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The Quantum Colaboratory has highly qualified staff across several areas of expertise.

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Quantum Colab Staff

Alan Maigne

Manager, Quantum Materials Electron Microscopy Center (QMEMC)

alan.maigne@ubc.ca

|Characterization|
|UBC|
|Electron Microscopy|

Alex Cooper-Roy

Quantum Simulation

alexandre.cooper@uwaterloo.ca

|Theory/Modeling/Simulation|
|UW|
|Simulation|

Ali Abdullah Husain

Electron Microscopist

ali.husain@ubc.ca

|Characterization|
|UBC|
|Electron Microscopy|

Andrey Blednov

Nanofabrication Process Engineer

Andrey.Blednov@ubc.ca

|Fabrication|
|UBC|
|Device Fab||E-Beam|

Art Mills

Custom VUV/XUV Laser Systems

millsak@phas.ubc.ca

|Specialized Equipment|
|UBC|
|Lasers||UHV|

Benoît Couture

Mechanical Engineer, CNC machining, Cryo fabrication

Benoit.M.Couture@USherbrooke.ca

|Engineering|
|UdeS|
|3D Printing||CNC Fab||Cryogenics||Machining||UHV|

Bobby Lin

Engineering Technician, Characterization

bobby.lin@ubc.ca

|Characterization||Engineering|
|UBC|
|4-Probe||Characterization||Cryogenics||Electronics|

Bobby Rivard

Low temperature systems: Microwave quantum devices

bobby.rivard@usherbrooke.ca

|Quantum Devices||Specialized Equipment|
|UdeS|
|Cryogenics||Lasers||Low T||Low T High B||Quantum Devices||Thin Film|

Bruce Davidson

Molecular Beam Epitaxy/PLD

bruce.davidson@ubc.ca

|Specialized Equipment|
|UBC|
|MBE||PLD||X-Ray|

Christian Lupien

Research professional: STM, Quantum materials, High precision measurements

Christian.Lupien@USherbrooke.ca

|Characterization||Quantum Devices||Quantum Materials|
|UdeS|
|4-Probe||Characterization||Cryogenics||Electron transport||Electronics||Low T High B||Quantum Material||STM|

Colleen Kissak

Cleanroom Certification & Inventory Specialist

colleen.kissack@uwaterloo.ca

|UW|

Douglas Wong

UHV Design Engineer

dwong@phas.ubc.ca

|Engineering|
|UBC|
|UHV|

Dusan Sarenac

Quantum Early Adoptors

dsarenac@uwaterloo.ca

|Quantum Devices|
|UW|
|Neutron physics||Optics|

Edouard Pinsolle

Research professional: Quantum materials, Electron transport

edouard.pinsolle@usherbrooke.ca

|Characterization||Quantum Devices||Quantum Materials|
|UdeS|
|Characterization||Cryogenics||Electrical and thermal measurements||Electron transport||Electronics||Quantum Material|

Fatou Touré

Coordinator QFL

Fatou.Toure@USherbrooke.ca

|UdeS|

Fengmiao Li

Molecular Beam Epitaxy / PLD

fengmiao.li@qmi.ubc.ca

|Specialized Equipment|
|UBC|
|MBE||PLD||X-Ray|

Francisco Giorgio Levy de Castro

ARPES

levyg@phas.ubc.ca

|Characterization||Specialized Equipment|
|UBC|
|ARPES||STM|

Frédérick Francoeur

Mechanical Engineer, CNC machining, Cryo fabrication

Frederick.Francoeur@usherbrooke.ca

|Engineering|
|UdeS|
|3D Printing||Cryogenics||Machining||UHV|

Gabriel Laliberte

Low temperature optical systems: Quantum emitters, 2D materials

Gabriel.Laliberte@usherbrooke.ca

|Quantum Devices||Quantum Materials||Specialized Equipment|
|UdeS|
|Cryogenics||Electronics||Lasers||Low T||Optics|

George Nichols

Low Temperature Systems

george.nichols@uwaterloo.ca

|Specialized Equipment|
|UW|
|Low T||Low T High B|

Greg Holloway

E-beam Litho Scientist

greg.holloway@uwaterloo.ca

|Fabrication|
|UW|
|E-Beam|

Harish Gautam

Supervisor, CNC Machine Shop UHV

hgautam@qmi.ubc.ca

|Engineering|
|UBC|
|4-Probe||Cryogenics||UHV|

Ilya Elfimov

Manager, Density Functional Theory Unit (DFTU)

elfimov@phas.ubc.ca

|Theory/Modeling/Simulation|
|UBC|
|DFT|

John Nugent

RAC1 Lab Tech

john.nugent@uwaterloo.ca

|Fabrication|
|UW|

Jordan Baglo

Research professional: Quantum materials, Heat transport, Non-conventional superconductors

Jordan.Baglo@USherbrooke.ca

|Characterization||Quantum Devices||Quantum Materials|
|UdeS|
|Characterization||Cryogenics||Electrical and thermal measurements||Electron transport||Electronics||Low T High B||Quantum Material|

