Current Group Members

Visiting Group Members

Past Group Members

PhD Students

Brayden Hull, Nonlinear Fields in Gravitation: Investigations in Black Hole and Cosmological Spacetimes (2021 – 2025); now Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Lethbridge.

Ken Gallock Yoshimura, Correlation harvesting in the presence of Unruh and Hawking Effects (2019 – 2023); now Assistant Professor, Tokyo University.

Jack Davis, Wigner negativity on the Sphere (2018 – 2023); now postdoctoral fellow, INRIA & Ecole Normale Superieure .

Erickson Tjoa, The Roles of the Causal Propagator in Relativistic Quantum Information (2018 – 2023); now postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.

Finnian Gray, Symmetries in Black Hole Spacetimes (2018 – 2022); now postdoctoral fellow, University of Vienna.

Wan Cong, Quantum Probings of Curved Spacetimes (2017 – 2021); now University Assistant Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vienna.

Matthew Robbins, Quantum Information across Spacetime: From Gravitational Waves to Spinning Black Holes (2017 – 2021); now Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto.

Allison Sachs, The Unruh-DeWitt Detector Model: Modified Dispersion and Nonlinear Couplings (2017 – 2021)

Abdulrahim Al Balushi, Aspects of Quantum Information and AdS/CFT Duality (2017 – 2021)

Fiona McCarthy, Studies of Astrophysical Black Holes (2017 – 2021); now Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge.

Fil Simovic, Gravitational Thermodynamics: From Black Holes to Holography (2016 – 2021); now Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Waterloo.

Prior to 2020:

Laura Henderson, What Can Detectors Detect? (2016 – 2020); now postdoctoral fellow, University of Queensland.

Daniel Grimmer, Open Quantum Systems and Gaussian Measurements (2016 – 2020); now Hertz Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn.

Meenu Kumari, Quantum Chaos (2016 – 2019); now Research Officer, National Research Council Canada.

Cedric Musema, On the Robustness of Holographic Dualities: AdS Black Holes and Quotient Spaces (2015 –2018); became postdoctoral fellow, Perimeter Institute

Saoussen Mbarek, Explorations of Black Hole Thermodynamics in de Sitter Spacetime (2014 – 2018); now Senior Data Scientist at Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA).

Marco Ho, Relativistic Quantum Information and Firewalls (2015 – 2019) (joint agreement with University of Queensland)

Natacha Altamirano, The quantum and the gravity: Newtonian and Cosmological applications (2014 – 2018); now Data Scientist with Birch Hill Equity, Toronto, Ontario

Marius Oltean, Rigid Quasilocal Frames and the Self-Force Problem (2014 – 2015); now adjunct professor at ESADE Business and Law School, Barcelona, Spain.

Robie Hennigar, Explorations in black hole chemistry and higher curvature gravity (2014 –2018); now Willmore Fellow, Durham University, UK.

Marvellous Onuma-Kalu, Quantum Metrology and Non-Demolition Experiments (2014 – 2019); now Data Analyst, UdaCity, Regina, Saskatchewan.

Keith Ng, Unruh-DeWitt Detector Response Along Static and Circular Geodesic Trajectories for Schwarzschild-AdS Black Holes (2014 – 2019); now postdoctoral fellow at National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Paulina Corona-Ugalde, Experimental prospects for detecting the quantum nature of spacetime (2013 – 2017); became postdoctoral fellow in medical physics, Grand River Hospital, Kitchener, Ontario; now Data Analyst, Toronto Dominion Bank.

Wilson Brenna, Thermodynamics and Universality in Anisotropic Higher Curvature Spacetimes (2012 – 2016); now Digital Design Analyst, SED Systems, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Aida Ahmadzadegan, Probing the Unruh and Hawking effects using Unruh-DeWitt detectors (2012 – 2017) (Cotutelle with McQuarrie University); now CEO of ForeQast Technologies.

Alexander Smith, Detectors, Reference Frames, and Time (2012 – 2017) (Cotutelle with McQuarrie University); became Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA; now Assistant Professor at Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire, USA.

Eric Brown, Operational Approaches to Quantum Correlations and Particle Creation in Field Theory (2011 – 2015); now at Aliro Quantum Network Technologies, Toronto, Ontario

Razieh Pourhasan, Adventures in Holography (2011 – 2014); now Data Scientist, Government of Canada.

Paul McGrath, Rigid Quasilocal Frames (2010 – 2014); now Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Waterloo, Canada.

