Canada Excellence Research Chairs
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
UBC Science is home to a wide range of Canada Research Chairs. The world’s most accomplished and promising minds receive these prestigious appointments.
- 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
- Rachel Germain, Biodiversity Science
- Amanda Giang, Environmental Modelling for Policy
- Tao Huan, Metabolomics and Exposomics
- Patrick Keeling, Microbial Diversity and Evolution
- Caroline Lemieux, Software Testing and Analysis
- 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
- Eva Nichols, Molecular and Interfacial Electrocatalysts
- Natalia Nolde, Statics of Extremes and Risk
- Julie Prytulak, Isotope Geochemistry
- Navin Ramankutty, Data Science for Sustainable Global Food Systems
- Andrea Reid, Indigenous Fisheries Science
- Katherine Ryan, Biosynthetic Enzymes
- Laurel Schafer, Catalyst Development
- Patricia Schulte, Responses of Fish to a Changing Environment
- Leonid Sigal, Computer Vision and Machine Learning
- Rashid Sumaila, Interdisciplinary Oceans and Fisheries Economics
- Xin Tang, Computational Cell Biology
- Carolina Tropini, Quantitative Microbiota Biology for Health Applications
- Daochen Wang, Quantum Computing
- Ziliang Ye, Optical Control of Quantum Materials
- Dongwook Yoon, Responsible Sociotechnical Systems
Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada
Supports institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work will help build a stronger, more resilient Canada.
- Curtis Huttenhower, Microbiome Sciences
- Julian Olden, Freshwater Ecosystem Sustainability
- Jonathan Wakefield, Bayesian Space Time Modeling for Global Health
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