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, 9 July 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Kyle Missen
Department: Kinesiology
Characterizing Sensory Integration Mechanisms in Open- and Closed-Loop Models of Human Balance Control
Wednesday, 10 July 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Deivis Angeli
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Wednesday, 10 July 2024 - 1:00pm - 773, Robert H.N. Ho Research Centre, 2635 Laurel Street
Carly Jones
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Bone Marrow Lesions and Cartilage Health in the Hip: Quantitative Imaging and Indentation Testing
Thursday, 11 July 2024 - 9:30am - Zoom
Meghan Allen
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
An In-Depth Exploration of Student Experiences, Attitudes, and Beliefs of Learning Technical Writing in Undergraduate Computer Science Education
Thursday, 11 July 2024 - 10:30am - 203, Mathematics Building, 1984 Mathematics Road
Merlin Pelz
Department: Mathematics
Symmetry-Breaking Bifurcations in Compartmental-Reaction Diffusion Systems with Comparable Diffusivities
Thursday, 11 July 2024 - 12:30pm - Zoom
Reza Rafizadeh
Department: Experimental Medicine
Investigating Clozapine as a Pharmacotherapy Option in Co-Occurring Disorders
Thursday, 11 July 2024 - 1:00pm - 3335, Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, 2405 Wesbrook Mall
Chae Syng Lee
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Role of Endothelial Heparanase in Cardiac Growth and Metabolism and Changes Following Diabetes
Friday, 12 July 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Katrina Waldhauser
Department: Kinesiology
An Examination of Military Veteran Health and Well-Being Following Transition from the Armed Forces, and the Role of Physical Activity
Monday, 15 July 2024 - 12:30pm - 121, Totem Field Studios, 2613 West Mall
Rose Underhill
Department: Linguistics
Expressing Multiplicity in Ktunaxa: Groups, Sentience, and the Structure of Number
Monday, 15 July 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Jolan Theriault
Department: Zoology
The Optomotor Response of Hummingbirds During Hovering Flight: Effects of Stimulus Characteristics and Location in the Visual Field
Tuesday, 16 July 2024 - 9:00am - 3113, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 938 W 28th Ave
Christine Wardell
Department: Experimental Medicine
Harnessing T Cells that Detect Mismatched HLA to Monitor and Prevent Allo- and Autoimmunity
Tuesday, 16 July 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Bronwyn Malloy
Department: English Language and Literatures
“Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo”: Listening for Weak Hope in Contemporary Song Lyrics
Tuesday, 16 July 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Meng Li
Department: Botany
The Cellular Distribution and Regulatory Components of The Crucifer "Glucosinolate-Myrosinase" Defense System
Wednesday, 17 July 2024 - 9:00am - 2202, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 6250 Applied Science Lane
Rivkah Gardner-Frolick
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Investigating Disparities in Air Pollution Exposure in Canada: From the Local to the National Scale
Wednesday, 17 July 2024 - 3:30pm - Zoom
Ying Zhu
Department: Materials Engineering
Fabrication, Characterization, and Modeling of Porous Ge from Epitaxial Ge on Si Substrates
Thursday, 18 July 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Irina Della-Rossa
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Skilled Immigrant Women Doing Well With Career Change at Mid-Life
Friday, 19 July 2024 - 10:00am - Hebb (HEBB) - 116, Hebb Building, 2045 East Mall
Petar Simidzija
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Negative Lambda Quantum Cosmology
Friday, 19 July 2024 - 12:30pm - 121, Totem Field Studios, 2613 West Mall
Michel Assis Navarro
Department: Linguistics
Quantization and Quantification: Countability and Scope of Bare Nouns in Kaingang and Beyond
Monday, 22 July 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Michael Zurel
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Classical Descriptions of Quantum Computations: Foundations of Quantum Computation via Hidden Variable Models, Quasiprobability Representations and Classical Simulation Algorithms
Monday, 22 July 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Chiyu Zhang
Department: Information
Representation Learning for Computational Sociopragmatics
Monday, 22 July 2024 - 9:30am - Zoom
Sebastian Gomez Cardona
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays on Household Finance
Monday, 22 July 2024 - 10:00am - 308A, Frank Forward Building, 6350 Stores Rd
Andrew Zang
Department: Materials Engineering
The Evolution of Microstructure During Porthole Die Extrusion of Al-Mg-Si Alloys and its Effect on Plastic Deformation Near the Weld Seam
Monday, 22 July 2024 - 11:00am - 2012, Ponderosa Commons Oak House, 6445 University Blvd
Monica Shank Lauwo
Department: Language and Literacy Education
Linguistic Diversity, Antiracism, and Raciolinguicized Subjectivities in Teacher Eduction
Monday, 22 July 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Siu Man Bella Chan
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Implementation of an Adapted MYmind Program with Self-Compassion Component for Preadolescents with ASD and their Parents: A Quasi-Experimental and Feasibility Analysis
Tuesday, 23 July 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Lorraine Block
Department: Nursing
