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Trent University faculty


  • Bill Atkinson, PhD, Associate Professor, Physics: Computational and theoretical models of high temperature superconductors and strongly correlated electronic materials.
  • Carlo Bradac, PhD, Assistant Professor, Physics: Quantum Nanomaterials. Study of 2D and 3D nanomaterials for quantum-enabled sensing and metrology.
  • Eric Keske, PhD, Assistant Professor, Chemistry: Organic Synthesis, Organometallic Chemistry, Homogeneous Catalysis, and Reaction Mechanism Elucidation. Development of Efficient Synthetic Methods for Conjugated Organic Materials. Ligand Design for Asymmetric Catalysis
  • J. Mark Parnis, PhD, Professor, Chemistry: Structural studies of reactive intermediates in transition metal and organic molecule reactions.
  • Ralph Shiell, PhD, Associate Professor, Physics: Atomic, molecular and optical physics, the manipulation of quantum states using laser radiation.
  • Alan Slavin, PhD, Professor, Physics: Metal surfaces: structure and chemical interactions.
  • Aaron Slepkov, PhD, Associate Professor, Physics: Biomaterial Physics Nonlinear photonics, optical properties and characterization of organic and biomaterials, microscopy, microwave photonics.
  • Igor Svishchev, PhD, Professor, Chemistry: Theoretical and experimental investigation of supercritical water and its many applications including SCW-oxidation technology
  • Andrew Vreugdenhil, PhD, Associate Professor, Chemistry: Development and characterization of hybrid organic-inorganic materials for applications in sensors, coatings and interface modification.
  • Rachel Wortis, PhD, Associate Professor, Physics: Condensed matter theory: superconductivity and strongly correlated electrons.