Dr. Maryam Ebrahimi is an Assistant Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials at Lakehead University, Canada.

She obtained her PhD in Physical Chemistry – Surface Science from the University of Waterloo in 2009, followed by postdoctoral research with Nobel Laureate John Polanyi at the University of Toronto (2009-2011), and at the University of California - Riverside (2011-2013). Afterwards, she was a Group Leader at the INRS - Energy, Materials, and Telecommunications Research Center (2014-2018) in Varennes, Quebec, Canada and at the Technical University of Munich, Germany (2018-2019). She has co-authored 40 papers in the Nature Publishing Group, the American Chemical Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry journals. She has previously co-supervised 6 PhDs and PDF, and is currently supervising 3 Undergraduates, 3 PhDs, and 1 PDF researcher. Since starting her independent career in mid-2019, she has received Tier 2 Canada Research Chair Award from the Government of Canada, as well as NSERC Discovery Grant, Canada Foundation for Innovation fund, and New Frontiers in Research Fund. Dr. Ebrahimi’s research focuses on the on-surface formation and atomic scale characterization of molecular-based and inorganic 2D materials using high-resolution scanning probe microscopy and surface characterization techniques, complemented with ab-initio theoretical calculations.