engineering Education: Conducting fundamental research on engineering education and bridging research and practice; Identifying the reasons why effective practices work; Assessing how students learn, and moving those findings into the classrooms of tomorrow's engineers; Mental Health and Well-being of students.

Courses & Teaching: Real-Time Embedded Systems Design; Advanced Digital Systems Design; Microcomputer Engineering (Embedded Systems & Microprocessor Interfacing); Digital Logic Design; Electric Circuits & Power; Numerical Methods for Engineers.

Seija Emond | Adjunct Instructor | Social Work | seija.emond@ubc.ca

Jeffrey English | Sessional Lecturer | Data Science | jeffrey.english@ubc.ca | FIP 309 or 310

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, Immersive Analytics, Data Visualisation, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality

David Ensing | Adjunct Professor | Biology | david.ensing@agr.gc.ca | 250.859.0749

Research Interests: Agroecology; botany; biological control of weeds; Indigenous food systems and security; plant evolutionary ecology; range limits; rangeland ecology.

Sheila Epp | Associate Professor of Teaching | School of Nursing | sheila.epp@ubc.ca | 250-807-9975

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Curriculum Development; Pedagogy; New Graduate Transition

Courses & Teaching: She has taught in multiple areas across the undergraduate program. Most recently her teaching has included: NRSG 422 Leadership NRSG 431 Capstone Acute Care Preceptorship NRSG 434 Practice Electives NRSG 439 Global Health Practicum

Research Interests: Rule of law; law and politics; democracy and authoritarianism; postcommunist politics

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (POLI 223); Contemporary European Politics (POLI 464)

Lauren Erland | Affiliate Assistant Professor | Chemistry | lauren.erland@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Plant perception and response to environmental change, phytohormones, morphogenesis, metabolomics, plant signaling, plant chemistry, biotechnology

Courses & Teaching: BIOC 412 / CHEM412 / CHEM533 Metabolomics; Non-Credit Credential in Metabolomics

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Wastewater and Sludge Treatment; Pretreatment Technologies for Enhanced Biomethane and Biohydrogen Production from Organic Waste; Side-stream Nutrient Removal; Fate and Transformation of Micropollutants during Biological Treatment Processes; Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Biological Wastewater/Sludge Treatment Processes; Waste Minimization and Resource Recovery

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 446/546 - Biological Treatment Processes ENGR 447 - Design of Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment ENGR 347 - Environmental Engineering

Sylvia Esterby | Associate Professor Emeritus | Statistics | sylvia.esterby@ubc.ca | 250.807.9536

Research Interests: Environmetrics and ecological statistics.

Garth Evans | Audio Visual Support Analyst | garth.evans@ubc.ca | 250.864.3507 | Reichwald Health Sciences Centre

Mike Evans | Professor | Anthropology | michael.evans@ubc.ca | LM4 634

Research Interests: Urban Aboriginal issues; Métis history and contemporary issues; Tonga, trans-national migration and globalization; regional food systems; Indigenous methodologies; participatory action research; community based research; and Island studies

Courses & Teaching: Globalization and Indigenous peoples

Neil Eves | Professor | Centre for Heart, Lung & Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | neil.eves@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Eve's primary research interests are in the integrative aspects of pulmonary, cardiac and vascular physiology and how the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems can be manipulated to optimally improve the health of individuals with chronic respiratory disease.

Mir Faizal | Adjunct Professor | Mathematics, Physics | mir.faizal@ubc.ca | SCI 103

Research Interests: Information theory and complexity; numerical analysis and dynamical systems; topological defects; quantum mechanics and its application to condensed matter systems; string theory; loop quantum gravity; astrophysics; cosmology; supersymmetry.

Kirstyn Falck | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | kirstynf@mail.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Organization theory; Institutional logics; Emotions and institutions; Social-symbolic work; Environmental sustainability; Inequality; Community-based entrepreneurship; Social entrepreneurship Indigenous resurgence; Peoplehood model; Two-Eyed Seeing; Decolonization; Reconciliation; Feminist care ethics; Community-based participatory research; Ethnography

Courses & Teaching: MGMT 100 Introduction to Business MGMT 450 Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Lindsay Farrell | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | lindsay.farrell@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Dr. Farrell’s research interests focus on Indigenous wellness and substance use, harm reduction, cannabis and mental health.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Travel demand forecasting; Transportation and land use interaction; Travel behaviour analysis; Smart and shared mobility; Urban system microsimulation, Activity-based modelling; Transportation and residential emissions and energy modelling; Econometric modelling; Agent-based microsimulation, Survey design and methods

Courses & Teaching: Transportation Planning (ENGR 436/536) Surveying and GIS Analysis (ENGR 332)

Taryn Fay-McClymont | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | taryn.faymcclymont@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Neuropsychological outcomes of neurological disorders in children and adolescents.

Scott Fazackerley | Sessional Lecturer | Computer Science | scott.fazackerley@ubc.ca | SCI 393

Courses & Teaching: COSC 111, COSC 310, COSC 328

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Medical Imaging, MRI, Pulse Sequence Design, Image Processing, Translational Imaging

Courses & Teaching: Physics, Waves

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Information and Coding Theory; Blockchain Technology

Courses & Teaching: APSC 254 Instrumentation and Data Analysis (2015-2019); ENGR 453 Internet of Things (2019-2020); ENGR 463 Communication Networks (2016-2018); ENGR 464 Distributed Ledger Technologies with Engineering Applications (2020); ENGR 465 Wireless Communications (2018); ENGR 501 Deep and Reinforcement Learning for Engineers (2021) ENGR 565 Advanced Wireless Communications (2018); ENGR 566 Advanced Communication Networks (2017, 2019); ENGR 595 Topics in Electrical Engineering: Mean-Field Analysis (2017); ENGR 595 Topics in Electrical Engineering: Blockchain Technology (2018); ENGR 597 Blockchain for Clean Energy (2019)

Jannatul Ferdous | PhD Student, IGS-Sustainability | Biology | ferdousj@mail.ubc.ca | FIP 224

Research Interests: Life Cycle Assessment; Life Cycle Costing; Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing

Alanaise Ferguson | Associate Professor | Indigenous Studies | alanaise.ferguson@ubc.ca | LM4

Research Interests: Qualitative, Mixed-Methods, Community-Engaged, and Decolonizing Research Methodologies; Applied research in First Nations Metis, and Inuit (FNMI) mental health, healing, and well-being; Oral First Nations Language Documentation and Revitalization; Intervention evaluation research in trauma repair and addictions reduction.

Courses & Teaching: Indigenous Research Methodologies; Residential Schools and Reconciliation; Indigenous Research Methods.

Brianna Ferguson, MFA | Sessional Lecturer | Creative Studies, Creative Writing | brianna.ferguson@ubc.ca | FIP 323

Research Interests: Poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, cinema.

Courses & Teaching: CRWR 150 Poetry and Non-Fiction

Rebekah Ferguson | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | rebekah.ferguson@ubc.ca

John Ferreras | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | john.ferreras@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Plant-pathogen interactions, chemical defenses, sunflower metabolism, transcriptomics, terpenoids, sustainable agriculture, crop protection

Research Interests: Using network theory to assess the connectivity between ecosystem services and the resilience of multifunctional landscapes.

Research Interests: Study of the cellular and molecular mechanism of neuronal remodeling in mammals and Drosophila Melanogaster.

Tyler Finley | Communications Manager | School of Engineering | tyler.finley@ubc.ca | EME4241

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Creative writing, fiction, poetry, children’s books, stage play and screen writing.

Courses & Teaching: Creative writing, Short story, novel, experimental fiction, poetry, writing for children, playwrighting, screenwriting

Jenna Fletcher | Grants Administrator | Office of Research Services (ORS), Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | jenna.fletcher@ubc.ca

Kristy Folk, BSN, MSN, CVAA | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | kristy.folk@ubc.ca | CCS

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Wildlife ecology and conservation; mammals; temperate forests, grasslands, and tropical savannas.

Courses & Teaching: Animal ecology

Nikki Forder | Finance Support Services Assistant | School of Engineering | nikki.forder@ubc.ca | 250.807.9278

Thomas Forge | Adjunct Professor | Biology | tom.forge@agr.gc.ca | 250.494.2119

Tanya Forneris | Professor of Teaching | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | tanya.forneris@ubc.ca | 250.807.9569

Research Interests: Forneris's interests centre on how to help youth learn to become successful contributing adults.

Courses & Teaching: Research Methods Community Programming Sport Psychology

Mary Forrest | Associate Professor Emerita | Biology | mary.forrest@ubc.ca

Natalie Forssman | Assistant Professor of Teaching | Anthropology | natalie.forssman@ubc.ca | ART 249

Research Interests: Feminist science and technology studies; environmental humanities; multispecies anthropology; science communication; epistemic cultures; ethnography; embodiment and materiality; participatory methods; educational leadership

Courses & Teaching: Cultural anthropology; environmental humanities; science and technology studies; communication, writing, and research methods.

Diana Fort | Assistant Dean | diana.fort@ubc.ca

Glen Foster | Associate Dean, Research; Professor | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | glen.foster@ubc.ca | 250.807.8224

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Foster's research aims to approach complex physiological problems using integrative and applied experimental approaches that focus on multiple systems in vivo.

Courses & Teaching: Dr. Foster currently teaches HMKN 414 – Advanced Circulatory Physiology, and supervises students in HMKN 499 and 449.

Ian Foulds | Associate Professor | Electrical | ian.foulds@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS); Microfluidics; Microfabrication

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 353 Semiconductor Devices; APSC 179 Linear Algebra for Engineers

Eric Foxall | Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track | Mathematics | efoxall@mail.ubc.ca | SCI 115

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Stochastic processes and mathematical biology

Jennifer Frattolin, PhD | Assistant Professor | Mechanical, School of Engineering | jennifer.frattolin@ubc.ca | EME4231

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Microfluidics; immune cell transport; fluorescent microscopy; medical devices; immunotherapeutics

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 495/519 Tissue Engineering ENGR 475 Materials Selection and Design

Research Interests: First year coordinator of lectures and laboratories.

Courses & Teaching: CHEM 111/113 & CHEM 121/123 CHEM 214

Diana E. French | Associate Professor Emerita | Anthropology | diana.french@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Western Canadian archaeology; subarctic anthropology; applied anthropology and aboriginal issues; heritage resource management; works with First Nations communities to manage and protect archaeological and other cultural resources; provides workshops on cross-cultural communications; assists forestry licensees with policy development and cultural resource management.

Courses & Teaching: Applied anthropology; historical archaeology; cultural anthropology; ethnography and archaeology of the western subarctic

Rob Friberg | Lecturer | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | rob.friberg@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: SUST 100 001 | EESC 101 001 | 2023 Winter Term 1

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Ethnographic writing, poetry; ethnographies of sound, hearing, listening; critical tourism studies; migration, subjectivities; feminist and sensory methodologies; community-based research; atmospheres.

Courses & Teaching: I teach courses in cultural anthropology and gender, women, and sexuality studies. Current UBC courses include: Tourism, Desire, Difference; Love, Marriage, Family: New Kinship Studies; Sounded Worlds; Okanagan Tourism and the Senses; Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Power 11: Everyday Life; Feminist Geographies of (Un)Belonging

Liubov Frolova | PhD Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | liubovf@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Exosome biogenesis; exosomal biomarkers; drug delivery; single molecule imaging.

Research Interests: Late medieval English urban history.

Alejandra Maria Fuentes | PhD Student | Medical Physics | ale.fuentes.1994@alumni.ubc.ca

Sarah Furgason | Student Support Assistant | furgason@mail.ubc.ca | ASC 414

Research Interests: Interface between visual and haptic perception; comprehension and production of haptic pictures by the blind; health and adjustment; perceptual, cognitive, and social aspects of blindness.

Courses & Teaching: Introductory psychology; visual perception; non-visual perception; psychology of touch; evolutionary psychology of aggression and the blind movement.

Graduate student supervisor. Will consider Psychology grad students (Psychological Science stream) for Sept 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Creativity; concepts, especially how they combine and adapt to new contexts; origins of modern cognition; cultural evolution; computer models of the above. I'm not currently accepting graduate students; however, please don't hesitate to contact me if you are exceptionally knowledgeable about and interested in my group's research program.

Courses & Teaching: Psychology of creativity and humour; evolution of human cognition.

Kamiel Gabriel, PhD, MBA, P.Eng., F.C.A.E. | Director, Strategic Research Projects | School of Engineering | kamiel.gabriel@ubc.ca | 4241

Research Interests: Low-carbon technologies; energy conservation in buildings; green hydrogen production for sustainable transportation; marine and aviation transport systems.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Gainforth's research aims to close the gap between health behaviour change research and practice by examining knowledge translation – the act of moving research evidence into the hands of research users.

Courses & Teaching: Dr. Gainforth teaches HMKN 499 (Projects in Human Kinetics) and HMKN 421 (Advanced Theories of Health Behaviour Change).

Patrick Gall | Research Network Facilitator | Survive and Thrive Applied Research (STAR) | patrick.gall@ubc.ca | EME 1203

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Algorithmic and computational problems in artificial intelligence and network science; applications in social media and computational biology; graph theory and probabilistic method.

Courses & Teaching: Algorithm design and analysis; artificial intelligence; discrete structures; network science.

Yujie Gao, PhD | Sessional Lecturer | Creative Studies, Media Studies | yujie.gao@ubc.ca | CCS 363

Research Interests: Interactive Media Art; Durational Performance Art; Immersive Experience Design; Computational Poetics; Interaction Design; Research-Creation; Interdisciplinary Studies

Courses & Teaching: MDST 110: Introduction to Computational Art and Design I; MDST 311: Computational Poetics

Grisel Garcia-Perez, PhD | Associate Professor Emerita | Languages and World Literatures, Spanish | grisel.garcia-perez@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Second/foreign language teaching and learning; e-learning, speech analysis, text analysis; intercultural communication and intercultural awareness.

Marcelle Marie Gareau | Adjunct Professor | Anthropology | marcelle.gareau@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Cultural and Applied Anthropology (Contemporary Indigenous Issues, Community Based Research, Ethnography, Perspectives on Inequality).

Courses & Teaching: People and Cultures, Antropological Theory, Ethnographic Field Methods, Perspectives on Inequality, Contemporary Indigenous Issues.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Infrastructure Digitization; Virtual Transportation Infrastructure Management; Automated LiDAR Data Processing Road Safety Analytics; Roadway Design; Smart Cities; Resilient Transportation Infrastructure

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 432 Infrastructure Management II ENGR 335 Transportation Engineering ENGR 534 Traffic Safety Engineering and Planning

Renaud-Philippe Garner | Assistant Professor | Philosophy | r_p.garner@ubc.ca | ART 277

Research Interests: The intersection of political and moral philosophy; collective identity and loyalty, e.g. nationalism and patriotism; ethics of war and issues related to social learning and social trust among many others.

Greg Garrard, PhD | Professor | English, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Sustainability | greg.garrard@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Ecocriticism; contemporary environmental writing; critical animal studies; culture and climate change; wildfire risk.

Courses & Teaching: English; Sustainability

Daniel Gaudet | PhD Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | gaudetda@mail.ubc.ca

Francois Gauthier | Lecturer | History, Languages and World Literatures | francois.gauthier@ubc.ca | ART 244

Research Interests: History of the Roman Republic; financing of the Roman army; socio-economic organization of the Roman army; political culture; taxation.

Courses & Teaching: HIST 110 Survey of the Ancient World; HIST 203 The Roman Empire; HIST 302 Classical Greece and the Mediterranean World; HIST 303 The Hellenistic World from the Mediterranean to India; HIST 304 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic; WRLD 310 Mythologies in Motion; WRLD 351 The Ancient Mediterranean World in Cinema and Literature; HIST/WRLD 353 Ancient Mediterranean Science and Technology; LATN 300 Intensive Introduction to Latin.

Chunlei Ge | PhD Student | Statistics | chunlei.ge@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Buddhism; South Asia; geopolitics of heritage; space and place; pilgrimage; diaspora; transnational religious movements and networks; mobilities and critical tourism theory

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Tourism, Desire and Difference; Anthropology of Religion; India in Motion: Ethnographic Perspectives; Ethnographic Research Methods; Debating Globalization; Tourism and the Senses

Tamerra Geldrich | Site Program Coordinator, (UG/PG), KBRH-Trail | Southern Medical Program | tamerra.geldrich@interiorhealth.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Biochemical aspects of dietary fats and exercise in preventing the development and complications of obesity and diabetes.

Courses & Teaching: Biochemical basis of nutrition.

Julien Gibon | Adjunct Professor | Biology | julien.gibon@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Learning and memory; Working memory; The central nervous system; neurotrophins; neuronal activity; synaptic activity and plasticity. Mechanisms of persistent firing activity in the cortex.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Gut health; intestinal microbiome; gut immunity; dietary lipids; susceptibility to acute and chronic gut diseases like colitis.

Courses & Teaching: Medical microbiology, virology and immunology.

Lynne Gibson | Field Advisor | Education | lynne.gibson@ubc.ca

Graham Giles | Teaching Technician | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | grock1@mail.ubc.ca

Tara Gill | Site Director, ICC, Trail (KBRH) & Faculty Development Director | Southern Medical Program | tara.gill@interiorhealth.ca

Paramjit Gill | Associate Professor Emeritus | Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics | paramjit.gill@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Sports analytics; statistical stylometry; social networks models.

Judy Gillespie | Director | Social Work | judy.gillespie@ubc.ca | 250-807-8745

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Child welfare and the role of community in child and family well-being; Mutli-sector collaboration to enhance Indigenous well-being; Interprofessional expertise for child welfare practice; The role of place in well-being; The role of attachment to place in professional retention; Place-based practice.

Courses & Teaching: The role of community in the promotion of child welfare Sustainable community development Interactions of people and place; the role of place in well-being Expertise for interprofessional child welfare practice University-community collaboration

Anita Girvan | Assistant Professor | English and Cultural Studies | anita.girvan@ubc.ca | CCS 347

Research Interests: Cultural Studies; Environmental Humanities; Political Ecology and Environmental Justice; Black and Indigenous Feminist Ecological Thought; Stories, Metaphor; Critical Canadian Studies

Courses & Teaching: CULT 101: Cultural Studies Practices; CULT 490: Identities and Power

Bhavesh Gnnanapareddy | MSc Student | Chemistry | bha217@mail.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Transient absorption spectroscopy/microscopy to determine the charge carrier dynamics; carbon-based photocatalytic materials; sustainable energy production; sustainable photochemistry for water purification and chemical transformations

Courses & Teaching: Solar energy; chemical kinetics; physical chemistry; spectroscopy.

Seach Chyr (Ernest) Goh | Civil, Mechanical | ernest.goh@ubc.ca | 250.807.8863 | EME3239

Research Interests: Sustainable transportation. Enclosed narrow-track electric vehicles, with focus on: aerodynamics, ergonomics and practicality for commercialization.

Courses & Teaching: APSC 180 Statics; ENGR 380 Design of Machine Elements; VANT 151 Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Project; Supervision of industry-proposed capstone projects

Marlo Goll | Community Field Liaison | Social Work | marlo.goll@ubc.ca | 250.575.7617

Kamran Golmohammadi | MEDD 419/429, 449 (FoS/FLEX) Site Director | Southern Medical Program | kamran.golmohammadi@ubc.ca

Kevin Golovin | Associate Member | Mechanical, School of Engineering | kevin.golovin@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Interfacial mechanics; Polymers; Textiles; Sustainability; Additive manufacturing; Coatings

Everton Gomede | Postdoctoral Fellow | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | everton.gomede@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Spanish Culture and Literature; Indigenous literature; Indigenous language reclamation and revitalization (specifically for the case of Mexico); Indigenous peoples rights to court interpretation (Case of Oaxaca).

Courses & Teaching: Beginner level Spanish 101 and 102, Intermediate level Spanish 202

Dallas Good Water | Community Liaison and Instructional Coordinator | Community, Culture and Global Studies | dallas.goodwater@ubc.ca | 250.807.8912

Lisa Goodson | Assistant, Reception/Facilities | Southern Medical Program | lisa.goodson@interiorhealth.ca

Research Interests: 19th century French novels and short stories; Relationship between French literature and opera; Romanticism in art and literature; Science and technology in 18th and 19th century Europe

Courses & Teaching: French / Francophone language, literature, art, music and culture.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Exploring issues of gender, comparative aesthetics, display, and performance; and in investigating continuities and/or transformations of precolonial art and aesthetics in colonial, postcolonial, and contemporary art and visual culture

Courses & Teaching: Art History & Visual Culture

Purnima Govindarajulu | Adjunct Professor | Biology | purnima.govindarajulu@gov.bc.ca | 250.387.9755

Palak Goyal | Sessional Lecturer | Mathematics, Physics | palak.goyal@ubc.ca | SCI 393

Courses & Teaching: PHYS 112 and MATH 125

John Graham | Professor | Social Work | john.graham@ubc.ca | 250-807-8738

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: social policy, diversity and social work, spirituality and social work, multicultural social work, and employee well being/ subjective well being (happiness), homelessness prevention research

Courses & Teaching: social policy, international social work, homelessness, research.

John Brandon Graham-Knight | PhD Student | Computer Science | brandongk@alumni.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, history of economic thought

Courses & Teaching: Early modern philosophy, logic and critical thinking, Austrian school of economics

Miriam Grant | Professor Emerita | Geography | miriam.grant@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Linkages between urban food security and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa; low-income rental housing in Zimbabwe; transnational Zimbabweans; gendered aspects of caregiving for TB and HIV/AIDS patients in Zimbabwe; social and economic vulnerabilities for urban youth in Zimbabwe

Freya Green | B.A.R.K. Program Coordinator | B.A.R.K., Education | fllgreen@mail.ubc.ca | EME 3118

Talia Greene, MA, MLIS | Learning and Curriculum Support Librarian | Library Services | talia.greene@ubc.ca | LIB 243

Courses & Teaching: Subject Librarian for: Biochemistry, Chemistry, Communications & Rhetoric, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Education, and English.

John Greenough | Professor Emeritus | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | john.greenough@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Mantle composition and evolution; diamond indicator minerals; lunar mantle composition; volatiles in lava flows; geochemical fingerprinting of gold; archaeological artefacts; and agrifood products; the concentrations of elements in lava flows to determine the composition of the interior of the Earth.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Research Interests: Canadian literatures; minoritized Canadian literatures; diasporic literatures; postcolonial theory; Ukrainian Canadian studies.

