Undergraduate Research

This list shows researcher who have indicated interest in working with undergraduate students on research projects.
Last Name Sort descending First Name Type Research Interests Department(s) Faculty
Parnianpour Pedram Postdoctoral Fellow Neuroimaging (MRI and PET); Machine Learning; Neurodegenerative disorders; Faculty of Medicine
Pavlidis Paul Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Engineering and technology; genomics; Bioinformatics; cellular and molecular neuroscience; Genetics; disorders of the nervous system; single-cell genomics; Computational Biology; Gene regulation Department of Psychiatry, Michael Smith Laboratories Faculty of Medicine
Peacock Simon Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Natural sciences; metamorphic petrology; Tectonics; earthquakes; metamorphic petrology, tectonics, earthquakes Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science
Pearce Margo Faculty (non-G+PS member) Indigenous health; Indigenous health and wellness; Women and children's health; social determinants of health; Decolonizing methodologies; , Indigenous health and wellness, Women and children's health, Social determinants of health, Decolonizing methodologies Faculty of Medicine
Peebles Erin Faculty (non-G+PS member) Health equity; Environmental, developmental and social factors of youth health; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; medical education; equity, diversity, inclusion; social determinants of health Faculty of Medicine
Peleato Nicolas Faculty (non-G+PS member) Water quality engineering; Wastewater treatment (including water treatment processes); Drinking Water; Chemometrics; Water quality; Source water monitoring; Machine Learning; Environmental engineering; climate change
Pelech Steven Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Neurological disorders (except neuromuscular diseases); Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Adaptive immunity; Medical virology; Medical infection agents (including prions); Protein Microarrays; Protein Kinases; Protein Phosphatases; Protein phosphorylation; Cell signalling; Signal transduction; Cell division; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Neurological Disease; Cancer; Immunology; H5N1 influenza Division of Neurology Faculty of Medicine
Phang P Terence Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Medical, health and life sciences; colorectal surgery Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine
Phani Srikantha Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Aerospace structures; Automotive engineering materials; Nanotechnology, n.e.c.; Mechanics of Materials and Structures; Dynamics and Vibrations; Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Applied Science
Poole Warren Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Metals and alloy materials engineering; Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy; Aluminum Alloys; Steels; Magnesium alloys; ICME Department of Materials Engineering Faculty of Applied Science
Pratap-Singh Anubhav Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Environment and natural resources economics; Food chemistry (including fermentation); Natural resource management; Agri-food Transformation Products; cold plasma; food engineering; food processing; Functional Foods; heat transfer; high pressure; mass transfer; novel non-thermal processing; Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods; pasteurization; pulsed light; sterilization Food, Nutrition & Health Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Protopopova Alexandra Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Other biological sciences; Social structures; rabbit housing; dog training; cultural differences in human-companion animal relationships; Animal behaviour; animal shelter; Animal welfare; community initiatives Applied Biology Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Purcell Sarah Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Medical, health and life sciences; Nutrition; energy balance; Obesity; Metabolism; energy expenditure; appetite; diet Department of Medicine
Quantz Darryl Faculty (non-G+PS member) Other medical sciences; Social sciences; planetary health, climate justice, sustainable health care; , planetary health, climate justice, sustainable health care Faculty of Medicine
Rajagopal Harini Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Multiliteracy and multimodality; Bilingual/Multilingual education; Decolonizing pedagogies, methodologies, and knowledges; teacher education; Arts-based Education ; Childhood Studies; Multiliteracy and multimodality, Bilingual/Multilingual education, Decolonizing pedagogies, methodologies, and knowledges, Teacher Education, Arts-based Education , Childhood Studies Department of Language & Literacy Education Faculty of Education
Raker Ethan Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Social sciences; Social demography; sociology of health; Climate/environmental sociology; Sociology of disasters Department of Sociology Faculty of Arts
Ramana M. V. Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Public administration; Public policy; Public security policy; arms control; Energy transitions; degrowth; nuclear disarmament; nuclear energy; nuclear policy; political economy of energy; risk of nuclear accidents School of Public Policy and Global Affairs Faculty of Arts
