Bradley J. Siwick
Associate Professor
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Otto Maass Chemistry Building, room 311
514 398 5853
Otto Maass Chemistry Building, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B8 Canada
Member of the Center for the Physics of Materials and the Regroupement québécois sur les matériaux de pointe
- Associate Editor, Structural Dynamics (AIP/ACA)
- Fessenden Professorship (2019-2020)
- Canada Research Chair in Ultrafast Science (2006 – 2016)
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, FOM - AMOLF Amsterdam (2006)
- NSERC Doctoral Prize (2005)
- Ph.D. Physics, University of Toronto (2004)
- B.A.Sc. Engineering Science (Physics), University of Toronto (1997)
Sebastian Hammer
Postdoc
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Otto Maass Chemistry Building, room 025
514 398 3455
Laurenz Kremeyer
Ph.D. Student
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Otto Maass Chemistry Building, room 025
514 398 3455
https://github.com/kremeyer
Malik Lahlou
Ph.D. Student
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Otto Maass Chemistry Building, room 025
514 398 3455
Tristan Britt
Ph.D. Student
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Otto Maass Chemistry Building, room 025
514 398 3455
http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~tbritt
David Cai
M.Sc. Student
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Otto Maass Chemistry Building, room 025
514 398 3455
Recent alumni
Laurent P. René de Cotret
Ph.D. 2021
Laurent’s research explored the interplay between structural and electronic dynamics revealed by ultrafast electron diffuse scattering. He submitted his thesis titled: From carrier cooling to polaron formation: Ultrafast phonon dynamics across the Brillouin zone..
You can find Laurent’s up-to-date information on his webpage.
Martin Otto
Postdoc, Ph.D. 2019
Martin’s research focused on electron pulse metrology and laser microwave synchronization techniques, as well as ultrafast dynamics in strongly-correlated systems like VO2 and TiSe2. He submitted his dissertation titled: Advancements in electron pulse compression technology applied to ultrafast electron scattering
You can find out Martin’s update-to-date information here.
Jan-Hendrik Pöhls
Postdoc
Jan worked on combining ultrafast electron scattering with advanced material simulations to understand photoactive material properties.
You can find out Jan’s update-to-date information here.
Margaretha Sandor
International
Margaretha completed her international internship with a thesis titled: “Ultrafast Electron Diffraction on the Incommensurate - Nearly Commensurate Charge Density Wave Phase Transition of Tantalum Disulfide”
Mark J. Stern
Ph.D 2019, M.Sc. 2012
Mark Stern submitted his doctoral thesis titled: Ultrafast electron diffuse scattering and its application to 2D materials.
His Masters’ thesis was titled: Time-resolved transmission electron microscopy: The structural dynamics of explosive crystallization in amorphous germanium.
You can find Mark’s up-to-date information here.
Andrew Bruhács
Ph.D 2015
Andrew Bruhács submitted his Ph.D. thesis titled: Probing ultrafast chemical reaction and material phase transition dynamics with visible and mid-infrared spectroscopy.
Kunal Tiwari
M.Sc. 2014
Kunal Tiwari submitted his M.Sc. thesis titled: The photoinduced phase transitions of vanadium dioxide.
Currently Ph.D. student at McGill, co-supervised by William Coish and Tami Pereg-Barnea Kunal Tiwari is currently working on the theory of transport in topological Kondo insulators.
Vance Morrison
Ph.D 2014, M.Sc. 2008
Vance Morrison submitted his Ph.D. thesis titled: Structural dynamics of the metal-insulator transition in VO2: an ultrafast electron diffraction study with radio-frequency compressed electron pulses.
Vance Morrison submitted his M.Sc. thesis titled: Generation of tunable femtosecond laser pulses and the construction of an ultrafast pump-probe spectrometer.
Robert Chatelain
Ph.D 2014, M.Sc. 2008
Robert Chatelain submitted his Ph.D. thesis titled: Radio-frequency pulse compression for high-brightness ultrafast electron diffraction: design, characterization and application.
Robert Chatelain submitted his M.Sc. thesis titled: RF compression of electron bunches applied to ultrafast electron diffraction.
