Ken Westra

Ken completed his Ph.D. at the University of Manitoba (the coldest university in North America) in 1994. The focus was on imaging artifacts in Atomic Force Microscopy of thin films. He also has an MSc from the University of Alberta on sputtered indium nitride thin films.

Ken has worked in industry and academia developing MEMS and Microfludic devices. In the late 1990’s he was the founding director of the University of Alberta nanoFab, the first open-access micro and nanofabrication facility in Canada.