A Computerised Ontology to Represent Complex Nursing Knowledge for Indicators of Localised Wound Infection in Chronic Wounds
Tuesday, 23 July 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Kate Guan
Department: Psychology
Why We Fear Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Moral Impression-Violations Threaten Meaning
Tuesday, 23 July 2024 - 10:30am - ANGU 333, Henry Angus, 2053 Main Mall
Yingxiang Li
Department: Sauder School of Business
Financial Intermediation in Private Equity Markets
Tuesday, 23 July 2024 - 2:00pm - X836, ICICS Building, 2366 Main Mall
Hedayat Zarkoob
Department: Computer Science
AI-Powered Methods for Academic Assessment: Overcoming Scalability Challenges in Large University Classrooms and Conference Review
Tuesday, 23 July 2024 - 3:00pm - 293, Henry Angus, 2053 Main Mall
Yiwen Jin
Department: Sauder School of Business
Essays on Healthcare Delivery Analytics
Wednesday, 24 July 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Mohsen Gholami
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
3D Human Pose Estimation with Self-Supervision and Learnable Data Generation
Wednesday, 24 July 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Bradford Morrison
Department: Psychology
The Relationship Between Political Leaders' Integrative Complexity and the Use of Violence in International Crises
Wednesday, 24 July 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Norma Biln
Department: Population and Public Health
Improving Referrals to Rheumatologists for Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis
Wednesday, 24 July 2024 - 12:30pm - 167, Iona Building, 6000 Iona Dr
Joshua Catalano
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Partition Estimation: Theory and Application
Wednesday, 24 July 2024 - 2:00pm - Zoom
Valentina Rutigliano
Department: Sauder School of Business
Essays on Entrepreneurial Finance and Labor Markets
Thursday, 25 July 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Cassandra Miller
Department: Physics and Astronomy
An Analysis of Imaging and Biological Effects Impacting Theranostic Dosimetry using Radiopharmaceutical Pairs
Thursday, 25 July 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Tsering Watermeyer
Department: Social Work
Notions, Structures & Practices of Social Helping: The Tibetan Diaspora as Kinship
Thursday, 25 July 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Karen Gledhill
Department: Educational Studies
Who Do We Trust? Life Histories of Women in School Leadership
Thursday, 25 July 2024 - 10:30am - 101, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall
Melody Salehzadeh
Department: Zoology
Effects of Lipopolysaccharide on Local Glucocorticoid Regulation in the Mouse Nervous and Immune Systems
Thursday, 25 July 2024 - 10:30am - Zoom
Mohammad Reza Yousefidarestani
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Exploring Intelligent Ureteral Stent for Wireless Monitoring and Early Detection of Hydronephrosis
Thursday, 25 July 2024 - 4:00pm - Zoom
Youngeun Jee
Department: Language and Literacy Education
Beliefs and Practices in Teaching English as an International Language: A Multiple Case Study of Secondary English Teachers in South Korea
Friday, 26 July 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Debora Petry Moecke
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Advancing Telehealth Physiotherapy for Indigenous People: Navigating Virtual Therapeutic Relationships
Friday, 26 July 2024 - 12:00pm - Zoom
Antoine Belley
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Probing Beyond Standard Model Physics Through Ab Initio Calculations of Exotic Weak Processes in Atomic Nuclei
Monday, 29 July 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Bharath Antarvedi Goda
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Cutting Mechanics of Soft Solids
Monday, 29 July 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Calem Kenward
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structural and Functional Characterization of Key Proteins Essential to the Lifecycle of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
Monday, 29 July 2024 - 5:00pm - Zoom
Yuanfang Chi
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Collaborative Fault Diagnosis with Decentralized Knowledge Inference in Industrial Internet of Things
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Anna Helena Schild
Department: Forestry
Sensor-Based Sorting of Waste Wood Composites and the Use of Composite Particles in Cement-Bonded Wood Composites
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Tiago Bonomo
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays in Development Economics
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 - 10:00am - X836, ICICS Building, 2366 Main Mall
Victor Sanches Portella
Department: Computer Science
Privacy, Experts, and Martingales: An Investigation on the use of Analytical Tools
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Madhureeta Das Gupta
Department: Chemistry
Precise Length and Morphology Control of Metal-Containing Supramolecular Assemblies
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Kurtis Hanlon
Department: Asian Studies
Why Play This Way: An Examination of Heian-Period Poetry Matches that Break the Mold of Uta-awase
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 - 9:00am - 3340, Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, 2405 Wesbrook Mall
Belal Tafech
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Facilitating Gene Delivery and Genome Editing in Obstructive Lung Disease using Lipid Nanoparticles
