SCHOLAR DETAILS
Name
Sheldon Opps
Email
sopps@upei.ca
Position
Faculty Member
Department(s)
Physics
Phone
902-566-0421
Building
SSDE 310
Website
https://www.upei.ca/profile?u=sopps
Status
Current
Biography

Professor

BSc (Guelph); MSc (Toronto); PhD (Guelph)

Dr. Sheldon Opps is a theoretical physicist who uses analytical and computational tools to investigate the properties of polymeric systems, including polypeptides, liquid crystals, and bilayer membranes. He has also adopted these tools to study the effects of habitat fragmentation on animal movement patterns in Prince Edward Island.

Recent Citations
Movement patterns of the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) in four fragmented landscapes of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Open journal of ecology, 2020
Exploring the effects of land-cover configuration, body size and trophic diversity on the avifauna richness of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Open Journal of Ecology, 2019
Solvable potentials with exceptional orthogonal polynomials
Annalen der Physik, 2015
Development of a network based model to simulate the between-farm transmission of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
Veterinary Microbiology, 2015
Home range and habitat selection of a reintroduced African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) pack in a small South African game reserve
African Journal of Wildlife Research, 2015
Research Interests
Structural and dynamic properties of polymeric systems, such as Langmuir monolayers, liquid crystals, and polypeptides
Simulation techniques used, include parallel-tempering, discontinuous molecular dynamics (DMD) and transition path sampling