2026 - Assistant Professor - University of Lethbridge
2025 - 2026 Group Leader - Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
2023 - 2025 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow - Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Director: Silvia Vignolini
2023 PhD in Chemistry - McGill University
PI: Audrey H. Moores
2018 BSc in Chemistry - University of Alberta
Tony went to the University of Alberta for his BSc in chemistry (2014-2018) where his honor’s research project involved studying bioactive borophosphate ceramics using solid-state NMR under Prof. Vlad Michaelis. This is also where he discovered his passion for rock -climbing.
Spurred by his newfound passion for sustainability, the chemistry of materials, and insanely good climbing gyms, he moved to Montréal (à la belle province) where he conducted his PhD at McGill University in the lab of Prof. Audrey Moores (2018-2023) studying the synthesis, properties, and application of chitosan nanocrystals, funded by the NSERC PGS-D.
Wanting to test his academic and rock-climbing rigor in Europe, he moved to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. As a postdoctoral fellow funded by the NSERC PDF (2023-2025), he studied under Prof. Silvia Vignolini on furthering the understanding of chitosan nanocrystal structure and its photonic and self-assembly properties. He was promoted to Group Leader in the same department (2025-2026) prior to starting at the University of Lethbridge as an Assistant Professor.