Vancouver Campus

Dr. Ryan Bochnak

Dr. Ryan Bochnak

Assistant Professor

linguistics, meaning, under-studied languages, fieldwork, Indigenous languages,

Dr. Xin Li

Dr. Xin Li

Professor

Plant-microbe interactions, plant immunity, plant molecular genetics,

Prof. Nadine Borduas-Dedekind, PhD

Prof. Nadine Borduas-Dedekind, PhD

Assistant Professor

atmospheric chemistry, photochemistry, indoor air, forest fire chemistry, atmospheric aerosols, mass spectrometry, volatile organic compounds, atmospheric pollutants, fate of pollutants in air, atmospheric organic chemistry, selenium biogeochemistry, biomass burning, ice nucleation, aerosol-cloud interactions, mixed-phase clouds, air quality, indoor air quality,

Prof. Kristen  Thomasen, JD, MA, PhD

Prof. Kristen Thomasen, JD, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor

Drones, Drone law and regulation, Artificial intelligence & law, Robotics & law, Sidewalk robots, Privacy, Privacy in public, Home surveillance network, Amazon Ring, Facial recognition systems,

Prof. Leora Morris, MFA

Assistant Professor of Directing/Acting

Freelance Theatre Director

Theatre, performance, rehearsal, young audiences, directing, acting, artistic creation, adaptation,

Prof. David Gramling, PhD

Prof. David Gramling, PhD

Professor and Head of Department

multilingualism, monolingualism, Anglocentrism, language learning, politics of language, LGBTQ issues, palliative care, health care communications, literature, German politics, civil discourse, US society, disability, literature, applied linguistics, migration studies, Turkish, secular Islam,

Dr. Saima Hirani, PhD

Dr. Saima Hirani, PhD

Assistant Professor

Mental health promotion, Mental health, Vulnerable populations, Social support, Community based research,

Dr. Kira Hoffman, PhD

Dr. Kira Hoffman, PhD

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow

Landscape ecology, fire history reconstruction

Dr. Devon Greyson, PhD, MLIS

Dr. Devon Greyson, PhD, MLIS

Assistant Professor

Health information, health communication, public health communication, health disinformation, health misinformation, vaccination, vaccine confidence, vaccine hesitancy, vaccine attitudes, vaccine uptake, cannabis during pregnancy and lactation, cannabis decision-making, cannabis communication, perinatal health communication, patient-provider communication, parental-child health, maternal-child health, young parents, teen parents, public health information systems, gender and health,

Dr. Amy M. Kim, PhD, PEng

Dr. Amy M. Kim, PhD, PEng

Associate Professor

Transportation engineering, transportation planning, transportation systems analysis, transportation infrastructure, long-distance transportation, air transportation, climate-change adaptation, wildfire evacuation,

Balsher Singh Sidhu, PhD

Balsher Singh Sidhu, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Agriculture, Climate change, Environment, Farming, Sustainability, Sustainable agriculture, India, Water, Irrigation, Global environmental change, Crop yields, Crop models, IPCC, Food production,

Prof. Yossef Av-Gay, PhD

Prof. Yossef Av-Gay, PhD

Professor of Microbiology

Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Drug discovery, Antibiotics, Tuberculosis, Lung infections, NTM, COVID-19, Inhalation therapies, CF (Cystic fibrosis),

Dr. Carolina Tropini, PhD, PLEng

Dr. Carolina Tropini, PhD, PLEng

Assistant Professor

Microbiome, microbiota, inflammatory bowel disease, IBD, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, microbiology, biophysics, bioengineering, biomedical engineering,

Dr. Julia Gabriele Harten, PhD

Dr. Julia Gabriele Harten, PhD

Assistant Professor

rental housing, new data methods for housing, gender and housing, urban China, web-scraping, mixed-methods research, inclusive urbanization,

Dr. Rachel Scholes

Dr. Rachel Scholes

Assistant Professor

Environmental chemistry, trace contaminants, contaminants of emerging concern, water reuse, nature-based solutions, constructed wetlands, water treatment, wastewater treatment, stormwater, PFAS, green chemistry, safer alternatives, biodegradation

Dr. Emmanuela Ojukwu, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor

Racial and gender health disparities and inequities, African, Caribbean and Black populations, Women and Youth, HIV/AIDS and other STIs, Social Determinants of Health, Socio-ecologic and Intersectionality Frameworks,

Dr. Corey McAuliffe

Dr. Corey McAuliffe

CIHR & Mitacs Health System Impact Postdoctoral Fellow

Current research: global health, mental health and well-being, researcher trauma and distress, suicide prevention, sexual and gender-based violence, healthy work spaces / environments, precarious work, policy and health systems approach,

Past research: public health nutrition, local food systems, food security, maternal and child health and nutrition,

Dr. Trevor Carey, PhD

Assistant Professor

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Liquefaction, Earthquake Engineering, Natural Hazards, Cascadia, Earthquakes,

Dr. Johanna Sam, MSc, PhD

Assistant Professor

Adolescence, Cyberbullying, Online aggression, Indigenous Education, Indigenous Methodologies, Technology, Social and emotional learning, Digital pedagogies, Online learning, Hybrid Pedagogy,

Dr. Jasmin Ma, PhD, PKin

Dr. Jasmin Ma, PhD, PKin

Assistant Professor of Teaching

Physical Activity, Disability, Behaviour Change, Knowledge Translation,