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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pawlowicz | Richard | Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences | Oceans and Inland Waters; ocean physics; properties of seawater; geophysical fluid dynamics; Nonlinear waves |
| Pelech | Steven | Division of Neurology | Neurological disorders (except neuromuscular diseases); Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Adaptive immunity; Medical virology; Protein Microarrays; Protein Kinases; Protein Phosphatases; Protein phosphorylation; Cell signalling; Signal transduction; Cell division; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Neurological Disease; Cancer; Immunology |
| Pinar | William | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | All other humanities, n.e.c.; curriculum theory |
| Pratap-Singh | Anubhav | Food, Nutrition & Health | Environment and natural resources economics; Food sciences (including food engineering); 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 |
| Price | Morgan | Department of Family Practice | Health Information Systems; Design; family medicine; eHealth Adoption; eHealth Requirements Engineering; eHealth Ux/UI Design; software engineering; decision support systems; Treatment Adherence; Consumer eHealth; Health System Improvement; primary care; Team-based care |
| Protopopova | Alexandra | Applied Biology | Other biological sciences; Social structures; rabbit; dog; cat; animal shelter; Animal behaviour; Animal welfare; community initiatives; climate change and pet ownership; cultural differences in human-companion animal relationships; free-ranging dogs |
| Puterman | Eli | School of Kinesiology | Kinesiology; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Acute exercise; cellular aging; chronic stress; Exercise interventions; Health Psychology; Physical Activity; Physical literacy; Stress physiology; telomeres |
| Putnins | Edward | Department of Oral Biological & Medical Sciences | Dentistry and oral health; Oro-Dental Disorders; Chronic mucosal inflammation; Monoamine oxidase Inhibitor development as anti-inflammatories |
| Quon | Bradley | Division of Respiratory Medicine | Cystic Fibrosis; Epidemiology; Respiratory System; Proteomics; Immune Mediators: Cytokines and Chemokines; biomarker discovery and development; clinical epidemiology; health care economics; medication adherence |
| Ramankutty | Navin | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability | Natural environment sciences; Public administration; Public policy; Public security policy; Agriculture; Climate Changes and Impacts; Climate impacts; Environment and Society; Global food security; Land use change; Sustainable agriculture |
| Ranger | Manon | School of Nursing | Neurodevelopment; Clinical nursing, secondary (acute care); neurodevelopment; Early-adversity; Biomarkers of early stress exposure; Brain development; pain; Prematurity |
| Rauscher | Alexander | Department of Pediatrics | Other physical sciences; Medical and biomedical engineering; magnetic resonance imaging; physics; quantitative susceptibility mapping; myelin water imaging; brain; maschine learning |
| Rea | Christopher | Department of Asian Studies | Chinese literatures; Asian history; Chinese literature; Cinema; Print culture; translation; Humor |
| Reid | Gregor | Department of Pediatrics | Basic medicine and life sciences; paediatric cancer; cancer immunology; animal models of cancer |
| Richman | Joy Marion | Department of Oral Health Sciences | 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 development; Cell signaling |
| 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 |
| Ryu | Min Hyung | Division of Respiratory Medicine | 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 |
| Sadarangani | Manish | Department of Pediatrics | Immunology; Microbiology; Clinical sciences; Antimicrobial resistant 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; arthrogryposis |
| 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 |
| Shahrad | Mohammad | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Computer engineering; Computing systems; cloud computing; serverless computing; Resource Management; Sustainable computing; data center efficiency |
| 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 |
| Sin | Nancy | Department of Psychology | Psychology and cognitive sciences; stress; Well-being; Adult development and aging; Social Aspects of Aging; Positive Emotions; Sleep; Health Promotion; social determinants of health; Health behaviours; Lifestyle Determinants and Health |
| 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 |
| Socias | Eugenia | Division of Social Medicine | Health care effectiveness and outcomes; Infectious diseases; Clinical sciences, n.e.c.; Infectious disease epidemiology; Immunology of Infectious Diseases; HIV & Hepatitic C care; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; HIV; Tuberculosis; Pharmacology; HIV Prevention; Health Services; Hepatitis C; Tropical Diseases; Vulnerable populations; Gender/sexual minorities; Sex workers; Opioid use disorder; substance use disorders; alcohol use disorders; addiction medicine |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Srivastava | Diane | Department of Zoology | Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); community ecology, food webs, tropical conservation, metacommunities, open science, data syntheses, |
| 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 |