Courses & Teaching: Readings in Narrative; Introduction to Canadian Literature; Canadian literature (regionalism, diaspora, multiculturalism, postmodernism)

Bridget Greuel | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | bkgreuel@mail.ubc.ca | ASC 365

Research Interests: Inhibitors and neuroinflammation; Alzheimer's

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Host-microbiome interactions in wild systems; microbial ecology

Courses & Teaching: Environmental microbiology

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, DIY Punk Cultures, Romantic-era Literature, Medical Humanities, Migration, Biometric Technology, Romanticism and Terror

Courses & Teaching: Readings in Narrative, Modern Critical Theory and Interdisciplinary Methods, Punk Subcultures, Foundations: Interdisciplinary Theory and Methods in Literary Research, Methodologies: Critical Theory, Studies in Romanticism: Romantic Friendship

Ethan Guagliardo, PhD | Sessional Instructor | English and Cultural Studies | eguaglia@mail.ubc.ca | CCS 351B

Research Interests: Renaissance literature, Milton, Shakespeare, political philosophy and theology, classical reception, temporality, horror

Courses & Teaching: English literature, composition, theory

Sarah Gumpinger | Lecturer | Faculty of Management | sarah.gumpinger@ubc.ca | EME 4149

Dustin Gumpinger | Visiting Faculty | Faculty of Management | dustin.gumpinger@ubc.ca | EME 4149

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Geospatial and Digital Methods in Heritage; Postcolonial, decolonial, anti-colonial and Indigenous studies of heritage; Archaeology in India and Canada; Data Governance and community governance of data; anti-racism. I welcome interest from prospective graduate students for research supervision on topics related to these areas. Accepting graduate students for Sept 2024 start

Courses & Teaching: My teaching focus is in digital methods and archaeology. I have developed and offered the following courses; ANTH 103 Introduction to World Archaeology, ANTH 210 Archaeological Inquiry and Practice, ANTH 310 Digital Methods in Archaeology and Heritage, ANTH 319 Archaeology of Early State Societies, ANTH 490 Special Topics: Digital Anthropology, IGS 502 Seminar in Digital Arts and Humanities

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Contemporary Women’s Writing; Contemporary British Literature; Black and Minority Ethnic women’s writing (UK); women’s writing from South Asia and the diaspora. Feminist and postcolonial approaches to literature.

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 221: Foundations: Literature in Historical Context II. British Literature 19th century to the Present; English 355: Neo-Victorian Fiction; English 383: Contemporary British Literature; English 532C/480A: South Asian Women’s Fiction: History, Memory, Trauma; ENGL 525/462: Writing as Resistance: Postcolonial Women’s Fiction in the UK.

Cory Habermehl | Communications Manager | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | cory.habermehl@ubc.ca | ADM006H

Evan J. Habkirk | Lecturer | Indigenous Studies | ehabkirk@mail.ubc.ca | ART 326

Research Interests: Indigenous people in colonial militaries; traditional and contemporary concepts of warriorship, Indigenous encounters with public history and museums, residential schools and reconciliation, and Indigenous education

Nathalie Hager, PhD | Lecturer | Art History, Creative Studies | nathalie.hager@ubc.ca | CCS 168

Courses & Teaching: Art History & Visual Culture

Janet Halbasch | Program Coordinator, Rural Family Practice, Years 3 & 4 | Southern Medical Program | janet.halbasch@interiorhealth.ca | 250.862.4300 Ext. 5920

Tanja Halsall | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | thalsall@mail.ubc.ca

Claire Halston, MA | Sessional Lecturer | English, English and Cultural Studies | chalston@mail.ubc.ca | FIP 322

Research Interests: Didactic literature, composition and rhetoric studies, intersections of power, politics, and literature.

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 112: Studies in Composition

Kyle Hamilton | Lecturer | Education | kyle.hamilton@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Curriculum; Democracy and Education; Critical Pedagogy; Citizenship Education; Cosmopolitanism

Graduate student supervisor

Amanda Hancock | Graduate Program Administrator | amanda.hancock@ubc.ca | 250-807-8603 | OM2

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Environmental impact assessment; natural resources management; energy and mining development.

Courses & Teaching: Environmental impact assessment; energy systems and resources.

Sharon Hanna | Programmer Analyst | Okanagan Special Collections and Archives | sharon.hanna@ubc.ca | Remote

Courses & Teaching:

Kirsten Hannam | Adjunct Professor | Biology | kirsten.hannam@canada.ca | 250.404.3351

Neil Hanon | Clerkship Site Director, KGH | Southern Medical Program | neil.hanon@ubc.ca | Clinical Academic Campus

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Combinatorics with a focus on graph coloring problems; discrete optimization with a focus on MIP/constraint programming solutions for the high-stakes testing industry.

Courses & Teaching: Pure math; applied math.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Mathematical optimization; nonconvex analysis; derivative-free optimization; bundle methods; applications in road design.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Indigenous literatures and theory; critical settler colonial studies; place-based approaches to literary and cultural studies; decolonization and reconciliation as discourse and material practice.

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 154 – Indigenous Narrative; ENGL 234/ CULT 250 – Foundations: Indigenous Literature; ENGL 385/ CULT 351 – Settler Studies, Literature, and Culture; ENGL 473/ CULT 450 –Studies in Indigenous Literature and Criticism ENGL 531A – Place and Power

Lindsay Harris | Adjunct Professor | Anthropology | lindsay.harris@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (IGS): Exploring how communities deliberate about which social initiatives to pursue, and how advocates determine the value(s) of these initiatives. Specific interests include food security, community gardening, and poverty reduction.

Research Interests: Medieval literatures; palaeography and codicology; children’s literatures and literary cultures (Middle Ages to contemporary); critical animal studies, post-humanism, and the Anthropocene; women’s literature and feminist theory (specific focus on corporeality, eco-feminism, and intersectionality); composition and rhetoric.

Courses & Teaching: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Medieval Romance, Literatures of the Body: Body as Inscriptive Surface; Children’s Literatures, Mother Daughter Literatures; Literature in Historical Context; Literary Genre; Critical Studies in Literature; Readings in Narrative; Studies in Composition.

Miranda Hart | Professor | Biology, Biotechnology, Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES) | miranda.hart@ubc.ca | ASC 372

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Microbial ecology of soil microbes; the role and the applications of microbes in sustainable agriculture, viticulture, and ecological restoration.

Courses & Teaching: Botany; ecology; microbial ecology; microbiology.

Justin Lee Haruyama | Sessional Instructor | Anthropology | justin.haruyama@ubc.ca | LM4, 6th Floor

Research Interests: China-Africa Relations; Political and Economic Anthropology; Mining; Jehovah’s Witnesses; Contact Languages; Capitalism from the South; Modes of Relationality; Non-Secular History; Postcolonial Theory; Indian Ocean Worlds; China; Zambia

Courses & Teaching: Race, Class, and Gender; Development and the Politics of Aid; Anthropology of Social Stratification; Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Anthropology of Religion

Clare Harvey, PhD | Director | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | clare.harvey@ubc.ca | ART 340

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, mobile and wearable (e.g., smartwatches, smart glasses) user interfaces, augmented/virtual/mixed reality, information visualization, gesture interaction, computer vision, machine learning, navigation interfaces, input devices.

Courses & Teaching: Human-computer interaction, user interfaces, collaborative software development, scripting and reporting, data analytics.

Trisheeta Hasan | PhD Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | trisheeta.hasan@ubc.ca

Research Interests: The effect of diet modification on clinical disease activity, the gut microbiome and immune response in inflammatory bowel disease.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Radiation oncology; radiation biophysics.

Courses & Teaching: Medical physics; biophysics.

Linda Hatt | Associate Professor Emerita | Psychology | linda.hatt@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Health psychology; pain management; experimental analysis of behavior.

Courses & Teaching: Health psychology; personality.

Karin Haug | Library Services Assistant - Collections | Library Services | karin.haug@ubc.ca | 250.807.9150

Research Interests: Assessing the current level of our post secondary students in three core competencies and implement teaching strategies in order to increase these competencies.

Eli Haynes | Research Facilitator | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management | eli.haynes@ubc.ca

Philip Hayward | Adjunct Professor | Community, Culture and Global Studies | philip.hayward@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Political philosophy and theory; classical political thought; modern political thought; political theology; religion and politics; political ideologies; international relations in political philosophy.

Courses & Teaching: Political philosophy; history of political thought; religion and politics; international relations in political philosophy.

Darcy Henderson | Adjunct Professor | Biology | darcy.henderson@canada.ca | 250.491.1507

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Empirical Software Engineering; Code Intelligence; AI4SE; Code Representation Learning; Mining Software Repositories.

Courses & Teaching: Computer Science (Algorithm Design and Analysis, Computer Networks); Data Science (Data Wrangling, Data Visualization)

Cynthia Hernandez Garcia, MAppLing | Lecturer | Languages and World Literatures, Spanish | cynthia.hernandezgarcia@ubc.ca | CCS 378

Courses & Teaching: Beginners’ Spanish I and II (SPAN 101, 102); Advanced Beginners’ Spanish I and II (SPAN 201, 202); Intermediate Spanish I and II (SPAN 301, 302)

Research Interests: Canadian Politics, Research Methods, Election studies

Courses & Teaching: Canadian Politics, Research Methods, Election studies

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Lifecycle assessment of construction products and processes; Waste management in construction; Energy based sustainability analysis in infrastructure projects; Construction productivity and safety; Human factors and information technology in construction; Construction process optimization

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 303 - Engineering Project Management; ENGR 433/533 - Construction Engineering and Management; ENGR 532 - Project Planning and Control; ENGR 544 - Life Cycle Assessment and Management

Research Interests: Public finance and political economy; fiscal policy (government expenditure and taxation) and how it is influenced by interactions within a hierarchy of governments (municipal, provincial and federal); elections; lobbying activity.

Courses & Teaching: Public finance; empirical economics; macroeconomics

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Southern Africa; Portuguese Africa; Atlantic World; activism; politics; labor; agriculture; policy.

Courses & Teaching: Africa (commodities, cities, imperialism and decolonization); Southern and South Africa; British and Portuguese colonialism; political history; women's history; contemporary world history.

Carla Hilario | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | carla.hilario@ubc.ca | UBCO Landmark Offices

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Health equity; youth mental health; community resilience; implementation science.

Courses & Teaching: NRSG 502 - Research and Inquiry for Evidence-Based Nursing and Healthcare (Spring 2023)

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Radio, optical, and computational astronomy. Interstellar gas, magnetic fields, and turbulence in and around the Milky Way. Photoionization and radiative transfer in interstellar gas. High velocity clouds. Cosmology and the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME).

Courses & Teaching: ASTR 110/111/112 (Astrophysics I/Astronomy I) ASTR 120/121/122 (Astrophysics II/Astronomy II) ASTR 210 (Physical Processes in the Universe) ASTR 321 (Stellar Astrophysics) ASTR 401/501 (Astrophysical Processes) PHYS 401 (Electrodynamics)

Graduate student supervisor. Co-supervisor or Committee Member.

Research Interests: Pharmacology in nursing; integration of evidence-based practice in nursing; technology in nursing education; digital healthcare; research dissemination and knowledge translation (KT); microlearning and nanolearning; generational learning styles; professional development/continuing education; student evaluations; upward bullying; primary care nursing; rural nursing.

Courses & Teaching: N522 - Intro to Nursing Education N597 - MSN Capstone Projects N210, N220 - Pharmacology I and II N431/434 - Preceptorship N432 - Leadership Capstone Project Seminar N421- Acute Care NCLEX preparation N236, N237, N336, N337 - 2nd and 3rd year Medical and Surgical Clinicals

Michelle Hilts | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics, Physics | mhilts@bccancer.bc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Brachytherapy for breast cancer; 3D radiation dosimetry.

Nicholas Hivon | MSc Student | Biology | nhivon@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Investigating insect pest attack dynamics on traditional and commercial crops; how elevation and climate affect phenology and crop/pest interactions. Ecology; Phenology; Predictive Modeling

Laura Hockman | Adjunct Instructor | Social Work | laura.hockman@ubc.ca

Carl Hodge | Professor Emeritus | Political Science | carl.hodge@ubc.ca

Research Interests: European politics; American politics; international security.

Courses & Teaching: Comparative politics; American and European politics, imperialism; war.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Ecology; conservation biology; effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on behaviour and population dynamics; predator-prey dynamics; extinction risks; species-at-risk legislation; wildfires and wildlife; biosolids and wildlife.

Courses & Teaching: Conservation Biology; Science Writing; Spatial Ecology.

Cornelia Hoehr | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics, Physics | choehr@triumf.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Medical isotopes; radiotherapy.

Femke Hoekstra | Assistant Professor | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Southern Medical Program | femke.hoekstra@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Digitization; representation of archives in online environments.

Courses & Teaching: Archival research; primary source information literacy.

Ryan Hoiland | Assistant Professor, CCDPM | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Southern Medical Program | ryan.hoiland@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Rachelle’s research programme is informed by two complementary streams: 1) a substantial focus on the socio-cultural practices that promote social inclusion and equity, and 2) a methodological focus on community based participatory research methods. Critical disability studies is central to the first stream informing Rachelle’s research in the area of community living and intellectual disability.

Parres Holliday | Movement Disorders Research Coordinator | parres.holliday@ubc.ca

Nancy Holmes, MFA | Professor Emerita | Creative Studies | nancy.holmes@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Creative Writing: Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction & Fiction; Canadian literature; Ecopoetics; Community-based Art; Place-based art; Collaboration and interdisciplinary research methods; Sustainability; First World War poetry; Early 20th century literature for girls; Editing; Place, community, and artistic collaboration.

Graduate student supervisor. Considering grad students(Clinical Psychology & Psychological Science streams)for Sept '25

Research Interests: Health psychology; social relationships; stress and coping; adjustment to chronic illness/chronic pain; psychology of technology; digital communication and wellbeing.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to psychology; health psychology.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Photonic device technologies; terahertz technologies; applications to free-space optical (wireless) systems; applications to lab-on-a-chip systems.

Courses & Teaching: Fibre-optics and photonics; micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS); semiconductor devices and electromagnetics.

Research Interests: Aquatic ecology.

Courses & Teaching: Aquatic ecology; limnology; evolution and ecology; microbial ecology.

Mina Hoorfar | Associate Member | Mechanical, School of Engineering | mina.hoorfar@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Proton exchange membrane fuel cells; Microfluidic fuel cells; Digital microfluidics

Research Interests: Condensed matter theory: geometrically frustrated magnetism (spin ice, spin liquid, dimer models); heavy fermion quantum criticality. Physics Education: online vs. in-person, gender and minority differences in standardized testing.

Courses & Teaching: First year physics; thermodynamics; statistical mechanics; environmental physics; particle physics; electromagnetism; quantum mechanics; solid state physics.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Biogeochemistry; stable isotopes; biosphere-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases; natural and restored wetlands; lakes; soil; groundwater; trace gas analysis; automation of monitoring equipment.

Courses & Teaching: Environmental science; research skills; science communication.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Applications of machine learning and digital twins in 6G, Federated learning over wireless networks, Holographic MIMO, and Non-terrestrial networks (NTN)

Courses & Teaching: Applied machine learning, Communications systems; Signal processing; Wireless communications; Analysis and design of communication networks; Random variables; Stochastic processes

Omid Hosseinzadeh | MSc Student | Chemistry | ohzde@mail.ubc.ca

Yiping Hou | Postdoctoral Fellow | Earth and Environmental Sciences | yiping.hou@ubc.ca

Research Interests: The cumulative effect of forest disturbance and their impacts on hydrology in large watersheds is a hot topic in forest hydrology. This project will investigate how hydrological processes have been affected by cumulative effect of forest disturbance induced by logging, wildfire and mountain pine beetle (MPB) in forested watersheds in the interior of British Columbia.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Ars2 in RNA biogenesis; RNA processing in stem cells; regulation of Pax6 by miRNA; rewiring of tyrosine pathway in cancer.

Courses & Teaching: Cell Signaling, Gene Expression, Introduction to Biochemistry and Human Health, Scientific writing for graduate students.

X. Joan Hu | Honourary Affiliate | Statistics | joanh@stat.sfu.ca

Research Interests: Event history data; longitudinal data with latent classes; marked point processes with a spatial correlation.

Courses & Teaching: STAT-285. Intermediate Probability and Statistics, Fall 2018 STAT-445/645. Applied Multivariate Analysis, Spring 2019 STAT-854. Biometrics, Spring 2019

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Health Economics, Applied Microeonomics, Labour Economics, Social Policy

Courses & Teaching: ECON204 Intermediate Microeconomics; ECON295 Managerial Economics; ECON360 Labour Economics and ECON363 Health Economics.

Andrew Hughes | Adjunct Professor | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | andrew.hughes@ubc.ca

William Hughes | Mechanical, School of Engineering | will.hughes@ubc.ca | EME 4249

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Developing technologies made from DNA; Low-cost liquid computers that perform early-stage diagnostics of hard-to-detect diseases, to sorting extremely dense and stable information for archival applications

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Learning analytics; computer science education; decision making under uncertainty; probabilistic user modeling; human-computer interaction cost models; experiment design and analysis.

Courses & Teaching: Digital citizenship; computer programming; principles of computer science; human computer interaction; software engineering.

Jinyu Hui | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | jyhui@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Investigate how interactions between climate change and forest disturbance affect hydrological processes at the watershed scale; and simulate possible future hydrological responses under different climate change and forest disturbance scenarios.

James Hull | Associate Professor Emeritus | History | james.hull@ubc.ca

Research Interests: History of the Second Industrial Revolution as an historical phenomenon, as an historical concept, and as an historiographic problem; understanding how and why technology changes.

Courses & Teaching: History of science and technology; industrialization.

Lauren Human | Associate Professor | Psychology | lauren.human@ubc.ca | ART 317

Graduate student supervisor. Considering grad students(Clinical Psychology & Psychological Science streams)for Sept '25

Research Interests: Interpersonal impressions; accuracy and bias; well-being; social relationships.

Courses & Teaching: Self and social perception

Claude Hurtubise | Sessional Lecturer | Mathematics, Statistics | claude.hurbutise@ubc.ca | FIP 309 or 310

Courses & Teaching: MATH 116, MATH 121

Robyn Hutchings | Assistant Dean, Student Affairs | Southern Medical Program | robyn.hutchings@ubc.ca | Reichwald Health Sciences Centre

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to psychology; personality; special topics: psychology of motivation; special topics: anxiety, fear, and uncertainty in intergroup relations; psychological theories of teaching and learning; leads the PSYO 490 Honours Seminar class.

Shanley Hutchinson | Communications Strategist | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | shanley.hutchinson@ubc.ca | ADM 006 (WK11)

Peter Hutchinson | Assistant Professor | Indigenous Studies | peter.hutchinson@ubc.ca

Mai Huynh | PhD Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | maihuynh@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Identifying new biosynthetic enzymes involved in the production of specialized metabolites in plants and applying secondary metabolite engineering to explore their biosynthesis.

Derek Hyde | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics, Physics | dhyde2@bccancer.bc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Image-guided radiation therapy for high-precision treatments.

Ahmed Idris | Affiliate Assistant Professor | School of Engineering | ahmed.idris@ubc.ca

Alessandro Ielpi | Associate Professor | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | alessandro.ielpi@ubc.ca | SCI 311

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Earth and planetary geomorphology; watersheds, rivers, and floodplains; basin analysis; fluvial biogeochemistry.

Courses & Teaching: Geomorphology (EESC / GEOG 222); Stratigraphy and Sedimentology (EESC / GEOG 356).

Rain Inaba | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | rain.inaba@ubc.ca | ASC 355

Research Interests: Gut Microbiology/ Glycobiology; Organoid Culture

Jennifer Ingle (On Leave) | Lecturer | Philosophy | jennifer.ingle@ubc.ca | 250.807.9114

Research Interests: Plato, Feminism, Environmental Ethics, Virtue epistemology

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Computer Ethics, Feminism, Aesthetics

Research Interests: Oil and Gas pipeline integrity management. LEAN Management, KAIZEN Management, Six Sigma

Courses & Teaching: MANF (230) Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory; MANF (270) Production Systems Management I; ENGR (416) Advanced Manufacturing CAD/CAM/CAE;

Research Interests: Human-computer interaction; information visualization; ubiquitous interfaces; visual analytics; immersive technologies; persuasive health; input devices.

Courses & Teaching: Human-computer interaction; research methodologies; user interface design; visual analytics; ubiquitous computing; immersive technologies.

Jackline Irungu | PhD Student | Chemistry | jackline.irungu@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Bertrand Russell, censorship, and the rule of law.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to philosophy, logic, philosophy of law.

Robyn Irvine | Adjunct Professor | Biology | robyn.irvine@canada.ca | 778.361.0298

Research Interests: In my work with Parks Canada, I am researching how to best incorporate different streams of evidence into carrying out effective applied restoration ecology projects. This work is based on my research background and extensive experience in quantitative ecology, fisheries biology, invasive species biology and evidence-based conservation biology. I also do some consulting work on questions of mitigating impacts of development for First Nations, NGOs, government and industry.

Christian Isbister | Indigenous Initiatives Librarian | Library Services | christian.isbister@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: Communications & Rhetoric, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, History, Japanese Studies, World Languages & Literature (Acting), and Nursing. Subject Librarian for: Indigenous Studies

Graduate student supervisor. By request at the approval of the Department and/or Dean’s Office.

Research Interests: Economic Development; Financial Inclusion; Economics of Household.

Courses & Teaching: Economic Development; Labour Economics, Data Analysis; Money and Banking; Financial Economics; Introduction to Mathematical Economics; Managerial Economics; Economics of the Environment; Intermediate Macroeconomics; Principles of Microeconomics

Hashim Islam, PhD | Assistant Professor | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | hashim.islam@ubc.ca | ART 154, 1147 Research Road

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Islam’s research program focuses on how exercise, nutrition, and cardiometabolic disease impact mitochondrial function in different cells and tissues within the human body.

Courses & Teaching: HES 355 - Clinical Exercise Physiology Applications in Chronic Conditions: Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorders

Shereen Ismael | Adjunct Professor | Social Work | shereen.ismael@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Dr. Ismael has published extensively on poverty, inequality and social policy nationally and internationally. As poverty and inequality increase within developed and developing counties her research aims to not only document the depth of poverty among vulnerable populations but to assess the effectiveness of policies in reducing poverty.

Courses & Teaching: Between 1997 and 2013, Dr. Ismael taught over 40 courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She worked with students as a Field Education Coordinator and as an educator in all three pillars of our profession; practice, policy and ethics. She retired form Carleton University as a tenured Associate professor in 2013 to open a private practice working with seniors and their families. She has missed working with students and is excited to work, re-engage and grow with students.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Chemical and physical processes at solid surfaces; phase transitions; molecular computer simulations; heterogeneous catalysis; functional surfaces; nanoscience.

Courses & Teaching: Physical, biophysical, quantum, and computational chemistry.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Trauma theory; queer theory; popular culture (crime fiction and graphic memoir); life writing and creative non-fiction; Holocaust Studies; the scholarship of teaching and learning; narrative medicine/medical humanities

Courses & Teaching: English; composition and rhetoric; critical theory; cultural theory; popular culture; graduate studies (ENGL and IGS)

Jennifer Jakobi | Professor | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | jennifer.jakobi@ubc.ca | 250.807.9884

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: The long term objective of Jakobi's research program is to develop prehabilitation programs that focus on maintaining functional independence in older adults.

