Defences held in person have locations listed with the date below. Zoom information for virtual exams is not listed; if you are interested in attending one of these defences, please contact the candidate's department or graduate.doctoral@ubc.ca. Zoom links are available one week prior to the defence.
Tuesday, 22 April 2025 - 2:00pm - Room 203
Jingyi Wang
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Automatic Digital Twin Development: Sparse Nonlinear Identification Approaches
Tuesday, 22 April 2025 - 3:00pm - D213, Chemistry Bldg, 2036 Main Mall
Yao Shi
Department: Chemistry
Mechanistic Study of Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reactions via Real-Time Monitoring
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Mehmet Saglam
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Investigating Educators' Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, and Agency in Constructing an Intelligence-Friendly Classroom
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 - 9:00am - 293, Jack Bell Research Centre, 2660 Oak street
Yue Li
Department: Oncology
Characterization of CPSF1-Mediated Alternative Polyadenylation in Cancer
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 - 12:00pm - 224, Biodiversity Research Centre, 2212 Main Mall
Cassandra Elphinstone
Department: Botany
Arctic Plant Genomics: Biogeography, Comparative Genomics, DNA Methylation, Gene Expression, and Centromeres
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 - 2:30pm - Zoom
Maj Jensen
Department: Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Critical Inner Experience(s) : Thinking as an Atelier
Thursday, 24 April 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Felix Setiawan
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Paired Electrosynthesis in a Stirred Slurry Electrochemical Reactor for Bio-Oil Upgrading and Glycerol Electrooxidation
Thursday, 24 April 2025 - 11:30am - 1410, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Magnus Chan
Department: Experimental Medicine
Multiple Effects of KCNQ1 Activators on the Delayed Cardiac Rectifier Potassium Channel Molecular Complex
Thursday, 24 April 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Reginald Simpson
Department: Mathematics
The Distribution of the Invariant Factors of Multiplicative Groups
Friday, 25 April 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
David Owolabi
Department: Forestry
Vibration Performance of Modular Prefabricated Cross-Laminated Timber-Steel Composite Floors
Friday, 25 April 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Cristalle Watson
Department: Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
Hermeneutical Strategies and Interpretatio Christiana in Proba's Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi
Friday, 25 April 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Bailey Eagan
Department: Applied Animal Biology
Novel Methods of Assessment and Intervention to Improve Cat Welfare in Animal Shelters
Friday, 25 April 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Mirta Roncagalli
Department: French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Neohumanismo: Una Propuesta de Regeneración Ética y Sociopolítica en el Ensayo Español del Siglo XXI
Tuesday, 29 April 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Bita Zareian
Department: Psychology
Effects of Adolescent Hormonal Contraceptive Use on Stress Responses and Risk for Depression
Tuesday, 29 April 2025 - 10:00am - D213, Chemistry Bldg, 2036 Main Mall
Mason Guy
Department: Chemistry
Steamlining Access to High Value Molecules through Automated Synthesis and Reaction Monitoring
Wednesday, 30 April 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Sharada Balaji
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Characterizing White Matter: Adventures with Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Wednesday, 30 April 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Courtney Hoskinson
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
How the Infant Gut Microbiome Shapes Childhood Allergic Disease: Data from the CHILD Cohort Study
Thursday, 1 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Rebecca Sheppard
Department: English Language and Literatures
The Mind of the Criminal: Crime and Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Science, and the Law
Thursday, 1 May 2025 - 12:30pm - 167, Iona Bldg, 6000 Iona Dr
Giulia Lo Forte
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays on Intellectual Property and Innovation
Thursday, 1 May 2025 - 3:00pm - Room 203
Adam Martens
Department: Mathematics
Ricci Flow: Curvature Concentration and Sobolev Bounds
Friday, 2 May 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Xiaoting Li
Department: Statistics
Multivariate Extreme Value Inference Based on Tail Expansions of Copulas with Applications to Systemic Risk Analysis
Monday, 5 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Tristan Douglas
Department: Forestry
Mapping and Monitoring Microphytobenthic Biofilms in the Fraser River Estuary, British Columbia Using UAV-acquired Multispectral Imagary
Monday, 5 May 2025 - 10:00am - 1346, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Megan Wolf
Department: Genome Science and Technology
Characterization of Cytochrome P450 O-demethylases for Lignin Valorization
Tuesday, 6 May 2025 - 9:00am - 969, Henry Angus Building, 2053 Main Mall
Jaecheol Park
Department: Sauder School of Business
Strategic Roles of AI and Mobile Management on Performance: Evidence from U.S. Public Firms
