Invited Speakers

Our invited speakers for NanoLytica 2025 are listed below.  We welcome suggestions for speakers for NanoLytica 2026.  If you have suggestions for future speakers, please email nano-lytica@sfu.ca  

We hand-pick all invited speakers each year from a growing list of potential speakers. We strive to have representation from speakers at different career stages who work in distinct research areas and who beckon from a larger region (spanning the Western portions of Canada and the United States). One of our aims is to bring together a diverse lineup of speakers to offer a unique ecosystem of learning and discussions, as well as to support a broad networking opportunity for all attendees, whether to look for a collaboration, a job, a position for graduate studies, an internship, or a chance to meet other scientists and engineers.

Dr. Daniel T. Chiu

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington

Presenting on:  New Fluorescent Reagents to Enable Highly Multiplexed Cellular Measurements


Dr. Walter Cicha

Industrial Technology Advisor, Industrial Research Assistance Program at the National Research Council of Canada

Presenting on:  TBA


Dr. Jane Fowler

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University

Presenting on:  The ecology of microbial communities in a drinking water treatment plant


Dr. Robert Godin

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus

Presenting on:  Time-resolved Optical Spectroscopy of Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts – With Some Spatial Resolution


Dr. Chris Goss

Senior Research Technologist, InnoTech Alberta

Presenting on:  TBA


Dr. Tom Hey

Business Leader, PerkinElmer

Presenting on:  PerkinElmer Environmental: Who doesn't love blend and inject methodologies? Discussion of our new QSight LCMSMS and Spotlight Microscope for environmental analyses


Dr. Fraser Hof

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria

Presenting on:  Teamwork makes the dream work: using homo- and hetero-assembly to build chemical complexity and obtain useful sensing outputs


Dr. Kira Hughes Lund

Staff Materials Scientist, ams OSRAM

Presenting on:  From Conception to Consumer: The Commercialization Journey of Quantum Dots


Dr. Samira Siahrostami

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University

Presenting on:  Computational Discovery of Catalysts for Clean Chemical Production


 

A schedule of events for NanoLytica 2025 can be found here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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