Iman Jalilvand | Sessional Lecturer | Computer Science | iman.jalilvand@ubc.ca | FIP 309 or 310

Research Interests: Arts-Based Research; Digital Literacies; Digital Research Methods; English Language Arts; Environmental Theory and Practice; Literacy Education; Literature and Poetry; Teacher Education

Research Interests: Robert’s research interests include librarians’ support of researchers throughout the research lifecycle, librarians' roles on research teams, survey design as it relates to response rates, and information literacy and evidence-based nursing practice.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Environmental and resource economics, with an emphasis on the role of environmental services.

Courses & Teaching: Primary: Knowledge mobilization and sustainability policy; Environmental economics; Natural resource economics. Occasionally: Cost benefit analysis; Experimental economics; Development economics.

Marium-E Jannat | MSc Student | Computer Science | jannat08@student.ubc.ca

Donna Jansons | Adjunct Instructor | Social Work | donna.jansons@ubc.ca

Brenda Janzen | Finance Administrative Assistant | School of Engineering | brenda.janzen@ubc.ca | EME4242

Karine Jarzecki | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | kjarzeck@mail.ubc.ca

Dennis Jasper | Lecturer | School of Nursing | dennis.jasper@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: NRSG 229 Mental Health in Nursing NRSG 239 Mental Health Clinical Practice NSRG 313 Relational Practice V NRSG 427 Advanced Mental Health (elective)

Nelson Jatel | Adjunct Professor | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, Freshwater Science | nelson.jatel@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Applied limnology and water management technologies; social network analysis for watershed governance and organizational performance; innovative decision-support tools for community networks and policy development.

Courses & Teaching: Limnology 301 Water Management 402

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Humanitarian Discourse, including: The (White) Saviour Complex, Human Rights Narrative, Global Ethics and Race, Global Material Inter-relationships; Critical Heritage Studies; Colonialism and Decolonization

Courses & Teaching: Critical intercultural reading practices; coloniality/decolonization as cultural projects; human rights discourse; critical heritage studies, focusing on museums, monuments, heritage sites, and other forms of public memory.

Harleen Jhawar | Lecturer | Faculty of Health and Social Development, Social Work | harleen.jhawar@ubc.ca

Zhehan Jia | MSc Student | Chemistry | zhj05@mail.ubc.ca

Serena Jilani | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | jserena@mail.ubc.ca

Mandy Na’zinek Jimmie | Assistant Professor of Teaching | Nłeʔkepmx Language Fluency | mandy.jimmie@ubc.ca | 250.378.7753

Research Interests: Nłeʔkepmx Language, Worldview and Way of Being; other Interior Salish languages; Indigenous Language Revitalization

Andrew Jirasek | Analytics in Medical Sciences (AiMs) Institute | andrew.jirasek@ubc.ca | 250.807.8812 | ASC 354

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Director, Analytics in Medical Sciences (AiMS) Institute. Medical physics; radiation oncology physics; Raman spectroscopy; 3D radiation dosimetry.

Courses & Teaching: Medical physics; quantum mechanics; data and image processing.

Thomas Johnson | Associate Professor | Electrical, Computer, School of Engineering | thomas.johnson@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Radio frequency power amplifiers; RF power sources; Binary time encoders for switch-mode power amplifiers

Courses & Teaching: Microwave Engineering (ENGR 470); Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (ENGR 471/571); Digital Signal Processing (ENGR 362); Linear Circuit Theory (ENGR 350); Electricity and Magnetism (APSC 178); Microelectronics (ENGR 451)

Research Interests: Motor Learning; Physical Education; Curriculum & Program Development; Health Education; Preservice Teacher Education

Research Interests: Labour economics and the economics of education.

Courses & Teaching: Empirical economics; methods of empirical research.

Allan Jones | Professor, Department of Medicine | Southern Medical Program | allan.jones@ubc.ca

Melanie Jones | Professor Emerita | Biology | melanie.jones@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Physiology of ectomycorrhizas and roots of woody plants; effects of fire and silviculture on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities; carbon allocation within and between woody plants, orchard management under climate change.

Courses & Teaching: Soil ecology; plant physiology; general biology.

Research Interests: Genocide and structural violence; crimes against humanity; gender and violence; gender and international political economy; research impacts human rights policymaking and social activism, gender and development policies, humanitarian intervention and peacebuilding, and international law.

Courses & Teaching: Genocide studies; human rights; gender and international relations; mass media.

Jennie Jones-Hawkes | Auxiliary Department Assistant | Chemistry | chemistry.okanagan@ubc.ca | FIP 355

Jessica Josephson | PhD Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | jesskb1@mail.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Literary theory, critical intellectual history, the epistolary genre, the concept of nostalgia, and 19th-century French literature.

Courses & Teaching: French Language, Literature and Culture

Research Interests: Sustainability in Art, Fashion, and Wine; Wine Tourism, Artification Process; Luxury Brand Marketing and Management; Gender, Levinas and the Ethics of recognition.

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: MGMT 440 Brands, Culture and Marketing MGMT 442 Consumer Behavior MGMT 441-Marketing Strategy MGMT 220-Introductory marketing Graduate Courses: Brand Management (Ph.D.) Consumer Culture Theory (Ph.D.)

Jane Jun | Southern Medical Program Librarian | Library Services, Southern Medical Program | jane.jun@ubc.ca | 250-807-8170 | RHS 210 | LIB 239

Courses & Teaching: Subject Librarian for: Southern Medical Program, and Health and Exercise Sciences

Mary Jung, PhD | Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | mary.jung@ubc.ca | 250.807.9670

Graduate student supervisor

Timjan Kalajdzievski | Sessional Lecturer | Physics | timjan.kalajdzievski@ubc.ca | FIP 309 or 310

Farah Kanani | MSc Student | Biology | farah.kanani@ubc.ca | FIP 226

Research Interests: Life cycle assessment of renewable energy and waste valorization options for Canadian egg supply chains and development of a regionally-resolved technology deployment decision support tool.

Research Interests: Mathematical Optimization - Developing fast, parallel solvers; Parallel programming; Interior point methods; Computational theorem proving;

Kimberley Kaseweter | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | kimberley.kaseweter@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Chronic Pain; Digital Health; Patient Care; Chronic Illness; Complex Care; User Experience; Mental Health; Patient Empowerment; Statisical Analysis

Eva Kasprzyucka | Sessional Instructor | English and Cultural Studies | ek2882@mail.ubc.ca | FIP 318

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 112

Sophia Kast | MSc Student | Biology | sophia.kast@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Forest ecology, botany, alpine botany, ectomycorrhizal fungi, mycology.

Research Interests: Biogeography; treeline ecology; abiotic controls on vegetation dynamics; examination of the water-repellent soils that develop after severe wildfire, which modifies the soil micro-environment and subsequent vegetation establishment.

Courses & Teaching: Biogeography; environmental science; field methods; physical geography.

Amielya Keast | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | amielya.keast@ubc.ca

Dawn Kellett | Adjunct Professor | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | dawn.kellett@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca

Research Interests: Geochronology and thermochronology; tectonics of collisional and accretionary orogens; structural and metamorphic petrology.

Mary Clare Kennedy | Social Work | maryclare.kennedy@ubc.ca | LM4-611

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Social-structural dimensions of health among people who use drugs; Harm reduction; Public policy and health service evaluation

Courses & Teaching: SOCW 540D: Special Topics in Social Work Practice – Substance Use; SOCW 553: Research Knowledge and Evidence in Clinical Social Work Practice

Graduate student supervisor

Courses & Teaching: NRSG 423: Advanced Clinical Reasoning for Care of the Complex Client NRSG 126: Health and Healing I Clinical practice Year 2, 3 and 4

William Kennedy | MSc Student | Chemistry | william.kennedy@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Devised Theatre, Physical Theatre, Art and Social Practice, Eco-Art, Performance Art, Interventionist Performance, Experimental and Documentary Digital Film.

Courses & Teaching: Acting, Improvisation, Playwrighting, Devised Theatre, Art and Social Practice, Performance Art, Community Engagement, Spoken Word, Narrative and Documentary Film, Interdisciplinary Studio Practice, Sustainability.

Andrew Kerr | Adjunct Instructor | Social Work | andrew.kerr@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Sultanate, Mughal and Late-Mughal era (Nawwabi) visual culture; Digital Islamic Art History; Interpretation in Digital Media for Botanic Gardens and Museums

Courses & Teaching: World Art History; Art Histories of the Islamic World & South Asia; Digital Humanities; World Literatures

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Whiteness, Anglo-Settler Identity, Okanagan, Digital Ephemerality.

Courses & Teaching: Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, and English with a focus on digital screen studies.

Elizabeth Keys, PhD | Assistant Professor | School of Nursing | Elizabeth.Keys@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Pediatric sleep; Parent-child interactions; Infant and parental mental health; eHealth and precision health; Community engagement; Community and public health nursing; Mixed methods; Knowledge synthesis; Integrated knowledge translation and implementation science

M. Hossein Khalilian | PhD Student | Chemistry | hossein.khalilian@ubc.ca | FIP 245A

Research Interests: Using quantum mechanical modelling techniques to see quantum effects in radical enzymes; investigating mechanism of chemical reactions, including those related to organic and biological systems by means of computational methods.

Sutripto Khasnabis | PhD Student | Chemistry | sutripto@mail.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Combustion; Turbulence; Laser-based diagnostics; Low/zero carbon fuels; Sprays; Gas turbine engines.

Courses & Teaching: Combustion Processes; Thermodynamics, Laser-based measurements for fluid flows.

Youry Khmelevsky | Sessional Lecturer | Computer Science | youry.khmelevsky@ubc.ca | FIP 309 or 310

Research Interests: Software Engineering; Enterprise Wide DBMS and Data Warehouses; Cybersecurity and Big Data.

Courses & Teaching: COSC 499, COSC 123

Rachelle Kidd | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | rachelle.kidd@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Systems Ecology; Big Data Science; Microbial Metabolic Interactions; Natural and Engineered Microbial Ecosystem; Multi-omics (DNA, RNA and protein sequencing).

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 548 - Engineering Microbiology ENGR 446 – Biological Treatment Processes

Seongho Kim | Postdoctoral Fellow | Chemistry | seongho.kim@ubc.ca | 236.457.3480

Research Interests: Mechanobiology

Truc Kim | Research Associate | Chemistry | truc.kim@ubc.ca

Ruth King | Coordinator, Wine Research Centre | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | ruth.king@ubc.ca | ADM 0062

Mary Kjorven, PhD | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | Mary.Kjorven@interiorhealth.ca

Research Interests: Mitigating the risk of hospitalization on older adults, autoethnography as methodology and method, risk, discourse analysis, community health workers engagement and education.

Courses & Teaching: Mary serves as a graduate supervisor and field guide for graduate students interested in clinical nurse specialist advanced practice roles specifically focused on older adults. She has also served as a sessional instructor for the Faculty of Health and Social Development.

Cole Klassen, MFA | Sessional Lecturer | Creative Studies, Creative Writing | c.klassen@ubc.ca | FIP 323

Research Interests: Songwriting, poetry, nonfiction, fiction, hybrid forms, interdisciplinary art practices, music & writing pedagogy, queer theory & literature, continental philosophy, community art spaces, writing centres.

Courses & Teaching: CRWR 150: Introduction to Writing Poetry and Non-Fiction

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Neuroimmunology; pathogenesis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; Glial cell biology; cellular and molecular pharmacology; method development for protecting neurons from age-related deterioration; signaling between different cell types of the central nervous system; problem-solving skills of students and effectiveness of alternative instructional techniques.

Courses & Teaching: Pharmacology; neuroimmunology; inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.

Richard Klukas | Associate Professor Emeritus | Electrical | richard.klukas@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Signal processing for wireless location; Indoor positioning; Wi Fi positioning; Optical positioning techniques

Liana Knezevic (On Leave) | Department Administrative Assistant | Economics, Philosophy and Political Science | liana.knezevic@ubc.ca | 250.807.9574

Research Interests: Studying human health using model organisms to better understand the causes and possible treatments for bowel disease. My research interests include medical microbiology, glycobiology, pathogenics, and molecular biology.

Harrison Koley | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | hkoley01@student.ubc.ca | 778.987.1565

Research Interests: Glycomics; human milk oligosaccharides.

Eva-Marie Kovacs-Kowalke | Sessional Instructor | Anthropology | eva-marie.kovacs-kowalke@ubc.ca

Sarah Kraeutner | Assistant Professor | Psychology | sarah.kraeutner@ubc.ca | ASC 204

Graduate student supervisor. Will consider Psychology grad students (Psychological Science stream) for Sept 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Motor learning; motor imagery; stroke-related neuroscience; neuroimaging; non-invasive brain stimulation

Courses & Teaching: PSYO 230 Biopsychology of Behaviour

Muriel Kranabetter | Associate Professor | School of Nursing | muriel.kranabetter@ubc.ca | ART 131

Courses & Teaching: Relational Practice, Community Practice, Capstone Projects, Global Health

Marvin Krank | Professor Emeritus | Psychology | marvin.krank@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor. Not considering Psychology graduate students for September 2024 intake.

Research Interests: Development of substance abuse in adolescence; vulnerabilities related to social learning; cognitive models that differentiate implicit (unconscious) from explicit memories; relative role of automatic associations versus executive control; social experiences, dispositions, memories, and thoughts that predict transitions to substance use and to substance abuse.

Courses & Teaching: Learning; psychometrics and test evaluation; addiction; questionnaire development.

Alexandria Krause | Sessional Lecturer | English and Cultural Studies | alexandria.krause@ubc.ca | CCS 364

Courses & Teaching: First-year English

Kimberly Kreklewetz | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | kimberly.kreklewetz@mail.ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: Personality Theory and Individual Differences; Program Evaluation. She also supervises the Adult Forensic Assessment practicum.

Joel Krupa | Instructor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | joel.krupa@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: SUST 205 - Sustainability Economics

Omkar Kulkarni | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry | omkar.kulkarni@ubc.ca

Donna Kurtz, PhD | Associate Professor Emeritus | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | donna.kurtz@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Indigenous Health and Wellness Traditional and Western; Decolonizing Strength-based Approaches; Qualitative research; Cultural Safety education and practice

Catherine (Katey) Kyle | Lecturer | Geography | catherine.kyle@ubc.ca

Research Interests: The application of GIS to diverse research topics, including landscape connectivity and conservation, Species at Risk, landscape change, and historical GIS.

Carol Laberge, PhD | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | cglaberge@shaw.ca

Research Interests: Writing and learning transitions: both in the first year of university, and in graduate school - how do students acquire skill and competency in new genres? What are the best ways of supporting their transition? Engineering communication across the curriculum, and from the curriculum to the workplace - how do students transfer what they have learned into the workplace? What are the best ways to ensure effective transfer of learning?

Courses & Teaching: On leave

Jocelyne Laflamme | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | jocelyne.laflamme@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Effects of information use on population and community processes; evolutionary ecology and population ecology of parasitic insects; developing insights into the biology of parasitic insects and the dynamics of parasite-dominated communities; potential applications in the area of biological control of both insect pests and introduced weeds.

Courses & Teaching: Animal and insect ecology; evolutionary and population ecology.

Danielle Lamb | Program Manager, Doctor of Education | Education | danielle.lamb@ubc.ca | 250.807.9658

Research Interests: Project Management; Fostering Reciprocal Relationships; Leadership; Professional Development; Métis and Chicano/a Literature

Clayton Lamb | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Biology | clayton.lamb@ubc.ca

Paula Lambert | Research Finance Clerk | School of Engineering | paula.lambert@ubc.ca | EME 4243

Amanda Lamberti | Communications Manager | Education | amanda.lamberti@ubc.ca

Jennifer Laminger | Faculty Advisor | Education | jennifer.laminger@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Numeracy and Mathematics Education, Numeracy through Literacy, Teacher Pro-D, Curriculum development and implementation, Critical Thinking, School culture

Tom Landecker | Adjunct Professor | Astrophysics | tom.landecker@nrc.gc.ca

Research Interests: radio polarization, magnetic fields, interstellar medium, supernova remnants, antennas, radio astronomy instrumentation

Thomas Landecker | Adjunct Professor | Astrophysics | tlandeck@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: radio polarization, magnetic fields, interstellar medium, supernova remnants, antennas, radio astronomy instrumentation

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Plurilingual, Pluricultural Pedagogy; Contemporary French, French Canadian & Québécois Culture, Literature & Society (régionalité); Literary Theory (Values, Narratology, Style); Inclusive Language

Courses & Teaching: Beginners, Intermediate & Advanced French; Oral communication; Translation; Contemporary French, French Canadian and Québécois Culture, Society, Literature & Film; Literary Theory; World Literatures and Intercultural Communication.

Donna Langille | Open Education Librarian | Library Services | donna.langille@ubc.ca | 250.807.9233

Courses & Teaching: Subject librarian: Digital Humanities, Film Studies, Media Studies, and Theatre.

Research Interests: Computer Assisted Language Learning; effective approaches to teaching and learning Japanese; Open Educational Resources in language teaching.

Courses & Teaching: Japanese Language; Japanese Pop Culture; Japanese Film.

Joana Larrere | MSc Student | Biology | jlarrere@student.ubc.ca | 778.392.4330

Research Interests: Phytopathology; cover cropping; viticulture; sustainable agriculture.

Karl Larsen | Adjunct Professor | Biology | klarsen@tru.ca | 250.828.5456

Renee Larsen | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | renee.larsen@ubc.ca

Research Interests: The aim of the project is to develop a spatial model of the Okanagan landscape that characterizes the socio-ecological dynamics of wildfire management and predicts the potential environmental outcomes of wildfire mitigation strategies. For this research, input from local stakeholders and experts will be sought on what mitigation strategies might be acceptable, and what key concerns exist regarding the impacts of wildfire.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Structural geology; tectonics; petrology; microstructures; geochronology; the geology of the Himalaya-Tibet-Karakorm system; tectonics of Southwestern British Columbia.

Courses & Teaching: Structural geology; regional geology/tectonics.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Active learning techniques for computer science; developing tools for learning, computational thinking and design thinking; application of HCI tools and techniques to improve teaching and learning.

Courses & Teaching: Programming; computer vision; HCI; project management; security.

Imrana Latif | Assistant to the Head | Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Medical Physics, Physics, Statistics | ilatif@mail.ubc.ca | SCI 200

Nima Latifi | Adjunct Professor | School of Engineering | nlatifi@mail.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Feminist theories and epistemologies; sexuality studies; science and technology studies; cultural studies; literature and film; reproduction and pregnancy; reproductive technologies and politics; reproductive governance and abortion.

Courses & Teaching: Politics of Reproduction; Critical Sexuality Studies; Feminist Epistemologies; Gender and Popular Culture; Gender, Race, Sexuality and Power.

Amber Lavoie | Lecturer | Education | amber.lavoie@ubc.ca | 250 807 9323

Courses & Teaching: EAP 103

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Shakespeare; canonical literature and 20th-century French philosophy; Medieval and Renaissance studies; peace and war studies; drama and theatre studies; ethics.

Courses & Teaching: English, Shakespeare, Foundations to 1800; Pandemic Literature

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Database systems and data analytics including data integration; analysis of large-scale scientific data sets and embedded databases for Internet of Things applications; software engineering and system development.

Courses & Teaching: Database systems and data analytics; software development.

Evan Laye | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | evanlaye@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Environmental impact assessment; biodiversity protection and promotion; Indigenous knowledge and consultation; Canadian environmental policy/law.

Tess Lea (On Leave) | Professor | Anthropology | tess.lea@ubc.ca | 250.807.8330

Research Interests: I have instigated and managed national and international research collaborations to pursue translational research across health, education, housing, infrastructure, militarism, and extractive relations—these being different coordinates for mapping social inequality under continuing settler occupation in troubled times and considering the policy ecology informing such issues.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Cultural Studies; Politics of Decolonization, Solidarity, and Resistance; Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Settler Colonialism; Indigenous Peoples and Asian/Korean Immigrant Relations in Canada; Feminist Art and Media Activism; Queer Masculinities and Performance

Courses & Teaching: Visual Culture and Social Activism; Gender, Race, and Popular Culture; Politics of Identity and Difference; Queer Masculinities

Paul Lee | Sessional Lecturer | Mathematics | paul.lee@ubc.ca | FIP 309 or FIP 310

Courses & Teaching: MATH 200, STAT 124

Eun Jee Lee | Peer Mentor | eunjee.lee@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: 17th & 18th Century French Literature and Cultural History; Women’s literary production; Fairy Tales; Drama; Gender and Queer Studies in Early Modern France

Courses & Teaching: French Language; French Literature (17th & 18th Centuries); Fairy Tales; Comedies; Epistolary Novels

Research Interests: Métis in British Columbia; Métis history, identity and nationalism; Indigenous Identity and Representation; Place Identity; Decolonization; Inter-Indigenous Relations and Treaties; Critical Indigenous Studies; Indigenous geographies.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to Decolonization; Métis People and Perspectives; Indigenous Studies Theory and Methodology; Indigenous Culture, Heritage, and Intellectual Property.

Kelli Lethbridge | Academic Programs Coordinator | Faculty of Management | kelli.lethbridge@ubc.ca | EME 4157

Tom Leveen | Sessional Instructor | Creative Studies, Creative Writing | tom.leveen@ubc.ca | CCS 169

Courses & Teaching: CRWR 385 Writing for Children

Jessica Lewis | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | jessica.lewis@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Enhanced Heat Transfer; Multiphase Flows; Aerosol (Airborne) Transmission; Electronics Cooling; Thermal-fluidics in Sustainable Energy Systems

Courses & Teaching: Heat and Mass Transfer; Fluid Mechanics; Multiphase Flows; Measurement Principles in Thermal-Fluids; Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Single-molecule biophysics; programmable molecular devices and biosensors; cancer and immune cell biology; cell mechanics and mechanobiology.

Courses & Teaching: Nucleic Acid, Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Instrumentation, Physical Chemistry

Research Interests: Exosomal detection and drug delivery.

Eric Li, PhD | Associate Dean, Professional Graduate Programs; Associate Professor | Faculty of Management, Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER), Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention (IHLCDP), Interdisciplinary Co-op Education, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (IGS), Survive and Thrive Applied Research (STAR) | eric.li@ubc.ca | 250.807.8853 | EME 4125

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Consumer culture; Social Innovation and social enterprise, Healthy living and well-being; Food consumption and food security; Digital economy, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of People (IoP); Digital marketing and consumption, Ethical consumerism and prosocial behaviour, Corporate philanthropy, Circular and sustainable Fashion.

