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Aaron Wheeler

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Chemistry

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Chemistry
  • 416-946-3864
  • Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, 80 St.George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H6, Canada

BIO

Aaron Wheeler is a Professor of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Professor Wheeler earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, Wheeler moved to Canada, to join the faculty of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. He is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair of Microfluidic Bioanalysis; recent awards include the Lab on a Chip Pioneers of Miniaturisation Lectureship and the Sciex Microscale Separations Innovations Medal. Dr. Wheeler’s research interests are in the development of microfluidic tools to solve problems in chemistry, biology, and medicine. One of the key technologies used in the Wheeler Lab is digital microfluidics (or DMF), which enables the manipulation of discrete fluidic droplets on the surface on an array of electrodes coated with a hydrophobic insulator.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2013 - present
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2010 - Jun 2013
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2005 - Jun 2010
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States2003 - 2005

DEGREES

  • Ph.D.
    Stanford University, Stanford, United States1997 - 2003
  • B.Sc.
    Furman University, Greenville, United States1993 - 1997

AVAILABILITY

  • Media enquiries
  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • CRAFT (Centre for Research and Applications in Fluidic Technologies)
  • TRANSFORM Heart Failure (TRANSFORM HF)
  • Medicine by Design (MbD)
  • PRiME (Precision Medicine Initiative)

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