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 - 12:00pm - 202, Chemical and Biological Engineering Building, 2360 East Mall
Xun Niu
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Valorization of Wood Bark Towards Value-added Chemicals, Structures, and Bioproducts
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Sumeet Jaswal
Department: Psychology
Misokinesia: Exploring Sensitivity to Others’ Movements And Its Impact on Attention and Emotions
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Ryan Stillwagon
Department: Sociology
Queer Food Insecurity: National Predictors and Urban Realities
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Jin-Hui Wen
Department: Psychology
Reciprocal Associations Between Nightly Sleep and Daily Stress: Individual Differences and Mechanisms
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 - 2:00pm - 101, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall
Ching Pan Chu
Department: Bioinformatics
Preservation and Detection of Dynamic Transcriptional Regulatory Signals in Gene Co-Expression Analysis
Thursday, 1 August 2024 - 9:00am - 3340, Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, 2405 Wesbrook Mall
Petar Iliev
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Venturing into the Undruggable: A Quest from STAT3 to TrkA Inhibition in Anticancer Drug Discovery
Thursday, 1 August 2024 - 12:00pm - 4001, Douglas T. Kenny Building, 2136 West Mall
Geoffrey Gooderham
Department: Psychology
Cognition in Young Adults: Physical Activity, Diet, and Sleep’s Effects on Subjective and Metacognitive Functioning
Thursday, 1 August 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Wentao Wu
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Development of Compact Multimodal Two-Photon and Three-Photon Microscopy
Friday, 2 August 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Cristina Rubino
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Oculomotor Function and Functional Connectivity: Insights into Motor Skill Learning and Implications for Motor Function after Stroke
Friday, 2 August 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Katherine Carbeck
Department: Forestry
Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences Of Spatial and Temporal Environmental Heterogeneity in Song Sparrows
Friday, 2 August 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Mohammad Khalifa
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Parametric Amplification and Conversion with Superconducting Nanowire Resonators
Friday, 2 August 2024 - 10:00am - 1346 Faculty Lounge, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Polina Beskrovnaya
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Mechanisms of Peptidoglycan Remodelling and Outer Membrane Biogenesis in the Diderm Firmicute Acetonema Longum
Friday, 2 August 2024 - 10:00am - Zoom
Matthew-John Knights
Department: Music
Drag Queens and Dragons: For Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
Friday, 2 August 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Crystal Penner
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Organic Fibre-Based Arrays for Proton Radiotherapy Applications
Tuesday, 6 August 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Anthony Oppedisano
Department: Medical Genetics
Functional Analysis of the MUS81 Structure Selective Endonuclease with Dominant Genetics
Tuesday, 6 August 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Matteo Ferraresso
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Active Contractility of Polymeric Gels and a Model for Clot Retraction-Driven Wound Closure
Tuesday, 6 August 2024 - 1:30pm - Zoom
Daniel Perez Gamez
Department: Geography
Republic of Atlapulco: The Politics of Autonomy in the Mexican Metropolis
Thursday, 8 August 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Qi Hua
Department: Forestry
Synthesis of Reactive Vinyl-Functionalized Lignin
Thursday, 8 August 2024 - 12:30pm - Zoom
Mostafa Darabi
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Resource Allocation for eMBB and URLLC Use Cases in 5G and Beyond Cellular Networks
Thursday, 8 August 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Baraa Orabi
Department: Computer Science
Utilizing Short-Read, Long-Read and Single-Cell RNA Sequencing for Isoform Discovery and Detection
Thursday, 8 August 2024 - 1:30pm - Zoom
Sarah Panofsky
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Ts’Iyenï Kwin Ghineendïl (Everyone Came Back to the Fire)
Wednesday, 14 August 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Mostafa Hagar
Department: Chemistry
Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Caveamides via Hybrid Genome-Mining and 15N-NMR Screening
Thursday, 15 August 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Patrick Pow
Department: Soil Science
Measurements of Evapotranspiration and Greenhouse Gas Exchange Over a Conventionally Managed Forage Crop
Tuesday, 20 August 2024 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Jan Hammer
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Printed Circuit Board Parasitics in Wide-Bandgap Applications: Estimation, Mitigation, and Exploitation
Monday, 26 August 2024 - 12:30pm - Zoom
Aaron Molnar
Department: History
Proceeding to Mongolia, Proceding to the Yuan: Goryeo’s Human And Material Integration in the Mongol Eurasian World, 1206-1392
Tuesday, 24 September 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Kelly Graves
Department: Civil Engineering
Incomplete Autumn Turnover in a Small and Deep Temperate Lake