Courses & Teaching: MGMT220/320 Introduction to Marketing (undergraduate) MGMT441 Marketing Strategy (undergraduate) MGMT444 Marketing Research (undergraduate) MGMT449A Digital and Social Media Marketing (undergraduate) MGMT495 Directed Studies on Fashion Advertising (2012), Digital Consumption and Marketing (2013), Fashion and Cultural Heritage (2014), Family Identity and Consumption (2018) MGMT536B – Enterprise and Innovation (Marketing module) MGMT541 – Applied Research Methods MGMT544A – Applied Project IGS509 Directed Studies in Interdisciplinary Research Methods (graduate) IGS515 Qualitative Methods for Management Research (graduate) IGS520A Special Topics on Digital Marketing and Consumption (graduate) IGS524 Applied Research Methods (graduate)

Jing Li | Lecturer | Communications, School of Engineering | jing.li@ubc.ca | EME 3251

Research Interests: Academic writing, engineering communication, technical communication, university writing pedagogy, sociolinguistics

Courses & Teaching: Engineering Communication; Technical Communication

Penny Liao-Lussier | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | penny.liao-lussier@interiorhealth.ca | 250.215.0190

Graduate student supervisor. Not considering Psychology graduate students for September 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Clinical cognitive neuroscience; stroke; body image; hemispatial neglect; traumatic brain injury; neuropsychological assessment; cognitive bias; eating disorders; bilingualism; eye-tracking.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to Psychology; Clinical Supervision; Clinical Intervention

Jonathan Little | Interim Director | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | jonathan.little@ubc.ca | 250.807.9876

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Little's research is focused on understanding how the metabolic disruptions that characterize type 2 diabetes affect cellular inflammation and explore how different exercise and nutritional strategies can be used to reduce inflammation and improve overall cardiometabolic health.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Advanced nanofabrication; Nanomaterials and nanotechnology; Energy storage systems; Next-generation batteries

Courses & Teaching: Material Science for Engineers - APSC 259; Mechanics of Materials I - APSC 260

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Intelligent sensing, measurement, and instrumentation; Diagnostics, prognostics, and health management; Predictive maintenance; Digital twin; Computational intelligence and data/information fusion; Non-destructive testing & Evaluation; Machine/computer vision; Data analytics and machine learning.

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 598 (I&II): Predictive Data Analytics; Machine Learning Algorithms ENGR 526: Multi-Sensor Data Fusion: System Architecture and Applications ENGR 498: Applied Machine Vision for Engineers ENGR 489/589: Multicriteria Optimization and Design of Experiments ENGR 424: Smart Cities ENGR 417: Pipeline Integrity Management APSC 254: Instrumentation and Data Analysis

Norah Lloyd-Ellis | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | nlloydel@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Developing empirical 3D estimates of forest fuel load and structure; testing their application for wildfire risk mapping based on fuel connectivity and burn probability. This research uses airborne LiDAR data acquired for the Okanagan Valley, which will be used to develop voxel-based 3D estimates of vertical and horizontal forest fuel structure.

Jade Lockie | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | lockiej@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Detrital zircon geochronology; basin analysis; Precambrian history of the Canadian Shield.

Elizabeth Loeffler | Department Assistant | Community, Culture and Global Studies | elizabeth.loeffler@ubc.ca | ART 274

Darlene Loland | Field Advisor | Education | darlene.loland@ubc.ca

Research Interests: SEL and teacher/student mental health, organizational wellbeing, experiential and place-based education, physical and health education, interdisciplinary teaching, professional learning

Courses & Teaching: Subject Librarian for: Social Work

Neil Long | Transition to Professional Practice (TIPP) Course Lead | Southern Medical Program | neil.long@ubc.ca

Candice Loring, MBA | Faculty of Management | candice.loring@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor. Considering grad students(Clinical Psychology & Psychological Science streams)for Sept '25

Research Interests: Adolescent emotional development; parent-adolescent relationships; interpersonal emotion dynamics; internalizing symptoms; externalizing symptoms.

Courses & Teaching: Adolescent development; development in family contexts.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: 16th-century poetry and prose; early modern women’s writing; early modern drama; women’s literature; 16th and 17th-century literature; spiritual autobiography; speculative fiction; feminist and queer theory.

Courses & Teaching: English, composition and literary genre, popular literature (J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy, Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Sherlock Holmes’ narratives, women’s science fiction, and contemporary myth,

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: SMARTer Growth; Sustainable community planning & design; Sustainable Transport & Safety; Hydrail powered, zero-emission regional passenger & freight rail; Affordable housing & CoHousing

Courses & Teaching: Engineering Economics and Social Cost Benefit Analysis - ENGR 305 / 505; Transportation Systems Design - ENGR 435; Go Global, study abroad of Sustainable Communities - ENGR 449; Sustainable Transport Safety Engineering - ENGR 534; Railways Systems Engineering - ENGR 437 / 537; Directed Studies Courses on various topics to supplement graduate researcher skill set preparation

Oliver Lovesey, PhD | Professor Emeritus | English and Cultural Studies | oliver.lovesey@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Victorian and 18th-century novel; postcolonial studies; restoration and 18th-century literature; history of the novel; cultural studies in music; postcolonial and decolonization studies; literature and medicine; social activism; African literature.

Jessica Lowry | Academic Communication Consultant | Centre for Scholarly Communication | jessica.lowry@ubc.ca | 250.807.8715

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Computational mathematics, optimization and convex analysis; modeling; model road design to minimize construction costs under safety and environmental constraints; creating algorithms for computer-aided convex analysis; visualizing operators in 2D, 3D, and 4D.

Courses & Teaching: Optimization; data structures.

Research Interests: Object based art (painting/drawing/sculpture), performance, installation, sound art, craft, video, music, improvisation, masks, Dadaism, spirituality, outsider/folk art, primitivism and material culture.

Courses & Teaching: Drawing; Painting; Sculpture; Visual Art; Art Theory

Lesley Lutes | Professor | Psychology | llutes@mail.ubc.ca | ASC 203

Graduate student supervisor. Will consider students for September 2025 intake, for the Clinical Psychology stream.

Research Interests: Clinical Health Psychology; innovative cognitive and behavioural change programs aimed at improving physical and emotional well-being and happiness; Integrated primary care; Weight management

Courses & Teaching: Residency/Internship Preparation

Research Interests: Interior Salish Languages; Language Documentation and Revitalization; Salish Linguistics

Courses & Teaching: Nsyilxcn Fluency Program courses; Interior Salish linguistics

Shixuan (David) Lyu | PhD Student | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | shixuan.lyu@ubc.ca | SCI 352

Research Interests: The impact of forest disturbance (i.e., logging and fire) on summer low flow processes in British Columbia.

Naomi M. McPherson | Associate Professor Emerita | Anthropology | naomi.mcpherson@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Since 1981 in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, emphasis on traditional cultures as they transform to modern social, economic and religious ideologies and institutions; gender studies; lives of girls and women; ethno-obstetrics and cosmopolitan medical systems in rural environs; changing belief systems; analysis of myth and its relation to social structure; symbolic analysis; kinship studies; the firstborn/primogeniture; ritual and mortuary ceremony; colonialism

Research Interests: Autobiography; Holocaust studies; auto/biographical discourse; peace and war studies; postcolonial and decolonization studies; digital culture, literature and medicine.

Research Interests: Crime and the criminal justice system, public economics and labour economics.

Research Interests: Canadian and Modern Art History, Global Contemporary Art History, and Disability Studies and Art History.

Courses & Teaching: Art History & Visual Culture

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Fostering Pedagogical Relationships, Seeing and Acting on Innovation’s Renewing Potential—The Fecundity of Genuine Learning Contexts, Curriculum as Lived in Classrooms, Teacher Education and Professional Development Reform Efforts.

Meaghan MacNutt (she, her, hers) | Assistant Professor of Teaching | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | meaghan.macnutt@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: HES 100 – Foundations of Health & Exercise Science HES 311 – Pathophysiology HES 471 – Professional Ethics in Health & Exercise Science

Savanna Maddock | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | smaddock@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Terpene metabolism in plants

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Performance Studies; Qualitative Research; Arts-Based Inquiry; Indigenous Ethico-Onto-Epistemologies; Collaborative Eco-Cultural Practices for Collective Healing and Renewal; Occitan Language Revitalization and Cultural Resurgence.

Courses & Teaching: Performance Studies; Qualitative Research; World Performance Traditions; Experimental and Intercultural Theatre; Physically-Based Performance Practice; Body-Voice Integration; Traditional Singing.

Brooklyn Maher | MSc Student | Biology | brooklyn.maher@alumni.ubc.ca | SCI 124

Research Interests: Conservation biology; ecology;and effects of habitat loss on wildlife.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Molecular, cellular, biochemical and environmental factors that regulate the quality and quantity of aromas and essential oils produced by herbal and medicinal plants; identification, cloning and characterization of structural and regulatory genes that are involved in the biosynthesis, inter- and intra-cellular trafficking, secretion and storage of monoterpenes in plants cells specialized for secondary metabolite production.

Courses & Teaching: Plant molecular biology and biochemistry; metabolism of natural products; plant biotechnology.

Research Interests: Effects of grapevine viruses on vine health and fruit quality; vineyard management strategies to mitigate virus effects

Michelle Majeran | Research Finance Assistant | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, School of Nursing, Social Work | michelle.majeran@ubc.ca

Research Interests: New graduate nurse transition to practice; new graduate nurse practice pathways

Courses & Teaching: NRSG 328: Health of the Childbearing Family, NRSG 338: Nursing Practice with Childbearing Families, NRSG 329: Child Health, NRSG 422 Leadership

Patricia Marck | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | patricia.marck@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: MGMT 250 Introduction to IT Management MGMT 360 Business Conditions Analysis MGMT 425 Strategic Entrepreneurial Technology

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Metamaterials; Antennas and Antenna Arrays; Passive Microwave Circuits

Courses & Teaching: APSC 178 Electricity, Magnetism, and Waves; ENGR 365 Engineering Electromagnetics; ENGR 473/574 Antennas and Propagation; ENGR 567 Passive Microwave Circuits

Chris Marriott | School Graduate Assistant | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | chris.marriott@ubc.ca | Art 331

Leslie Marsh | Honorary Research Associate | Philosophy, Political Science | leslie.marsh@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Philosophy of mind; philosophy of social science; social epistemology; political philosophy; political economy; philosophical literature.

Lois Marshall | Manager, Planning and Operations | Library Administration | lois.marshall@ubc.ca | 250.807.8545

Katelin Marshall | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | katelin.marshall@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Philosophy of education; educational ethics; the aims of higher education; education for democracy

Courses & Teaching: Philosophical Inquiry in Education Controversial Issues in Education Conceptions of Teaching and Learning Policy and Education

Kathleen Martin Ginis | Chair Preventive Medicine, Director Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Southern Medical Program | kathleen_martin.ginis@ubc.ca | 250.807.9187 | Reichwald Health Sciences Centre

Research Interests: Dr. Martin Ginis focuses on understanding and changing physical activity behaviour. She has a particular interest in physical activity among people with spinal cord injury and other types of physical disabilities.

Courses & Teaching: HES 491 Honour's Thesis Seminar HES 490 Project in Health and Exercise Sciences MED 419 Year 1 FLEX MED 429 Year 2 FLEX MED 449 Year 4 FLEX

Cole Mash, PhD | Sessional Instructor | Creative Studies, Creative Writing | cole.mash@ubc.ca | FIP 318

Courses & Teaching: Creative Writing

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Plant ecophysiology, plant-biotic interactions, plant secondary metabolism, genome-wide association mapping, functional trait evolution, crop biodiversity, crop-wild relatives, evolutionary ecology.

Courses & Teaching: Land Plants (BIOL 210), Plant Ecophysiology (BIOL 358)

Cynthia Mathieson | Professor Emerita | Psychology | cynthia.mathieson@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Narrative and thematic analysis; barriers to health care; identity theory.

Courses & Teaching: Community psychology; history of psychology.

Bruce Mathieson | Associate Professor Emeritus | Biology | bruce.mathieson@ubc.ca

Natalie Matthews | Associate Professor of Teaching | School of Nursing | natalie.matthews@ubc.ca

Carling Matthews | Clinical Skills Administrator, Years 1 & 2 | Southern Medical Program | carling.matthews@ubc.ca

Sarah Mavor | MSc Student | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | mavors@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Source water tracing; stable isotopes; wetland biogeochemistry

Daniel Maxime | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Computer Science | maxime.daniel@ubc.ca

James McCartney | Industry Project Officer | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, University-industry Liaison Office (UILO) | james.mccartney@ubc.ca | ADM006 (WK14)

Graeme McCauley | Year 4 TIPP Co-Lead | graeme.mccauley@interiorhealth.ca | Clinical Academic Campus

Matthew McConnachie | MSc Student | Chemistry | mmcc1998@mail.ubc.ca

Barrie McCullough | Emeritus Faculty | Political Science | barrie.mccullough@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Political ideologies; problems in international law; Canadian constitutional law.

Courses & Teaching: Political philosophy; Canadian constitutional law; international law.

Research Interests: Canadian literature; colonial history; prairie settler narratives; racial stereotypes and postcolonial studies; embodied and phenomenological approaches to life writing; composition theory and practice; scholarship on teaching and learning.

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 112: Studies in Composition

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Visual anthropology; anthropology of art; sensory ethnography; material culture; curatorial studies; museum studies; textiles; oral history; contemporary Indigenous art; informal science learning and the environment; anthropocene; water rights; open access and digital publishing; North America & Aotearoa New Zealand.

Courses & Teaching: Visual & media anthropology; arts-based ethnography; anthropology of art; fieldwork methodologies; cultural anthropology; ethnography.

Portiaa McGonigal | PhD Candidate | Biology | portiaa.mcgonigal@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Grapevine diseases; biological controls; compost amendments; phylogenetic analysis; greenhouse studies; digital droplet PCR.

Rachel McGraw | Sessional Lecturer | Anthropology, Indigenous Studies | rachel.mcgraw@ubc.ca | Online

Research Interests: Language endangerment, revitalization, and documentation; linguistic racism and discrimination; language and social justice; sociolinguistics; linguistic diversity and variation; Totonacan languages (Mexico).

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, Living Languages, Sociolinguistics, Phonology

Alexandra McGregor | PhD Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | a.mcgregor@ubc.ca

Tasia-Li McGrew | Sessional Lecturer | Faculty of Management | tmcgrew@mail.ubc.ca

Michelle McLellan | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Biology | mmclel01@mail.ubc.ca

Ali McManus | Professor | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | ali.mcmanus@ubc.ca | 250.807.8192

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: McManus's research focuses on the physiological consequences of sedentary behavior in children.

Courses & Teaching: Body Composition, Pediatric Exercise Physiology, and Graduate Statistics

Troy McMillan | PhD Student, IGS | Earth and Environmental Sciences, Engineering | troy.mcmillan@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Urban resilience is a concept which can be used to examine the readiness for urban centres to withstand, adapt to, absorb, respond to, and recovery from acute or chronic stresses. To help cities improve their resilience, several multidisciplinary frameworks have been developed in academe and the non-profit sector. This research will explore how urban resilience is being implemented within Canadian cities.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: McNeil's program of research uses an integrative approach to investigate the performance and plasticity (adaptability) of the human neuromuscular system.

Courses & Teaching: HES 102 – Biomechanics HES 486 – Muscle Fatigue

Research Interests: Chemistry education: alternative conceptions of advanced bonding models, impacts and effectiveness of active and collaborative learning activities, affective learning outcomes.

Courses & Teaching: Introductory chemistry, molecular structure and bonding, bioinorganic chemistry

Vivien Measday | Associate Member | Biology | vivien.measday@ubc.ca | 604.827.5744

Research Interests: Isolate and characterize yeast populations associated with vineyards; retrotransposons.

Courses & Teaching: Food Microbiology; microbiology of food and beverage fermentation; advances of food biotechnology; advanced topics in molecular biology.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Pharmaceuticals; Counterfeits; Embodiment; Sensoriums; Feminist Science and Technology Studies; Medical Anthropology; Leprosy; Critical Global Health; Ontological Politics; Dreams; Temporality; Tanzania; East Africa; Indian Ocean Worlds; Hong Kong; Fugitivity; Black Studies; African Studies; Postcolonial Theory; Ethnography

Courses & Teaching: I teach courses on African and Africana studies; global health; embodiment and the anthropology of the body; feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial science and technology studies; and cultural and medical anthropology. Courses currently offered at UBC include: • ANTH 100: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; • ANTH 227: Introduction to Medical Anthropology; • ANTH 330: Psychological Distress, Mental Health, and Well-being; • ANTH 354: Imagining Africa Otherwise; • ANTH 400: History of Anthropology; • ANTH 429: Global Health and International Development.

Mackenzie Melvin | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | mmelvin@mail.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Chemical biology: use of small molecules to study and manipulate biological systems; design of molecular tools to study the real-time dynamics of cellular events; using organic chemistry, natural products are modified to label proteins involved in cellular signaling; the biology questions studied focus on protein-protein interactions, astrocytes communication, synapse elimination, and neurodegeneration.

Courses & Teaching: Synthetic organic chemistry.

Research Interests: Renewable energy; Energy transitions; Sustainable development; Educational technology; Interdisciplinary education; Sustainability pedagogy

Courses & Teaching: Application, Practice and Management Approaches (in Sustainability) (SUST 200); Environmental Impact Assessment: Techniques and Practice (EESC 315).

David Meola | Sessional Instructor | Languages and World Literatures | david.meola@ubc.ca | Teaching online

Courses & Teaching: WRLD 399N - Special Topics in World Literatures – Holocaust

Courses & Teaching: Has taught in all 4 years of the nursing program. More recently has been teaching health and healing lectures in years 1 and 4. Team Lead for year 1, clinical teaching mentor, member of the FHSD EDI Committee and is active with other committees within the school of nursing.

Stefano Mezzini | MSc Student | Biology | stefano.mezzini@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Quantitative ecology; statistical ecology; macroecology; animal movement; environmental stochasticity; energetics; fire ecology; decolonizing methodologies.

Graduate student supervisor. Only considering applications with exceptional academic record.

Research Interests: Textile Composites/Biocomposites; Materials Constitutive Relations; Finite Element Modelling; Robust Inverse Methods; Material Selection for End-of-Life Design Strategies; Multiple Criteria Decision Making; Design and Analysis of Computer & Physical Experiments; Surrogate Models for Process Optimization; Industry 5.0

Courses & Teaching: Mathematical Methods in Modelling Engineering Materials; Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision-Making; Continuum Mechanics; Composite Materials; Engineering Vibrations

Marie-Pierre Milette | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics, Physics | marie-pierre.milette@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Treatment planning optimization; treatment verification.

Harry Miller | Lecturer | Psychology | harry.miller@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor. Will consider co-supervision only, Clinical Psychology grad students for Sept 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Assessment of memory with traumatic brain injury; peripheral vascular disease and cognition; emotional function post stroke; effects of alcohol use on recovery from brain injury.

Courses & Teaching: Neuroscience of cognition; southern medical program.

Kirsty Milligan | Postdoctoral Fellow | Medical Physics | k.milligan@ubc.ca

Lauren Mills | PhD Student | Biology | lauren.mills@ubc.ca | SCI 354

Research Interests: I am interested in species conservation, particularly how climate change and other anthropogenic changes will affect species and ecosystems.

Research Interests: 20th-century American and Canadian fiction; literature and space; fictional treatments of suburban life; Canadian poets and literature; African-American literature.

Courses & Teaching: English

Carmen Miranda-Barrios | Sessional Lecturer | Languages and World Literatures, Spanish | carmen.mirandabarrios@ubc.ca | CCS 350

Courses & Teaching: First-year Spanish

Francois Miros | Environment, Health and Safety Associate | School of Engineering | francois.miros@ubc.ca

Research Interests: NMR-based metabolomic analysis of medicinal plants for classification, identification and health product optimization.

Research Interests: RDM practices which can be adapted to labs, research clusters, institutes; faculty adoption of Research Data Management (RDM) Plans; RDM in Digital Humanities; teaching RDM to graduate and undergraduate students.

Courses & Teaching: Subject librarian for: Anthropology, Art History, Copyright, Geography (Human), Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, Sociology, Sustainability, and Visual Arts

Emma Mitchell | Laboratory Technician | Chemistry | emma.mitchell@ubc.ca | FIP 306

Christina Mjema | MSc Student | Computer Science | mjema@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Applied machine learning; Integration of explainable AI for enhanced transparency and reliability; risk mitigation in the oil and gas industry.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Operations & Supply Chain Analytics; Blockchain-based Decision Support Systems; Life Cycle Assessment & Circular Economy; Intelligent Systems Design; Strategic Sustainable Development.

Courses & Teaching: Supply Chain Tactics and Strategies (MANF 460/560); Production Systems Management II (MANF/MANU 370); Life Cycle Assessment and Management (ENGR 544).

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Software engineering; decision support systems (model driven and data driven); component-based software development; creative higher education.

Courses & Teaching: Computer fluency; computer creativity; programming; database systems; machine architecture; parallel computing.

Mohamed Mohamed | Adjunct Professor | Computer Science | mohamed.abdelpakey@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, specifically deep learning in the domains of images and videos, as well as machine learning, computer vision, statistical methods, and embedded systems.

Mostafa Mohamed, PhD | Lecturer | Computer Science | mostafa.mohamed@ubc.ca | SCI 200E

Research Interests: My interests span a broad range of areas including Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Automation, Embedded Systems, Data Science, the Internet of Things, Decision Support, Data Analytics, Big Data, Medical Image Processing, Parallel Processing, GPU Acceleration, and Cloud Computing. I am always eager to explore new fields and expand my horizons.

Courses & Teaching: COSC 111 101 2023W2 Computer Programming I COSC 301 101 2023W1 Introduction to Data Analytics COSC 305 101 2023W2 Project Management DATA 301 101 2023W2 Introduction to Data Analytics DATA 534 101 2023W2 Web and Cloud Computing COSC 448A 106 2023W2 Directed Studies in Computer Science COSC 304 101 2023S1 Introduction to Databases COSC 322 001 2023S1 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence DATA 553 001 2023W1 Privacy, Security and Professional Ethics

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Major: Prosthetic Heart Valves! Mechanical Engineering: Linear and Nonlinear Mechanical Vibrations Linear and Nonlinear Finite Element Methods Biomedical Engineering: Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology Atherosclerosis Articular Cartilage Mechanobiology and Osteoarthritis Cellular and Molecular Biomechanics Mechanical Vibrations on Human Performance

Courses & Teaching: Dynamics, APSC 181 Mechanical Vibrations, ENGR 387 Biomed Engineering, ENGR 482 Tissue Mechanics, ENGR 598 Computational Biomechanics, ENGR 597 Finite Element Methods (grad and undergrad), ENGR 492, ENGR 582

Mahsa Mohammadi | Lecturer | Manufacturing, School of Engineering | mahsa.mohammadi@ubc.ca | EME 4288

Research Interests: Operations Research/Management, Logistics & Supply Chain Analytics, Decision Support System Design, E-Commerce Businesses, Blockchain Technology, and Disaster Management.

Courses & Teaching: ENGR-O 489/589 Multi-Criteria Decision Making Optimization APSC-0 256 Numerical Methods for Analysis APSC-O 173 Engineering Analysis II

Samantha Molter | Landmark Office Assistant | Faculty of Health and Social Development | samantha.molter@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Urban cultural geography; urban planning; sustainability of cities; morphogenesis; geography of wine; the role of local culture in urban planning and sustainability in mid-size cities; changing landscapes of wine-producing regions in Canada

Courses & Teaching: Urban geography; urban planning; cultural geography. Specifically, GEOG 128 Human Geography: Space Place and Community; GEOG 250 Introduction to Urban Geography; GEOG 255 Space and Culture; GEOG 354 Urban Canada: Growth, Form and Structure; GEOG 451 Urban Planning; GEOG 491 Selected Topics in Geography: Interpreting Urban Landscapes

Diana Monk | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | diana.monk@ubc.ca

Schafer Montgomery | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | ssmontgo@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: The examination of groundwater and stream interaction through alluvial fans in the Okanagan water-shed. Incorporation of water isotope, radon and trace element analysis will be implemented to determine the extent of interaction and assess groundwater recharge. Groundwater and Stream interaction; Isotope Geochemistry; Water Characterization.

