Jillian Buriak

Jillian M. Buriak FRSC is a Canadian chemist, formerly a Canada Research Chair[1] in nanomaterials at University of Alberta.

She held a postdoctoral appointment at the Scripps Research Institute at La Jolla, California, working on self-assembly of nanostructures on surfaces.

Buriak started her independent faculty career at Purdue University in 1997, was promoted to associate professor, with tenure, in 2001.

[2] Buriak is interested in materials for energy, nanomaterials synthesis, silicon surface chemistry, and block copolymer self assembly.

[3] By spraying a plastic surface with nanomaterials, her work showed the ability to fabricate a transparent layer of electrode that acts as solar cells.