About the Author
Eric McCalla was born and raised in Quebec city. He completed his undergraduate
degree at Mount Allison University in 2000 before doing a Masters in Solid State
Physics at McGill University. Following the completion of the Master’s in 2002,
he become a computer science teacher in Kuujjuaraapik, an Inuit community in
Northern Quebec. After two years of teaching, he decided to become a teacher
and so followed the Bachelor of Education program at the Memorial University of
Newfoundland. He then worked as a high school mathematics and science teacher in
a small high school in Sept-Iles, Quebec. On a sabbatical, after biking across Canada
and needing distraction, he decided to return to graduate school in 2010. The results
of the following three years at Dalhousie University working in the group of Jeff
Dahn are the subject of this book. He now works as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the
Collège-de-France in Paris in the group of Jean-Marie Tarascon.
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Eric McCalla was born and raised in Quebec city. He completed his undergraduate
degree at Mount Allison University in 2000 before doing a Masters in Solid State
Physics at McGill University. Following the completion of the Master’s in 2002,
he become a computer science teacher in Kuujjuaraapik, an Inuit community in
Northern Quebec. After two years of teaching, he decided to become a teacher
and so followed the Bachelor of Education program at the Memorial University of
Newfoundland. He then worked as a high school mathematics and science teacher in
a small high school in Sept-Iles, Quebec. On a sabbatical, after biking across Canada
and needing distraction, he decided to return to graduate school in 2010. The results
of the following three years at Dalhousie University working in the group of Jeff
Dahn are the subject of this book. He now works as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the
Collège-de-France in Paris in the group of Jean-Marie Tarascon.
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