This list shows researcher who have indicated interest in working with undergraduate students on research projects.
Last name | First name | Type | Research Interests | Department(s) | Faculty |
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Vanderwal | Tamara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Functional Neuroimaging; child psychiatric disorders; depression in youth | Department of Psychiatry | Faculty of Medicine |
Vassos | Troy | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Wastewater treatment (including water treatment processes); Water Reclamation Reuse and Conservation; Water Treatment Technology; Wastewater Resource Recovery; Biosolids Management, Treatment and Resource Recovery; Bioenergy; Rare Earth Element Mineral Processing Water Treatment | Faculty of Applied Science | |
Velenosi | Thomas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences, n.e.c.; Cancer drug development and therapeutics; Cancer molecular targets; Metabolomics; Lipid biology (including lipidomics); Pharmacometabolomics; Pharmacology; Lipidomics; mass spectrometry; Cancer; Stable isotope tracing; Bioinformatics | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
Venturutti | Leandro | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Faculty of Medicine | ||
Viau | Victor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Basic medicine and life sciences; Sex differences; Stress responses; Glucocorticoids; Inflammation; Behavior; Central Nervous System; Endocrinology | Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Faculty of Medicine |
Victoriano | Ramon Antonio | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Caribbean literatures; Latin American literatures; Contemporary literatures; Hispanic Caribbean Literatures and Cultures; Latin American Contemporary Novel and Short Story; Caribbean Literatures | Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies | Faculty of Arts |
Vigna | John | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Novels, stories and news; Fiction, Literary Non-Fiction, Creative Writing | Faculty of Arts | |
Walker | Judith | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Adult and continuing education, and community education; Sociology of education; Educational policy; Adult education; Higher Education; policy studies; Health Professions Education | Department of Educational Studies | Faculty of Education |
Wang | Ying | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cardiology and circulatory sciences (including cardiovascular disease); Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Drug discovery, design and delivery; atherosclerosis; Diabetic cardiomyopathy; Vascular biology; Spatial 'Omics'; Drug repurposing and therapeutic design; Disease modeling; Digital Pathology | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Faculty of Medicine |
Wang | Lele | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Mathematics of data science; Machine Learning; information theory; Coding theory; Combinatorics; Communication theory; Random graphs | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Faculty of Applied Science |
Wang | Fei | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Educational administration, management and leadership; Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; Educational administration and leadership in K-12 setting; Leadership; the role of the school principals; social justice and diversity; comparative policy studies; Education and Training Management; Ideology and Social Policy; Social Contract and Social Justice; Offshore school and its leadership | Department of Educational Studies | Faculty of Education |
Wang | Jun | Postdoctoral Fellow | Faculty of Medicine | ||
Wasserman | Wyeth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Medical and biomedical engineering; Creation of computational methods for the analysis of genome sequences (bioinformatics); Study of cis-regulatory elements controlling gene transcription; Applied analyses of genome sequences (genomics); Indigenous genomics | Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine |
Watson | Liam | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Topology; Low-dimensional topology; Khovanov homology; Heegaard Floer homology | Department of Mathematics | Faculty of Science |
Weary | Daniel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Animal and dairy sciences; Animal welfare; Applied animal behaviour; Dairy cattle; Laboratory animals | Applied Biology | Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Weber | Alexander | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Central nervous system; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Quantitative MRI; Brain Disorders; resting state functional MRI; myelin water imaging; Arterial Spin Labelling; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Fractal based analysis; Concussion; Diagnostic Imaging; Epilepsy; Seizures; Traumatic Brain Injury; open science; Biomedical Engineering; Rett Syndrome | Department of Pediatrics | Faculty of Medicine |
Wei | Juncheng | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Differential equations and integral equations in pure mathematics; Partial and ordinary differential equations; Mathematics; Geometric analysis; Mathematical biology; Nonlinear partial differential equations; reaction-diffusion systems; singular perturbations and concentration phenomena; singularity formations in fluids; Nonlinear Analysis | Department of Mathematics | Faculty of Science |
White | Rachel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics; Climate modelling; Atmospheric dynamics; climate change; Extreme weather events; Climate impacts | Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences | Faculty of Science |
Whitton | Jeannette | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Speciation (evolutionary processes); Plant developmental and reproductive biology; Plant evolutionary ecology; Evolution of asexuality; Evolution and consequences of polyploidy; Speciation/ diversification; Species at risk in Canada; Conservation policy | Department of Botany | Faculty of Science |
Wiens | Matthew | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Global health; Sepsis; Prediction modelling; Epidemiology; Pediatric infectious diseases; Post-discharge outcomes; Global Health; Digital health | Faculty of Medicine | |
Wiens | Matthew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Global health; Sepsis; Prediction modelling; Epidemiology; Pediatric infectious diseases; Post-discharge outcomes; Global Health; Digital health | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Faculty of Medicine |
Wijesinghe | Printha | Postdoctoral Fellow | Neurodegeneration; Neuroinflammation; Neurodegeneration, MicroRNAs, Alzheimer's disease, Clearance mechanisms, Biomarkers | Faculty of Medicine | |
