The Faculty of Science is home to more than 40 Canada Research Chairs. The world’s most accomplished and promising minds receive these prestigious appointments to take their research to a higher level.
- Amy Angert, Conservation Ecology
- Marie Auger-Méthé, Statistical Ecology
- Anna Blakney, Nucleic Acid Bioengineering
- Kai Chan, Re-Wilding and Social-Ecological Transformation
- William Cheung, Ocean Sustainability and Global Change
- Andrea Damascelli, Electronic Structure of Quantum Materials
- Jiarui Ding, Machine Learning and Single-cell Analysis
- Lindsay Eltis, Microbial Catabolism and Biocatalysis
- Amanda Giang, Environmental Modelling for Policy
- Gary Hinshaw, Observational Cosmology
- Zachary Hudson, Sustainable Chemistry
- Mark Johnson, Ecohydrology
- Patrick Keeling, Microbial Diversity and Evolution
- Xin Li, Plant Immunity
- Mark MacLachlan, Supramolecular Materials
- Karon MacLean, Interactive Human Systems Design
- Wayne Maddison, Biodiversity and Systematics
- Anotida Madzvamuse, Theoretical and Computational Cell Biology
- Jessica McIver, Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
- Kota Mizumota, Developmental Neurobiology
- Mathav Murugan, Probability
- Raymond Ng, Data Science and Analytics
- Yaniv Plan, Data Science
- Navin Ramankutty, Data Science for Sustainable Global Food Systems
- Sujatha Ramdorai, Mathematics
- Andrea Reid, Indigenous Fisheries Science
- Katherine Ryan, Biosynthetic Enzymes
- Laurel Schafer, Catalyst Development
- Mark Schmidt, Large-Scale Machine Learning
- Patricia Schulte, Responses of Fish to a Changing Environment
- Leonid Sigal, Computer Vision and Machine Learning
- Matthijs Smit, Applied Geochemistry of Earth's Lithosphere
- Rashid Sumaila, Interdisciplinary Oceans and Fisheries Economics
- Carolina Tropini, Quantitative Microbiota Biology for Health Applications
- Geoffrey Wasteneys, Plant Cell Biology
- Laura Wegener Parfrey, Protist Ecology
- Juncheng Wei, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Concentration Phenomena and Applications
- Ziliang Ye, Optical Control of Quantum Materials
- Jiaying Zhao, Behavioral Sustainability
Recent Disciplinary Distinctions
2024 CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse Medal, Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)
Marcel Franz
2023 Crafoord Prize in Biosciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Dolph Schluter
2022 Global Environmental Change Early Career Award, American Geophysical Union
Sean Michaletz
2020 Volvo Environment Prize
Claire Kremen
2018 Carlyle S Beals Award
Mark Halpern
2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Gary Hinshaw
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
Bill Mohn
2017 John G FitzGerald Award, Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Bob Hancock
Fellow, American Mathematical Society
Jim Bryan
President's Prize, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Susan Allen
Foreign Associate of the French Academy of Science
Ian Affleck
2016 Varnes Medal, International Consortium on Landslides
Oldrich Hungr
2016 Chemical Institute of Canada Medal
Steve Withers
Parsons Medal for Excellence in Ocean Science
Christopher Harley
Sewall Wright Award, American Society of Naturalists
Sarah Otto
Peter Benchley Ocean Award
Daniel Pauly
Outstanding Paper Award, NA Manufacturing Research Conference
Alla Sheffer
John Patterson Medal, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
William Hsieh
Centre de recherches mathématiques-SSC Prize
Matías Salibián-Barrera
Prix Jacques Tacussel, International Society of Electrochemistry
Dan Bizzotto
Guggenheim Fellowship
Michael Doebeli
Norman R Farnsworth Award, American Society of Pharmacognosy
Raymond Andersen
Clara Benson Award, Canadian Society for Chemistry
Laurel Schafer
Jeffery-Williams Prize, Canadian Mathematical Society
Alejandro Adem
3M National Teaching Fellowship
Sara Harris
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
Parisa Mehrkhodavandi
Adrien Pouliot Award, Canadian Mathematical Society
Mark MacLean
Fellows, American Physical Society
Philip Stamp, Marcel Franz, Andrea Damascelli
Coxeter-James Prize, Canadian Mathematical Society
Dong Li
Billings Medal, Geological Association of Canada
Paul Smith
