Dr. Judy Illes, CM, PhD
Professor
Distinguished University Scholar
UBC Distinguished Scholar in Neuroethics
Ethics, brain, biomedicine, bioethics, neuroscience,
Dr. Illes is a world-reknowned pioneer of the field of neuroethics that was formally established in early 2000 to directly align biomedical ethics with neuroscience in research, clinical practice, and the commercialization of brain health. She received her PhD from Stanford University, and holds faculty appointments at UBC, the University of Washington in Seattle, and Clare Hall at Cambridge University in England. She is co-lead of the Canadian Brain Research Strategy of the International Brain Initiative, and sits on numerous advisory boards, including the Standing Committee on Ethics and the Institute for Neuroscience Mental Health and Addiction of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She also is a newly appointed Director-at-Large of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Dr. Illes is often asked to provide expert consultation and testimony on ethics matters involving conflict of interest, neuroprivacy, and ownership of research data, governance, and regulation. She received the Order of Canada, the country’s highest citizen award, in 2017.
Rena Sharon, MMus
Professor of Collaborative Piano Studies
Chamber music and conflict resolution, art song / lieder, young artist experience summer camp
Prof. Karen Cheung, PhD
Professor
Biotechnology, MEMS and BioMEMS, Microtechnology, Lab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics, neural implants, biomedical engineering, 3D printing, tissue engineering,
Dennis Danielson
Professor
Cosmology, science and religion, John Milton, Copernicanism
Curtis A. Suttle, PhD
Professor
Bacteria, viruses, marine microbiology, Arctic microbiology, environmental microbiology, bacteriophage
Hanspeter (Hans) Schreier, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Watershed management, water pollution, water and food, urban stormwater
Prof. Christopher Overall, BDS, BSc (Hons), MDS, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC
Professor
Canada Research Chair on Protease Proteomics and Systems Biology
Proteomics, human proteome project, protease, degradomics, viral protease, SARS-CoV-2 protease activity and drug targets, COVID-19 3CLpro (3CLMain protease), antiviral drugs, interferon, spike, immunodeficiency, molecular corrector drugs, macrophages,
Naoko Ellis, PhD
Professor
Chemical reaction engineering, multiphase reactors, CO2 capture, bioenergy, sustainability education and leadership, science outreach, sustainable development, systems approach, energy transition, transdisciplinarity, collaborative learning
Dr. Meaghan Thumath
Clinical Assistant Professor
Overdose, Substance Use, Addiction, Mental Health, Opioid Crisis, Drug Use, Harm Reduction, Homelessness, Gender, Women Drug Use, Child Welfare, Child Custody, Maternal Mortality, Marginalized Women, Vulnerable Women, Drug Treatment, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Communicable Disease Control, Outbreaks, COVID, Monkeypox, HIV, AIDS, Sexual Health, Contraception, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STIs), syphilis, congenital syphilis, Nursing, Nurses, Global Health, WHO, Ebola, International Health, Health Equity
Dr. Matthew Mitchell
Assistant Professor
Ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, landscape ecology, urban ecology, agrobiodiversity, bat ecology
Dr. Steven Hallam, PhD
Professor
Microbial ecology, biological engineering, bioinformatics, entrepreneurship, genomics, single-cell genomics, metabolic pathway inference, metagenomics, environmental genomics, automation systems, synthetic biology, machine learning, information aesthetics, science communication, scholarship of education leadership, functional screening, biocatalyst discovery, bioeconomy, bioenergy, microplastics, anaerobic digestion, cyanobacteria, metabolic interaction networks, symbiosis, climate change, oxygen minimum zones, oceanography, sustainability,
Dr. Haibo Feng
Assistant Professor
Building performance, zero carbon, zero energy building, LCA, BIM, sustainable construction, mass timber
Dr. Minghao Li
Associate Professor
timber engineering, mass timber, structural design, cross laminated timber, seismic resilience,
Dr. Ignacio Barbeito
Assistant Professor of Silviculture
silviculture, forest regeneration, forest structure, mixed species forests, vulnerability to climate change,
Dr. Andrew Roth, PhD Bioinformatics
Assistant Professor
cancer evolution, genomics, bayesian statistics, bioinformatics,
Fionn Byrne, MLA
Assistant Professor
ethics in landscape architecture; sites of interest include extreme landscapes that test definitions of nature, such as conflict zones, resource extraction sites, untouched wilderness, and artificial environments,
Dr. Christopher Gaston, PhD
Associate Professor
Markets and economics, new products and new markets for Canadian wood products, Aboriginal capacity building,
Dr. Jonathan Fannin, PhD, PEng
Professor
Internal erosion, geosynthetics, debris flow travel distance on steep mountainous terrain, slope stability in engineering practice,
Dr. Amy Wilson, PhD, DVM
Adjunct Professor
Ecological and anthropogenic factors influencing wildlife health and disease, role of domestic animals in the transfer of disease between humans and wildlife, conservation ecology of bats in British Columbia,
Dr. Tony T.Y. Yang, PhD, PEng
Professor
Seismic behaviour and design of steel, concrete and composite structures, seismic behaviour and design of tall buildings,