This list shows researcher who have indicated interest in working with undergraduate students on research projects.
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First name | Type | Research Interests | Department(s) | Faculty |
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Shahrad | Mohammad | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Computer engineering; cloud computing; serverless computing; Resource Management; data center efficiency | Faculty of Applied Science | |
Shamash | Sarah | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Media arts; Visual arts and media arts, n.e.c.; Global South Cinemas, Indigenous Media, Documentary, Intersectional feminisms, Decolonization | Faculty of Arts | |
Shan | Hongxia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other education, n.e.c.; Immigration and adult education and learning; Lifelong learning; Gender and work; Prof. learning | Department of Educational Studies | Faculty of Education |
Sheel | William | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Animal physiology, exercise; Kinesiology; airways, exercise, hypoxia, pulmonary physiology, respiratory muscle | School of Kinesiology | Faculty of Education |
Sheppard | Rebecca | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Faculty of Arts | ||
Sheykhkarimli | Nazim-Dayag | Postdoctoral Fellow | Faculty of Medicine | ||
Singh | Amritpal | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Faculty of Medicine |
Sladen | Douglas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; cochlear implantation among children and adults | School of Audiology and Speech Sciences | Faculty of Medicine |
Slaunwhite | Amanda | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Public and population health; illicit drug poisoning (overdose); Substance Use; mental health; prison health; health inequities; health geography | Faculty of Medicine | |
Sly | Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Innate immunity; Inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammation; macrophages; Cell signalling | Department of Pediatrics | Faculty of Medicine |
Snutch | Terrance Preston | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Brain Disorders; Animal models; genomics; Drug discovery & development | Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Psychiatry | Faculty of Science |
Solimine | Philip | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Industry economics and industrial organization; Econometrics; Data-driven estimation, optimization, and control; Collaborative and social computing; Experimental economics | Faculty of Arts | |
Soma | Kiran | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Zoology; Behavior; Biological Behavior; Endocrinology; Neuroendocrine Diseases; Neuronal Communication and Neurotransmission; Neuronal Systems; neuroscience; stress | Department of Psychology | Faculty of Arts |
Somasekharan | Syam | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cancer, n.e.c.; Cell biology, n.e.c.; RNA Biology; Cell Biology; molecular biology; Biomolecular Condensates; Nucleolus; mRNA Translation; Liquid-liquid Phase Separation | Department of Urologic Sciences | Faculty of Medicine |
Soni | Abhishek | Postdoctoral Fellow | Carbon capture engineering; Material Science, Self-driving laboratory, machine learning, clean energy, CO2 electrolysis; Computational Chemistry | Faculty of Science | |
Speak | Thomas | Postdoctoral Fellow | Astrochemistry; Development and applications of spectroscopic and structural techniques; Reaction kinetics and dynamics; Chemical thermodynamics and energetics; Computational chemistry; atmospheric chemistry; combustion chemistry; astrochemistry; origins of life; reaction kinetics; energetic materials | Faculty of Science | |
Speller | Camilla | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Anthropology; Archeological Data Analysis; Molecular Genetics; Ancient DNA Analysis (paleogenetics); Ancient proteins (paleoproteomics); Animal Domestication; Bioarchaeology; Environmental Archaeology; Marine Ecosystems | Department of Anthropology | Faculty of Arts |
Sriram | Veena | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social sciences; Global health policy; Politics of policy processes; South Asian Studies; Governance; Health workers; power | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Population and Public Health | Faculty of Arts |
Staples | John | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Clinical sciences, n.e.c.; Other medical sciences; Hospital readmission; Substance use (including opioids and cannabis); Population health; injury prevention; Traffic Safety | Faculty of Medicine | |
Steif | Adi | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Algorithms and computational genomics; Genomics; Cancer genetics; Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Cancer progression and metastasis; Statistical methods for high throughput data; High dimensional data analysis; Computational Biology; Machine Learning; Cancer Genomics; Single cell sequencing; Tumour evolution; Genomic technology development | Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine |
Sugioka | Kenji | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Basic medicine and life sciences; Cell division; Animal morphogenesis; Cytoskeletal dynamics | Department of Zoology | Faculty of Science |
Sunderland | Terence | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Earth and related environmental sciences; Social and economic geography; biodiversity; Communications; Communities and Livelihoods; conservation; Conservation Biology; Ecosystem services; Environmental communication; Forest policy; Land-use Change; Landscape ecology; Natural Resource Management; social science; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Developing countries; Forest management | Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences | Faculty of Forestry |
Sutherland | Jason | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health care effectiveness and outcomes; Health care administration; Access to care; Healthcare costs; Health systems; Patient-Reported Outcomes; Quality; Surgery | School of Population and Public Health | Faculty of Medicine |
