The Faculty of Science is home to more than 50 Canada Research Chairs. The world’s most accomplished and promising minds receive these prestigious appointments to take their research to a higher level.
- Russ Algar, Biochemical Sensing
- Amy Angert, Conservation Ecology
- Marie Auger-Méthé, Statistical Ecology
- Aaron Boley, Planetary Astronomy
- Sarah Burke, Nanoscience
- Sabin Cautis, Algebraic Geometry
- Jiahua Chen, Statistical Inference
- William Cheung, Ocean Sustainability and Global Change
- Gabriela Cohen Freue, Statistical Genomics
- Sean Crowe, Geomicrobiology
- Andrea Damascelli, Electronic Structure of Quantum Materials
- Hadi Dowlatabadi, Integrated-Assessment Modelling and Global Change
- Lindsay Eltis, Microbial Catabolism and Biocatalysis
- Hu Fu, Algorithmic Game Theory
- Robert Hancock, Pathogenomics and Antimicrobials
- Cara Haney, Plant Microbiome Interactions
- Nicholas Harvey, Algorithm Design
- Charles Haynes, Surface Biotechnology
- Gary Hinshaw, Observational Cosmology
- Zachary Hudson, Sustainable Chemistry
- Mark Johnson, Ecohydrology
- Patrick Keeling, Microbial Diversity and Evolution
- Alison Lister, Particle Physics
- Mark MacLachlan, Supramolecular Materials
- Wayne Maddison, Biodiversity and Systematics
- Kota Mizumoto, Developmental Genetics
- Sara Mostafavi, Computational Biology
- Mathav Murugan, Probability
- Raymond Ng, Data Science and Analytics
- Lisa Osborne, Host-Microbiome Interactions
- Sarah Otto, Theoretical and Experimental Evolution
- Dinesh Pai, Sensorimotor Computation
- Matthew Pennell, Biodiversity Theory and Informatics
- Edwin Perkins, Probability
- Yaniv Plan, Datascience
- Navin Ramankutty, Global Environmental Change and Food Security
- Sujatha Ramdorai, Mathematics
- Loren Rieseberg, Plant Evolutionary Genomics
- Abel Rosado, Plant Cellular Dynamics
- Laurel Schafer, Catalyst Development
- Dolph Schluter, Evolutionary Biology
- Mark Schmidt, Canada Research Chair Machine Learning
- Leonid Sigal, Computer Vision and Machine Learning
- Matthijs Smit, Applied Geochemistry of the Lithosphere
- Rashid Sumaila, Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics
- Geoffrey Wasteneys, Plant Cell Biology
- Stephanie Waterman, Ocean Turbulence
- Laura Wegener Parfrey, Aquatic Microbial Protist Ecology
- Juncheng Wei, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Concentration Phenomena and Applications
- Dominique Weis, Geochemistry of the Earth’s Mantle
- Ziliang Ye, Optical Control of Quantum Materials
Recent Disciplinary Distinctions
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
