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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enda Murphy | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | Department of Civil Engineering |
| Jacob Koundouonon Moutouama | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Botany |
| Sara Ghebremusse | Assistant Professor | Peter A. Allard School of Law | |
| Nicolle Sandoval Gonzalez | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Mathematics |
| Dallas Hunt | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of English Language and Literatures |
| Laura Evgin | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Medical Genetics |
| Afsoun Afsahi | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Political Science |
| Stephanie Sellers | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Divisions of Cardiology & Cardiovascular Surgery |
| Ron Yang | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration | Division of Strategy and Business Economics |
| Callan Hummel | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Political Science |
| Justin Zhang | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| Priti Narayan | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Geography |
| Ying Wang | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Neal Shahidi | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Division of Gastroenterology |
| Katherine Wagner | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Vancouver School of Economics |
| Khaled Abdelrahman | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics |
| Thiviya Selvanathan | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Pediatrics |
| Godwin Dzah | Assistant Professor | Peter A. Allard School of Law | |
| Sam Fereshtehnejad | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Division of Neurology |
| Anna Blakney | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Michael Smith Laboratories, School of Biomedical Engineering |
| Catrina Loucks | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Pediatrics, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics |
| Syam Somasekharan | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Urologic Sciences |
| Tarun Khanna | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs |
| Kathryn McConnell | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Sociology |
| Xiangyi Liao | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Education | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education |
| Anna Jurkevics | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Political Science |
| Callista Yee | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Zoology |
| Aastha Mehta | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Computer Science |
| Kate Johnson | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
| Dominic Alford-Duguid | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Philosophy |
| Scott Ramsay | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | School of Nursing |
| Marika Kunnas | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Education | Department of Language & Literacy Education |
| David Clough | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration | Division of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources |
| Alex Yu-Ting Lin | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs |
| John Paul Catungal | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Institute for Gender, Race, Sex and Social Justice |
| Ashley Dalrymple | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Physical Therapy |
| Dena Shahriari | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Orthopaedics, School of Biomedical Engineering |
| Rachel Scholes | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | Department of Civil Engineering |
| Mona Rahmani | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering |
| Anurag Singh | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Medicine |
| Avery Everhart | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Geography |
| Alycia Hall | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of History |
| Sadia Shirazi | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Arts | Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory |
| Ido Levin | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Chemistry |
| 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 |
| Sara Beck | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Applied Science | Department of Civil Engineering |
| Amritpal Singh | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics |