Canada Excellence Research Chairs
Launched in 2008, the CERC program supports Canadian universities in their efforts to build on Canada's growing reputation as a global leader in research and innovation. These awards are among the most prestigious and generous available globally.
- Kayla King, Evolutionary Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions
- Corey Stephenson, Innovative Synthetic Methods for Translational Chemistry
Canada Research Chairs
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
- Tao Huan, Metabolomics and Exposomics
- 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
- Anotida Madzvamuse, Theoretical and Computational Cell Biology
- Jessica McIver, Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
- Mathav Murugan, Probability
- Raymond Ng, Data Science and Analytics
- Natalia Nolde, Statics of Extremes and Risk
- 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
- Rashid Sumaila, Interdisciplinary Oceans and Fisheries Economics
- Carolina Tropini, Quantitative Microbiota Biology for Health Applications
- Daochen Wang, Quantum Computing
- Laura Wegener Parfrey, Protist Ecology
- Ziliang Ye, Optical Control of Quantum Materials
- Jiaying Zhao, Behavioral Sustainability
Canada 150 Research Chairs
Announced in 2017, the Canada 150 Research Chairs program supported universities in enhancing Canada's reputation as a global centre for science, research and innovation excellence.
Judith Elizabeth Mank, Evolutionary Genomics
Margo Seltzer, Computer Systems