This list is not exhaustive and meant as a starting point for students to review faculty members who have explicitly indicated to welcome visiting research student enquiries. Do not conclude that faculty members not listed here won't accept visiting students. Interested students can consult the broader researcher search to identify faculty members based on research keywords.
Last name |
First name | Academic Unit | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ripeanu | Matei | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Computer Systems; Data Analytics; distributed systems; Graph Analytics; High performance computing; Social Networks; Storage Systems |
| Robinson | Wendy | Department of Medical Genetics | Other basic medicine and life sciences; Medical Genetics; Early (prenatal) human development; Placenta; Epigenetics; DNA methylation; Sex differences; Mosaicism |
| Rodrigues | Brian | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Diabetes; Cardiomyopathy; Heart Failure; Energy Metabolism; Cardiovascular metabolism; Endothelial cell - cardiomyocyte crosstalk; Vascular Endothelial Growth factors | |
| Rogak | Steven | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Natural sciences; Aerosols, air pollution and climate |
| Rottler | Joerg | Department of Physics & Astronomy | Physical sciences; Condensed Matter and Materials Physics; Nanomaterials; Polymers; Soft Matter; Solids |
| Rouse | Robert | Department of English Language and Literatures | Medieval Literatures; Environment, space and place |
| Rowley | Susan | Department of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology | Anthropology, n.e.c.; repatriation; museums; material culture; Cultural Heritage; arctic archaeology; heritage management |
| Rubin | Julia | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Computer engineering; Programming languages and software engineering; Computer Systems; software engineering; Software quality, security, and robustness; program analysis; Adversarial robustness, explainability, and interpretability of ML-based systems; Mobile and cloud software |
| Rullmann | Hotze | Department of Linguistics | Linguistics; Semantics |
| Rusk | Bruce | Department of Asian Studies | 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 |
| Russell | Kelly | Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences | Physical sciences; volcanology; petrology; magma rheology; geochemical thermodynamics |
| Sadarangani | Manish | Department of Pediatrics | Immunology; Microbiology; Bacteria; Bacterial Vaccines; Childhood infections; Epidemiology; Immune System; Vaccine Development; Vaccine immunity; Clinical trials and observational studies |
| Sadatsafavi | Mohsen | Respiratory diseases; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Epidemiology; Biostatistics; Respiratory Research | |
| Sawatzky | Bonita | Department of Orthopaedics | Clinical medicine; Mobility; Outcome measures; biomechanics |
| Schluter | Dolph | Department of Zoology | Biological adaptation; Speciation (evolutionary processes); Natural selection and sexual selection; evolution; Origin of species; evolutionary genetics; Adaptive radiation |
| Schmidt | Julia | Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy | Occupational therapy; Trauma / Injuries; cognition; Neurological diseases; Cognitive impairment; neuroscience; rehabilitation; Self-awareness; Self-identity; Traumatic Brain Injury |
| Schoof | Christian | Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences | Geophysics; Ice and Snow; Transformation and Evolution of the Earth Surface; Fluid mechanics; Hydraulic; Asymptotic and Classical Applied Analysis; Differential Equation; applied mathematics; glacier hydrology; Glaciology; ice sheet dynamics |
| Scott | Douglas | Department of Physics & Astronomy | Astronomical and space sciences; Physical sciences; Cosmology; Science and Knowledge |
| Seidel | Marc-David | Division of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources | Entrepreneurship; Organizational behavior; Sociology and social studies of science and technology; Discrimination and networks in the employment relationship; Distributed Trust Technologies; Early life factors role in later life workplace outcomes; Economic Systems; Impacts of New Information Technologies; Life Cycles ( Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, etc.); Media and Society; New Technology and Social Impacts; Organizational Theory; Social Networks; Social Organization and Political Systems; Social networks and organizational decision making; Social, Economical and Political Impacts of Innovations; Socio-Economic Conditions |
| Semenoff | Gordon Walter | Department of Physics & Astronomy | 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 |
| Shneiderman | Sara | Department of Anthropology, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs | Social and cultural anthropology; Indigenous issues; Disaster response and preparedness; Citizenship; migration |
| Sigal | Leonid | Department of Computer Science | Computer and information sciences; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science and Statistics; Parametric and Non-Parametric Inference; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Semantic Recognition; Vision + Natural Language Processing; Visual Recognition and Understanding |
| Singh | Amritpal | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Other basic medicine and life sciences; single cell multiomics; single cell spatial multiomics; data integration; Machine Learning; Biomarkers; heart and lung disease; High dimensional data analysis; Bioinformatics |
| Sly | Laura | Department of Pediatrics | Innate immunity; Inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammation; macrophages; Cell signalling |
| Somasekharan | Syam | Department of Urologic Sciences | Cancer, n.e.c.; Cell biology, n.e.c.; RNA Biology; Cell Biology; molecular biology; Biomolecular Condensates; Nucleolus; mRNA Translation; Liquid-liquid Phase Separation |
| Song | Weihong | Department of Psychiatry | Medical, health and life sciences; Alzheimer's disease; Down Syndrome; mental health |
| Speller | Camilla | Department of Anthropology | Anthropology; Archeological Data Analysis; Molecular Genetics; Ancient DNA Analysis (paleogenetics); Ancient proteins (paleoproteomics); Animal Domestication; Bioarchaeology; Environmental Archaeology; Marine Ecosystems |
| Spering | Miriam | Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Biological sciences; vision; movement; perception and action; eye movements; hand movements; eye-hand coordination; sport vision; Parkinson's disease |