Graham Moore | Lecturer | Philosophy | graham.moore@alumni.ubc.ca | ART 253

Research Interests: Philosophy of language, theories of truth and reference.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to philosophy, Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking, Metaphysics, Bioethics.

Research Interests: Nursing Curriculum; Technology in Education; Clinical Reasoning

Courses & Teaching: Global Health, Advanced Clinical Reasoning, Leadership Practice, Clinical Preceptorship

Jennifer Morrison | School of Nursing - School Assistant | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | jennifer.morrison@ubc.ca | ART360

Sepehr Mosadegh, PhD | Lecturer | Mechanical, School of Engineering | sepehr.mosadegh@ubc.ca | EME3252

Research Interests: Combustion; Aerospace Propulsion; Thermofluids

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 493 - Introduction to Aerodynamics and Aircraft Design ENGR 477 - Aircraft Propulsion ENGR 449 - Aircraft Structures ENGR 375 - Energy System Design ENGR 310 - Fluid Mechanics II APSC 256 - Numerical Methods for Analysis APSC 253 - Fluid Mechanics I APSC 252 - Thermodynamics

Garth Mowat | Adjunct Professor | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | garth.mowat@gov.bc.ca

Research Interests: Population biology of carnivores with a focus on applied problems; investigates factors limiting density and population growth of grizzly bears; isotopes to investigate diet through time and space; test inventory methods for cougars and wolves.

Neizh Mrad | Adjunct Professor | Mechanical, School of Engineering | nezih.mrad@forces.qc.ca

Caitlin Mulvey | MSc Student | Biology | cmulve01@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Vineyard soil community ecology; nematology; applied ecology

Felipe Munoz | AV Coordinator, Audio Visual | Southern Medical Program | felipe.munoz@ubc.ca

Susan Murch | Professor | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI), Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES) | susan.murch@ubc.ca | 250.807.9566 | FIP 350

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: The Plant Secondary Metabolite Analytical Research Team (PlantSMART) researches chemistry of plants and how plant chemistry affects human health using analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, biotechnology, metabolomics and hormonomics approaches.

Courses & Teaching: Analytical chemistry; plant biochemistry. Micro-credential in Metabolomics

Graduate student supervisor

Courses & Teaching: Constitutional/Charter Litigation & Social Policy Policy and Practice Issues Affecting an Older Population Social Policy and Comparative Family Policy Social Welfare Law and Human Rights: International Human Rights & Aging Aging/Gerontological Social Work Intergenerational Relationships Visual Sociology

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Multimedia cultural memory; feminist and intersectional digital humanities; critical and creative making; digital pedagogy; twentieth-century literature and culture; high, middlebrow, and popular modernisms; literature of the Spanish Civil War; women’s writing; adaptation and media-specificity; dance, movement, and physical culture; celebrity culture; life writing; comics and graphic novels

Courses & Teaching: Digital Humanities; English

Joshua Y. Mutus | Adjunct Professor | Physics | jmutus@ubc.ca

Mackenzie Myers | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | mackenzie.myers@ubc.ca

Krystyna Mylostna | Research Associate | Medical Physics | krystyna.mylostna@ubc.ca | FIP 370

Research Interests: Image processing across radio astronomy and brain MRI; deep learning for quality assurance and white matter analysis; studies on multiple sclerosis and perivascular spaces.

Courses & Teaching: Thermodynamics

Research Interests: Resilient Infrastructure; Structural Dynamics; Earthquake Engineering; Performance-based Design of Built Facilities; Nonlinear Structural Modeling; Seismic Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment; Software Development for Structural Engineering Applications

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 428/528 Earthquake Engineering (2023 Winter Term 1) APSC 181 Dynamics (2023 Winter Term 2) APSC 173 Engineering Analysis II (2024 Summer Term 1) APSC 179 Linear Algebra for Engineerings (2024 Summer Term 1)

Alireza Nami | Electrical | alireza.nami@se.abb.com

Apurva Narayan | Affiliate Professor | Computer Science, Data Science | apurva.narayan@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence/machine learning with emphasis on explainable AI/ML and quantum machine learning; data mining; data analytics, safety and security of cyber physical systems; software engineering; graph theoretic analysis of complex systems; decision making under uncertainty.

Courses & Teaching: Machine learning; Data structures; Data mining and analytics; Software engineering.

James Nastos | Sessional Lecturer | Physics | james.nastos@ubc.ca | FIP 309 or 310

Mahsa Nazemi Ashani | PhD Student | Chemistry | nazemias@mail.ubc.ca

Denise Neilson | Adjunct Professor | Biology | neilsend@agr.gr.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Feminist studies (with a focus on embodiment, ecofeminisms, material feminisms and intersectionality), environmental studies (with a focus on cultural studies of water, weather and climate change, and multispecies justice), everyday militarisms, interdisciplinarity, epistemologies and non-traditional research methodologies.

Courses & Teaching: GWST 272 / CULT 272 Feminism and Environment; ENGL 501 Methodologies: Critical Theory; IGS SUST 584: Sustainability Theme Seminar

Sajjad Nejatie | Assistant Professor | History | sajjad.nejatie@ubc.ca | ART 263

Research Interests: Islam in Asia; The Persianate World; Historiography; Narrative Theory; Migration; Tribalism; Ethnic Identity; Empire and State Formation and Nationalism.

Courses & Teaching: HIST 160 – Introduction to Asian History; HIST 396 – History of South Asia; HIST 495 – Special Topics: History of Afghanistan

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions; soil health; plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria; biological control; postharvest fungal pathogens; orchard replant disease; nitrogen cycling; nitrification; denitrification.

Courses & Teaching: Environmental microbiology; sustainability; plant-microbe interactions.

Research Interests: Behavioural ecology; arachnid diversity; life history.

Courses & Teaching: Invertebrate zoology; sustainability; biology II for science majors; cell biology.

Corinna Netherton | Lecturer | Indigenous Studies | corinna.netherton@ubc.ca

Murray Neuman | Associate Professor Emeritus | Physics | murray.neuman@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Discrimination and separation of microscopic particles by optical and electromechanical methods; time series analysis; applications include possible development of new medical diagnostic methods based on physical sorting of different kinds of biological cells.

Courses & Teaching: Classical and quantum mechanics; optics; fluids; environmental physics.

Natasha Neumann | Adjunct Professor | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | natasha.neumann@gov.bc.ca

Research Interests: Surface and groundwater interactions; land use and wildfire impacts on hydrology; low flow monitoring and regionalization; environmental flow needs; snow accumulation and melt processes.

Ramey Newell, MFA | Lecturer | Creative Studies, Media Studies | ramey.newell@ubc.ca | FIP 323

Research Interests: Ecology and mass extinction, climate breakdown, the Anthropocene, scientific epistemologies, human/non-human relations, mythologies of the American West, and the expectations of documentary image.

Courses & Teaching: Film and Visual Art

Loc Ngo | PhD Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | ngoloc@mail.ubc.ca | ASC 355

Research Interests: Gene expression; translational regulation; cellular stress response; cell signaling

Tuan-Anh Minh Nguyen | PhD Student | Chemistry | tuananh.nguyen@ubc.ca | FIP 245

Research Interests: Discovering new biosynthetic enzymes involved in plant specialized metabolism; reconstituting alkaloid metabolism in yeast platform; chemo-enzymatic reactions for high-value compounds synthesis.

Thi Hong Hoa Nguyen | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Chemistry | hoa.nguyen@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Flow spectroscopy; Single-molecule localization microscopy; DNA nanostructures; Protein-DNA interactions; Diagnostic assays.

Valerie Nichol | Finance Manager | valerie.nichol@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Hydrogeology and vadose zone processes; regional groundwater resources; surface water and groundwater interactions; agricultural irrigation efficiency and nitrate leaching; agricultural greenhouse gas production; acid rock drainage and mine reclamation; soil physics. Geoscience education.

Courses & Teaching: EESC 111 Earth and Environmental Sciences; EESC 121 Earth History; EESC 342 Hydrogeology; EESC 335 Field Techniques; EESC 350 Exploration Geophysics; EESC 429 Contaminant Transport; EESC 551 Advanced Soil Physics; EESC 551 Groundwater Contamination and Transport; EESC 551 Groundwater Chemistry

Mackenzie Nichol | Assistant to the Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies | mackenzie.nichol@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor. Considering grad students(Clinical Psychology & Psychological Science streams)for Sept '25

Research Interests: Bilingual first language learning; second language learning; gestures

Angelina Nikolaeva | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | angelina.nikolaeva@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Fluvial geomorphology; Carbon dynamics.

Blythe Nilson | Associate Professor Emerita | Biology | blythe.nilson@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Skepticism and scientific literacy.

Courses & Teaching: Biology for non-science majors; anatomy and physiology for nursing students; biochemistry; molecular genetics labs.

Research Interests: Popular religion and social history of the Middle Ages.

Courses & Teaching: History of Medieval Europe; early modern England. Specifically: HIST 110 Survey of the Ancient World; HIST 119 Medieval Europe; HIST 201 Religion in the West; HIST 325 Europe in 1215; HIST 324 Tudor England, 1485-1603; HIST 344 Stuart England, 1603-1714; HIST 413 Reformation Europe; HIST 414 Medieval England

Jeffrey Nishima-Miller | PhD Student, IGS-Sustainability | Earth and Environmental Sciences | jeffrey.nishima-miller@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Integrated environmental and natural resource management; environmental impact assessment; wildlife management and conservation

Matthew Noestheden | Adjunct Professor | Chemistry | matt.noestheden@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Analytical chemistry; applied mass spectrometry and chromatography; wine.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Animal movement, conservation, encounter theory, evolutionary processes, macro-ecology, and statistical ecology.

Courses & Teaching: Evolutionary Ecology (Biol 417); Statistical Modelling for Biological Data (Biol 520C); Spatial Statistics (DATA 589)

Angela Norkum-Porubanec (On secondment) | Administrative Assistant | Library Administration | angela.norkum-porubanec@ubc.ca | 250-807-8275

Jennifer Novy | Faculty Administrator | Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies | jennifer.novy@ubc.ca | CCS 323D

Shanny Nuyens | Community Liaison and Instructor Coordinator | Nłeʔkepmx Language Fluency | shanny.nuyens@ubc.ca

Dieudonne Nweke | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | dieu1994@student.ubc.ca | FIP 223

Research Interests: My research is focused on applying in-situ geochronology to understand crustal evolution and the formation of critical minerals.

Rob O'Brien | Adjunct Professor | Biology | R.OB@SupraRnD.ca

Emily O'Brien | PhD Student | Biology | emily.obrien@ubc.ca

Research Interests: The production of phytocannabinoids in plants and fungi; phytochemistry; secondary metabolite biosynthesis; the effects of stress and phytohormones on secondary metabolite production and plant genomics.

Graduate student supervisor. Will consider Psychology grad students (Psychological Science stream) for Sept 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Statistics; personality; psychopathology; interpersonal behaviour; especially psychometrics, factor analysis, item response theory, Bayesian methods, dimensional models of personality and psychopathology, and software for statistical procedures.

Courses & Teaching: Advanced statistics; research methods; interpersonal behaviour and psychopathology.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Wide band gap III-V semiconductors; Disordered semiconductors; Microelectronic circuits

Courses & Teaching: Microelectronic circuits; Semiconductor devices; Novel electronic materials; Electricity and magnetism; Communications and systems analysis

Nikhita Obeegadoo, PhD (On Leave) | Assistant Professor | Languages and World Literatures | nikhita.obeegadoo@ubc.ca | CCS 350

Research Interests: Oceanic and Archipelagic Studies; Indian Ocean and Caribbean Studies; Critical Race Studies Gender Studies; Contemporary literatures from the Global South, including Africa, South Asia and Latin America; Border Theory and Creolization; Theorising the relationship between History and Literature; Environmental Humanities; Medical Humanities. Research Languages: French, Spanish, English, Hindi, Mauritian Creole.

Courses & Teaching: World Literatures, French

Lindsay Odne | Manager - Graduate & Postdoctoral Training | lindsay.odne@ubc.ca | 250.807.8219 | ASC 414

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Integrated health systems and services delivery; primary health care; mental health; rural health; climate change and climate change events and mental health; integrated knowledge translation and implementation science.

Courses & Teaching: NURS 505 Healthcare Policy NURS 597 Capstone Course NURS 581 Leadership in Knowledge Application and Translation

Peter Osei Ohemeng | Sessional Lecturer | Chemistry | peter.ohemeng@ubc.ca | SCI 216

Research Interests: Carbon-based photocatalytic materials; Use of spectroscopic tools to understand the inner-workings of carbon-based materials; Development of cost-effective and innovative approaches for environmental remediation; Design of organic semiconductor materials for energy applications.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to Organic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry.

Barbara Oliveira | Clinical Research Coordinator | barbara.oliveira@ubc.ca | 250.807.8062

Bobbi-Jo Oliver, BSN, RN | Nursing Practice Placement Coordinator/ Clinical Assistant | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | bobbijo.oliver@ubc.ca | ART 333

Samantha Olivier | Plant Growth Facility Manager | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | samantha.olivier@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: child and family health promotion; inclusive recreation participation; safety and injury prevention; child development; well-being for children with neuro-developmental disabilities; community-based initiatives; online programs

Courses & Teaching: NRSG 507 - Quantitative Methods; NRSG 597 - Healthcare Capstone Practicum; NRSG 428/528 - Advanced Community Health Nursing

Research Interests: health behaviour; symptom management; evidence based clinical practice; shared decision making; qualitative research methods

Courses & Teaching: Nursing 554

Levi Oostenbrink | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | levi.oostenbrink@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Grizzly bear monitoring; spatial and temporal activity pattern analysis; wildlife management.

Anna Ordog | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Physics | anna.ordog@ubc.ca

Emmanuel T. Osei | Assistant Professor | Biology, Biotechnology | emmanuel.osei@ubc.ca | ASC366

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Establishing 3D bioartificial models to aid in understanding how abnormal multicellular and multiorgan interactions contribute to lung diseases.

Courses & Teaching: Biol 363, Developmental Biology

Alix Osinchuk | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | alix.osinchuk@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Microstructure analysis and paleopiezometery; thermodynamic phase modelling; deformation events; orogenesis; tectonic evolution of Precambrian Earth

Research Interests: Indigenous History; Community-Engaged History; Settler Colonialism; Ethnohistory; Environmental History; Labour History; Public History

Courses & Teaching: HIST 300: History of Indigenous Peoples of Canada to 1876; HIST 301: History of Indigenous Peoples of Canada Since 1876; HIST 383A: Canadian Settler Colonialism

Doug Owram | Professor Emeritus | History | doug.owram@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Post-Confederation Canadian history, with a specialization in intellectual, social and economic history.

Courses & Teaching: Canadian foreign policy; Canadian intellectual history; post 45 Canada.

Research Interests: Industrial organization; applied microeconomics; applied game theory; understanding how firms determine their vertical boundaries and arrange their relationships with suppliers and customers; examines the organizational forms employed by Japanese firms by focusing on their effectiveness for coordinating various production activities.

Courses & Teaching: Consumer behaviour; firm and market structure; business strategy; game theory.

Shelley Pacholok (On Leave) | Assistant Professor | Sociology | shelley.pacholok@ubc.ca | 250.807.8707

Research Interests: Gender; families; work; disaster.

Courses & Teaching: Gender; work; families; social inequality; qualitative methods.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Engineering the human microbiome; Advanced statistical methods for analysis of big data (health sciences); Biology of built environment

Courses & Teaching: Biotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications; Engineering Human Microbiome; Fundamentals of Healthy Buildings

Shilong Pan | MSc Student | Chemistry | shilong@mail.ubc.ca

Ian Parfitt | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | iparfitt@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Geomatics; climate change; biodiversity conservation; traditional ecological knowledge; forest management; remote sensing; unoccupied aerial systems; artificial intelligence; open data. Ian is a keen cartographer and his maps can be found in magazines, books and online. He is also a certified Project Management Professional.

Research Interests: Cultural environmental sociology; suburban imaginary; theories of space and spatialization; social and cultural theory; seasonal sociology; aesthetic sociology

Courses & Teaching: Environmental sociology courses including Sociology of the Anthropocene, Sociology of Food; introductory sociology

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Feminist theories, especially epistemologies; history and theory of fashion; theories of modernity and early twentieth-century cultural formations; femininities; Periodical media’

Courses & Teaching: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Power I: An Introduction; Women and Popular Culture; Critical Foundations: Feminism and Difference; Perspectives on Gendered Bodies; Feminist Research Methodologies; Gender, Dress and Fashion: Histories and Theories; Femininities

Research Interests: Understanding ecosystems and landscapes as complex systems in which human and biophysical processes are coupled across multiple scales of space and time; incorporating complexity into natural resource management approaches; regional-scale landscape modelling; social-ecological networks; agent and individual-based modelling approaches; landscape science and scenario building.

Courses & Teaching: Dynamic modelling of coupled human-environment systems.

Ehsan Pashanejad Silab | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | ehsan.pashanejad@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Ecosystem Service Mapping & Modeling, Social-Ecological System Resilience, Spatial Analysis. The project deals with a landscape-specific ecosystem service dynamic modelling framework to explore the interactions of multiple ecosystem services such as agricultural food production, pollination, water supply, and water quality, and services related to habitat (wetlands and grassland) in the prairie landscape under different future scenarios.

Research Interests: Macroeconomics; international economics; monetary economics.

Courses & Teaching: ECON 340 - Financial Economics; ECON 356 - International Finance; ECON 402 - Applied Macroeconomic Analysis

Malcolm Paterson | Adjunct Professor | Biology | macpaterson@hotmail.com | 250.486.5608

Research Interests: genotoxic stress-sensing (i.e., cell-cycle control and DNA repair) mechanisms and their deregulation in human cells as an initiating and rate-limiting event in cancer development; environmental and hereditary interactions underlying human cancer: breast cancer drug development, Herceptin (Trastuzumab)

Vignesh Pattathil | Sessional Instructor, PhD Student | Chemistry | vignesh.pn@ubc.ca | SCI 216

Research Interests: Synthetic inorganic main-group chemistry, Synthesis of low-valent group-13 compounds, Crystallography, Computational Chemistry

Courses & Teaching: Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory

Research Interests: Technical and professional communication; Community service learning; Ethics; Engineering education

Courses & Teaching: Technical communication; Engineering communication; Persuasion and rhetoric; Technical presentations; Graduate writing and research; First-year writing

Hanna Paul, MA | Indigenous Research Facilitator | Office of Research Services (ORS), Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | hanna.paul@ubc.ca | ADM006 (WK07)

Shelayne Paul, MSW, RSW | Field Education Liaison | Faculty of Health and Social Development, Social Work | shelayne.paul@ubc.ca | 778-363-9772

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Canadian history; environmental history; economic history; history of capitalism.

Courses & Teaching: Environmental history; Canadian history; North American history; world history.

Jennifer Payson | Lecturer | English, English and Cultural Studies | jennifer.payson@ubc.ca | CCS 348

Research Interests: Studies in Composition, Topics in Composition, Children’s Literature, Indigenous Literature, Decolonizing Literature, Queering Literature, Technical Communication, Business Communication, Scientific Communication, Gender and Media Studies, Readings in Narrative, Short Stories and Novels.

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 112 and 203

Sandra Peacock | Associate Professor Emerita | Anthropology | sandra.peacock@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Relationship between people and the plant world; the use, classification, and management of plants for food, medicine, materials, and spiritual purposes

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Evaluation of drinking water treatment processes; Source water quality assessment; Integrated data analysis and machine learning pertaining to water quality

Courses & Teaching: Environmental bioengineering; Water and wastewater treatment; Hydrology and hydraulics; Engineering mathematics; Municipal engineering

Annick Pellegrin | Sessional Lecturer | Languages and World Literatures, Spanish | annick.pellegrin@ubc.ca | FIP 323

Research Interests: Bandes dessinées (Franco-Belgian comics) and historietas (Latin American comics, Mexican and Argentinian in particular); coloniality, decolonial thought and representations of Latin America; nationalism and international relations; gender representations; myths (in the Barthesian sense); authors’ rights, economic situation and state laws; digital comics; representations of death and evil; history, memory and lieux de mémoire

Courses & Teaching: Spanish

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Sustainability measurement and management; life cycle thinking; environmental and social life cycle assessment of food, feed and biomass supply chains; resource efficiency; social license and market access; trade-based externalization of environmental and social risk.

Courses & Teaching: Sustainable food systems; sustainability measurement and management; ecological economics.

Jenna Pelletier | Educational Administrative Systems Support Analyst (Provincial Role) | FoM Education | Southern Medical Program | jenna.pelletier@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Literary Studies, Biblical Studies, Religious Studies, and History of Ideas; literary study of the Bible; influence of the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature; Jewish/Christian relations in Medieval Iberia.

Courses & Teaching: Wold Literature; Spanish Culture and Literature; Ancient and Medieval Mythology, Biblical Literature, and Judeo-Spanish and Converso studies.

Stacy Penner | Communications Strategist (on leave) | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | stacy.penner@ubc.ca | ADM006 (WK11)

Dana Penney, MA | Sessional Lecturer | English and Cultural Studies | penneydm@mail.ubc.ca | FIP 322

Courses & Teaching: First-year English

Natalia Peñuela Gallo | Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, School of Nursing, Social Work | nataliap.gallo@ubc.ca | ART345

Research Interests:

Angela Perry | Administrative & Special Projects Coordinator | angela.perry@ubc.ca | 250.807.8604 | ADM006 (WK01)

Carol Perry | Adjunct Professor | Education | cperry01@mail.ubc.ca | 250.807.8589

Graduate student supervisor. Not accepting graduate students at this time.

Research Interests: Palliative and end-of-life care; Medical Assistance in Dying; volunteer and peer navigation models; nursing philosophy

Courses & Teaching: Nursing 580: Philosophy of Nursing Science

James Phelan | Sessional Instructor | English and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies | james.phelan@ubc.ca | Working remotely

Courses & Teaching: Digital Media; First-year English

Luca Piantanida | Research Associate | School of Engineering | luca.piantanida@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Economic Education and Pedagogy, Labour Economics, Discrimination, and Industrial Organization.

Courses & Teaching: ECON 370 - Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Economics of Project Evaluation; ECON 102 - Principles of Macroeconomics; ECON 351 - Women in the Economy

Paul Pickard | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | paul.pickard@ubc.ca | EME 4101

Research Interests: Painting, Abstraction, the phenomenal and imaginary world under night-time conditions.