Tuesday, 6 May 2025 - 2:00pm - Zoom
Jennifer Kwon
Department: Dentistry
Unveiling the Implicit: Exploring Professionalism and Professional Identity Formation in Dentistry
Wednesday, 7 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Ildiko Kovacs
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Participatory Planning Pedagogy and Curriculum for Environmental and Sustainability Education: A Children's Right to the City Initiative
Monday, 12 May 2025 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Kheireddin Mufti
Department: Medical Genetics
Pharmacogenomic Study of Vincristine-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Patients with Pediatric Cancers
Tuesday, 13 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Mary Demarinis
Department: Educational Studies
Using Institutional Ethnography to Explicate the Story of Student Affairs Professionals Doing the Work of Supporting Students with Disabilities
Tuesday, 13 May 2025 - 12:00pm - Room 203
Pablo Andres Valenzuela Casasempere
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays in Displacement, Infrastructure, and Spatial Inequality
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 - 9:00am - Dorothy Lam Boardroom, BC Cancer Research Institute, 675 West 10th Avenue
Forouh Kalantari
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The Functional Effect of ARID1A Mutation in Human Endometrial Epithelium
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 - 1:30pm - 202, Chemical and Biological Engineering Building, 2360 East Mall
Ruby Osei-Bonsu
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Biomass Valorization: Extraction, Characterization and Utilization of Cellulose Nanomaterials
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 - 4:00pm - Room 203
Breanna Nelson
Department: Experimental Medicine
Examining the Effects of COVID-19 and Prolonged COVID-19 Symptoms on Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures and Cognitive Performance
Thursday, 15 May 2025 - 10:00am - 11268, Gordon & Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre, 2775 Laurel St
Yu Han Zhang
Department: MD/PhD Program
Dissecting the Cell of Origin and Progression Events of DICER1 Syndrome-Associated Sarcoma
Tuesday, 20 May 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Lindsey Snyder
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Unboxing Object-Based Learning: Exploring Teachers' Object-Based Pedagogies with Museum Kits in Elementary Classrooms
Thursday, 22 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Reid Vassallo
Department: MD/PhD Program
Towards Improved Ultrasound-Based Methods for Prostate Cancer Detection
Thursday, 22 May 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Desiree Fiaccabrino
Department: Chemistry
Development of Triaza-18-crown-6 Chelators for Radiotheranostic Metals
Tuesday, 27 May 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Martin Smith
Department: Psychology
The Equivalence and Relative Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for the Treatment of Depressive Disorders: A Meta-Analytic Test of Standardized Mean Differences and Rates of Response, Reliable Improvement,
Wednesday, 28 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Hariharan Umashankar
Department: Materials Engineering
Atomistic Simulations of Crystalline Defect Interactions in Metallic Alloys
Wednesday, 28 May 2025 - 2:00pm - 224, Biodiversity Research Centre, 2212 Main Mall
Herath Ranasinghe
Department: Zoology
Genomic and Biochemical Insights into Hybridization Dynamics and Carotenoid-Driven Colour Evolution in Asian Flameback
Thursday, 29 May 2025 - 12:30pm - X836, ICICS, 2366 Main Mall
Dujian Ding
Department: Computer Science
Towards Efficient Machine Learning Management Systems
Thursday, 29 May 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Hilary Agro
Department: Anthropology
Community Medicine: Abolitionist Worldbuilding among Drug Use Liberation Activists on Turtle Island
Friday, 30 May 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Yucheng Liu
Department: Mathematics
Critical and Near-critical Scaling in High-dimensional Statistical Mechanics
Monday, 2 June 2025 - 12:00pm - Room 203
Pascuel Plotkin
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Three Essays in Labor Economics
Monday, 9 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Atieh Yekta
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Sociotechnical Perspective on Work: Contemporary Realities of Immigrants’ Occupations within the Platform Economy
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 - 2:00pm - F414, BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre, 4500 Oak Street
Sarah Bowers
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Adenosine Deaminase 2 (ADA2) in Immune Cell Development and Activation
Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Megan Zeni
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Expanding Understandings of Outdoor Play and Learning in K-8 Elementary Schools
Thursday, 26 June 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Karlie Edwards
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Epigenetic Underpinnings of Pediatric Immune System Development
Monday, 25 August 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Jennifer Nagtegaal
Department: French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Expanded Comics: Multimediality, Performance, and Extra Multimodality under Post-Postmodernism