Congrats to Dr. Leitch for receiving an NSERC Alliance Advantage Grant titled "Quantitative Structure-Reactivity-Selectivity Models of Organometallic C-H Activation: Advancing Predictive Chemistry and Catalysis". UVic Science Dave Leitch and the Leitch Lab

Our #uvicresearch team took an early ferry to participate in the PCAMM (sfu.ca/physics/pcamm/…) University of British Columbia a very nice meeting that showcases the excellent #materialscience research from #BCCanada #nanomaterials Chemistry@UVic

The special ACS Publications issue on 50 years of #SERS is finally out pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… Thxs Nathan Lindquist Bethel University for being my co-Editor. The issue include contributions in several areas #nanotechnology #catalysis #electrochemistry #analytical_Chemistry among others

I am proud to be part of a comprehensive review on the history of #SERS pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Thx to Prof. Tian from Xiamen🇨🇳 for leading this large scale international effort. This is indeed a historical document that celebrates the advances in the 50 years of the technique!

Transfer Contrastive Learning for Raman Spectroscopy Skin Cancer Tissue Classification. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 7332-7344, Dec. 2024, doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2… #ramaneffect #skincancer #cancer

Do you want to learn how to merge #plasmonics and #microfluidics? Here is our latest review pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Prof. Carlos Escobedo @Micro_Optofluid and I worked really hard on this (it took a while...). I hope that you will enjoy the end product 😀

The title says it. Factors that Affect Quantification in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering | ACS Nano pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Just arrived at #spie #photonicswest in San Francisco. Looking forward to my talk on digital #SERS quantification. #Raman #spectroscopy #nanotechnology

I finally decided to open an account in #BlueskySocial #BSKY If you are also in that environment, please, follow me there (agbrolo.bsky.social). I am still trying to find my way around in that platform 😀

Submissions are open for #PLASMONICA2025, the workshop on #Plasmonics and #NanoOptics 💡, organized this year by UNIMORE and CNR Istituto Nanoscienze #Modena! Further information at plasmonica2025.nano.cnr.it. The deadline for submission is 31 March, 🗓️ see you in #Modena! Topics include:👇

The Lab on a Chip review issue is out! It contains our review on the synergy between #plasmonics and #microfluidics. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… I hope that this review will be help some students out there 😀

Our very own alum Dr. Laurel Schafer @ubcchem @laurelschafer has received a 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award. Laurel completed her PhD in 1999 under the supervision of UVic faculty David Berg, and supervised another one of our faculty David Leitch during his PhD. Congrats Laurel!

I had a great time visiting Francois' lab François Lagugné Western University with Jennifer van Wijngaarden (she/her) A great infrastructure to study surface-related phenomenon and vibrational #spectroscopy. I also want to congratulate Francois' team efforts on developing #nanotechnology tools for #harmreduction

I had a chance to give at talk Chemistry at Western about our #analytical_chemistry work related to quantification using #SERS #Raman_spectroscopy I want to thank everyone who came out to attend the talk. Particularly the students for their interest and insightful questions 😀

Please, RT. A note to #chemistry #undergraduate students #USA #internationalstudents If you are looking for a good grad school, consider 🇨🇦 #UVic Come for exciting research in one of the most beautiful places in the world😀 Check us out! DM for more info uvic.ca/science/chemis…

Cuts to federal research funding, threats to indirect costs that support research, and revocation of previously awarded grants from the NSF and NIH in the first weeks of President Donald J. Trump’s second administration have roiled academia. cen.acs.org/careers/employ…

With Emmanuel Maisonhaute, Professor Sorbonne Université (France), we are looking for a PHD candidate to do tip-enhacned Raman spectroscopy under electrochemical and vacuum condition with both Paris and Chicago experience. If you are interested in this, please contact us:

I gave my opinion to ACS Publications C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) about the situation students are facing in the US cen.acs.org/policy/researc… Canada is an excellent option for international students (including Americans). Chemistry@UVic has strong research program and we are open for applications!

A new #tenure_track assistant prof opening Chemistry@UVic in inorganic/physical #Chemistry . We invite #womeninSTEM and gender diverse peoples to apply for the opportunity to work in one of the best chemistry Depts in 🇨🇦! uvic.ca/faculty-staff/…

We are organizing a #SERS symposium Materials Research Society (MRS) Sociedad Mexicana de Materiales AC in #Cancun 🇲🇽 Deadline for abstract submission is May 1st. Feel free to email any of the organizers for more information. Great conference and nice beach are powerful combination for good science, networking and fun😀