| Stecklov | Guy | Department of Sociology | Family and household demographic studies; Fertility; Migration; Mortality; Demography; Studies of Canadian society; Demographic behavior; Historical social change; Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa; Migration and assimilation; Population and Development; Research and survey methodology |
| Stickles | Elise | Department of English Language and Literatures | English language; Mental Representation; grammar; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Imagery; Symbolism; Gestural, Verbal Communications; Public Communication; Data mining |
| Stirling | Peter | Department of Medical Genetics | Clinical oncology; Genetic medicine; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Cancer; cancer genetics; Cell; DNA repair; Genome Instability; Genotoxins; Molecular Genetics; Stress responses |
| Straus | Suzana | Department of Chemistry | Chemical sciences; Proteins; Antimicrobial peptides; Protein-protein interactions; Structure-function; Viral membrane proteins |
| Stull | Roland | Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences | Meteorology and weather; weather; Meteorology; atmospheric science; numerical weather prediction; clean energy meteorology; storms; transportation weather; forest fire weather; weather disasters; atmospheric boundary layers; aviation meteorology |
| Sugioka | Kenji | Department of Zoology | Basic medicine and life sciences; Cell division; Animal morphogenesis; Cytoskeletal dynamics |
| Suttle | Curtis | Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Botany, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries | Bioinformatics; Fisheries sciences; Immunology; Microbiology; Oceanography; Plant biology; Biological Oceanography; Environmental Virology; Marine Environment; Marine Microbiology; Microbial Diversity; Phage; Viral Discovery; Viruses |
| Swindale | Nicholas Vaughan | Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Bioinformatics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Eye and Visual System Diseases; Neuronal Modeling; Neuronal Systems; Visual System |
| Talhouk | Aline | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Human reproduction and development sciences; Computer Science and Statistics; Epidemiology; Bioinformatics; Cancer of the Reproductive System; diagnostic models; Digital health; Machine Learning; personalized medicine; prevention; Privacy |
| Tam | Roger | School of Biomedical Engineering | Machine learning; Biomedical signal processing; Biomedical Design and Innovation; Biomedical Technologies; Computer Science and Statistics; Data Analytics; Medical Imaging; Machine Learning; Neurodegenerative diseases; Precision Medicine; Radiology |
| Tebbutt | Scott | Division of Respiratory Medicine | Basic medicine and life sciences; Dual organism molecular interaction (fungal spores & human airway epithelium); Early and late reactions in allergic asthma and rhinitis; Diagnostics of acute heart rejection post-transplantation; Neonatal vaccine immunogenicity; Systems biology, biomarkers & bioinformatics; Rheumatic fever and heart disease; COVID-19 |
| Tocheva | Elitza | Department of Microbiology & Immunology | Microbiology; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Functional and Structural Proteomics; Microbial Ultrastructure; Cryo-electron tomography and Structural Biology; bacterial physiology; Microbial Diversity; Secretion systems and Mechanisms of pathogenesis; Novel bacterial phyla |
| Traboulsee | Tony | Division of Neurology | Neurology; Central nervous system; Biomedical signal processing; Machine learning; Imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; multiple sclerosis; neuromyelitls optica (NMO) |
| Trajano | Heather | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Chemical engineering; Biomass (Energy); Wood; Pulp and paper; Biochemicals; Biomass extractives recovery and utilization; Biorefining; catalysis; Hemicellulose; Kinetics; Pretreatment |
| Tremlett | Helen | Division of Neurology | Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); multiple sclerosis; Neuroepidemiology; Pharmacoepidemiology; prodrome,; Drug safety and effectiveness; Pharmacogenomics; comorbidities; health administrative data; Gut microbiome; prodromes |
| Tropini | Carolina | Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Biomedical Engineering | Immunology; Medical and biomedical engineering; Microbiology; Bacteria; Bacteriophages; Bioengineering; Bioinformatics; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Biophysics; Gut microbiota; Inflammatory bowel disease |
| Tu | Qingshi | Department of Wood Science | Forestry biomass and bioproducts; Earth and related environmental sciences; Systems engineering; Environmental engineering; Biomass (Energy); Sustainable Development; Modelization and Simulation; Biofuels and bioproducts; climate change; Computational modeling; Forest biorefineries; Industrial ecology; Life cycle assessment; Sustainable bioeconomy; Machine Learning |
| Turvey | Stuart | Department of Pediatrics | Immunology; Microbiology; Asthma; Immune System; Immunodeficiencies; Microbiome cohort studies; Precision Medicine; Primary Immune Deficiencies |
| Upham | David Chester | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Chemical engineering; Energy Transformation and Energy Using; catalysis; Energy; Greenhouse gas mitigation |
| Van Petegem | Filip | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Biochemistry; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Genetic Diseases; Calcium signaling; Cardiac arrhythmia; electrical signaling; electrophysiology; Epilepsy; Ion channels; Structural Biology |
| Vedam | Saraswathi | Midwifery Program | Gestation / Parturition; Human Rights and Liberties, Collective Rights; Right and Access to Information; Home Care Services; Law and Health; Social Contract and Social Justice; Community Health / Public Health; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Family and Child Services; Home Birth; Place of Birth; Provider Attitudes; Respectful Maternity Care; Midwifery; Interprofessional relationships; Person-Centered Care; Patient Autonomy; Institutional Racism in Maternity Care; Maternal and Newborn Outcomes; Maternity care for diverse populations; Transdisciplinary engagement in health care; Mistreatment |
| Vincent | Amanda | Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries | Ecological applications, n.e.c.; Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); Biodiversity; Natural environment sustainability studies; Natural resource management; Wildlife and habitat management; marine conservation; threatened marine species, especially seahorses and their relatives; bottom trawling and other nonselective fisheries; wildlife trade; marine protected areas; Small-scale fisheries; community-based conservation; citizen/community science; multilateral environmental agreements; . |