Wilbur | Kerry | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Professional Practices; Education Systems; culture and health professional education; interprofessional education; patient and medication safety; public health roles of pharmacists; workplace-based learning | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
Williams | Ben | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Topology; Algebra; Algebraic topology; Motivic homotopy theory; A1 homotopy theory | Department of Mathematics | Faculty of Science |
Winstanley | Catharine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Addiction; Behavioural neuroscience; decision making; Gambling disorder; Impulsivity; Mental Health and Society; Neuronal Systems; Neuropharmacology; Computational neuroscience; Traumatic Brain Injury | Department of Psychology | Faculty of Arts |
Wisnovsky | Simon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cancer genetics; Tumour immunology; Cellular immunology; Glycomics and glycobiology; Chemical genetics; Systems biology; Cellular interactions (including adhesion, matrix and cell wall); Genomics; Cancer molecular targets; glycobiology; carbohydrates; Tumor immunology; Functional genomics; CRISPR screening; Glycomics; Biochemistry; Molecular Genetics; Cell Biology; Cancer | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
Wolf | Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Synthesis of materials; Physical inorganic chemistry; Materials Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Polymer chemistry; Photochemistry | Department of Chemistry | Faculty of Science |
Wong | Judy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cancer genetics; Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Drug discovery, design and delivery; Nucleic acids studies; Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Cancer biology; Aging; Genome Instability; Nucleic Acid Structures; Pharmacology; Genetics and Genomics | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
Wotherspoon | Amy | Postdoctoral Fellow | Ecological impacts of climate change; Ecosystem function; Global change biology; Forest ecology; silviculture; climate change; Dendrochronology | Faculty of Forestry | |
Wu | Lyndia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomechanical engineering; Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Biomedical signal processing; Mechanical characterization (including modeling, testing, and monitoring); Injury biomechanics; Soft Tissue Biomechanics; Traumatic Brain Injury; Sleep Biomechanics; Sensors and Instrumentation; Data Mining and Machine Learning; Wearable Sensing | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Faculty of Applied Science |
Wu | Helena | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Media, visual and digital culture; Critical film studies; Theories of cultural studies; Globalization and culture; Other cultural studies, n.e.c.; Hong Kong cinema, literature and culture; Asian screen cultures; Media narratives; Creative industry and spectatorship; Identity and cultural flows; critical theory; postcolonialism; Thing theory | Department of Asian Studies | Faculty of Arts |
Wu | Jiamin | Postdoctoral Fellow | Nanomedicine; Other natural sciences, n.e.c.; Medical and biomedical engineering, n.e.c.; Drug delivery, needle-free delivery of biologics | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
Wu | Lang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biostatistical methods; Longitudinal data analysis, mixed effects models, missing data, hypothesis testing, biostatistics | Department of Statistics | Faculty of Science |
Wytenbroek | Lydia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | History of medicine and health care; Nursing; Nursing/Health History; Gender/Women's History; Social justice; Science and Technology | School of Nursing | Faculty of Applied Science |
Xiao | Bowen | Postdoctoral Fellow | Developmental psychology | Faculty of Education | |
Xiong | Wei | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Gastroenterology; Pathology; gastrointestinal disease; liver pathology; pancreatic pathology; Digital Pathology; quality assurance; green lab | Faculty of Medicine | |
Yada | Rickey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Other biological sciences; Food science; Food protein chemistry; Structure-function relationships; Enzymes; aspartic proteases | Faculty of Land and Food Systems | |
Yang | Tianxi | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Food sciences (including food engineering); Analytical chemistry; Nano-technology; Chemical engineering; Develop novel Point-of-Care tools for food safety monitoring; Design smart nanomaterials for sustainable farming and precision agriculture; Create sustainable and multifunctional packaging materials to improve food safety and quality | Food, Nutrition & Health | Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Yao | Yuan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomaterial manufacturing and engineering; Nano/microfabrication and 3D bioprinting; Tissue engineering and organ regeneration; Therapeutic strategies for cardiovascular disease | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Faculty of Applied Science |
Yi | Kwang Moo | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer vision in artificial intelligence; Pattern recognition and artificial vision; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Visual Geometry; Astronomy; Biomedical imaging | Department of Computer Science | Faculty of Science |
YOO | Hyung-Suk Daniel | Postdoctoral Fellow | Neurodegeneration; Age-related macular degeneration; Subretinal fibrosis; Retinal Degeneration; neurodegeneration; Neural repair; Axon regeneration | Faculty of Medicine | |
Zandstra | Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical biotechnology; Medical and biomedical engineering; Stem cell bioengineering; Bioengineering; Synthetic biology; Biomedical Engineering; Immuno-engineering; Biotechnology; Computational Biology; Computational modeling; Gene/Cell Therapy Systems; genomics; Immunology; personalized medicine; Regenerative medicine | School of Biomedical Engineering, Michael Smith Laboratories | Faculty of Medicine |
Zhang | Xu | Postdoctoral Fellow | Speciation (evolutionary processes); genomics; evolution and adaptation | Faculty of Science | |
Zhang | Yue | Postdoctoral Fellow | Functional materials in materials engineering sciences; Mechanical engineering; Chemical engineering; Solid-state batteries; Energy storage and conversion; Interface chemistry | ||
Zhou | Lily | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public and population health; Cerebrovascular Diseases; Stroke Epidemiology; Cost Effectiveness of Medical Interventions | Division of Neurology | Faculty of Medicine |
Zulyniak | Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and metabolism; Population health interventions; Systems biology; Nutritional epidemiology; metabolic diseases; Pregnancy; gestational diabetes; type-2 diabetes; Metabolism; Genetics; health disparity; Nutrition; lifestyle; precision nutrition | Food, Nutrition & Health | Faculty of Land and Food Systems |