Dr. John Madden
Director, Advanced Materials & Process Engineering Laboratory, and the Centre for Materials Research; Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC
Dr. Madden’s research interest is using materials to create novel devices including stretchable touch sensors, artificial muscle, solar batteries, and photosynthesis-based light harvesters. He and his team investigate new and unusual electronic materials for application in energy storage, printable electronics, and artificial muscle. Materials include conducting polymers (for artificial muscle applied to drive medical devices, and for printable electronics), carbon nanotubes (ultrahigh-stress artificial muscle), electrospun carbon nanofibres (energy storage), and photosynthetic reaction centres (photovoltaic devices). Dr. Madden is also director of Mend the Gap!, an international multidisciplinary team seeking to address the challenges of repairing spinal cords after injury with biomaterials to achieve spinal cord regeneration. He worked as a research scientist at MIT before joining UBC.
