Meet Our Team
Past Group Members
William Bae 🇨🇦, UBC, Undergraduate Volunteer + NSERC Summer Research, 2023-2024
Lovepreet Manku 🇮🇳🇨🇦, UBC, Summer Undergraduate Volunteer, 2024
Lindsay Nahanee 🇨🇦, Highschool Summer Research, 2024
Earl Edwards 🇨🇦, Highschool Summer Research, 2024
Antoine Attia 🇫🇷🇬🇧, Mitacs Summer Research Student, 2024
Talia Lorincz 🇨🇦, Whitman College, Undergrad Summer Internship, 2024
Jay Dave 🇮🇳, University of Saskatchewan, PhD Student, 2024
Charlotte Phillips 🇬🇧, Durham University, Undergraduate/Masters Student, 2024
Anna Zeleny 🇺🇸, UBC, Masters Student, 2022- 2024
Clémence Depp 🇫🇷, ENSIACET Toulouse, Mitacs summer research student, 2023
Frank Van Strien 🇳🇱, Avans University, Undergraduate student, 2023
Sanh Nguyen 🇩🇪, University of Rostock, Mitacs summer research student, 2023
Isabelle Lao 🇵🇭, UBC, CHEM 445 RLE student and Research Assistant, 2021-2023
Crizl Salazar 🇨🇦 UBC, Undergraduate student, 2023
Brandon Kozmen 🇨🇦, UBC, Undergraduate CHEM 445 RLE student, 2022
Madri Jayakody 🇱🇰, UBC, graduate student 2021-2022
Chloé Arthozoul 🇫🇷, ENSIACET Toulouse, summer student, 2022
Aldo R. Guzman 🇲🇽, Universidad Veracruzana, Mitacs summer research student, 2022
Sophie Bogler 🇩🇪, ETH Zurich, Bachelor & Master research assistant, 2018-2022
Jason Kim 🇰🇷, UBC, Undergraduate CHEM 445 RLE student, 2021-2022
Nicole Link 🇺🇸, UBC, Undergraduate CHEM 445 RLE student, 2022
Katie Thompson 🇬🇧, University of Leeds, Go Global PhD student, 2022
Gurpriya Bhangoo 🇨🇦, UBC, Undergraduate CHEM 445 RLE student, 2021
Jon Went 🇨🇭, ETH Zurich, Bachelor thesis student, 2019-2020
Andrew Leoppky 🇨🇦, UBC, graduate student, 2020
Sebastian Zala 🇨🇭, ETH Zurich, Master thesis student, 2020
Anna Miller 🇺🇸, ETH Zurich, Research assistant and Master thesis student, 2018-2020
Silvan Müller 🇨🇭, ETH Zurich, Master thesis student and research assistant, 2019-2020
Lisa Leist 🇩🇪, ETH Zurich, graduate student, 2019
Killian Brennan 🇨🇭, ETH Zurich, Bachelor thesis student and research assistant, 2018-2019
Max Aragon Cerecedes 🇲🇽, University of Pécs, summer student, 2019
Lin Boynton 🇺🇸, ETH Zurich, Research assistant, 2018
Vera Weichlinger 🇨🇭, ETH Zurich, Bachelor thesis student, 2017
Julia Werz 🇨🇭, ETH Zurich, Bachelor thesis student, 2017
Diversity Statement
Defining diversity, inclusion and equity:
To foster a diverse environment, proactive inclusion efforts are necessary to ensure that a person associated with any underserved, marginalized or excluded populations, feels welcomed, supported, safe and valued. Our group defines equity in academia as equal rights and equal access to opportunities to all students and staff.
How does our group promote diversity and foster inclusion?
To encourage diversity, we believe one has to be themselves diverse in their own life experiences, skills and research. We know from firsthand experience that science is global, and only through diversity can one truly reach research excellence. A multicultural research group has the advantage of tapping into a rich resource of experiences, point of views and innovative ideas. The student-mentor relationship is dynamic, and consequently taking feedback and learning from colleagues, including students at all levels, is just as important as giving feedback. From our own experience, this type of relationship helps to foster inclusion through a supportive learning environment. This mentality is applicable to research, by diversifying research topics based on student expertise and interest, in mentoring, by being considerate of cultural backgrounds, and in teaching/outreach, by adapting to different learning styles and catering to different audiences. Finally, we hold each other to high standards of integrity, accountability and respect, necessary to foster an inclusive work and study environment. In times of struggle, we also know to seek assistance whether it be personal and/or professional help and encourage our peers to do so as well.
The NBD Group aims to be a trailblazingly diverse research group!