William Sulis, A Process Model of Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (2007 – 2014); now medical doctor, Hamilton, Ontario.

Miok Park, Holographic Correspondence and Exploring New Regimes of AdS/CFT Duality (2007 – 2013); now Research Fellow at Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea.

Sean Stotyn, Exact Solutions and Black Hole Stability in Higher Dimensional Supergravity Theories, (2007 –2012); Associate PRofessor (Teaching), University of Calgary, Alberta.

Prior to 2010:

Jiali Yan, Black Hole Radiation (2008 – 2010)

M. Chanachowicz, On the Classification of the R-Separable Webs for the Laplace Equation in E3 (2003 – 2008) (co-supervision with R. McLenaghan)

Iman Marvian, Quantum Information in Curved Spacetime (2006 – 2008); next job postdoctoral fellow Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Tomasz Konopka, Space and Particles at the Planck Scale, (2004 – 2007) (co-supervision with F. Markopolou); next job postdoctoral fellow, University of Utrecht; now postdoctoral fellow at the Research Centre for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

Pierre-Sandre Farrugia, Geon Thermodynamics (2004 – 2005)

Joel Brownstein, Problems in Early Universe Cosmology, (2004 – 2009) (co-supervision with J.W. Moffat); now research associate Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.

Ryan Kerner, Black Hole Thermodynamics and the Tunnelling Method for Particle Emission (2003 – 2008)

Cristian Stelea, String Theory & Black Holes, (2002 – 2006); next job postdoctoral fellow, University of British Columbia; now a faculty member at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania.

Eugeniu Popesciu, Topological Matter in (2+1)-Dimensional Gravity, (2002 – 2006); next job lecturer, Wilfrid Laurier University; now a faculty member at Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania.

Artem Starodubtsev, Topological Methods in Quantum Gravity, (2001 – 2005) (co-supervision with L. Smolin); next job postdoctoral fellow Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy, Marseille, France

Amjad Ashoorioon, Transplanckian Effects in Inflationary Cosmology, (2001 – 2007); next job NSERC postdoctoral fellow, now faculty member at Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Richard Clarkson, Taub-NUT Spacetime in the (A)dS/CFT and M-Theory, (2001 – 2005); now medical physicist, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.

Prior to 2000:

Sean Crowe, Studies in String Theory, (2000– 2000) (withdrew for medical reasons); now Methodologist, Statistics Canada.

Luis de Menezes, Problems in Gravitational Collapse, (1998–2000); now working as a High School Physics Teacher.

Ivan Booth, Black Hole Pair Production (1996 – 2000); now Professor of Mathematics, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Howard Burton, On the Palatini Variation and Connection Theories of Gravity (1994-1998); became Executive Director, Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada; now C.E.O. of Ideas Roadshow.

Jim Chan, On the Universality of Mass Inflation Inside Black Holes (1995- 1998); now Research Associate, Department of National Defence, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Catalina Alvarez, Testing the Equivalence Principle in the Quantum Domain (1992-1997); next job Scientific Advisor for Petros-Eikon; now faculty member at Instituto Astrofisico de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain.

Jolien Creighton, Gravitational Calorimetry (1993-1996); now Professor of Physics and member of LIGO group, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Kevin C.K. Chan, Exact Black Hole and Cosmological Solutions in (n+1) Dimensional Dilaton/Scalar-Tensor Gravity (1992-1996); now Research Director, Fu Tat Dyeing Factory Ltd., Hong Kong, China.

Jody Palmer, New Tests of the Equivalence Principle Using Non-Metric Couplings of Electromagnetism and Gravitation (1988-92); now Software Developer, Open Text Corp., Waterloo, Ontario Canada.

Lev Tarasov, Studies in Quantum Gravity – From One-Loop Effective Actions to Two-Dimensional Theories (1985-1992); next job Research Associate in Climatology, University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario; now Canada Research Chair at Memorial University, St. Johns, Canada.

Patrick Kelly, Non-Riemannian Geometries in Gravitation and Field Theory (1985-1991); now Professor of Physics, Ave-Maria College, Ypsilanti, Michigan, U.S.A.

Martin Leblanc, Operator Regularization and the Finite Effective Action of Non-linear Sigma Models (1987-1990); now a medical doctor in Quebec, Canada.

Ted Treml, Some Aspects of Regularizing Quantum Field Theories (1984-1987)