Email

vmichael@ualberta.ca

Phone

(780) 248-5893

Address

E3-18A Chemistry Centre - East

11227 Saskatchewan Drive NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2G2

BSc (Hon) & PhD (NSERC-PGS) - University of Manitoba

PDF (NSERC-PDF & Banting Fellow) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research interests in our group involves the structural study of next generation inorganic and bioinorganic ordered and disordered materials. A pillar of our research program is solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) spectroscopy, which is used to address and determine the structure and dynamics present in hard and soft materials. The solid-state NMR Facility for Solids is housed within the Department of Chemistry, equipping our team with three high field SSNMR spectrometers (300, 400 and 500 MHz) our research directives, while the National ultrahigh-field NMR Facility for Solids (900 MHz) located in Canada's capital Ottawa, Ontario assists with the challenges associated with quadrupolar nuclei frequently encountered in materials science. Current research topics include phosphosilicate glass-ceramics, phosphate minerals, microporous materials and organic-inorganic photovoltaic cells.