Rangel Bousquet Carrilho Thais Postdoctoral Fellow Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); perinatal epidemiology; Nutritional Epidemiology; Maternal and child health Faculty of Medicine
Ranger Manon Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Neurodevelopment; Clinical nursing, secondary (acute care); neurodevelopment; Early-adversity; Biomarkers of early stress exposure; Brain development; pain; Prematurity School of Nursing Faculty of Applied Science
Rauscher Alexander Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) magnetic resonance imaging; physics; quantitative susceptibility mapping; myelin water imaging; brain; maschine learning; magnetic resonance imaging, physics, quantitative susceptibility mapping, myelin water imaging, brain, maschine learning Department of Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine
Rea Christopher Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Chinese literatures; Asian history; Chinese literature; Cinema; Print culture; translation; Humor Department of Asian Studies Faculty of Arts
Reebye Rajiv Faculty (non-G+PS member) Medical, health and life sciences; Multimodal therapy, ultrasound muscle architecture changes, educational curriculum in spasticity; , Multimodal therapy, ultrasound muscle architecture changes, educational curriculum in spasticity Faculty of Medicine
Regmi Kapil Faculty (non-G+PS member) Social sciences; , Faculty of Education
Reid Gregor Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Basic medicine and life sciences; paediatric cancer; cancer immunology; animal models of cancer Department of Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine
Richman Joy Marion Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Dentistry and oral health; Evolution of developmental systems; Pedodontics; Congenital Anomalies; craniofacial development; chicken embryo limb development; Developmental biology; Embryonic Development; Evo-Devo; Growth Factors; orofacial clefting; Reptilian tooth regeneration; Cell signaling; Tooth development Department of Oral Health Sciences Faculty of Dentistry
Rivarez Mark Paul Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Plant pathology; Agricultural ecology; Virology; Bioinformatics; Biogeography and phylogeography; Phylogeny and comparative analysis; Bacteriology; Mycology; Plant microbiota; Horticultural crop protection (pests, diseases and weeds); Virology; plant pathology; Bioinformatics; AI-based modeling; Biological control; virus evolution; virus epidemiology; pathogen diversity; bacteriology; mycology; metagenomics; high-throughput sequencing Applied Biology Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Roberts Morgan Faculty (non-G+PS member) Tumour immunology; Applied immunology (including antibody engineering, xenotransplantation and t-cell therapies); Solid cancer tumours; Immunology; Bladder cancer; Immuno-oncology; Sex differences in cancer immunobiology Faculty of Medicine
Robertson Andrew Faculty (non-G+PS member) Medical, health and life sciences; , Faculty of Medicine
Robeva Elina Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Statistical theory and modeling; Machine learning; Algebra; Algebraic statistics; Graphical Models; Tensor decomposition; Causality; Applied algebraic geometry; Shape-constrained density estimation; Tensor networks Department of Mathematics Faculty of Science
Robillard Julie Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Health sciences; Medical and biomedical engineering; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Patient experience/patient engagement; social media; Assistive technology; Neuroethics; Brain health technology; Artificial Intelligence; Dementia; mental health; Social robots; pediatrics Division of Neurology Faculty of Medicine
Rosin Jessica Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Neurodevelopment; Glial cell studies; Bone, skin and cartilage science; Developmental biology; neuroscience; Craniofacial Sciences; Maternal Stressors; Immune Cells; Inflammation Department of Oral Biological & Medical Sciences Faculty of Dentistry
Rouse Robert Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Medieval Literatures; Environment, space and place Department of English Language and Literatures Faculty of Arts
Routh Supriya Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Law (except legal practice and international law); Asian legal studies; Human rights including international human rights; Jurisprudence, legal theory, and critical studies; Labour and employment law including international labour law; law and development; Law and social justice; Law and society Peter A. Allard School of Law
Rowley Susan Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Anthropology, n.e.c.; repatriation; museums; material culture; cultural heritage; arctic archaeology; heritage management Department of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology Faculty of Arts
Rubin Julia Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Computer engineering; Computer and information sciences; quality, security, and reliability of software and AI systems; software engineering; program analysis Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty of Applied Science
