Faculty of Science

I am interested in disease ecology and the interplay between immunity evolution and other life-history traits.
My past research explored how the population structure of hosts and parasites, along with their varying strategies for infection and defense, influences the evolution of virulence and transmission dynamics.
Currently, I am focused on understanding the mechanistic basis of host heterogeneity in parasite transmission, such as superspreading events, and how this variability impacts the long-term evolution of parasites and virulence.

BioID-based profiling and functional analysis of the miR 122-enhancer complex interactors at the 5' UTR of Hepatitis C virus

I work on the Canadian Galactic Emission Mapper (CGEM) experiment, supporting it through commissioning, first light and the beginning of its primary science operations.

Development of Next Generation Heptazine-Based Inverted Singlet-Triplet (INVEST) Emitters for OLEDs
Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation: grant number 222117
https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/222117

Crystal growth of novel intermetallic quantum materials using a range of crystal growth methods, including the metal-flux method.
Structural and magnetic characterization, with lab techniques such as  X‐ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity, transport properties, and Neutron based various diffraction techniques 

Promoting age-related cognitive accessibility in financial technology

I am primarily working on building a slow flow reactor to study reaction kinetics and product formation for reactions related to chemistry in the interstellar medium. In addition, I am working on the FIRECAN project funded by the CSA to use sentinel satellite data retrievals of Glyoxal and Formaldehyde and modelling to evaluate the chemistry that occurs in forest fire smoke plumes.

I am a nuclear physicist in the the Berlinguette Group. This is a group at the University of British Columbia as an interdisciplinary team of >40 scientists and engineers who design and build electrochemical reactors to power the planet. I am a member of the advanced nuclear fusion team where low energy regimes in solid-state materials are more interesting.