Biography

University of Saskatchewan - Chemistry

Vice Principal Research at University of Toronto Scarborough
Higher Education
Bernie
Kraatz
Toronto, Canada Area
Bernie Kraatz (PhD 1993, University of Calgary)
Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

His awards include the PetroCanada Young Innovator Award and the Award in Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry from the Canadian Society for Chemistry. He received the Florence Bucke Science Prize and became Faculty Scholar and a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Western Ontario.

He was the Canadian Research Chair in Biomaterials and his research interests are in the use of bioconjugates for the design of biosensors, surface-supported functional bioconjugates, and bio(nano)materials. His research group has pioneered the development of synthetic methods for peptide conjugates that allow tailoring the materials properties ranging from stimuli-responsive peptide gels to sensor materials for the detection of pathogens in water or for quantifying biochemical phosphorylation events.

He has published more than 230 peer-reviewed papers and a current h-index of about 40. For more information please see http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/physsci/bernie-kraatz