Rusk Bruce Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Asian history; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Social Determinants of Arts and Letters; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Exegesis and Sacred Text Critics; Lexicography and Dictionaries; Authentication Studies; Confucianism; Early Modern China; material culture Department of Asian Studies Faculty of Arts
Ryu Min Hyung Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Basic medicine and life sciences; Respiratory sciences; Transcriptomics; Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Environmental Respiratory Diseases; Genomics and Transcriptomics; Bioinformatics and Data Science; Personalized Medicine in Respiratory Care; Application of Next-generation Sequencing Division of Respiratory Medicine Faculty of Medicine
Sadarangani Manish Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Immunology; Microbiology; Clinical sciences; Antimicrobial resistant bacteria; Bacterial Vaccines; Childhood infections; Epidemiology; Immune System; Vaccine Development; Vaccine immunity; Clinical trials and observational studies Department of Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine
Sakakibara Brodie Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Clinical medicine; Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy; Gerontology; rehabilitation; Physical Activity; Physical Rehabilitation; Stroke Rehabilitation; Chronic disease self-management and prevention; Telehealth in people with stroke and cardiovascular disease; Complex behavioural intervention development; Clinical trial methodologies; Participatory and patient-oriented research Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy Faculty of Medicine
Salamon Anne Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Literatures in French outside Quebec; French language; Historical linguistics, diachronics, and dialectology; Romance Philology; Medieval French Litterature; Manuscript studies; History of the French language; Critical editing of medieval texts Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Faculty of Arts
Sarkar Pritam Postdoctoral Fellow Engineering and technology; Multimodal AI; Computer Vision; Faculty of Science
Schaller Mark Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Psychology and cognitive sciences; Motivations and Emotions; Psychology - Biological Aspects; Evolutionary Psychology; Social Cognition; Social influence; social psychology Department of Psychology Faculty of Arts
Schluter Dolph Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Biological adaptation; Speciation (evolutionary processes); Natural selection and sexual selection; evolution; Origin of species; evolutionary genetics; Adaptive radiation; Evolution, Origin of species, Evolutionary genetics, Adaptive radiation Department of Zoology Faculty of Science
Schmidt Julia Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Occupational therapy; Trauma / Injuries; cognition; Neurological diseases; Cognitive impairment; neuroscience; rehabilitation; Self-awareness; Self-identity; Traumatic Brain Injury Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy Faculty of Medicine
Scholes Rachel Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Environmental chemistry; Trace contaminants; Water reuse; Nature-based treatment systems; Stormwater treatment; Green Chemistry Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Applied Science
Schummers Laura Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Pediatrics and reproductive medicine; Health Services; Health Policy; women’s reproductive and perinatal health Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Scott Douglas Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Astronomical and space sciences; Physical sciences; Cosmology; Science and Knowledge Department of Physics & Astronomy Faculty of Science
Segat Gabriela Postdoctoral Fellow Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Cancer drug development and therapeutics; Basic pharmacology; Applied immunology (including antibody engineering, xenotransplantation and t-cell therapies); Hematology; oncology; Inflammation; Epigenetics Faculty of Medicine
Seiler Andrew Postdoctoral Fellow Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); Agricultural ecology; Insect ecology; Ecosystem ecology; Agroecology; community ecology; Plant-insect interactions; Ecosystem services Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Semenoff Gordon Walter Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Particle physics theory (including aspects of field theory and string theory); Physical sciences; Moedal experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN; String theory, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics; Theoretical and mathematical physics, the physics of elementary particles, condensed matter physics; Moedal experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN, String theory, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, Theoretical and mathematical physics, the physics of elementary particles, condensed matter physics Department of Physics & Astronomy Faculty of Science