The Faculty of Science is home to more than 40 Canada Research Chairs. Some of the world’s most accomplished and promising minds have received these prestigious CRC appointment to take their research to a higher level.

• Alejandro Adem, Algebraic Topology and Group Homology
• Allan Bertram, Environmental and Atmospheric Chemistry
• David Brydges, Mathematical Physics
• Sarah Burke, Nanoscience
• Jiahua Chen, Statistical Genetics
• Marco Ciufolini, Synthetic Organic Chemistry
• Andrea Damascelli, Electronic Structure of Solids
• Arnaud Doucet, Statistics and Probability
• Ivar Ekeland, Mathematical Economics
• Anthony Farrell, Fish Physiology, Culture and Conservation
• James Feng, Complex Fluids and Interfaces
• Joshua Folk, Physics of Nanostructures
• Roger Francois, Marine Biogeochemistry and Climate Change Studies
• Erin Gaynor, Bacterial Pathogenesis
• Brett Gladman, Planetary Astronomy
• Steven Hallam, Environmental Genomics
• Robert Hancock, Pathogenomics and Antimicrobials
• Ken Harder, Host-Pathogen Immunogenetics
• Charles Haynes, Surface Biotechnology
• Jeremy Heyl, Neutron Stars and Black Holes
• Gary Hinshaw, Observational Cosmology
• Reinhard Jetter, Plant Natural Products Chemistry
• Rachel Kuske, Applied Mathematics
• Hongbin Li, Molecular Nanoscience and Protein Engineering
• Alan Mackworth, Computational Intelligence
• Wayne Maddison, Biodiversity and Systematics
• Maria Maldonado-Pareja, Phytoplankton Trace Metal Physiology
• Kevin Murphy, Machine Learning and Computational Statistics
• Scott Oser, Solar Neutrinos
• Sarah Otto, Theoretical and Experimental Evolution
• Dinesh Pai, Sensorimotor Computation
• Edwin Perkins, Probability
• Steven Plotkin, Theoretical Biophysics
• Sujatha Ramdorai, Mathematics
• Loren Rieseberg, Plant Evolutionary Genomics
• George Sawatzky, Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructured Materials
• Dolph Schluter, Evolutionary Biology
• Christian Schoof, Global Process Modelling
• Dominik Schötzau, Numerical Analysis of Multiphysics Problems
• Robert Shadwick, Integrative Animal Physiology
• Laurel Schafer, Catalyst Development
• Moshe Shapiro, Quantum Control of Atoms and Molecules
• Terrance Snutch, Biotechnology and Genomics-Neurobiology
• Michiel Van de Panne, Computer Graphics and Animation
• Mark Van Raamsdonk, String Theory
• Andrew Warfield, Computer Systems and Security
• Geoffrey Wasteneys, Plant Cell Biology
• Dominique Weis, Geochemistry of the Earth’s Mantle
• Stephen Withers, Chemical Biology