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: Challenges and Opportunities within the Energy Transition for Nanomaterials
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
Chris Goss
Senior Research Technologist, InnoTech Alberta
Dr. Tom Hey
Business Leader, PerkinElmer
Aaron Hineman
Inorganic Product Line 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. Liane M. Moreau
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Washington State University
Presenting on: Modeling heterogeneity and bonding behavior in actinide chemistry using XAFS-based approaches
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 2026 can be found here.