Kashif Masud Awan

Research Associate, Nanophotonics

kashif.awan@ubc.ca

|UBC|
|Nanophotonics|

Kateryna Foyevtsova

Research Associate, Density Functional Theory

foyevtsova@phas.ubc.ca

|Theory/Modeling/Simulation|
|UBC|
|DFT|

Ken Speirs

Senior Equipment Tech & Lab Instructor

kspeirs@uwaterloo.ca

|Engineering|
|UW|

Khush Dil Hydri

Engineering Technician, Cleanroom

khush.hydri@ubc.ca

|Engineering||Fabrication|
|UBC|
|Clean room||Device Fab||Engineering||Process flow|

Kostis Michelakis

Director, Nanofabrication

kostis.michelakis@ubc.ca

|Characterization||Director||Fabrication|
|UBC|
|Characterization||Low T High B||Single crystal growth||X-Ray|

Lino Eugene

Nanofab Process Specialist/Engineer

lino.eugene@uwaterloo.ca

|Engineering||Fabrication|
|UW|
|Process engineering||Process flow|

Manabendra Kuiri

Quantum Devices

manabendra.kuiri@ubc.ca

|Quantum Devices|
|UBC|
|Quantum Devices||Van der Waals devices|

Mario Beaudoin

Research Associate, Microfabrication

beaudoin@physics.ubc.ca

|Fabrication|
|UBC|
|Device Fab|

Mathieu Juan

Director, Quantum FabLab

Mathieu.Juan@USherbrooke.ca

|Director|
|UdeS|

Matthew Scott 

Senior Equipment Tech & Lab Instructor

m33scott@uwaterloo.ca

|Engineering|
|UW|

Matthias Kroug

Electron-Beam Lithography & Process Engineer

matthias.kroug@ubc.ca

|Fabrication|
|UBC|
|E-Beam|

Michael Lacerte

Low temperature systems: Elecron transport, Quantum dots

michael.r.lacerte@usherbrooke.ca

|Fabrication||Specialized Equipment|
|UdeS|
|Clean room||Cryogenics||E-Beam||Electronics||Quantum Dots|

Mohamed Oudah

Research Associate, Crystal Growth and PPMS

mohamed.oudah@ubc.ca

|Characterization|
|UBC|
|Characterization||Crystal growth||Low T High B||Single crystal growth|

Nathan Nelson-Fitzpatrick

Director, Quantum-Nano Fabrication and Characterization Facility

nnelsonf@uwaterloo.ca

|Characterization||Director||Fabrication|
|UW|
|Characterization||Process control|

Ovidiu Toader

HPC Systems/Custom Automation Analyst

ovi@phas.ubc.ca

|Theory/Modeling/Simulation|
|UBC|
|Characterization||HPC||Low T High B||Simulation||Single crystal growth|

Peter Sprenger

Senior Technical Lead, Magnetic Resonance

peter.sprenger@uwaterloo.ca

|Specialized Equipment|
|UW|
|Electronics||Lasers||Low T||UHV|

Pinder Dosanjh

SBQMI Operations Manager

dosanjh@phas.ubc.ca

|Director|
|UBC|
|4-Probe||Cryogenics||Low T||UHV|

Rodello Salandanan 

Senior Equipment Tech & Lab Instructor

rqsaland@uwaterloo.ca

|Engineering|
|UW|
|E-Beam||UHV|

Saba Sadeghi

Quantum Materials and Fabrication Scientist

saba.sadeghi@uwaterloo.ca

|Fabrication||Quantum Devices||Quantum Materials|
|UW|
|Device Fab||MBE|

Sandra Gibson

Nanofab & Characterization Scientist

s5gibson@uwaterloo.ca

|Characterization||Fabrication|
|UW|
|AFM||Characterization||Device Fab||Electron Microscopy||SEM||STM|

Sean Kung

Electron Microscopist

sean.kung@ubc.ca

|Characterization|
|UBC|
|ARPES||Electron Microscopy||Lasers||Optics|

Sergey Zhdanovich

Research Associate, ARPES Research Engineer

zsergey@phas.ubc.ca

|Characterization||Specialized Equipment|
|UBC|
|ARPES||Lasers||Low T||Optics||UHV|

Silvia Folk

Research Associate, Topological Devices

luescher@phas.ubc.ca

|Quantum Devices|
|UBC|
|Quantum Devices||Topological devices|

Simon Fortier

Low Temperature, High Field Systems: Thermal and electronic transport

Simon.S.Fortier@USherbrooke.ca

|Characterization||Specialized Equipment|
|UdeS|
|Characterization||Cryogenics||Electrical and thermal measurements||Low T High B|

Stefan Heinemann

Facility Microscopist

sheinemann@uwaterloo.ca

|Characterization|
|UW|
|Electron Microscopy||TEM|

Stéphane Morin

Thin-film deposition, Cryo characterization

Stephane.Morin6@USherbrooke.ca

|Characterization||Fabrication|
|UdeS|
|Cryogenics||E-Beam||Thin Film|

Stephane Pelletier

Cryo characterization, Electronics

Stephane.Pelletier@USherbrooke.ca

|Characterization||Specialized Equipment|
|UdeS|
|Cryogenics||Electronics|

Taso Alkiviades

Lab Technologist

talkivia@uwaterloo.ca

|Fabrication|
|UW|

Timothy Warkentin

Engineering Technician, ARPES

timothy.warkentin@ubc.ca

|Engineering|
|UBC|
|ARPES||UHV|

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