Nancy Heckman
Professor
Department Head
Dr. Michael W. Hawkes
Senior Instructor
Marine botany, especially seaweeds, marine conservation, marine protected areas, plants, especially cacti and other succulent plants
Bob Hancock
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Director, Centre for Microbial Diseases & Immunity Research
Antibiotics, new antimicrobial treatments, boosting immunity, antibiotic resistance, genomics, cystic fibrosis, biotechnology, drug development
Holger H. Hoos, PhD
Professor
Computers and creativity, intelligent problem solving, mathematical analysis for software / problem solvers, computer music, bioinformatics, molecular design
Maya G. Kopylova, PhD
Associate Professor
Diamond ore deposits
William McCutcheon
Professor Emeritus
Radio astronomy, star formation, interstellar medium, radio telescopes, solar system, space science
Dr. Jaymie Matthews, PhD
Professor
MOST: Canada’s first space telescope, pulsating stars and the nature of stars in general, search for and study of extrasolar planets, public education in astronomy, tracking asteroids from space, solar system, space science
Alan Mackworth, BASc (Toronto), AM (Harvard), DPhil (Sussex)
Professor
Artificial intelligence, AI, machine learning, robotics, computer science, technology and aging
Karen Needham
Lecturer and Curator, Spencer Entomological Collection
Aquatic insects, biological diversity
Prof. William Mohn, PhD
Professor
microbiology, microbial ecology, microbiome, bacterial catabolism, lignin degradation, lignocellulose degradation, steroid degradation, aromatic compound degradation, forest soil ecology, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metatranscriptomics, vaccine response, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bioproducts,
Dr. Janis McKenna
Professor
Particle physics, subatomic physics, quarks, leptons, accelerators and their applications, science education, women in physics, women in science, solar system,
Chris Orvig
Professor
Medicinal inorganic chemistry, coordination chemistry of biological and medical relevance, coordination chemistry of the early transition metals, the lanthanides, and the actinides, main group bioinorganic chemistry (particularly group 13), role of metal ions in Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurological dysfunctions, metal complexes as nuclear medicine imaging and therapeutic agents, and as antitumour agents, technetium and rhenium chemistry, radiopharmaceutical chemistry, vanadium compounds as anti-diabetic agents, lanthanide coordination and bioinorganic chemistry
Giuseppe Carenini
Associate Professor
Intelligent interfaces, decision-support systems, natural language processing, NLP, natural language generation, NLG, information visualization, user modeling, preference elicitation
David M. Perrin
Professor
Bioorganic chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, enzyme mimics, antisense therapies
Rich Pawlowicz
Associate Professor
Underwater acoustics, physical oceanography, ocean science
Gregory Dipple
Associate Professor
Carbon sequestration, geologic fluid flow, mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions
Dale P. Rolfsen
Professor Emeritus
Knots, mathematical theory of knots, shape of space
Douglas Scott, PhD
Professor
Cosmology, the Universe, large scale structure, cosmic microwave background, dark matter, galaxies, astrophysics, solar system, space science
Lacey Samuels, PhD
Professor; Head of Botany
Biology, biosynthesis, imaging of cells
Gordon W. Semenoff
Professor
Elementary particles, quarks, unified field theories, superstring theory