[2] Before arriving at UB, Thundat was a Canada Excellence Research Chair professor in Oilsands Molecular Engineering at the University of Alberta, and a Fellow of the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NRC-NINT) in Edmonton.
He has worked on the development of high-performance ultra-precise molecular-scale sensing, imaging and characterization systems based on microcantilevers.
[12] Thundat's recent research has focused on physical, chemical, and biological detection using nanomechanical sensors as well as single-wire electrical power delivery.
His other areas of expertise include the chemical physics of interfaces, biophysics, nanoscale transport phenomena and quantum confinement.
Thundat's research group has developed novel high-performance sensor platforms and concepts based on atomic-scale interface engineering.