Waterloo’s Canada Research Chairs

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Archive (past three years)

Active Chairholders

  • Nandita Basu, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology; Chair Profile
  • Andrew Bauer, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Taxation, Governance and Risk; Chair Profile
  • Dillon Browne, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Clinical Psychology; Chair Profile
  • Sarah Burch, Renewal SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Sustainability Governance and Innovation; Chair Profile
  • Catherine Burns, New CIHR Tier 1 CRC in Human Factors in Healthcare Systems; Chair Profile
  • Jack Callaghan, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Spine Biomechanics and Injury Prevention; Chair Profile
  • Alana Cattapan, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in The Politics of Reproduction; Chair Profile
  • Jennifer Clapp, Renewal SSHRC Tier 1 CRC in Global Food Security and Sustainability; Chair Profile
  • James Craig, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Hydrologic Modelling and Analysis; Chair Profile
  • Duane Cronin, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Light Weight Materials; Chair Profile
  • Clark Dickerson, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Shoulder Mechanics; Chair Profile
  • Brian B. Dixon, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Fish and Environmental Immunology; Chair Profile
  • Christine Dow, New NSERC  Tier 2 CRC in Glacier Hydrology and Ice Dynamics; Chair Profile
  • Chris Eliasmith, Advancement NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Theoretical Neuroscience; Chair Profile
  • Monica Emelko, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Water Science, Technology & Policy; Chair Profile
  • Lai-Tze Fan, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Technology and Social Change; Chair Profile
  • Mark Ferro, New CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Youth mental health; Chair Profile
  • Michael Fowler, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Zero Emission Vehicles  and Hydrogen Energy Systems; Chair Profile
  • Michel Gingras, 2nd renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Condensed Matter Theory & Statistical Mechanics; Chair Profile
  • Lukasz Golab, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Data analytics; Chair Profile
  • Ian Goldberg, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Privacy Enhancing Technologies; Chair Profile
  • Laura Hug, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Environmental Microbiology; Chair Profile
  • Naila Keleta-Mae, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Race, Gender and Performance; Chair Profile

  • Brian Kendall,  New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Redox-Sensitive Metal Isotope Geochemistry; Chair Profile
  • Kelsey Leonard, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Indigenous Water, Climate and Sustainability; Chair Profile
  • Jun Liu, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Hybrid Systems and Control; Chair Profile
  • Logan MacDonald, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Indigenous Art; Chair Profile
  • Raafat Mansour, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Micro & Nano Integrated RF Systems; Chair Profile
  • John McPhee, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Biomechanatronic System Dynamics; Chair Profile
  • Ashley Mehlenbacher, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Science, Health, and Technology Communication; Chair Profile

  • Juan Moreno Cruz, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Energy Transitions; Chair Profile
  • Linda Nazar, 2nd Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Solid State Materials; Chair Profile
  • Hannah Neufeld, New CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Indigenous HEALTH, Wellbeing and Food Environments; Chair Profile
  • Nicole Nolette, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in etudes des minorites/Minority Studies; Chair Profile
  • Janusz Pawliszyn, 2nd Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Chemistry; Chair Profile
  • Luke Postle, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Graph Theory; Chair Profile
  • Carolyn Ren, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Microfluidic Technologies; Chair Profile

  • Luis Ricardez-Sandoval, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Multiscale Modelling and Process Systems; Chair Profile
  • Evan Risko, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Embodied and Embedded Cognition; Chair Profile
  • Catherine Rosenberg, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in The future Internet; Chair Profile
  • Pierre-Nicholas Roy, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Quantum Molecular Dynamics; Chair Profile
  • Michelle Rutty, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Tourism, Environment, and Sustainability; Chair Profile
  • Derek Schipper Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Organic Material Synthesis; Chair Profile
  • Abigail Scholer, Renewal SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Motivated Social Cognition; Chair Profile
  • Crystal Senko, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Trapped Ion Quantum Computing; Chair Profile
  • Mark Servos, 2nd renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Water quality protection; Chair Profile
  • Stephen Smith, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Autonomous Systems; Chair Profile
  • Maria Strack, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Ecosystem and Climate; Chair Profile
  • Ehsan Toyserkani, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing; Chair Profile
  • John Turri, Renewal SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Philosophy and Cognitive Science; Chair Profile
  • Zhou Wang, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Multimedia Quality-of-Experience; Chair Profile
  • En-Hui Yang, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Information Theory and Applications; Chair Profile
  • Karen Yeats, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Combinatorics of quantum field theory; Chair Profile
  • Norman Zhou, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Advanced Materials Joining and Processing; Chair Profile
  • Weihua Zhuang, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Wireless Communication Networks; Chair Profile

