A doctoral citation summarizes the nature of the independent research, provides a high-level overview of the study, states the significance of the work and says who will benefit from the findings in clear, non-specialized language, so that members of a lay audience will understand it.
| Year | Citation | NID |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dr. Sharma’s research focused on bio-electrochemical fuel cells and their application in remediating hazardous acid rock waste. He explored scaling up this technology to recover critical metals from the waste, contributing to the idea of a circular economy. His work is significant in accelerating deployment of this technology in mining operations. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Henriquez examined the dentition of adult leopard geckos, which continuously replace their teeth throughout life. He found dental stem cells in the dentition of leopard geckos and cells responsible for resorbing the tooth roots so teeth can be shed. These experiments could be used to selectively block unwanted tooth resorption and engineer biological tooth replacements in humans. | Doctor of Philosophy in Cell and Developmental Biology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Yiwen Jin studies healthcare delivery processes. He utilizes data-driven methods to facilitate innovative solutions in emergency departments and operating rooms. Collaborating with healthcare practitioners, his research generates insights for better decision-making. He also studies supply chain management of companies using empirical methods. | Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration in Management Science (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Korchinski developed theories explaining the statistical properties of the cascading rearrangements observed in disordered solids and crumpled sheets. | Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Harvey developed machine learning models which generate and edit images and video. His work had a particular focus on enabling the same model to be used for many different editing tasks. Potential applications include editing films and developing controllers for robots. | Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Cheng provided convincing evidence that factors such as interest and difficulty impact an individual's reading experience and persistence. Her research paves the way for new ways to build healthy reading habits for children. | Doctor of Philosophy in School and Applied Child Psychology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Sampara investigated approaches to optimize wastewater treatment. He demonstrated approaches to integrate process modelling and microbial community traits, and developed tools to quantify microbial activity. His work advances our understanding of biological wastewater treatment process design and operation to ensure a healthy environment. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Dau studied the impact of cervical cancer treatment on Ugandan women and their children. She found that a cervical cancer diagnosis leads to financial insecurity and challenges meeting caregiving and household responsibilities. This research provides evidence to expand cervical cancer screening and treatment programs in Uganda and globally. | Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Rojas-Bernal showed that the distributional reallocation of expenditure across households affects an economy's output through the reallocation of resources across firms. He does this for an environment with general connectivity between firms and household heterogeneity in income and expenditure. | Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Wardell showed that engineered immune cells can protect transplanted tissue and guard against autoimmunity. Her studies lay part of the groundwork for bringing this cell therapy to the clinic. | Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Medicine (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Kunstner studied optimization for machine learning. His work develops new algorithms that automatically adapt to the problem and identifies bottlenecks in the training of deep learning models. These advances support the development of more efficient machine learning systems that take less human efforts to tune. | Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Hammer investigated the optimal printed circuit board design for novel Wide-Bandgap power semiconductors in renewable energy, battery, and e-mobility applications. His work introduces the paradigm-changing multi-pulse driving sequence, enabling advanced control of power semiconductors for extremely efficient power conversion applications. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Johnson’s research analyzed the caring practices of women in higher education leadership in Canada and the U.S. through phenomenological analysis, highlighting the political nature of caring and the challenges women, especially from marginalized groups, face. Findings benefit institutions fostering authentic and inclusive leadership. | Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Policy (EdD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Afifi’s doctoral studies focused on light processing silicon microchips that can generate and filter quantum states of light. He developed photonic integrated circuits to generate quantum light for quantum information processing applications. His findings contribute to scaling up photonic quantum computing and secure communication systems. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Pegorer studied how a group of recent migrants experienced the city of Berlin, Germany, during two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. By focusing on Berlin's atmospheres, she showed how these people strived to make sense of the contrast between their attachment to the city, their home country, and the expectations associated with their identity as migrants. | Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Lindsay investigated how signals related to behaviour, emotional state, and context are represented in the anterior cingulate cortex. This work sheds light on the network function of this brain area, and its role in regulating the influence of emotion in motivated decision making. | Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Jopling documented the ways in which social-contextual factors impact the biological embedding of stress to influence wellbeing in adolescent youth. | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Tafech's research focused on advancing gene therapies for cystic fibrosis, the most common fatal genetic disorder affecting Canadian children and young adults. His work identified nano-based strategies that significantly enhanced CRISPR-mRNA delivery and gene editing in CF, driving promising progress in this disease and other genetic disorders. | Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Abouali advanced the numerical simulation of progressive damage and failure in composites by developing a physics-informed neural network for calibration of a damage-plasticity material model. Her research enhances the accuracy of damage predictions and improves the reliability of composite structure designs. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Fricke's research examines factors that shape employees' experiences of their occupations, including the ideologies occupational communities support and outsiders' evaluations of employees' occupations. Through field research with first responder populations, her findings provide novel insights into occupational stressors and employee health. | Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration in Organizational Behaviour (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Nikiforuk studied how the coronavirus which causes COVID-19 infects cells in the upper human respiratory tract to find that people's risk of infection varies. This finding will be useful in controlling coronavirus transmission and designing new treatment strategies. | Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Moerhuis investigated the timescales of closed-system crystallization of basaltic magmas within the Earth's crust using the 56 million-year-old Skaergaard intrusion in East Greenland as a natural laboratory, contributing to a better understanding of widespread basaltic magmatism in the North Atlantic at a time of significant global warming. | Doctor of Philosophy in Geological Sciences (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Qiu studied an aggressive soft tissue cancer called synovial sarcoma. He profiled human synovial sarcoma surgical specimens using epigenetic sequencing techniques and subsequently characterized epigenetic subgroups of the tumours. This research can guide emerging epigenetic therapeutic strategies in the treatment of this cancer. | Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy (MDPhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Stephan directed stem cells into liver and studied how the cells changed their identity. She found a specific protein in newly forming liver cells, TBX3, that may be responsible for pushing cells towards using liver genes. Knowing how cells turn into liver cells can be used to produce lab-grown livers replacing conventional organ transplants. | Doctor of Philosophy in Cell and Developmental Biology (PhD) |
| 2024 | Dr. Horst employed innovative digital arts-based methods to inquire into the futures literacies of a group of teacher candidates. Her study found that futures literacies pedagogy can provide teacher candidates with creative outlets to express their extant feelings and narratives about the future in generative ways that enable new possibilities to emerge. | Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD) |