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Trevor has been a member of the QNC-MBE team since September 2020, following the completion of his undergraduate degree in physics. He graduated with an MSc degree in 2022 and started his Ph.D. program right away.  Trevor obtained his BSc (Hons) at Ontario Tech University, specializing in astrophysics.

Shyamaleeswari earned her bachelor’s degree in Nanotechnology Engineering, with a specialization in nanoelectronics, from the University of Waterloo in 2025. Later that year, she joined Professor Wasilewski’s group as a PhD student, drawn by her interest in semiconductor physics and optoelectronics. Her current research focuses on Sb-based alloys for long-wave infrared detector technology of operating at high temperatures.

Denise Gosselink had been the manager for the Molecular Beam Epitaxy facility until August 2016. Presently she is the Bruce B Chemistry and Environment Department Manager at the Bruce Power, the world's largest nuclear power plant.

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Wojciech Pasek was a postdoctoral fellow in the QNC-MBE group from November 2018 to January 2020, where he developed a theory for multi-subband plasmon formation in non-parabolic conduction bands using k·p calculations. He is now a faculty member at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.

Milad joined the QNC-MBE research team in February 2022 as an Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) PhD student to explore the development of innovative THz photoconductive antennas, particularly for sensing, spectroscopy, and communication applications. Since graduating in 2025, he has been advancing technology as a Quantum Microwave Design Engineer.

Ida Sadeghi is a Staff Scientist at the Research Cores at Yale University, USA, and previously served as a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering (Nanotechnology) under Professor Zbig Wasilewski's supervision in 2021.

Yunong (Anthony) Hu currently works in the electronics industry in China. He earned his MSc in Physics (Nanotechnology) under the supervision of Professor Zbig Wasilewski in 2018 and was a member of the QNC-MBE research team from September 2016, following his BSc in Physics from the University of Waterloo.

Julie Tournet is a Senior Lecturer/Researcher and R&D Manager at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. She earned her MASc in Electrical Engineering (Nanotechnology) under the supervision of Professor Zbig Wasilewski in 2015 and was the first student of the QNC-MBE Lab. She completed her BSc in Physics and Engineering in Europe, studying in Paris, Brest, and Barcelona.

Marc Jaikissoon is a Research Engineer at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. He worked in the QNC-MBE Group as a Co-op Student from September to December 2015 and later as a Research Assistant/Facility Technician from January to July 2018. During his time in the group, Marc focused on molecular beam epitaxial (MBE) deposition and characterization of aluminum layers for superconducting resonators and qubits. He also developed a technique for cleaning MBE III-V deposits off molybdenum holders without attacking Mo itself.