The supervisor is the key person in a thesis-based graduate degree program. The principal role of the supervisor is to help students achieve their scholastic potential and to chair the student’s Supervisory Committee. The Supervisor will provide reasonable commitment, accessibility, professionalism, stimulation, guidance, respect and consistent encouragement to the student. Learn more
Graduate programs have different expectations regarding prospective students contacting faculty members. Some require commitment of a faculty member as thesis supervisor prior to applying while others assign supervisors in the first year. Please review the requirements for each program in the degree listing under the heading "Admission Information & Requirements" in step 3 "Prepare Application" under "Thesis Supervision".
Supervisor Directory
| Name | Role Sort ascending | Faculty | Academic Unit(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afsoun Afsahi | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Political Science |
| Phurwa Dondrub Dolpopa | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Geography |
| Stephanie Sellers | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Divisions of Cardiology & Cardiovascular Surgery |
| Yasir Mohamud | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Ron Yang | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration | Division of Strategy and Business Economics |
| Anna Jurkevics | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Political Science |
| Jiajin Li | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration | Division of Operations and Logistics |
| Aastha Mehta | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Computer Science |
| Asher Leeks | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Zoology |
| Kate Johnson | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | Department of Medicine |
| Thea Whitman | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Microbiology & Immunology |
| Dominic Alford-Duguid | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Philosophy |
| Scott Ramsay | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | School of Nursing |
| Anna Blakney | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Michael Smith Laboratories, School of Biomedical Engineering |
| Souradeep Dutta | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| Catrina Loucks | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Pediatrics, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics |
| Aaron Beedle | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
| Syam Somasekharan | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Urologic Sciences |
| Troy McDiarmid | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | School of Biomedical Engineering |
| Tarun Khanna | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs |
| Kenji Sugioka | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Zoology |
| Matthew Lowe | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Vancouver School of Economics |
| Bo Bian | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration | Division of Finance |
| Mohammed Arefin | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Geography |
| Marysa Lague | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Geography |
| Sara Beck | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | Department of Civil Engineering |
| Amritpal Singh | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics |
| Rubee Dev | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | School of Nursing |
| Kiran Sunar | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Asian Studies |
| David Clough | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration | Division of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources |
| John Paul Catungal | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Institute for Gender, Race, Sex and Social Justice |
| Dena Shahriari | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Orthopaedics, School of Biomedical Engineering |
| Arun John Peter | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences |
| Rachel Scholes | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | Department of Civil Engineering |
| Chadi Saad-Roy | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Mathematics |
| Mona Rahmani | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering |
| Benjamin Juliar | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Division of Nephrology |
| Anurag Singh | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Medicine |
| Avery Everhart | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Geography |
| Jessica Dennis | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Medical Genetics |
| Carl de Boer | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | School of Biomedical Engineering |
| Germaine Koh | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory |
| Floyd Besserer | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Emergency Medicine |
| Xun Liu | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture |
| Janice Leung | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Division of Respiratory Medicine |
| Coralie Salesse-Smith | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Botany |
| Tina Wilson | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | School of Social Work |
| Rana Abughannam | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture |
| Lindsay Gibson | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Education | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy |
| Marie-Eve Bouchard | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies |