Thomas Thundat

Thomas Thundat is a professor of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Oil Sands Molecular Engineering and also a research professor at the UT, Knoxville, a Visiting Professor at the University of Burgundy in France, and a Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His research covers nanomechanics, solid-liquid interface, nanomechanical sensors for physical, chemical, and biological detection, scanning probe microscopy, quantum-confined atoms, and mid infrared spectroscopy of surface adsorbates. “My research currently focuses on developing chemical and biological sensors with extremely high sensitivity using micro and nanocantilever arrays.”