Chris finished an MSc at the University of Manitoba in 2006 and then travelled to Canberra, Australia where he completed a PhD at the Australian National University in 2010. He then spent almost two years as a postdoc in the Ragogna group (http://publish.uwo.ca/~pragogna/), at Western University. Currently he is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, in the Barrett group (http://barrett-group.mcgill.ca/group/barrett.php). Chris is active in the postdoctoral community, as the Chair of the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars (CAPS: http://sites.google.com/site/canadapostdoc/).
Articles
Divergent Synthesis of Ruthenium Alkynyl and a Two-Photon Absorption Cross-Section Effect (with Katy A. Green, Peter V. Simpson, Marie P. Cifuentes, Marek Samoc, and Mark G. Humphrey), Macromolecular Rapid Communications (2012)
Organometallic Complexes for Non-Linear Optics. 51. Second- and Third-Order Non-Linear Properties of Alkynylgold Complexes (with Adam Barlow, Bandar Babgi, Marek Samoc, Stijn van Cleuvenbergen, Inge Asselberghs, Koen Clays, Marie P. Cifuentes, and Mark G. Humphrey), Australian Journal of Chemistry (2012)
Organometallic Complexes for Non-linear Optics. 49. Third-Order Non-linear Optical Spectral Dependence Studies of Arylalkynylruthenium Dendrimers (with Marek Samoc, Andrew M. McDonagh, Marie P. Cifuentes, and Mark G. Humphrey), Australian Journal of Chemistry (2011)
Electron-Rich Iron/Ruthenium Arylalkynyl Complexes for Third-Order Nonlinear Optics: Redox-Switching between Three States (with Nicolas Gauthier, Gilles Argouarch, Frédéric Paul, Loic Toupet, Abdelkader Ladjarafi, Karine Costuas, Jean-François Halet, Marek Samoc, Marie P. Cifuentes, and Mark G. Humphrey), Chemistry - A European Journal (2011)
Dodecanuclear-Ellipse and Decanuclear-Wheel Nickel(II) Thiolato Clusters with Efficient Femtosecond Nonlinear Absorption (with Chi Zhang, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Marek Samoc, Simon Petrie, Suci Meng, Robert Stranger, Jinfang Zhang, Mark G. Humphrey, and Kazuyuki Tatsumi), Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2010)
Presentations (Oral)
Superhydrophobic and Superhydrophilic Surfaces, 12th Canadian Materials Science Conference (CMSC12) (2012)
Improving the Barrier Properties of Films by Embedding Particles (with Joseph Chan, Mike J. Idacavage, Martin L. Cohen, Elizabeth R. Gillies, and Paul J. Ragogna), 44th Inorganic Discussion Weekend (IDW44) (2011)
Working with Optical Nonlinearity: Manipulations of Light with Organometallic Materials (Invited Lecture), The University of Winnipeg (2010)
Organometallic Wedge Derivatives and Homocoupled Diynes for Nonlinear Optics (with Marie P. Cifuentes, Marek Samoc, and Mark. G. Humphrey), 4th Australian Organometallics Meeting (OZOM4) (2008)