Queen's 2015 Nobel Prize in PhysicsCongratulations to Dr. Goyal, Dr. Lefebvre, Dr. Ye, Dr. Hatch, Dr. Boukhtouchen, Dr. Al Kayed, and the master’s students for successfully defending their theses!
Below is the list of graduate students who successfully defended their theses between May and August 2026, together with their thesis titles and their supervisors’ names.
PhD
| Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Abhishake Goyal | Polymer Electrochemical and Electromechanical Devices: Light Emission, Charge Storage, Sensing, and Energy Harvesting | Prof. Gao |
| Chloe Lefebvre | Direction Reconstruction in the SNO+ Liquid Scintillator Phase with 2.2g/L PPO | Prof. Chen |
| Tianai Ye | Neural Network Methods for Improving Signal Processing in High-Purity Germanium Detectors for Rare Event Searches | Prof. Martin |
| Patrick Hatch | Neutrino Emission from Extreme High-Energy Peaked BL-LAC Objects | Prof. Clark Prof. Park |
| Yilda Boukhtouchen | New Searches for Heavy and Composite Dark Matter | Prof. Bramante |
| Nayem Al Kayed | Programmable Photonic Ising Machines: Ultrafast, Scalable Architectures for Combinatorial Optimization | Prof. Shastri |
Masters
| Name | Degree | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Schnekenburger | MSc | Particle Shape Optimization in Colloidal Clusters for Structural Colour Applications | Prof. van Anders |
| Irina Babayan | MSc | Entropic approaches to Machine Learning | Prof. van Anders |
Erzi Wyman | MSc | Molecular Dynamics Simulation for Bulk Fluid Modelling of the SBC Dark Matter Experiment | Prof. Clark |
| Dominic Thompson | MASc | Inverse Design of Photonic Crystal Devices for Use in Classical and Quantum Photonics | Prof. Hughes Prof. Rotenberg |