John Innes
Professor
Forestry, forest management, forest certification, aboriginal forestry, biodiversity, climate change, communities and livelihoods, conservation, ecosystems, forest management, forest policy, social impact, sustainability, drought, forest fires, wildfires, heat waves, people’s responses to heat waves, impact of heat waves on forests, adaptation of forests to climate change, responses of resorts (such as Whistler) to climate change, biological diversity, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Gordon Richard Lovegrove, PEng, MBA, PhD, FITE
Associate Professor
Principal Investigator, Sustainable Transport Safety Research Laboratory
Chair, Sustainable Development Committee and Canadian Society of Civil Engineers
Sustainability, sustainable transportation, transportation planning, sustainable road safety, sustainable communities, transportation demand management, safety audits, macro-level collision prediction models, social cost benefit analyses, sustainable development, public transport, public transit
Barbara J. Lence
Professor
Engineering implications of environmental policies, transferable discharge permits, marketable emission rights, emissions banking and effluent charges/taxes, water resources
Philip Austin, PhD
Associate Professor
Global climate, climate change, greenhouse effect, global warming, clouds, lightning, storms, greenhouse gases
Dr. Carolina Tropini, PhD, PLEng
Assistant Professor
Microbiome, microbiota, inflammatory bowel disease, IBD, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, microbiology, biophysics, bioengineering, biomedical engineering,
Orlando Rojas, PhD
Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Bioproducts
Scientific Director, Bioproducts Institute
Director, Pulp and Paper Center
Biobased Colloids and Materials, Renewable Nanomaterials, Bioproducts
Peter Cole
Associate Professor
Ecojustice and sustainability education, Indigenous education, advanced research methodology, indigenizing research, Indigenous community engagement, research with St’at’imc and Kichwa-lamista (high Amazon in Peru) and Cusco-sacred valley area of Peruvian Andes, First Nations and settler relations, language and cultural regeneration, ecotechnology, ecopedagogy, ecoliteracy, environmental studies, researching with Indigenous peoples, human nonhuman and more-than-human relationalities and Indigenous peoples, aboriginal and northern studies, Indigenous rituals and ceremonies, indigeneity and essentialism, cultural appropriation, appropriation of voice, intellectual property appropriation, aboriginal and Indigenous knowledges in the academy, academic colonization, aboriginal peoples and the performing and visual arts, Indigenous traditions in education, Indigenous healing and wellness modalities, Indigenous peoples and genocide, Indigenous peoples and place-based education, sustainable development
Villy Christensen, PhD
Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Director, Global Ocean Modeling
Ecosystem modeling, global ocean, IPBES, Ecopath, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Dr. Wendy V. Norman, MD, CCFP, FCFP, DTM&H, MHSc
Professor, Dept. of Family Practice
Associate Member, School of Population and Public Health
Associate Member, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sexual and reproductive health, health policy and service research, Public health, Contraception, Abortion services and methods, Population health intervention research, Family planning implementation research, Health professional task sharing research,
Dharma Wijewickreme, PhD
Professor
Buried pipelines engineering, soil pipe interaction, earthquake liquefaction of soils, geotechnical earthquake engineering, foundation engineering, soil mechanics
Timothy Brook
Professor
Republic of China Chair, Dept. of History and Institute of Asian Research
Chinese history, global history, war crimes
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
Daniel Pauly, PhD
University Killam Professor
Global fisheries, marine biology, fisheries management
Curtis A. Suttle, PhD
Professor
Bacteria, viruses, marine microbiology, Arctic microbiology, environmental microbiology, bacteriophage
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,
Dr. Greg Garrard, PhD
Professor of Environmental Humanities
Culture and climate change, animals in society, environmental literature, environmental communication, climate scepticism, ecocriticism,