Eight UBC doctoral projects being supported through collaboration with CNRS

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)  has announced the results of the PhD Joint Programs calls launched with its foreign partners for the year 2025. PhD Joint Programs are doctoral fellowships funded by the CNRS in collaboration with a foreign institutional partner to jointly support doctoral research projects. 

A total of 26 awards were made to partnerships between CNRS and five university partners: Université de Sherbrooke; University of Arizona; Imperial College; University of São Paulo; and UBC. Eight of these awards are for CNRS-UBC collaborations.

Read the CNRS announcement
 

CNRS-UBC Joint Projects

• Laser spectroscopy of cold molecules sensitive to parity and time-reversal violation
  Coordinator UBC : Kirk Madison (Department of Physics & Astronomy)
  Coordinator CNRS : Serge Franchoo (Laboratoire de physique des 2 infinis - Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab)
   
• Applications of ab initio nuclear theory to electroweak process in atomic nuclei
  Coordinator UBC : Ariel Zhitnitsky (Department of Physics & Astronomy)
  Coordinator CNRS : Guillaume Hupin (Laboratoire de physique des 2 infinis - Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab)
   
• France-Canada LISA Gravitational-Wave Astrophysical Transient Workflow
  Coordinator UBC : Jess Mciver (Department of Physics & Astronomy)
  Coordinator CNRS : Natalia Korsakova
   
• Enhancing Photodynamic Therapy in Hypoxic Tumors via Precision Gene Regulation and Lipid Nanoparticle-Mediated Co-Delivery of Porphyrin and siRNA
  Coordinator UBC : Miffy Hok Yan Cheng (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
  Coordinators CNRS : Céline Frochot (Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés)  et Samir Acherar (Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Macromolléculaire)
   
• Discovering the impact of viral infection in keystone marine plankton species
  Coordinator UBC : Curtis Suttle (Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences)
  Coordinator CNRS : Marcelino Suzuki (Laboratoire de biodiversité et biotechnologies microbiennes)
   
• Green Hydrogen Production by Low-Energy Electrolysis: Innovative Anode Chemistries
  Coordinator UBC : Elod Gyenge (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering)
  Coordinator CNRS : Carlos Manuel Sanchez Sanchez (Laboratoire Interfaces et Systèmes Electrochimiques)
   
• Caveolae, Caveolin-1, and Mechanical Stress: Role in Tumor Invasion
  Coordinator UBC : Robert Nabi (Life Science Institute)
  Coordinator CNRS : Christophe Lamaze (Chimie et Biologie du Cancer)
   
• Virus-Host Interactions and Sensory-Driven Behavior in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes: Toward Sustainable Vector Control
  Coordinator UBC : Benjamin Matthews (Department of Zoology)
  Coordinator CNRS : Roenick Proveti Olmo (Modèles Insectes Immunité Innée)