Courses & Teaching: Drawing and Two-Dimensional Art Practices; Drawing I & II; Introduction to Painting; Advanced Painting; Advanced Art Practices; Intro to Art

Brian John Pickles | Adjunct Professor | Biology | b.j.pickles@reading.ac.uk | (+44) 118.378.7955

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Anthropogenic climate change impact assessment and adaptation; use of climate databases in assessing climate change; historical climate change at North American ski resorts; forecasts of future climate change at North American ski resorts.

Courses & Teaching: Physical geography; anthropogenic climate change physical science; climate change impact assessment and adaptation; statistical techniques in geography and earth science.

Graduate student supervisor. Not considering Psychology graduate students for September 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Lifespan neuropsychology; prematurity; hemispatial neglect; stroke; psychosocial impacts of adverse experiences including grief, loss, and substance use among children, youth, and families.

Courses & Teaching: Lifespan development; child development; developmental psychopathology

Emilie Pigeon | Affiliate Assistant Professor | Community, Culture and Global Studies | epigeon@mail.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Biogeography; landscape ecology; biodiversity conservation; community ecology; paleoecology; biodiversity patterns in space and time.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to Biostatitistics; Biodiversity: patterns and processes.

Katrina Plamondon | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | katrina.plamondon@ubc.ca | 250-807-8681

Graduate student supervisor. I am currently not accepting new graduate students, but will be again in 2023.

Research Interests: Connecting knowledge with action for health equity; global health; knowledge translation science; critical pedagogy; methods for relational, responsive research; dialogue-based research; arts-informed research; transformational research

Courses & Teaching: KTEA Knowledge to Equity Action Professional Development Course (Winter 2024) NURS 4429 Advanced Global Health Practice (Fall 2023) HEAL 307 (Winter 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) CCGHR Knowledge Translation Summer Course (Summer 2020, 2021)

Nikita Planz | MSc Student | Biology | nikita.planz@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Restoration ecology; grasslands

Research Interests: oxidative stress defences in anaerobic bacteria; microbe/metal interactions (e.g. Cu, U, As) and the role of microbes in biogeochemical cycles; antimicrobial peptides

Courses & Teaching: microbiology; biochemistry; prokaryotic physiology

Raphael Poirier | MSc Student | Chemistry | raphael.poirier@ubc.ca

Jérémie Poitras | MSc Student | Biology | jeremie.poitras@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF); Community Ecology; Sunflowers; Plant Symbiosis.

Jean Polfus | Adjunct Professor | Biology | jean.polfus@canada.ca | 250.469.1967

Research Interests: Interdisciplinary approaches to conservation, collaborative caribou management, diverse ways of knowing, Indigenous governance, language, and knowledge.

Lori Pollock | Program Coordinator, Years 1 & 2 | Southern Medical Program | lori.pollock@ubc.ca | 250.807.9601

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Low-valent main group compounds, catalysis, small molecule activation, conjugated materials.

Courses & Teaching: MGMT 480 Law and Business

Hana Prochazka | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | hana.prochazka@ubc.ca

Crystal Przybille, MFA | Sessional Instructor | Creative Studies, Visual Arts | crystal.przybille@ubc.ca

Research Interests: 3-D and 2-D Visual Art. Installation. Public sculpture. Participatory, Activist and Dialogical Art. Settler/Indigenous relations.

Courses & Teaching: VISA322: Advanced Sculpture

Sarah Purcell | Assistant Professor, CCDPM | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Southern Medical Program | sarah.purcell@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Dr. Purcell’s research focuses on nutrition, appetite, and energy expenditure with the ultimate goal of developing targeted, evidence-based nutrition guidelines for people with chronic diseases.

Ming Qiu | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | qiuminh2@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Watershed Hydrology; Landscape Ecology; Dynamic Hydrological Modelling

Research Interests: Prospection and characterization of antimicrobial peptides in plants.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Poetic Genres and Forms, Poetics of Collaboration, Community engaged poetics, Creative Nonfiction, Short Fiction, Community Engaged Writing, Literary Aesthetics, Literary History, Interdisciplinary Art Practices, Embodied Poetics, Disability Aesthetics.

Courses & Teaching: Creative writing, poetry, short story, non-fiction, writing and community learning.

Dyuti Raghu | PhD Student | Chemistry | dyuti.raghu@ubc.ca | FIP 308

Research Interests: Kinetics and applications of DNA nanostructures; Novel DNA architecture; Single-molecule biophysics; single-molecule fluorescence and force spectroscopy

Karen Ragoonaden | Associate Dean | Education | karen.ragoonaden@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Mindfulness and Well-Being, Conceptions of Teaching and Learning, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

Parinda Rahman | MSc Student | Computer Science | parinda1@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Persuasive Technologies; Human-Computer Interaction; Behavioural Anlaytics; Machine Learning; Data Analysis.

Rasika Rajapakshe | Adjunct Professor | Computer Science, Medical Physics | rasika.rajapakshe@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Medical imaging; deep learning in medical imaging; web and mobile technologies in health care; health and medical imaging informatics; cancer risk modeling; decision support systems in oncology.

Courses & Teaching: PHYS 336, COSC 335. Introduction to medical imaging; medical imaging informatics; deep learning in medical imaging.

Benjamin Ramirez (On Leave) | Assistant Professor of Teaching | Indigenous Studies | ben.ramirez@ubc.ca | LM4 625

Research Interests: Indigenous Survivance; Decolonization; Indigenous ways of knowing and being; Ojibwe knowledge; Indigenous Gender Identities and settler colonization.

Randolph Ramos | Executive Coordinator to the Regional Associate Dean and Assistant Dean, Interior | Southern Medical Program | randolph.ramos@ubc.ca

Madeleine Ransom | Assistant Professor | Philosophy | madeleine.ransom@ubc.ca | ART 338

Research Interests: Philosophy of Perception; Philosophy of Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Technology; Epistemology; Aesthetics.

Courses & Teaching: Philosophy of Technology

Faran Razi | Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow | Physics | frazi@mail.ubc.ca | FIP 309 or FIP 310

Manuela Reekie | Professor of Teaching | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | manuela.reekie@ubc.ca | ART 342

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Curriculum Development; Nursing Education; Clinical Speciality Practice Learning Pathways

Courses & Teaching: Has taught across all four years of the BSN program. Has also taught in the MSN program. Most recently developed and taught NRSG 310: Palliative Approach to Chronic Illness.

Cayla Reeve | Academic Programs Coordinator | Faculty of Management | cayla.reeve@ubc.ca | 4157

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Early modern women’s writing; children’s literary cultures (early modern to contemporary); early modern childhood and youth; Milton and early modern political theory; satiric fiction; women’s literature; Medieval and Renaissance studies; 16th and 17th-century literature; history of the novel; auto/biographical discourse; speculative fiction; feminist and queer theory.

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 151: Critical Studies in Literature; ENGL 212: Studies in Children’s Literature; ENGL 349A: Early Modern Women’s Writing; ENGL 349B: The Poetry and Politics of John Milton; ENGL 349C: Race and Gender in 17th-Century Literature and Culture; ENGL 423A/521E: Gender, Narrative, and Political Thought in 17th-Century English Culture; ENGL 521/416: Feminist Forerunners: Early Modern Women’s Literature and Contemporary Theory; ENGL 522/497: Politics of Innocence: Myths of Innocence, Identity, and the Impossibility of Children’s Fiction

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Comparative physiology, fish physiology, and metal metabolism in freshwater fish; how animals physiologically adjust to changes in the quality of their environment.

Courses & Teaching: Comparative animal physiology; membrane biophysics; general biology.

Colin Reid | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | colin.reid@ubc.ca

Susan Reid, PhD | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies | susan.reid@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Cultural studies, international law, laws of the sea, extractivism, environmental activism, oceanography; ecology, extinction, environmental studies, multibeing ontologies, multibeing justice, multispecies justice, climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, ocean, feminist and queer studies, ecofeminism, embodiment, intersectionality, new (still!) materialism, social justice, de-colonial & anti-colonialism studies, anti-racism studies, transdisciplinarity; Contemporary art; Creative Research

Liliana Renteria Martinez | Finance Research Analyst | School of Engineering | liliana.renteriamartinez@ubc.ca

Bradley Rey | Computer Science | bradley.rey@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Physiology of epithelial ion transport; insect toxicology; insect-plant interactions; metals toxicology; organic ion transport.

Courses & Teaching: Cellular physiology; vertebrate zoology; invertebrate zoology; insect physiology; biochemistry.

Research Interests: Industrial automation; Sensors and instrumentation; Distributed control & algorithms; Networked control systems; Optimization

Courses & Teaching: Industrial Automation; Engineering Measurements & Instrumentation; Factory Planning; Systems and Control; Modern Control; Mechatronics; Engineering Analysis I & II; Engineering Computation & Instrumentation; Vibration of Mechanical Systems

Melanie Riopelle | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | melanie.riopelle@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: First Year English

Amanda Rivet | Clinic Assistant, Interprofessional Clinic | Psychology | a.krehel@ubc.ca

Cathy Robinson (On Leave) | Associate Professor of Teaching | School of Nursing | Cathy.Robinson@ubc.ca | ART177

Courses & Teaching: NRSG 522 NRSG 523 NRSG 329 NRSG 339

Research Interests: Virtue Ethics and Applied Ethics. My conference presentations focus on healthcare ethics. My articles, mainly concerning Plato, appear in Phronesis, Journal of Philosophical Research, Teaching Philosophy, and Journal of Military Ethics.

Courses & Teaching: PHIL 230: Ethics and PHIL 435: Environmental Ethics

Carole Robinson | Professor Emeritus | School of Nursing | carole.robinson@ubc.ca

Pamela Robinson | Assistant Professor | Philosophy | pamela.robinson@ubc.ca | ART 241

Research Interests: Rationality; Ethics & Metaethics; Epistemology; AI Ethics & Safety.

Tim Robishaw | Adjunct Professor | Astrophysics | tim.robishaw@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Magnetic fields, interstellar medium, radio astronomy, spectropolarimetry, molecular clouds and masers.

Research Interests: Research Summary: Latin American security and political economy, Critical Security Studies, and Global Politics Theory.

Johanna Rode | Library Services Coordinator | Library Services | johanna.rode@ubc.ca | 250.807.8920

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: o Empirical Software Engineering o Mining Software Repositories o Social aspects of Software Engineering o EDI in Software Engineering o Bug prediction and detection o Software maintenance and evolution o Open Source Software o Large Language Models

Courses & Teaching: o COSC 210 Software Construction (Winter 2023/2024), o COSC 310 Software Engineering (Winter 2023/2024), o DATA 531 Programming for Data Science (Fall 2023/2024), (Fall 2022/2023) o DATA 532 Algorithms and Data Structure (Fall 2023/2024), (Fall 2022/2023) o COSC 499 Capstone Software Engineering Project (Fall-Winter 2022/2023), (Fall-Winter 2021/2022)

Charlene Esteban Ronquillo | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | charlene.ronquillo@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Health informatics; nursing; health equity; implementation science

Courses & Teaching: NRSG 504 - Finding and Integrating Knowledge for Evidence-Informed Practice (Spring 2022, 2024)

Tracy Ross, MFA | Lecturer | Creative Studies, Theatre | tracy.ross@ubc.ca | CCS 152

Courses & Teaching: FILM 103/THTR 103 Acting for Stage and Screen; THTR 101 Performance Improvisation; THTR 201 Performer/Creator Resources

Camille Rothkop | MSc Student | Biology | crothkop@student.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Soil microbial communities; wildfire burn severity; microbial recovery post-wildfire; forest soil ecosystems

Shreya Roy | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | shreya.roy@ubc.ca | FIP 221

Research Interests: Active tectonics; shear zones; structural geology; metamorphic petrology

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Sculpture, installation, photography, performance and the built environment.

Courses & Teaching: Visual Art, creative and critical theory, sculpture, studio practices.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Study the effect of concrete deterioration and steel corrosion on the behaviour of concrete structures; Repair and strengthening existing structures using composite materials (FRP, FRCM, TRM); Study post-consumer waste products in concrete

Courses & Teaching: APSC 261 Theory of Structures; ENGR 326 Structural Analysis; ENGR 427 Reinforced Concrete Design II; ENGR 429/ ENGR 529 Rehabilitation of Concrete Structures; ENGR 527 Prestressed Concrete

Jiao Rui | MSc Student | Chemistry | ruijiao@mail.ubc.ca

Christopher Ruiz | Sessional Instructor | Political Science | christopher.ruiz@ubc.ca

Research Interests: International politics, statesmanship, and political philosophy

Courses & Teaching: POLI 100, POLI 270

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: atrial fibrillation; rural cardiac service delivery; rural health equity, telehealth; aging; new graduate nurse transition

Courses & Teaching: NRSG 542: Introduction to Leadership and Management

Research Interests: Canadian social and political history.

Tessa D Russell | Clinical Faculty Coordinator | Southern Medical Program | tessad.russell@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Population genomics; conservation genetics; molecular ecology; life-history evolution.

Courses & Teaching: Evolution; population genetics; ecology; conservation biology.

Donna Russo | Faculty Coordinator | donna.russo@ubc.ca | 250.807.9189

Jessica Russo | Undergrad Program Assistant | School of Engineering | jessica.russo@ubc.ca | EME3253

Barbara Rutherford | Professor Emerita | Psychology | barbara.rutherford@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Communication between the hemispheres of the brain during reading in people with and without a reading disability such as dyslexia; developmental trends in hemispheric specialization for reading.

Courses & Teaching: Memory; cognitive processes.

Research Interests: Contemporary Art, Climate Change, Border Studies, Extractive Industry

Courses & Teaching: Photography,Visual Art

Michael Saad | Sessional Instructor | Communications, English and Cultural Studies | msaad03@mail.ubc.ca | CCS 350

Research Interests: Digital Media, Relationship Dynamics in Social Media, Public Speaking, Crisis Communication, Public Relations

Courses & Teaching: CORH 205: Communications in the Social Sciences

Saeed Sabzian | Lecturer | English, English and Cultural Studies | s.sabzian@ubc.ca | CCS 377

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 109 Studies in Composition for English Language Learners

Courses & Teaching: Experiment and Content Development for Physical Chemistry Labs; Physical and Quantum chemistry; Atmospheric and Water chemistry; First-Year Chemistry.

Muhammad Abdul Faheem Sadeque | Adjunct Professor | Engineering, School of Engineering | smuham01@mail.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Water Supply Systems; Infrastructure Management; Environmental Risk Analysis; Lifecycle Thinking; Water-Energy Nexus of Built Environment.

Adam Saifer (On Leave) | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Management | adam.saifer@ubc.ca | EME 4151

Research Interests: critical philanthropy studies; nonprofit organizations; sustainable community development; critical management studies; national identity; “the arts” and cultural production; racial capitalism; critical discourse analysis

Courses & Teaching: MGMT380 - Sustainability and Business

Louis Saitowitz | Program Coordinator, Years 1 & 2 | Southern Medical Program | louis.saitowitz@ubc.ca

Reza Sajaditabar | PhD Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | reza.sajaditabar@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Raquel Salalila | Program Assistant, Kelowna Site FP & SMP Fac Dev (UG/PG) | Southern Medical Program | raquel.salalila@ubc.ca

Cecilia Salazar Z., S. Eng. | Administrative Assistant | ceci.salazar@ubc.ca

Pawanjit Kaur Sandhu | PhD Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | pawanjit.sandhu@ubc.ca

Stacey Sandison | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | stacey.sandison@ubc.ca

Research Interests: transformational leadership operational leadership change management in complex environments program development regional and provincial policy development political advocacy

Courses & Teaching: Nursing - Policy and Regulation

Halina Sapeha | Assistant Professor | Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, Political Science | halina.sapeha@ubc.ca

Research Interests: global public policy; comparative public policy; multi-level governance; evidence-informed policy-making; global migration governance.

Courses & Teaching: International politics; constitutional law; international law

John Sasso | Assistant Professor of Teaching | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | john.sasso@ubc.ca

Ian Saunders | Associate Professor Emeritus | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | ian.saunders@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Climatology; glaciology; and mountain environments.

Courses & Teaching: Climatology; meteorology; cartography and remote sensing.

Marcus Savery | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | marcus.savery@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Biogeochemistry; soil methanotrophy; stable isotopes; tracing of natural greenhouse gas emission and uptake and implications on climate change; automation of gas sampling and monitoring equipment using microcontrollers

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Linguistic anthropology; First Nations language and culture; land claims and Aboriginal Title; ethnolinguistics, ethnohistory, social memory, oral history, landscape, and traditional land use studies; works with First Nations communities on language issues such as language maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages

Courses & Teaching: Linguistic anthropology; language documentation and revitalization

Adam Lewis Schroeder, MFA | Sessional Lecturer | Creative Studies, Creative Writing | adam.schroeder@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Novel; short story; historical fiction; genre fiction; creative non-fiction; young adult genre fiction.

Courses & Teaching: CRWR 160, Intro to Writing Fiction & Drama; CRWR 470, Portfolio

Research Interests: Contemporary Latin American Literature, Hispanic Cinema, Chilean Literature: José Donoso, Jorge Edwards, Adolfo Couve.

Courses & Teaching: Spanish language: First year to Advanced Composition, Mexican Literature: Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Elena Poniatowska, Chilean Literature: Adolfo Couve, José Donoso, Ariel Dorfman, and Jorge Edwards, Latin American and Spanish Literature, Latin American and Spanish Cinema. Gay Images in Mexican Cinema

Mike Scinocca | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | mscinocc@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Spatial riparian ecosystem modelling, vegetation structure influences on stream processes, LiDAR and spectral data applications.

Research Interests: Hydrological effects of forest management and land use change; the effects of wildfire on hydrology and erosion; the effects of fast-growing timber plantations on stream flow (water yield and low flows); analysis of paired catchment experiments.

Courses & Teaching: Soil science; land-use hydrology; environmental assessment. Specifically: EESC 456/GEOG 466 Soil Science; EESC/GEOG 205 Introduction to Hydrology; EESC 101 Environmental Science; GEOG 316 Geography of Natural Hazards.

Troy Sebastian | Sessional Instructor | Creative Studies, Creative Writing | troy.sebastian@ubc.ca | CCS 163

Courses & Teaching: CRWR 470, Portfolio | Indigenous Art Intensive

Graduate student supervisor. Enrollment of new graduate students is currently on hold.

Research Interests: Stress analysis in metal castings, components, and joints; Solidification, phase evolution and transformation; Lightweight alloy development for automotive and aerospace industries; Phase and structural transformation in metals; Material properties - ferrous and lightweight alloys and metal matrix composites; Ferrous and non-ferrous alloys: casting, heat treatment, and forming technologies; Thermal dynamics, heat transfer in metallurgical engineering.

Courses & Teaching: Industrial manufacturing: processes and technologies; Materials science: metals, specialty alloys, and metal matrix composites; Metallurgy: solidification and thermal processing, phase analysis, stress evolution, process optimization

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Mechatronics for automobiles; sensor less control of piezoelectric actuators, machine tool process control; optimisation of carbon nanotube reinforced composite materials

Courses & Teaching: Engineering Mechanics; Modelling of dynamic systems; Design and optimisation of mechatronic systems; Numerical methods for real-time control applications

Sumer Seiki, PhD | Associate Professor | Education | sumer.seiki@ubc.ca | EME 3161

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Science education; narrative inquiry; social justice

Courses & Teaching: EPSE 468 (3) Creating Positive Learning Environments for Inclusive Education

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: rural resilience, tourism and sustainability, landscapes of wine and food, international experiential education

Courses & Teaching: GEOG 129 Human Geography: Resources, Development and Society; GEOG/SUST 201 Research Methods in Geography and Sustainability, GEOG 318 Rural Geographies; GEOG 365 Parks and Protected Areas Management, GEOG 371 Research Strategies in Human Geography; GEOG 434 Tourism Geographies; GEOG 435 Wine Geographies; GEOG/SUST 491 Selected Topics in Geography and Sustainability: Rural Sustainability: Wine; Food and Tourism in Central Italy

Shawn Serfas, MFA | Department Head, Associate Professor | Creative Studies, Visual Arts | shawn.serfas@ubc.ca | CCS 153

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Contemporary Painting, Drawing and Printmaking practices; Environmental Sciences; Landscape pictorial conventions and issues bordering Relational Abstraction and Representation; Collaboration and interdisciplinary research methods; Religion; Chaos theory and anti-aesthetic theory

Courses & Teaching: All levels of Painting, Drawing, Printmaking (lithography, etching and relief processes); 2-D/3-D Design theory; studio theory; advanced seminar and research practices

Robert Serrouya | Adjunct Professor | Biology | serrouya@ualberta.ca

Sana Shahram, PhD, MPH | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention (IHLCDP), School of Nursing | sana.shahram@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor. Use 'contact us' section of website to submit interest in joining the lab (no emails pls).

Research Interests: Health Equity; Critical Population Health; Health Systems Transformation; Anti-colonial & anti-racist public health systems; Public Health; Mental Health and Substance Use; Maternal & Child Health; Complex Systems Change; Community- & Indigenous Nation- Led Research

Robert Shave | Professor | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | rob.shave@ubc.ca | 250.807.9708

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Shave's work examines the acute and chronic effects of exercise and/or environmental stress upon the heart.

Catherine Shaw, PhD | Lecturer | English, English and Cultural Studies | cathi.shaw@ubc.ca | CCS 339

Research Interests: Composition and Rhetoric, Foundational Writing, Multilingual Learners, Curriculum Theory & Implementation, Graduate Student Writing

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 112: Studies in Composition, ENGL 150: Introduction to Literary Genre, ENGL 203: Topics in Composition

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Canadian and American poetry; literary audio; literary archives; media studies; feminist theory; sound studies; oral history; digital humanities; editing and publishing; history of higher education, particularly the development of Creative Writing as an academic discipline in Canadian universities.

Courses & Teaching: English; Digital Arts & Humanities

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Computer vision; video and image processing; intelligent cameras; biomedical applications; new algorithms for emerging industrial applications and software design of video surveillance systems.

Brontë Shelton | PhD Student | Biology | bronte.shelton@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Environmental Microbiololgy; Grassland Ecosystems; Land Use and Overexploitation; Microbial Community Analysis; Environmental Gradients; Meta’omics

Research Interests: Urban economics, economic history

Courses & Teaching: Econometrics; Data and Statistics

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Change point analysis; saddle point approximation; inverse moment approximation; k-sample inference, and cluster analysis.

Jill Shillito | MSc Student | Biology | jill.shillito@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Exploring the effects of female ovarian sex hormones in appetite, dietary intake, physical activity, and sleep behaviours across the lifespan.

Roger Shiner | Adjunct Professor | Philosophy | roger.shiner@ubc.ca | 250.470.0333

Research Interests: Philosophy of Law; criminal law, esp. as concerns corporations; freedom of expression, esp. as concerns corporations; 20th-century analytical philosophy of law

Courses & Teaching: Most recently taught Philosophy of Law, Business Ethics, Computer Ethics, Contemporary Moral Issues

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Organic chemistry; natural products biosynthesis; the biochemistry of secondary metabolism; nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry; rational modification of biosynthetic pathways in bacteria to produce novel compounds with the potential to be pharmacologically relevant.

Courses & Teaching: Organic chemistry; structural spectrometry; bioorganic chemistry

Research Interests: (Not supervising/hiring graduate students) Control Systems Autonomous Vehicles

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate: APSC 173 Engineering Analysis II APSC 177 Engineering Computation and Instrumentation APSC 179 Linear Algebra for Engineers APSC 256 Numerical Methods for Analysis ENGR 480 Modern Control ENGR 486 Robot Modeling and Control ENGR 487 Digital Control ENGR 494 Autonomous Vehicle Technology Graduate: ENGR 535 Autonomous Vehicle Technology ENGR 580 Modern Control ENGR 586 Robot Modeling and Control ENGR 587 Digital Control

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Behaviour of unsaturated clay; Chemical and biological treatment of problematic soils; Underground nuclear waste disposal modeling

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 340 SOIL MECHANICS; ENGR 440 FOUNDATION ENGINEERING; ENGR 444 SOLID WASTE ENGINEERING; Multiple Graduate-Level Courses in the Areas of Energy and the Environment

Jodi Siever | Bio-statistical Analyst | jodi.siever@ubc.ca | 250.807.9025 | Reichwald Health Sciences Centre

Research Interests: Canadian Charter Rights and Public Policy, Federalism, Constitutional Theory, Theories of Constitutional Interpretation, Judicial Politics, Comparative Constitutional Law, and Democratic Theory.

Courses & Teaching: Canadian Charter Politics, Federalism, Comparative Constitutional Law, Democratic Theory.

Ellen Simmons | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | ellen.simmons@alumni.ubc.ca

Research Interests: I am looking into developing a better understanding of the complexities around socio-ecological systems as they relate to grizzly bears / huckleberries and forest practices through the lens of Indigenous and western science approaches. The research will contribute to a collaborative research-based model between Indigenous and academic communities.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Gender, Health and Sport, Qualitative Methods, Self and Identity, Symbolic Interaction, Deviance and Social Problems, Social Media.

Courses & Teaching: Sociology of gender, sociology of sport, introduction to sociology, qualitative methods.

Nishtha Singh | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | nsingh26@mail.ubc.ca

Katelyn Singler | Finance Manager | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | katelyn.singler@ubc.ca | ADM006J

Arthur Skotnicki | Year 4 Electives Lead | arthur.skotnicki@ubc.ca

Onyx Sloan Morgan | Assistant Professor | Community, Culture and Global Studies | onyx.sloanmorgan@ubc.ca | ART 252

Research Interests: Critical human geography; resource extraction; queer geographies; settler colonialism; youth-led research and social movements; modern treaties

Courses & Teaching: GEOG 217: Geographies of BC; GEOG 358: Gender, Place & Culture; GEOG 460: Critical Geographies of the Anthropocene; GEOG/GWST 426: Queer Geographies; IGS 550: Voice, Justice, Change

Alyssa Smart | MSc Student | Biology | alyssa.smart@ubc.ca | FIP 226

Research Interests: Employing life cycle assessment to quantify GHG emissions and energy costs of irrigation in the Okanagan.

Michelle Smith | Adjunct Professor | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | michelle.smith@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Poetry (verbatim, concrete, confessional, spoken word), novel, short fiction, creative nonfiction/memoir, experimental short film and videopoems, writing with digital media (ie Twitter, Instagram, video, podcasting, audio installation, YouTube, etc.), with particular focus on queer oral history and memoir, as well as small town and working class stories.

Courses & Teaching: CRWR 474 Writing with Media, 472 Editing and Publishing, 470 Novel, 250 Screenwriting, 216 Poetry, 210 Power of Story, 160 Fiction and Drama

Trent Smith | Site Co-Director, Undergraduate Education, Kamloops RIH | Southern Medical Program | trent.smith@interiorhealth.ca | Royal Inland Hospital

David Smith | Associate Professor Emeritus | Biology | dave.smith@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Synthesis and reactivity of paramagnetic organometallic chromium compounds of relevance to catalytic carbon-carbon bond forming reactions; single electron transfer reactions and electronic structure effects in synthetic organometallic chemistry.

Courses & Teaching: Inorganic synthesis; organometallic chemistry; coordination chemistry; transition metal catalysts.

Megan Smith, PhD | Associate Professor | Creative Studies, Media Studies | megan.smith@ubc.ca | IA1 131

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: New media art, immersive art and storytelling, virtual reality, physical computing, critical design, geo location, visual art, interactive art, climate change, satellites, orbital environment

Courses & Teaching: Media Studies, Master of Design

Miranda Smith | MSc Student | Biology | Miranda.smith@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Energy balance; appetite; energy intake.

Angus Smith | PhD Student | Biology | smith0@mail.ubc.ca | SCI 149

Research Interests: Landscape ecology; Animal Movement; Animal Habitat Selection; Remotely Sensed habitat products (e.g., satellite imagery, lidar); Migration; Effects of Landscape Disturbance on Animal Movement and Habitat Selection

Emily Snyder | Associate Professor | Sociology | emily.snyder@ubc.ca | ART 315

Research Interests: Socio-legal studies; social inequalities; gender, sexuality, and law; HIV criminalization; Indigenous laws and legal issues; connections between health and law.

Courses & Teaching: Fundamentals of Sociological Research; Sexuality, Law, and Society; Social Inequality; Feminist Theory

Barbara Sobol, MLIS | Technology Management Librarian | Library Services | barbara.sobol@ubc.ca | 250.807.8063

Courses & Teaching: Subject Librarian for: Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, and Engineering.

Shimenia Sobreira | Administrative Assistant | Library Administration | shimenia.sobreira@ubc.ca

Dixon Sookraj | Associate Professor | Social Work | dixon.sookraj@ubc.ca | 250-807-8703

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Participatory research to promote health and wellbeing Policies and processes of social service delivery systems in responding to the needs and aspirations of marginalized groups, including Indigenous Peoples.

Courses & Teaching: Social Work Theory and Practice, Organizational Practice, Community Practice, Child and Family Welfare Policy, Research and International Social Work.

Research Interests: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Research in Innovative Teaching Strategies designed for Higher Education

Courses & Teaching: Anatomy and Physiology, Lifespan Motor Growth and Development; Pathophysiology

Annamaria Soth | Finance Clerk | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | annamaria.soth@ubc.ca | ADM006 (WK10)

Alison Spadafora | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | alison.spadafora@interiorhealth.ca

Courses & Teaching: Adolescent mental health; psychological assessment.

Sarah Speier | School Assistant | Social Work | sarah.speier@ubc.ca

Selina Spence | MSc Student | Biology | selina.spence@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Mycology; Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi; Microbial Ecology; Invasive species; Molecular Biology.

Sheena Spencer | Adjunct Professor | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | sheena.spencer@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Critical pedagogy, intercultural communication, memoirs/autobiography

Courses & Teaching: World Literatures

Cameron Spooner | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | cgspoon@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Sustainable water resource management; Climate change and hydrology; Integrated watershed management; Hydrological impact assessment.

Pamela Sproule | Site Co-Director, Undergraduate Education, Kamloops RIH | Southern Medical Program | pamela.sproule@interiorhealth.ca | Royal Inland Hospital

Michelle St. Pierre | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Psychology | michelle.stpierre@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Cannabis use; psychedelics; microdosing; expectancy effect and psychoactive drugs

Darnel St.Pierre | Community Coordinator, e@UBCO (On Leave) | Entrepreneurship@UBCO, Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | darnel.stpierre@ubc.ca | ADM006 (WK10)

Darian Stahl, PhD | Sessional Lecturer | Creative Studies, Visual Arts | darian.stahl@ubc.ca | CCCS 346

Courses & Teaching: Printmaking

Todd Statham | Sessional Instructor | English and Cultural Studies | todd.statham@ubc.ca | FIP 322

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 150 | Introduction to Literary Genre

John Steeves | Adjunct Professor | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | steeves@icord.org

Sierra Stephens | Library Services Assistant - Collections | Library Services | sierra.stephens@ubc.ca | 250.807.9153

Sue Sterling-Bur | Manager, Strategy and Operations Indigenous Initiatives | Community, Culture and Global Studies | sue.sterlingbur@ubc.ca | LM 622

Sarah Stevens | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | sarah.stevens@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Transnational solidarity movements; politics and culture of the left; history of cinema.

Courses & Teaching: Latin America; Global South; documentary filmmaking.

Mary Stockdale | Adjunct Professor | Geography | mary.stockdale@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Community natural resource management, environment and resilience, community-based management of forests, specifically non-timber forest products (NTFP), environmental and resilience-related initiatives.

Courses & Teaching: Geography of food systems, natural resource management, development of environmental thought, sustainability and planning, community resilience, ethnobotany, ethnoecology.

Jeffrey Stonehouse | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | jeff.stonehouse@ubc.ca | 250.807.9941

Tanya Stoparczyk | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | tanya.stoparczyk@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Composition and writing studies; scholarship of teaching and learning; Canadian and Caribbean literature.

Courses & Teaching: English, Communications and Rhetoric

Vicente Stranger | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | vstranm@mail.ubc.ca

Morgan Straza | Clinical Assistant | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | morgan.straza@ubc.ca | CCS 251

Laura Struik | Assistant Professor | School of Nursing | laura.struik@ubc.ca | 2508079972

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Nicotine dependence; cancer prevention; tobacco control; youth and young adults; health promotion and gender-sensitive approaches; behavior change using digital technologies

Courses & Teaching: NRSG 500: Nursing Knowledge NRSG 597: Capstone Practicum Course

Courses & Teaching: I primarily teach in the acute care portion of the second year of the BSN program, in which students are introduced to the fundamentals of caring for clients in a medical or surgical setting. I generally teach: NRSG 226 Health and Healing II NRSG 227 Health and Healing III These two theory courses focus on evidence-informed assessment and management of health challenges. I also teach some sections of: NRSG 236 Nursing Practice II NRSG 237 Nursing Practice III These practice courses utilize an Intentional Learning framework to support students to integrate knowledge, skills, and abilities in the clinical practice setting.

Roger Sugden (On Leave) | Professor | Faculty of Management | roger.sugden@ubc.ca | EME 4145

Sara Summerfield | Program Coordinator, Psychiatry, (UG/PG) Interior | Southern Medical Program | sara.summerfield@interiorhealth.ca

Monique Sunderland | Administrative Assistant, (UG/PG) - Interior | Southern Medical Program | monique.sunderland@interiorhealth.ca

Wayne Sutton | Sessional Lecturer | Creative Studies, Visual Arts | wayne.sutton@ubc.ca | FIP 319

Courses & Teaching: VISA 245: Sculpture

Nicholas Swart | Electrical | Nicholas.Swart@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Literacy Coaching as a Tool for Professional Development; Differentiated Instruction; Quality Instructional and Assessment Practices.

Courses & Teaching: Courses in the Post Bac Program, Summer Institute in Education and in the Master's Program

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Computational chemistry of iron-sulphur coordination compounds, clusters, nanoparticles, and mineral surfaces; chemical structure and properties of templated carbon materials; synchrotron spectroscopy of inorganic, bioinorganic, and organometallic complexes.

Courses & Teaching: Environmental Chemistry and Computational Chemistry

Graduate student supervisor. Not considering Psychology graduate students for September 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Rural mental health; barriers to accessing mental health services by adults 50 years and older in rural communities; media and mental health-related stigma; role of media in combating stigmatizing attitudes about mental health disorders and suicide.

Courses & Teaching: Mental health disorders, counselling and interviewing skills

Mitra Tabatabaee | Affiliate Assistant Professor | Biology, Chemistry | mitra.tabatabaee@ubc.ca | FIP 236

Research Interests: Microbiology of Built Systems; Signaling; Chemotaxis; Chemotaxis in Brain Cancer cells (Glioma);

Courses & Teaching: Environmental microbiology; Food and Industrial Microbiology; Virology

Research Interests: Electroless Nickel-Phosphorus coatings; Materials selection in potash brine environment; Properties of Carbon nanotubes

Courses & Teaching: Coating and Protection (Grad) ; Corrosion Engineering (4th Year); Capstone Design (4th Year); Materials Selection (4th Year); Automated Manufacturing (4th Year); Materials Selection (4th Year); Materials Science (3rd year); Engineering Materials (3nd year); Physical Metallurgy (3rd Year); Introduction to Materials Science (2rd year); Statics (1st Year); Dynamics (1st Year); Linear Algebra (1st Year); Engineering Fundamentals (1st Year); Engineering Drawing and CAD/CAM (1st Year); Engineering Design I (1st Year)

Asfiya Taji | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Faculty of Management | asfiya.taji@ubc.ca

Mahdi Takaffoli | Senior Research Engineer | Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) | mahdi.takaffoli@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: Japanese Language; Japanese Culture

Research Interests: Ndé consciousness of time, place, and homeland; Indigenous women’s consciousness of land-based relations in Kónitsąąíí gokíyaa (Lipan Apache country); Indigenous consciousness along the Río Grande River; Indigenous Peoples & Human Rights; Borders; Militarization; Memory; Indigenous decolonial concepts; Self-Determination; Transitional Justice; the Poetics of Indigenous Movements.

Courses & Teaching: Indigenous perspectives of history, colonization and decolonization; Indigenous decolonial thought on governance and self-determination; Indigenous women’s consciousness and activism; Indigenous poetics of resistance and transformation

Research Interests: Geotechnical Engineering; Geohazards; Rock Support; Rockfall Mitigation; Excavations in Rock

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 340 Soil Mechanics ENGR 438 Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering ENGR 440 Foundation Engineering ENGR 538 Rock Engineering ENGR 539 Terrain Modelling and Analysis ENGR 598 Blasting and Explosives

Marie Tarrant, RN, MPH, PhD | Dean | Faculty of Health and Social Development | marie.tarrant@ubc.ca | ARTS 360

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Maternal and Child Health; Breastfeeding; Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative; Maternal and Childhood Vaccine Uptake; Influenza Vaccine

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Information geometry, topological data analysis, queueing theory and applications in telecommunication systems, random walks in quarter plane and applications in probability modeling.

Courses & Teaching: Recent teaching: Algebraic Number Theory, Abstract Algebra I & II, Stochastic Processes, Queueing Theory, Calculus (all levels), Topology, Algebraic Topology, Topological Data Analysis, Applied Probability, and many Directed Studies in different areas in Math.

Kuselah Tayaban | PhD Student | Biology | kuselahmae.tayaban@ubc.ca | ASC 374

Research Interests: Mycorrhizal symbiosis, soil microbial ecology, host-microbe interactions

Edward Taylor | Associate Professor | Social Work | edward.taylor@ubc.ca | 250-807-8740

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Geriatric nursing Emergency nursing Experience of emergency nursing caring for geriatric patients Theory-practice gap in nursing education

Courses & Teaching: Health and Healing in 3rd and 4th year Nursing 336- clinical practice in a medical setting Nursing 337- clinical practice in a srugical setting

Deanne Taylor, PhD | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | deanne.taylor@interiorhealth.ca

Research Interests: Current areas of research include discovering resident/patient experience, care-giving, family, health and aging, policy, regulations, and the intersection between worker characteristics and workplace conditions and the influences on the conditions of care.

Courses & Teaching: Dr. Taylor has presented at numerous times at local, provincial, national and international conferences and scientific meetings in sociology, gerontology, and health care. She is a co-investigator, collaborator, and knowledge user/decision-maker on a several research projects that range from regional, provincial, national, and international levels.

Brandon Taylor, PhD | Sessional Lecturer | English and Cultural Studies | brandon.taylor@ubc.ca | CCS 336

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 150 Introduction to Literary Genre

Ladan Tazik | Data Science | ladan.tazik@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Assess human-induced trophic cascades on farmlands; identify changes in predator diet and movement patterns in response to non-lethal predator control measures; identify key variables that predict caracal kill site selection on farmlands.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Urban and social geography with an emphasis on migration processes; community formation, housing, and neighborhood change; ethnic entrepreneurship and the social structure of Canadian cities; gentrification; racialization in the city; class segregation; urban form.

Courses & Teaching: Geography 128: Human Geography: Space, Place and Community Geography 129: Human Geography: Resources, Development and Society Geography 351: Urban Social Geography Geography 353: Geographies of Migration and Settlement (Portugal and the Azores/2013) Geography 371: Research Methods in Human Geography Geography 454: Geographies of Housing (Romania and Bulgaria/2012) Geography 458: Population Geography

Tony Teke | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics, Physics | tteke2@bccancer.bc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Monte Carlo modeling; 4 Pi treatment planning optimization and verification; 4D dose calculation; SBRT/SRS; quality assurance tests for trajectory treatments.

Graduate student supervisor. Not considering Psychology graduate students for September 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Deception; lie detection; nonverbal behaviour; psychopathy; power and influence; leadership

Solomon Tesfamariam | Affiliate Professor | Civil | solomon.tesfamariam@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Seismic risk assessment of infrastructure; Multi-hazard design; Hybrid building

David Theilmann | Adjunct Professor | Biology | david.theilmann@agr.gc.ca | 250.494.6395

Isabelle Therriault | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences, Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | isabelle.therriault@ubc.ca

Suzanne Therrien | Research Support Coordinator | suzanne.therrien@ubc.ca

Sharon Thesen, MFA | Professor Emerita | Creative Studies, Creative Writing | sharon.thesen@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Nonparametric statistics, distance metric learning, clustering, change-point analysis; Applications to wildfire science, behavioural finance and climate finance.

Courses & Teaching: Advanced regression. Environmetrics.

Research Interests: Mycorhizal fungi; plant-soil interactions; and community ecology.

Duane Thomson | Professor Emeritus | History | duane.thomson@shaw.ca

Research Interests: British Columbia history, First Nations and Metis history and Okanagan history.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Music Information Retrieval, Interactive Sound Art, Sound Design, Task Analysis, Machine Learning

Courses & Teaching: Media Studies; Computer Science

Michelle Tinling | Manager Library Services | Library Services | michelle.tinling@ubc.ca | LIB 311

Research Interests: Behaviour and curing of concrete; Design and behaviour of cementitious materials; Durability of concrete infrastructure under chemical and physical damage mechanisms.

Courses & Teaching: APSC 173 Engineering Analysis II; APSC 258 Applications of Engineering Design; APSC 259 Materials Science I; APSC 260 Mechanics of Materials I; APSC 261 Theory of Structures; ENGR 325 Civil Engineering Materials; ENGR 413 Law and Ethics for Engineers; ENGR 426 Analysis of Indeterminate Structures; ENGR 430 System-Based Design and Construction; ENGR 476 Mechanics of Materials II; ENGR 492 Finite Element Methods; Graduate Course; ENGR 582 Finite Element Methods;

Lisa Tobber | Assistant Professor | Civil, School of Engineering | lisa.tobber@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Structural engineering; tall buildings; seismic design of precast concrete; disaster resilient buildings; reinforced concrete buildings

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 414 / APSC514 Precast Concrete Structures APSC 261 Theory of structures

Kyle Tollefson | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | tollefkt@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Structural geology; tectonics & microstructures; geochronology; geothermobarometry; igneous and metamorphic petrology; evolution of shear zones.

Courses & Teaching: French Language

Research Interests: A feminist anthropologist/archaeologist with field and historical research in Eastern & Central Europe, Siberia, South Africa, Dr. Tomášková is interested in knowledge production, particularly about places and spaces in the deep past, as alternatives to modernity.

Patricia Tomic | Associate Professor Emerita | Sociology | patricia.tomic@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Politics of language; Latin American immigration to Canada; feminism; Chile; the Okanagan.

Courses & Teaching: Sociological theory; sociology of education; feminism.

Dania Tomlinson | Marketing and Communications Specialist | Communications | dania.tomlinson@ubc.ca

Jamie Tomlinson | Field Education Coordinator | Social Work | jamie.tomlinson@ubc.ca | 250-807-8587

Courses & Teaching: French as a Second Language

Grant Topor | Professional Development Officer | School of Engineering | grant.topor@ubc.ca | EME 3261

Ryan Trafananko | Curatorial Assistant | Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies | ryan.trafananko@ubc.ca | FIP 317

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: American Literature, especially the colonial and antebellum periods; religious studies; American Cultural Studies; science fiction.

Amanda Tregilges | Clinical Assistant | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | amanda.tregilges@ubc.ca | CCS 251

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Old English Language and Literature. Paleography and the digital editing of texts. Mystical Theology and suffering. Tolkien.

Courses & Teaching: Old English Language and Literature, Chaucer, Middle English Mystical Writings, Latin.

Elizabeth Trudel, PhD | Lecturer | Mechanical, School of Engineering | elizabeth.trudel@ubc.ca | EME3277

Research Interests: Plug and abandonment of oil and gas wells; wellbore leakage; thermofluids

Courses & Teaching: APSC 179 - Linear Algebra For Engineers APSC 182 - Matter and Energy I APSC 252 - Thermodynamics APSC 256 - Numerical Methods for Analysis ENGR 385 - Heat Transfer Applications ENGR 497 - Combustion Processes

Ricardo Trumper | Associate Professor Emeritus | Sociology | ricardo.trumper@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Latin America; neoliberalism; racism.

Courses & Teaching: Sociology of development; sociology of fear; political sociology; Latin America; racism.

David Trumpower | Education | david.trumpower@ubc.ca | 250.807.8106 | EME3101

Research Interests: Concept maps; Conceptual knowledge; Assessment Cognitive and learning theories; Mathematics and sciences; Statistical reasoning

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Algebraic topology; calculus of functors and its applications to embeddings including knots and links; manifold calculus; homotopy theory; graph complexes

Courses & Teaching: Calculus; Matrix Algebra

Umar Turaki, MFA | Lecturer | Creative Studies, Creative Writing | umar.turaki@ubc.ca | FIP 322

Research Interests: Creative Writing: Fiction, Nonfiction, Novel, Short Story; Film: Screenwriting, Directing, Producing

Courses & Teaching: CRWR 473: Writing and Community Learning; CRWR 475: Preparing for a Career as a Writer; CRWR 310: The Power of Metaphor; CRWR 380: Writing of the Short Story; CRWR 217: Intermediate Workshop in Creative Writing: Fiction; CRWR 160: Introduction to Fiction and Drama

Marni Turek | Watershed Management Research Extension Facilitator, Career and Personal Education Program Coordinator | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | marni.turek@ubc.ca

Derek Turner | Sessional Instructor | Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | derek.turner@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Quaternary and glacial geology in northwestern North America

Courses & Teaching: EESC 212/GEOG 200

Ian Turner | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Biology | iturne01@student.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Mathematical biology and spatial ecology; mathematical models of ecological systems; the development and analysis of mathematical and computational models; cyclic predator-prey populations.

Courses & Teaching: Mathematical biology; partial differential equations; ordinary differential equations; numerical analysis.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Solar energy conversion; Photovoltaics; Solar fuels; Thin film semiconductors

Courses & Teaching: APSC182 Matter & Energy I, ENGR475 Materials Selection and Design; ENGR478 Alternative Energy Systems; APSC504 Solar Cell Engineering

AKM Amanat Ullah | Sessional Lecturer | Computer Science | amanat.ullah@ubc.ca | FIP 309 or FIP 310

Courses & Teaching: COSC 211, COSC 407

Research Interests: Social epistemology, philosophy of language, translation studies, philosophy of social sciences.

