New perspectives
Meet the incoming professors at the Faculty of Science
New Faculty Profiles
Our incoming professors bring fresh and unique perspectives to campus with their research and teaching experience. Click through to see profiles of the faculty member featured below.
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Learning on the land
Dr. Laura Lukes's research focuses on the intersection of geology and psychology, and how to better prepare students for field experiences. Dr. Lukes also studies how people learn in museums.
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Studying the impacts of farming on wildlife
Dr. Joséphine Gantois combines economics, ecology and machine learning to study how to produce food while reducing our impact on wildlife habitat.
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Understanding past conditions of the Earth
Dr. Hal Bradbury is a chemical oceanographer and a marine isotope biogeochemist. His research looks at carbon cycling in the sediments and how they link to the overlying ocean.
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Turning RNA viruses against themselves
Dr. Selena Sagan explores how RNA viruses—hepatitis C, dengue and Zika viruses—usurp host cells, replicate their genomes and cause disease.
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Tracking rapid evolutionary change
Dr. Kayla King studies host-microbial parasite/pathogen systems to learn how host-pathogen interactions drive fast evolutionary change.
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Democratizing machine learning in research
Dr. Geoff Pleiss brings statistics and computer science together to improve the accessibility and reliability of AI.
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Tiny solutions to big healthcare problems
Dr. Amani Hariri works to solve healthcare problems ranging from Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and diabetes by combining molecular design and optics.
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Exploring sunflowers’ responses to climate change
Dr. Marco Todesco studies how plants adapt to different and changing environments. He aims to link ecological processes to genetic variation.
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Training students to be biologists
Dr. Stella Lee is a physiologist by training who teaches the undergraduate course in Developmental Biology.
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Toward a synthetic, computational cell
Dr. Anotida Madzvamuse’s research focuses on understanding single cell dynamics and how they migrate through their environments—our bodies.