Hanspeter (Hans) Schreier, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Watershed management, water pollution, water and food, urban stormwater
Dr. Jane Hill, PhD
Associate Professor
applications and limits of breath analysis and blood transcriptional profiling to understand respiratory infections and other diseases
Artem Cherkasov, PhD
Associate Professor
Drug design, bioinformatics, molecular modeling, proteomics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, antibiotics
Lee A. Groat
Professor
Geology, mineralogy, minerals, crystallography, gems, pegmatite, rare elements, rare earth elements, carbonatites
Dominique Weis, PhD
Professor
Canada Research Chair (Geochemistry of the Earth’s Mantle)
Isotopic geochemistry, mass spectrometry, environmental geochemistry, mantle plumes, large igneous provinces, volcanoes, sea research, Kerguelen, Hawaii
Shoukat Dedhar
Professor
Molecular biology, molecular biology as it relates to disease, developing new therapeutics for cancer, how brain cells (neurons) make connections, therapeutics for cancer, molecular genetics and cancer, medical research, cancer, inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases
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. Jean-Thomas Cornelis
Assistant Professor in Soil Science
soil science, soil chemistry, terrestrial biogeochemistry, soil and climate, soil and food quality, biochar, soil carbon,
Prof. Alannah Hallas
Assistant Professor
Quantum materials, condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry, materials, crystal growth, neutron scattering, magnetism, crystallography, high entropy materials, high-pressure crystal growth,
Vikramaditya Yadav
Associate Professor
Biocatalysis, Bioremediation, Bioprocess engineering, Drug delivery, Infectious disease pathogenesis & drug discovery, Green chemistry, Medical biotechnology, Metabolic engineering, Synthetic biology, Cannabinoids, Tissue engineering,
Dr. Juan José Alava, PhD
Research Associate & Principal Investigator
marine eco-toxicology, ocean conservation and pollution, environmental toxicology and chemistry, food web bioaccumulation modeling of pollutants (Bioaccumulation Science), ocean pollution by plastics/microplastics, sea turtles and marine mammals’ eco-toxicology, marine ecology, conservation biology, tropical biodiversity, and ecology, fishery science and management, climate change science, the impact of climate change and acidification in marine organisms and fisheries, climate change adaptation strategies in fisheries, population dynamics and conservation of marine mammals, biology and conservation of marine mammals, seabirds and sea turtles, field ornithology, aquatic microbiology, eco-toxicological risk assessment, environmental impact assessments and environmental policy, public health, tropical parasitology, and environmental/conservation medicine,
Dr. Rickey Y. Yada, PhD
Dean and Professor
Food systems, food waste, food policy, agricultural policy, food protein chemistry, enzymes (aspartic proteases), carbohydrate biochemistry, food nanotechnology,
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,