The magnolia’s are in bloom, which means it’s time for the annual departmental photo.
The community of researchers, educators, and students at Brock:
Department Photo April 2026
Our department, April 2026
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Physics students present at 2026 MNK Research Conference
The 2026 Mapping New Knowledges Research Conference showcased the innovating and exciting research from around campus. The cross-disciplinary event allows students and faculty to see the expert research being conducted by their colleagues and peers from across Brock.
This years presenters from Physics included talks by Hazel Gifford (“Resolving Time Travel Paradoxes: The When and How”) and Ashland Knowles (“Boundary Models for Crystal Structures”). Genevieve Uzoma presented a poster during the lunch session (“Synthesis and Characterization of Ce and Dy Doped SrCoO3”)
Physics PhD Student Genevieve Uzoma presents her research poster at Brock’s 2026 Mapping New Knowledge Conference.
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Brock Physics innovation seeks to boost battery life and safety
Brock Physics and Engineering Professor Jasneet Kaur and team has developed new materials that could increase the efficiency of batteries and hybrid energy storage devices. MSc student Hansima Keppetiyawa and PhD students Pritish Kumar Behura and Teresa Dong study how carefully engineered 2D materials can unlock new possibilities for high-performance clean energy technologies and wearable electronics.
From Brock News.
Assistant Professor of Physics and Engineering Jasneet Kaur (right) and PhD students Pritish Kumar Behura are part of a research team working to develop advanced battery separators using solid polymer electrolytes.
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Federal research infrastructure funding supports Brock material science
Physics Professor Gavin Hester leads Brock research into Quantum Materials at the the Canadian Neutron and Positron Beam Laboratory (CNBL). Together with 16 Canadian universities, the CNBL recived a $13.4 million Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant to build new research equipment and provide special access to some of the world’s best materials research facilities.
Read the Brock News article here:
Federal research infrastructure funding supports work of Brock scholars
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FIRST Tech Challenge Provincial Championship coming to Brock
Brock Physics is pleased to be an organizing partner in the FIRST Tech Challenge Provincial Championships. A new partnership between Brock and First Robotics Canada will see Brock host the championships for the next three years.
Provincial tech championships to connect robotics to ocean health
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Lab update: New AFM installed in Brock Physics
Lab update: Our new atomic force microscope is installed and functional. We are excited for making new materials discoveries!
Thanks to the support from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Brock Physics and other contributors from #BrockU. Great installation service and training experience provided by Park Systems .
New Park Systems AFM installed in the Brock Physics research labs
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BBC wonders about the possibility time travel : Prof Barak Shoshany
Brock’s Brarak Shoshany and the Perimeter Institute’s Katie Mack help interpret the possibility of time travel in this BBC article.
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Current, past faculty among top two per cent of scientists
Stanford University’s list of the world’s top two per cent of scientists with the most citations has been updated to reflect the situation in 2023 – and three Brock Physics faculty past and present are among the list of researchers from Brock.
- Kirill Samokhin, Professor, Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Science
- Frans Koffyberg, Professor Emeritus, Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Science
- Tapash Chakraborty, Adjunct Professor, Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Science
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NSERC funding for Brock Physics
Prof. Jasneet Kaur is awarded NSERC funding for an Atomic Force Microscope which will complement the nano-scale imaging of the department.
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Physics at the Undergraduate Rrsearch Symposium
Physics students were well represented at the FMS Undergraduate Research Symposium (Brock News), co-organized by Physics Prof. Gavin Hester.
Sebastien Duguay, a first-year Physics student and research assistant, presented their research on “3D Printing Crystal Structures for Education and Research.”
