Chemistry Faculty and Staff

Jennifer Au

PhD (UBC, 1997), BSc (Hons, UBC, 1992)

Office: D349 (Surrey Campus)
Phone: 604.599.2196
Voice Mail: 9170

After graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1997 with a PhD in Physical Chemistry, Jennifer Au began her career working in industry as a Research Scientist at Phase Technology in Richmond, BC, where she led a research group in developing automated phase transition analyzers and other instrumentation for process control.  Jennifer traveled to oil refineries across Canada, the United States and Australia to oversee the installation of the first few prototypes coming off the company’s production line.  The result of this research and developmental work was published in the peer reviewed journals, Hydrocarbon Processing (in 2000) and Lube’n’Greases (in 2001).  In 2002, Jennifer joined Dephy Technologies in Montreal as a Senior Research Scientist, where she was tasked with developing applications for the company’s Time-of-Flight mass spectrometers, as well as assist with Marketing. 

Jennifer’s career in teaching began in January 2004 when she returned to British Columbia to teach general chemistry to students in the Petroleum and Mining programs at BCIT.  It is here where Jennifer developed a passion for teaching.  Prior to joining Kwantlen as a full-time faculty member in 2008, Jennifer had also held faculty appointments at Simon Fraser University, Capilano University, Langara College, and Douglas College.

E-Mail: jennifer.au@kwantlen.ca

Office: 3455 (Richmond Campus)
Phone: 604.599.2657
Fax: 604.599.2716
E-mail: roshan.cader@kwantlen.ca
Roshan Cader's page

PhD (UBC, 1995), BSc (Hons, UBC, 1987), ASc (Kwantlen, 1985)

Office: 3345 (Richmond Campus)
Phone: 604.599.2550
Fax: 604.599.2716

Patrick is an alumnus of Kwantlen, having studied there starting in the fall of 1982. After receiving his ASc from Kwantlen in 1985, he went to UBC and completed his undergraduate degree in 1987, focusing on microwave spectroscopy.  Graduate school followed; it was while he was a graduate student at UBC that he realized he wanted to become a teacher.  Patrick started at Kwantlen in the fall of 1991 as an auxiliary lab instructor (while he was still working on his PhD) and, after he received his degree in 1995, he made the gradual transition from lab instructor to course instructor.  As a course instructor, he has taught and developed many of the preparatory and first-year courses that Kwantlen now offers. He has also occasionally taught Kwantlen's second- and third-year physical chemistry courses.

Patrick’s graduate studies led to his PhD in experimental and theoretical quantum Chemistry, and he continues to occasionally dabble in that research today, collaborating on work with a group at Swinburne University in Melbourne Australia.

E-mail:patrick.duffy@kwantlen.ca
Patrick Duffy's student resource webpage

Suzanne Pearce (on leave for fall 2011/spring 2012)
Office: D348 (Surrey Campus)
Phone: 604.599.2197
Voice mail: 9693
E-mail: suzanne.pearce@kwantlen.ca

Preet Nagra
Lab Instructor
Phone: 604.599.2210
E-mail: preet.nagra@kwantlen.ca