Taubert | Stefan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other health sciences; Gene regulation and expression; Transcriptomics; Genomics; Aging; beta cells; C. elegans; Diabetes; Gene Regulation and Expression; Gene regulation; Genetics of Aging; genomics; Hypoxia; Metabolism; Molecular Genetics; Mouse; stress; Stress and Cancer; Stress responses; Toxin and Toxicant Metabolism; Transcription | Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine |
Tavasoli | Alex | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Chemical engineering; Materials engineering; Mechanical engineering; industrial decarbonization; community-based and/or distributed infrastructure; chemical and materials manufacturing processes; carbon dioxide capture and conversion; photocatalysis | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Faculty of Applied Science |
Tebbutt | Scott | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 | Division of Respiratory Medicine | Faculty of Medicine |
Tessier | Anne-Michelle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Linguistic structures (including grammar, phonology, lexicon and semantics); Constraint-based grammars; L2 production and perception in childhood; Language Acquisition; Lexical avoidance; Phonology; Prosodic processing with cochlear implants; Shitgibbons; U-shaped development | Department of Linguistics | Faculty of Arts |
Thompson | Wade | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health services and systems; ensuring older persons are taking medications that are a good fit; deprescribing; polypharmacy | Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Faculty of Medicine |
Thrush | Coll | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Indigenous history; settler colonialism; Pacific history; Northwest Coast | Department of History | Faculty of Arts |
Todd | Rebecca | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Human Cognition and Emotion; Neurophenomenology and participatory sensemaking; Dance as a laboratory for interactive cognition; cognition; Emotional learning; Human Neurocognitive processes underlying all of the above; Learning and Memory; Motivation, Emotions and Rewards | Department of Psychology | Faculty of Arts |
Todesco | Marco | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant biology; Quantitative genetics (including disease and trait mapping genetics); Biological adaptation; Developmental genetics (including sex determination); Genomics; Population, ecological and evolutionary genetics; Paleogenomics; Genetics engineering; Plant-animal interactions; Genetic and molecular basis of adaptation; Plant genomics; Chromosomal structural variation; Crop improvement and bioengineering; Wild sunflowers ecology and evolution; Cannabis diversity and domestication | Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Botany | Faculty of Science |
Toepfer | Uwe | Postdoctoral Fellow | Developmental genetics (including sex determination); Cellular interactions (including adhesion, matrix and cell wall); Genetics, n.e.c.; Animal physiology, biophysics; Intracellular signaling, signal transduction, receptor and membrane biology; Developmental biology; Morphogenesis; Extracellular matrix; Cell mechanics; Cell signaling | Faculty of Medicine | |
Traboulsee | Tony | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurology; Central nervous system; Biomedical signal processing; Machine learning; Imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; multiple sclerosis; neuromyelitls optica (NMO) | Division of Neurology | Faculty of Medicine |
Tremlett | Helen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); multiple sclerosis; Neuroepidemiology; Pharmacoepidemiology; prodrome,; Drug safety and effectiveness; Pharmacogenomics; comorbidities; health administrative data; Gut microbiome; prodromes | Division of Neurology | Faculty of Medicine |
Tsai | Tai-Peng | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Differential equations and integral equations in pure mathematics; Partial Differential Equations; Mathematical physics | Department of Mathematics | Faculty of Science |
Tseng | Michelle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Population ecology; Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); Evolutionary impacts of climate change; Biological adaptation; Ecological impacts of climate change; Insect & plankton ecology; Community and evolutionary ecology; Community responses to warming; Urban biodiversity | Department of Botany, Department of Zoology | Faculty of Science |
Turgeon | Ricky | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cardiology and circulatory sciences (including cardiovascular disease); Health care effectiveness and outcomes; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Heart failure pharmacotherapy; Acute coronary syndromes / myocardial infarction; Cardiovascular risk reduction (lipid-lowering therapy, antiplatelet therapy); Cardiovascular safety of medications; Drug Effectiveness; Evidence-based practice; Shared decision making; Point-of-care decision aids / decision support tools; Knowledge translation / implementation; Risk calculators / clinical prediction tools; Pharmacist scope of practice; Clinical assessment / physical examination | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
Turner | Hannah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Archival, repository and related studies; Library science and information studies; cataloguing and classification; Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.); Impacts of New Information Technologies; information practice; museum anthropology; Science and technology studies | School of Information | Faculty of Arts |
Uhl | Alexander | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Compound semiconductors; Solar Energy Conversion; photovoltaics; solar fuels | ||
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; 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 |