CV

Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher

Toronto, ON | m.bonsma@utoronto.ca

EDUCATION

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON – 2015 to 2022
PhD, Physics
Supervisor: Sidhartha Goyal
Thesis: “Population dynamics of CRISPR adaptive immunity in communities of bacteria and phages: A window into another world”

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON – 2014 to 2015
MSc, Physics
Supervisor: Sidhartha Goyal
Thesis: “Analyzing Prokaryote-Phage Interactions Using the CRISPR locus”

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON – 2009 to 2014
BSc, Honours Co-operative Physics
Minor: Biology
Honours Thesis: “Analyzing Oscillations in the Rat Ventral Striatum”

RESEARCH

Postdoctoral

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Civil & Mineral Engineering and Mechanical & Industrial Engineering – 2022 to present

Graduate

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Biophysics Group, Department of Physics – 2014 to 2022

phageParser Open Source Project
Project Lead – 2015 to 2022

Undergraduate

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Biology – 2013-2014
Supervised by Dr. Matthijs van der Meer.

Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
DREAMS Undergraduate Visiting Research Assistant – Summer 2013
Supervised by Dr. Jeff Dahn.

Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
Undergraduate Research Assistant – Fall 2012
Supervised by Dr. Kevin Resch.

Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, Vineland, ON
Research Assistant – Summer 2010

Industry

Sensors & Software Inc., Mississauga, ON
R&D Applications Testing Assistant – Winter 2011 & Winter 2012

Christie Digital Systems Inc., Kitchener, ON
Optical Engineering Assistant – Fall 2011