• Professor, Chemistry, University of British Columbia (2023-Present)
• Associate Professor, Chemistry, University of British Columbia (2018-2023)
• Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of British Columbia (2012-2018)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (2010-2012)
• Ph.D., University of Toronto (2010)
• M.Sc., University of Toronto (2006)
• B.Sc., University of Toronto (2005)
• Author of more than 100 indexed publications, 13 book chapters, and 5 patents.
• Recipient of multiple national and International awards and honours for research.

Research Awards

• PerkinElmer Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy Award (2023)
• Canadian Society for Chemistry W.A.E. McBryde Medal (2022)
• Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship (2021)
• UBC Charles A. McDowell Award (2020)
• The Analytical Scientist Top 40 Under 40 Power List (2018, 2022)
• NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (2018)
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2017-19)
• Spectroscopy Emerging leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award (2017)
• Canadian Society for Chemistry Fred Beamish Award (2017)
• CNC-IUPAC Travel Award (2017)
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar (2014-19)
• Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 (2012-22)
• Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar Start-Up Research Grant (2013)

• One of two UBC nominees for the Schmidt Science Polymath award (2021)

• One of six UBC nominees for the Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship (2021)
• One of six UBC nominees for the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (2020)

• One of five invited speakers for the inaugural ACS Sensors Young Investigator Symposium at the ACS National Meeting (2019)
• Invited contribution to the special "Emerging Investigators" themed issue of Analyst (2016)
• Invited contribution to the special "Young Investigators" issue of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2016)
• Emerging Materials Chemistry Investigator Lectureship, Canadian Society for Chemistry (2015)

• Positive Teaching Letter, Dean of Science, UBC, for CHEM 311 (2021)

• Nominee from the NSERC Chemistry Committee for the Howard Alper PDF Prize (2010)
• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010-12)
• Governor General's Academic Gold Medal (2011)
• Chair's Doctoral Medal, Chemistry, University of Toronto (2011)
• F.E. Beamish Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science & Technology (2009-10)
• AAS Program for Excellence in Science, Sponsored Membership (2008)
• NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (2007-09)
• Chorofas Foundation Prize (2007)
• NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (2006-07)
• F.E. Beamish Prize in Analytical Chemistry, University of Toronto (2006)

Community Roles

• Member at Large, Executive, Analytical Chemistry Division, Chemical Institute of Canada (2016-2022)
• Member, Boarder of Directors, Chemical Education Fund, Chemical Institute of Canada (2016-Present)
• Member, Chemistry Panel, NSERC Discovery Grant competition (2021-23)
• Member, College of Reviewers, CIHR (2017-Present)

• Member, Editorial Board, ACS Measurement Science Au (ACS, 2021-Present)
• Guest co-editor, thematic issue of Analytical Nanoscience, Analyst (RSC, 2019-20)
• Member, Features Panel of Editorial Board of Analytical Chemistry (ACS, 2019-2022)
• Member, Editorial Board, Methods and Applications in Fluorescence (IOP, 2020-Present)
• Member, Editorial Board, Analytica Chimica Acta (Elsevier, 2018-2022)
• Member, Editorial Board, Spectroscopy (2017-Present)
• Member, Editorial Board, Chemosensors (MDPI, 2014-2022)
• Member, Editorial Board, Nano Reviews & Experiments (Taylor & Francis, 2013-2019)
• Member, Editorial Board, Analytical Chemistry Research (Elsevier, 2013-2017)

• Co-organizer, symposia on teaching analytical chemistry at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (2014-2020, 2022-2023)
• Co-organizer, symposia on analytical applications of nanomaterials at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)
• Co-organizer, Nanomaterials for Bioanalysis symposium at Pittcon (2020)
• Co-organizer, Frontiers in Spectroscopy and Imaging, CCCE and IUPAC General Assembly and World Congress (2021)