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
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.