Former Chairholders

  • Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, Former CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Health Care Analytics
  • David Blowes, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Groundwater remediation
  • Dongpu Cao, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Driver Cognition and Automated Driving
  • Zhongwei Chen, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy
  • Chih-Hsiung Chou, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Biomanufacturing
  • Karen Collins, Former SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Communication and Technology
  • Richard Cook, Former CIHR Tier 1 CRC in Statistical Methods for Health Research
  • Lori Curtis, Former SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Health Economics and Technology
  • James Danckert, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Brian Doucet, Former SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Urban Change and Social Inclusion
  • Jean Duhamel, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Characterization of Synthetic and Biological Macromolecules by Florescence
  • Ehab El-Saadany, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Smart Energy Distribution Systems
  • Marianna Foldvari, Former CIHR Tier 1 CRC in Biotechnology
  • Jim Geelen, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Combinatorial Optimization
  • M. Farid Golnaraghi, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Mechatronic and Smart Material Systems
  • Phil Graham, Former SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Communications and Technology
  • Frank Gu, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Nanotechnology Engineering
  • Carl Haas, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Construction and Management of Sustainable Infrastructure
  • John Heikkila, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Stress Protein Gene Research
  • Elizabeth Irving, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Vision Science
  • Roxanne Itier, Former CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Face Perception
  • Ning Jiang, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Artificial Intelligence for Human-centered Human-machine Interfaces
  • Mohamed Kamel, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Cooperative Intelligent Systems
  • Achim Kempf, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in The Physics of Information
  • Srinivasan Keshav, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Tetherless Computing
  • Amir Khajepour, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Mechatronic Vehicle Systems
  • Amir Khandani, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Wireless Systems
  • Holger Kleinke, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Solid State Chemistry
  • James Kuo, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Low-voltage CMSO VLSI
  • Ming Li, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Bioinformatics
  • Raymond Laflamme, Former Tier 1 CRC in Quantum Information
  • David Landriault, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Insurance Risk Processes
  • Debbie Leung, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Quantum Communication
  • Roger Melko, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Computational Quantum Many-Body Physics
  • Wendy Mitchinson, Former SSHRC Tier 1 CRC in Gender and Medical History
  • Michele Mosca, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Quantum Computation
  • David Moscovitch, Former SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Mental Health Research
  • J. Ian Munro, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Algorithm Design
  • Sriram Narasimhan, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Smart Infrastructure
  • Arokia Nathan, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Nano-scale Flexible Circuits
  • Alexander Penlidis, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Engineering of Polymers With Tailor-made Properties
  • Pavle Radovanovic, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Physical Chemistry and Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Materials
  • Carolyn Ren, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Droplet Microfluidics Lab-on-a-Chip Technology
  • Kevin Resch, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Optical Quantum Technologies
  • James Rush, Former CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Integrative Vascular Biology
  • Manoj Sachdev, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Low-power, High-speed, and High-reliability Integrated Circuit Design for Nano-metric Technologies
  • German Sciaini, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Atomically-resolved Dynamics and Ultrafast High-resolution
  • Daniel Scott, Former SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Global Change, Tourism, and Recreation
  • Khaled Soudki, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Innovative Structural Rehabilitation
  • Richard Staines, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Sensorimotor Control
  • Ken Stark, Former CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Nutritional Lipidomics
  • Cameron Stewart, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Number Theory
  • Edward Sudicky, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Quantitative Hydrogeology
  • Lin Tan, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Software Dependability
  • William Taylor, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Limnology
  • Susan Tighe, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Pavements and Infrastructure Management
  • Matthijs van der Meer, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Integrative Neuroscience
  • Justin Wan, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Scientific Computing
  • Gregor Weihs, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Quantum Photonics
  • Alexander Wong, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging
  • Nicholas Wormald, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Combinatorics and Optimization
  • Michael Worswick, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Weight Materials Under Extreme Deformation: Forming and Impact
  • John Yeow, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Biomedical Micro and Nanodevices