Courses & Teaching: Philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of social sciences.

José Ramón Úrbez-Torres | Adjunct Professor | Biology | joseramon.urbeztorres@agr.gc.ca | 250.404.3359

Peter Urmetzer | Associate Professor Emeritus | Sociology | peter.urmetzer@ubc.ca | ART 315

Research Interests: Economic sociology; particularly globalization and free trade; how non-economic factors, such as values and culture, influence economic decision making.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to sociology; Canadian society; political economy; survey methods.

Marcela Valania | Honorary Research Associate, Sessional Lecturer | Faculty of Management | marcela.valania@ubc.ca | EME 4141

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Dr. van Donkelaar's research focuses on gaining a better understanding of traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to intimate partner violence. Dr. van Donkelaar is currently not accepting any new graduate students.

Courses & Teaching: HES 480: Concussion

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Data-driven and learning control; system identification; control of robotics and mechatronic systems; emerging applications in agriculture and health care

Finnegan Vanderkam | MSc Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | finnvan@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Rhetoric and Composition; Second Language Acquisition, community engagement

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 112, English for Academic Purposes (EAP 104)

Lizanne Venter | Year 4 Electives Lead | Southern Medical Program | lizanne.venter@ubc.ca

Andrea Alejandra Verdugo Meza | Sessional Lecturer | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | andrea.verdugomeza@ubc.ca | ASC 374

Research Interests: The protective role of designer probiotics in ulcerative colitis models.

Courses & Teaching: BIOL 318

Victoria Verge | Creative Studies, Visual Arts | victoria.verge@ubc.ca | CCS 168

Paula Verholen | Change Management Specialist | paula.verholen@ubc.ca | 250.801.8219 | OM 1

Anita Verhun | Research Finance Assistant | Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, School of Nursing, Social Work | anita.verhun@ubc.ca

Research Interests: United States history.

Courses & Teaching: United States; French Americas.

Research Interests: Early Modern Religious Literature. English Puritanism and Reformed Scholasticism. Augustinian Thought in the European Reformations. Sacramental Theology in Tudor and Stuart Conformist Tradition. CS Lewis.

Courses & Teaching: English Literature Survey, Contemporary Novel and Shorter Fiction, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Early Modern Spiritual and Theological Writing, New Testament Greek.

Jeanette Vinek | Associate Professor of Teaching | School of Nursing | jeanette.vinek@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: Subject Librarian for: Astronomy, Biology, Computer Science, Data Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Math, Physical Geography, Physics, and Statistics.

Tanja Voegel, Dr. rer. nat. | BRAES Coordinator | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES) | tanja.voegel@ubc.ca | SCI 377

Kinga Vojnits | Sessional Lecturer | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | kinga.vojnits@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: BIOC 407

Research Interests: General relativity; black holes; cosmology; string theory.

Courses & Teaching: Electromagnetic field theory; quantum mechanics; general relativity.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: The overall goals of my research are to investigate how physical activity behaviours relate to current and long-term health outcomes in children in both clinical and community-based settings, and to identify strategies to improve physical activity participation in children. I collaborate with Interior Health on projects relating to pediatric diabetes and BC Children's Hospital Research Institute to address physical activity behaviours in children and youth with congenital heart disease.

Courses & Teaching: Graduate Student Supervision, 'Experimental Medicine' and 'Women+ and Children’s Health Sciences (WACH)' Graduate Programs, Faculty of Medicine, UBC FLEX Student Supervision, MD Undergraduate Program, UBC MEDD 412 and MEDD 421 Case-Based Learning, MD Undergraduate Program, Southern Medical Program, UBC R1 Academic Half Day Research Course, General Pediatrics Residency Program, Department of Pediatrics, BC Children’s Hospital, UBC WACH 501: Advanced topics in women+’s and children’s health; Women+ and Children’s Health Sciences (WACH) Graduate Program, Faculty of Medicine, UBC Former Site Director FLEX (MEDD 419, MEDD 429, MEDD 449), MD Undergraduate Program, Southern Medical Program, UBC (2020-2021)

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Mixture models; supervised and unsupervised learning; computational statistics and biostatistics.

Courses & Teaching: Statistics, data science.

Leah Wafler | Associate Academic Governance Officer | leah.wafler@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Environmental anthropology; political ecology; water governance; food security and food sovereignty, local ecological knowledge, conservation and development, language documentation, Okanagan Valley, Columbia River Basin and the Columbia River Treaty, Papua New Guinea.

Courses & Teaching: ANTH 245 Culture and Environment; ANTH 401 Contemporary Theory in Anthropology; ANTH 345 Living in the Anthropocene; ANTH 445 Political Ecology; IGS 586 Community Engagement, Social Change, and Equity.

Karlee Waight | Program Assistant, (UG/PG), RIH-Kamloops | Southern Medical Program | karlee.waight2@interiorhealth.ca | Royal Inland Hospital

LIISA WAINMAN | lwain27@student.ubc.ca

Ian Walker | Professor Emeritus | Biology, Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences | ian.walker@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Environmental change; chironomid palaeoecology; quaternary palaeoecology and paleoclimatology; dynamics of arctic and alpine tree-line ecosystems; aquatic insect ecology; and biomonitoring; use of aquatic insects (living and fossil) as indicators of environmental change.

Courses & Teaching: Quaternary palaeoecology; limnology; freshwater plants and animals; non-vascular plants.

Graduate student supervisor

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: MGMT 230 Organizational Behaviour MGMT 411 Human Resource Management MGMT 419k Special Topics in Management – Service Human Resource Management Graduate Courses: MGMT 530 Organizational Behaviour MGMT 533 Human Resources

Cara Wall | Faculty Development Director | cara.wall@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor. Will consider Psychology grad students (Clinical Psychology stream) for Sept 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Cannabis use - medical and non-medical; substance use; hallucinogens; harm reduction; personality disorder; partner violence; aggression; third-stream/mindfulness behavior therapies; drug policy.

Courses & Teaching: Drugs and behavior; psychotherapy.

Nathan Walsh | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | nathan.walsh@ubc.ca | 250.807.9461

Annie Wan, PhD | Associate Professor | Creative Studies, Media Studies | annie.wan@ubc.ca | CCS 380

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Innovating Artistic and Socially Motivated Design through Creative Media by means of Gamification in Digital Heritage Preservation, Museums Archives and Digital Conservation; Employing Creative Media for the Socially Disadvantaged by means of Adopting Extended Realities and Intelligence Technologies for well- being.

Courses & Teaching: MDST 210: Creative Coding; MDST 311: Computational Poetics

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Electric Power Systems; High Power Electronics; HVDC and FACTS Systems; Electrical Machines and Drives; Real-time Simulation

Courses & Teaching: Power Systems; Power Electronics; Electromechanical Devices; Circuit Analysis; Numerical Modeling and Analysis

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Variational analysis; convex analysis; optimization; classical analysis; optimization applications in signal processing; statistics; communications.

Courses & Teaching: Optimization; analysis; calculus.

Shuhui Wang | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | shuhuiw@mail.ubc.ca | SCI 352

Research Interests: Hydrological responses to wildfires at the watershed scale

Research Interests: Large mammals; population dynamics; spatial ecology; quantitative ecology; Northern Mountain Caribou.

Hillary Ward | Adjunct Professor | Biology | hillary.ward@gov.bc.ca | 250.490.8267

Research Interests: Linguistic Anthropology; language acquisition and socialization; language shift; language endangerment; heritage language education; language documentation; oral history; Tibet and the Himalayas; modern China; South Asian diasporas; migration

Courses & Teaching: Linguistic Anthropology; multilingualism; language documentation and revitalization.

Nicola Waters, PhD | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | nicola.waters@ubc.ca

Research Interests: The social organization of health work at the interface of technology and humanity. Wound care, pressure injury

Courses & Teaching: NRSG 597 Qualitative Research NRSG 597 Healthcare Capstone Practicum NRSG 428/528 Advanced Community Health Nursing NRSG 122 Introduction to the Profession of Nursing II

Amanda Watland | Patient Programs Coordinator | Southern Medical Program | amanda.watland@ubc.ca | Clinical Academic Campus

Kyle Watson | Undergraduate Advisor | Engineering | kyle.watson@ubc.ca

Graeme Webb | Lecturer | Communications, Engineering, School of Engineering | graeme.webb@ubc.ca | EME 3279

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Eco-hydrological processes in forested watersheds; forest disturbance (e.g., timber harvesting, wildfire) and cumulative hydrological impacts in large watershed; interactions of forest change, climate and water; sustainable forest management, aquatic habitat, carbon budget, and various watershed processes; and a wholistic approach on watershed ecosystem science and management.

Courses & Teaching: Forest hydrology; watershed ecosystem processes and management. Specifically: EESC 213 Introductory Forest Science and Management; EESC 313 Management of Forested Watersheds; EESC 413 Analytical Methods in Hydrology

Susan J. Wells | Professor Emerita | Psychology, Social Work | susan.wells@ubc.ca | 250.807.8163

Research Interests: Investigates the possible causes of overrepresentation of African American children in the United States’ out-of-home care; re-entry into out-of-home care after reunification with family; stability of out-of-home care placements; explores child welfare case types to identify characteristics that more closely represent the complexity of cases seen in the field.

Courses & Teaching: Child welfare services and policy; program evaluation; research methods.

Maggie Weninger, RN, MSN, CCCI | Lecturer | School of Nursing | maggie.weninger@ubc.ca | ART 136

Courses & Teaching: Relational Practice II, Health and Healing I and V, Advanced Clinical Reasoning, Child Health, Clinical Practice Experiences

Jocelyn Wentland | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | jocelyn.wentland@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: Interpersonal relationships; adolescence; human sexual behaviour; introductory psychology; social psychology.

Saige Werstuik | Indigenous Initiatives Coordinator | Southern Medical Program | saige.werstuik@ubc.ca

Dominika Wesolowski | Senior Manager, Strategic Decision Support | School of Engineering | dominika.wesolowski@ubc.ca | EME4243

Graduate student supervisor

Elana Westers | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | elana.westers@ubc.ca | 250.807.8144

Research Interests: Biomedical Engineering

Courses & Teaching: Engineering Design Entrepreneurship in Engineering Bioinstrumentation Inclusive Design Clinical Engineering

Courses & Teaching: HMKN 190 Anatomy & Physiology I HMKN 191 Anatomy & Physiology II HMKN 201 Exercise Psychology HMKN 322 Physical Activity & Health Promotion HMKN 331 Physical Dimensions of Aging

Rory White | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | rory.white@ubc.ca | 250.807.9118

Karen Whitehouse | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | karen.whitehouse@ubc.ca | 250.807.9116

Vanessa Wiebe | Clinical Assistant | School of Nursing | vanessa.wiebe@ubc.ca

Mitchell Wiebe | MSc Student | Medical Physics | mitchell.wiebe@alumni.ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Combinatorics; discrete geometry; realization spaces of polytopes and matroids; interaction of problems in combinatorics with applied algebraic geometry and optimization; equiangular lines and combinatorial problems arising from applications to digital communications.

Kevin WIldfong | Lab Technician | School of Health and Exercise Sciences | kevin.wildfong@ubc.ca | UCH 010A

Daryl Wile | Clinical Investigator, CCDPM | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Southern Medical Program | daryl.wile@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Visual Arts, Curatorial praxis, Indigenous contemporary art, land-based art, Indigenous resurgence, relational aesthetics, socially engaged practice, BIPOC and diversity and equity practices in contemporary art.

Courses & Teaching: Visual Strategies and Research, Indigenous Land-based Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Indigenous Art Intensive

Maurice Williams | Professor Emeritus | History | maurice.williams@ubc.ca

Research Interests: National Socialism in Central Europe; the Kettle Valley Railway in the Okanagan Valley.

Courses & Teaching: Early modern and modern Europe; German and Habsburg history; great power diplomacy in 20th century; the Kettle Valley Railway.

Jill Williamson | Clinical Research Coordinator | Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management | jill.williamson@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Active learning; perinatal and childbearing families health; lactation; clinical education; BSN curriculum.

Courses & Teaching: Recent Courses Taught: NRSG 228: Community Health NRSG 320: Global Health NRSG 439: Global Health Practicum (Rural and Remote) NRSG 597: Healthcare Capstone Practicum SONNC 0003 & 0004: Case Management and Care Coordination for Primary Care Nursing (non-credit micro-credential) Supervisory Eligibility: MSN (thesis) co-supervisor or committee member (pending approval by the School of Nursing Graduate Program and College of Graduate Studies) MSN (course work) Capstone Faculty Facilitator Graduate Supervision (last 5 years) MSN Capstone Faculty Facilitator: Hall, S. (2025 in progress) Snider, R. (2023) Gunther, T. (2022) Mercer, L. (2021)

Ryan Wilson, PhD | School of Nursing | ryan.wilson@ubc.ca | ART 160

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Dr. Wilson's research is focused on two areas of Self-Care in Atrial Fibrillation: 1) Before diagnosis-To build capacity among adults to perceive, evaluate and respond to their symptoms leading to early treatment-seeking and care; 2) Post Diagnosis-To enhancing patients' self-care and management of their AF and its related symptoms following an AF diagnosis. Cardiovascular diseases; Health Promotion; Patient‐Oriented Research; AF Self-Care and Education; Primary Care, Diagnosis Medical; Aging

Courses & Teaching: Nursing 326: Health and Healing III- Evidence-informed assessment and management of complex health challenges in both episodic and chronic illness utilizing a case study approach. Nursing 421: Complex Health Challenges / Capstone Course- This course is designed to prepare fourth year nursing students for the NCLEX examination and transition into the new graduate nursing role.

Courses & Teaching: Psychological Assessment; UBCO Psychology Clinic Walk-In Service Practicum

Colin Wilson | Director, Business Development – Research and Industry Partnerships, School of Engineering | School of Engineering | cwilson@mail.ubc.ca | 250.807.9903

Research Interests: Indigenist Methodologies; Social-Emotional Wellbeing; Culture and Health

Graduate student supervisor. Not considering Psychology graduate students for September 2025 intake.

Research Interests: Subjective well-being; happiness; the “good life”; cross-cultural differences in emotion; flourishing & thriving; positive emotions; interventions to increase well-being.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to psychology; introduction to research methods and design; positive psychology; social bases of behavior.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Mechanistic enzymology; structural and functional analysis of cofactor containing proteins.

Courses & Teaching: Enzymology; biochemistry.

Wendy Wong | Professor | Political Science | w.wong@ubc.ca | Landmark 4, 6th Floor, Rm. 624, 1628 Dickson Avenue V1Y 9X1

Courses & Teaching: Human rights; global governance; international relations

Hannah Wood | Library Services Assistant | Library Services | hannah.wood@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor. Considering grad students(Clinical Psychology & Psychological Science streams)for Sept '25

Research Interests: Psychopathy; violent offending; deception detection; computer-mediated communication; assessment and treatment of forensic populations; memory and psychiatric issues primarily within a legal context.

Courses & Teaching: Psychopathy; criminal behaviour; deception detection.

Heather Wray | Program Coordinator, Year 4 | Southern Medical Program | heather.wray@interiorhealth.ca

Eric Wright | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics, Physics | Eric.Wright@bccancer.bc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Image-Guided RT; surface-guided RT; motion management in RT; quality control.

Piotr Wrzesniewski | Emeritus Faculty | Philosophy | piotr.wrzesniewski@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Philosophy of science and philosophy of information; analysis, development, and modification of theoretical concepts.

Jie Wu | Postdoctoral Research Follow | jie.jw.wu@ubc.ca

Michel Antoine Xhignesse | Sessional Instructor | Economics, Philosophy and Political Science | mxhignes@mail.ubc.ca | Remote

Research Interests: Aesthetics/Philosophy of Art, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

Courses & Teaching: PHIL 331 & PHIL 111

Gaozhi Xiao | Adjunct Professor | School of Engineering | Gaozhi.Xiao@ubc.ca

Yiwen Xu | Adjunct Professor | Medical Physics, Physics | yxu94@mail.ubc.ca

Research Interests: My research focus is on image processing for automation and cancer patient prognostic prediction with time series, image-based deep learning.

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to Medical Physics, Introduction to Medical Imaging and Imaging Informatics

Charvie Yadav | Data & Information Assistant | Entrepreneurship@UBCO, Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation | charvie.yadav@ubc.ca | ADM

Nasser Yalpani | Adjunct Professor | Biology | nyalpani@mail.ubc.ca | 515.770.2599

Research Interests: Plant secondary metabolite pathway engineering and discovery of novel insecticidal and antifungal proteins for crop protection.

Research Interests: Following nitrogen relationships between ectomycorrhizal fungi and pine seedlings germinating after wildfire or clearcutting.

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis; functional surfaces; nano science; photocatalysis; air and water treatment.

Courses & Teaching: PHYS, DATA, STAT

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics; Renewable energy technologies; Fluid mechanics

Courses & Teaching: ENGR 490 Fluid Machinery; ENGR 381 Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery; ENGR 310 Fluid Mechanics II; APSC 253 Fluid Mechanics I; APSC 260 Mechanics of Materials I; APSC 173 Engineering Analysis II

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: International Development; civil society and NGOs; strategy and transnational networks; political communication; international norms; anti-slavery; conflict and development, Human Rights.

Courses & Teaching: International Development; Governance and Public Policy, International Relations; Conflict, Global Studies, Global Citizenship.

Qiduan Yang | Associate Professor Emeritus | Mathematics | qiduan.yang@ubc.ca | 250.807.9540

Research Interests: Representations of symmetric and alternating groups; galois groups of polynomials; algebraic number theory.

Courses & Teaching: Calculus; linear algebra; abstract algebra.

Xinmin Yang | Honourary Affiliate | Mathematics | xmyang@cqnu.edu.cn

Research Interests: Convex analysis; optimization; variational analysis.

Courses & Teaching: Convex analysis; vector optimization; multiobjective optimization.

Micah Yang | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | msyang@mail.ubc.ca

Adam Yasunaga | PhD Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | adam.yasunaga@alumni.ubc.ca | FIP 245

Research Interests: Development of molecular force sensors that will be used to study the forces involved in cellular processes such as adhesion and rolling. With these force sensors, we will be able to better quantify the forces that cells experience in their environment and how they respond to these forces.

Jamie Yearley | MSc Student | Biology | jamie.yearley@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Soil Biology; soil ecology; cover cropping; sustainable agriculture; carbon cycling; carbon sequestration; agricultural soil; soil organic matter; viticulture.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Digital media, mobile communication, migration, Korean popular culture, and youth culture.

Courses & Teaching: CULT 215 Cultural Industries; CULT 312 Internet Culture; CULT 313 Transnational Asian pop culture; CULT 410 Asian cinema

Research Interests: Glacial and fluvial processes; landforms and landscapes; environments of the quaternary, as determined by physical and biological systems.

Courses & Teaching: Quaternary glacial environments and geomorphology, sedimentology and stratigraphy, historical geology. Specifically: EESC/GEO 222 Geomorphology; EESC/GEOG 356 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy; EESC 431 Quaternary Glacial Environments; GEOG 317 Environments of BC

Research Interests: Plant Cell Biology, Organelle morphology, Plant Cell Wall Synthesis.

Courses & Teaching: Introductory Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Biochemistry.

Candice Young | Finance Research Analyst | School of Engineering | candice.young@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Neuroanatomy; retinal neuromodulation; student performance; equity in academia

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Data Analysis, Learning, Equity in Research and Clinical Practice

Research Interests: My research explores information fusion, data analytics, and predictive models in water resource management, with an emphasis on flood management and water basin simulations. I investigate digital water, Hydroinformatics, and extended reality technologies for watershed and urban stormwater management. In a separate research area, I delve into digital learning technologies, concentrating on smart education systems and methodologies designed to enhance learning experiences in engineering education

Courses & Teaching: ENGR417 - Pipeline Integrity Management ENGR445 - Design of Water and Wastewater Conveyance Systems ENGR342 - Open Channel Flow ENGR341 - Engineering Hydrology APSC248 - Engineering Analysis III APSC172 - Engineering Analysis I APSC181 - Dynamics APSC180 - Statics

Diego Yusta Belsham | MSc Student | Biology | dayusta@mail.ubc.ca | ASC 374

Research Interests: Microbial ecology; microbial communities; sustainable agriculture

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Governance; internet policy; security; social media.

Courses & Teaching: Social theory; criminology; surveillance studies; quantitative methods; introductory sociology.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Analytical glycobiology: the use of modern instrumental techniques to study carbohydrates, their oligomers (glycans) and their metabolism; developing new methods to investigate carbohydrates; and using chemical and analytical tools to investigate the functions of protein-linked glycans in cells and animals.

Courses & Teaching: Instrumental analytical chemistry

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: State of the art sensors focusing on microwave resonators; High-speed and low-power analog circuit design; Analog-to-digital converters for a variety of applications

Courses & Teaching: Introduction to VLSI Systems ENGR466; Microwave Systems ENGR470; System Dynamics APSC246

Janelle Zerr | Adjunct Professor | School of Nursing | janelle.zerr@ubc.ca

Jian Zhang | Adjunct Professor | Biology | jian.zhang@ubc.ca

Yiduo (Harry) Zhang | PhD Student | Earth and Environmental Sciences | harry.zhang@alumni.ubc.ca

Research Interests: Work with regional stakeholders, especially Okanagan Nation, to take an agent-based modeling approach in exploring grizzly bear habitat management options and conservation strategies on traditional Okanagan territory.

Congsong Zhang | PhD Student | Computer Science | congsong@mail.ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: COSC 122-001

Hongyuan Zhang | MSc Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | zhy1997@mail.ubc.ca

Yiqiang Zhao | Honourary Affiliate | Mathematics | yiqiang.zhao@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Block-structured Markov processes and matrix-analytic methods; censoring technique and factorizations; mean-field interaction modelling in networks; quasi-stationary behaviour; tail asymptotics and kernel methods.

Courses & Teaching: Advanced queues; queuing networks.

Abby Zhou | PhD Student | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | abby.zhou@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Dr. Zhu’s primary research interests include digital marketing, branding, consumer behavior, business analytics, and social networks. She has two streams of research: 1) investigating the impact of technology on consumers and the antecedents and consequences of consumer use of technology (e.g., AI, Metaverse) and 2) examining the effectiveness of different marketing strategies (e.g., digital marketing, business networks) and the importance of branding (e.g., brand extension).

Courses & Teaching: MGMT 441 Marketing Strategy MGMT 442 Consumer Behavior MGMT 461 Service Marketing MGMT 100 Introduction to Business

Amy Zimmer | Postgraduate Medical Education Interior Administrative Manager | Southern Medical Program | amy.zimmer@interiorhealth.ca | Clinical Academic Campus

Nikki Zwaagstra | Special Projects Administrator | Faculty of Management | nikki.zwaagstra@ubc.ca | EME 4159