Each year, invited speakers are welcomed to our Department to present their research to our community. Please join us in these engaging research talks on an exciting array of topics.
Campus maps are available, and for visitors driving to campus we suggest using the University Hospital visitor parking garage.
Invited Speakers
2024-2025 Speakers
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | Time | Location | Host(s) |
| 2025-06-24 | Michael Katz | Memorial University in Newfoundland | Pores and Purpose: Understanding MOFs from Synthesis to CO₂ Capture | 2:00pm | ChB 9 | Profs. Yining Huang & Yang Song |
| 2025-05-29 | Tom Woo | University of Ottawa | A Decade of Data Driven Materials Discovery: Successes, Challenges & Uncomfortable Truths | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Lars Konermann |
| 2025-04-24 | Justin Lomax | 成人大片 | Dr. Peter R. Norton Memorial Award: Molecular Layer Deposition of Phosphorus Thin Films using Bis-α-aminophosphine Chemistry | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Paul Ragogna |
| 2025-04-03 | Eamonn Conrad | Syensqo | PH3 : A Versatile Intermediate for Large Scale Manufacture of Organophosphines | 11:30am | ChB 115 | Prof. Paul Ragogna |
| 2025-03-26 | Ryan Guterman | FaradaIC GmbH | Ionic Liquids are useless until they are not - Transforming ionic liquids & electrochemistry innovation into a gas sensor semiconductor startup | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Paul Ragogna |
| 2025-03-19 | Russ Algar | University of British Columbia | Designer Materials & Smartphone Devices for Bioanalysis | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Zhifeng Ding |
| 2025-03-14 | Peng Zhang | Dalhousie University | Nanoalloys: Correlating the Structure, Electronic and Catalytic Properties | 12:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. TK Sham |
| 2025-03-12 | Alex Brolo | University of Victoria | Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Applications, Quantification And Single Molecule Spectroscopy | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Zhifeng Ding |
| 2025-02-27 | Glen Briand | Mount Allison University | Designing Heavy Main Group Metal Catalysts | 9:30am | KB 106 | Prof. Mark Workentin |
| 2025-02-12 | Mark Biesinger | 成人大片 | Chemistry Research Excellence Award: Methodology Development for Surface Analytical Techniques | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Johanna Blacquiere |
| 2025-02-05 | Tristan Harrison and Tyler Lougheed | 成人大片 | 成人大片 Technology Transfer Office | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Lijia Liu |
| 2025-01-22 | Audrey Moores | McGill University | Mechanochemistry and aging-based methods as novel tools to transform biopolymers into high value materials | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Elizabeth Gillies |
| 2025-01-16 | Kent Griffith | University of California | New Structures and Charge Storage Mechanisms in Early Transition Metal Oxides | 10:30am | ChB 115 | Prof. Yining Huang |
| 2024-12-04 | Todd Hoare | McMaster University | In situ-gelling hydrogels for tissue engineering and biosensing applications | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Arghya Paul |
| 2024-12-04 | Ryan Wylie | McMaster University | Polymeric materials and coatings directing or modulating immune cell responses | 10:00am | ChB 9 | Prof. Elizabeth Gillies |
| 2024-11-27 | Ian Burgess | University of Saskatchewan | Infrared Chemical Imaging and Spectroscopy in Microfluidic and Electrochemical Environments | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. François Lagugné-Labarthet |
| 2024-11-20 | Titel Jurca | University of Central Florida | ALD-Driven Design of Hierarchical Hydrogenation Catalysts | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Joe Gilroy |
| 2024-11-13 | Kirsty Ng | 成人大片 | 2024 Bancroft Award: Exploring the Mechanism of Protein Aggregation | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Department |
| 2024-11-06 | Daniel Leznoff | Simon Fraser University | Harnessing Metallophilicity in Cyanometallate Coordination Polymers for Advanced Functional Materials | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Yining Huang |
| 2024-10-30 | Benoit Couturaud | CNRS | Self-assembly and macromolecular engineering for the design of novel colloidal systems for biological applications | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Elizabeth Gillies |
| 2024-10-23 | Paul Boyle | 成人大片 | Introduction to the X-ray Facility | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Department |
| 2024-10-15 | David Herbert | University of Manitoba | Nitrogen-Containing Ligands in Photoactive Molecular Materials | 2:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Joe Gilroy |
| 2024-10-09 | Toby Zheng | York University | Our recent studies in vibronic coupling: simulation of optoelectronic materials, derivation of Jahn-Teller formalisms, and interpretation of photoelectron spectrum | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Viktor Staroverov |
| 2024-09-25 | Saurabh Chitnis | Dalhousie University | The New Chemistry of Old PN cages: Universal Inorganic Connectors | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Paul Ragogna |
| 2024-09-11 | Thomas Gungor and Daniel Dang | Tosoh/PolyAnalytik | Advanced Polymer Characterization Workshop | 1:30pm | ChB 115 | Prof. Elizabeth Gillies |
