Doreen Kimura was a Canadian psychologist who was professor at the University of Western Ontario and professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University. Kimura was recognized for her contributions to the field of neuropsychology and later,her advocacy for academic freedom. She was the founding president of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship.
Nancy Gail Kanwisher FBA is the Walter A Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. She studies the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying human visual perception and cognition.
Ursula Bellugi was an American cognitive neuroscientist. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute in La Jolla,California. She is known for research on the neurological bases of American Sign Language and language representation in people with Williams Syndrome.
Adrian Mark Owen is a British neuroscientist and best-selling author. He is best known for his 2006 discovery,published in the journal Science,showing that some patients thought to be in a persistent vegetative state are in fact fully aware and able to communicate with the outside world using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In the 2019 New Year Honours List,Owen was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to scientific research.
Ingrid Suzanne Johnsrude is a Canadian neuroscientist,a professor of psychology at University of Western Ontario,and was the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience. Her research involves brain imaging,the connections between brain structure and language ability,and the diagnosis of degenerative brain diseases in the elderly.
Daniel Mark Wolpert FRS FMedSci is a British medical doctor,neuroscientist and engineer,who has made important contributions in computational biology. He was Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 2005,and also became the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology from 2013. He is now Professor of Neurobiology at Columbia University.
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme Neuroscience at University College London.
Kathryn Louise Brush is a Canadian art historian. She is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Western Ontario,and was the first professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario to be named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Pratima "Tima" Bansal is a Canadian economist and management professor. She is a professor of strategy at the Ivey Business School and director of Ivey's Centre on Building Sustainable Value. She is the founder and executive director of the Network for Business Sustainability,a vehicle aimed at sharing academic research on business sustainability with managers. In April 2020,she was appointed to chair the expert panel on the circular economy by the Council of Canadian Academies.
Joanna R. Quinn is a Canadian political scientist. She is a Professor of political science and director of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at the University of Western Ontario.
Liisa Ann Margaret Galea is a Canadian neuroscientist who is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. She is a member of the Centre for Brain Health and Director of the Graduate Programme in Neuroscience. Her research considers the impact of hormones on brain health and behaviour.
Erika A. Chamberlain is a Canadian legal scholar. In 2017,Chamberlain was appointed to a five-year term as Dean of the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law as a replacement for Iain Scott. Her research focuses on the field of impaired driving law and alcohol-related civil liability.
Lisa Marie Saksida is a Canadian neuroscientist. She is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario's Schulich School of Medicine &Dentistry. Since 2000,Saksida has worked on the development of a touchscreen-based cognitive assessment system specifically for mouse models.
Jeremy Nichol McNeil is an English-Canadian biologist and zoologist. In 2004,he was named the Helen Battle Professor of Chemical Ecology in the Biology Department at the University of Western Ontario,having previously worked at Laval University.
Carol Pearl Herbert is a Canadian family physician and researcher. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine,Order of Canada,and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler,is a British neuroscientist. She is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.
Sophie Schwartz is a Swiss neuroscientist who is a professor at the University of Geneva. She studies the neural mechanisms that underpin experience-dependent changes in the human brain.
Lucina Q. Uddin is an American cognitive neuroscientist who is a professor at the University of California,Los Angeles. Her research investigates the relationship between brain connectivity and cognition in typical and atypical development using network neuroscience approaches.
Marco Antonio Maximo Prado is a Brazilian/Canadian neuroscientist. He is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Neurochemistry of Dementia and Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Neurochemistry.
Ravi Shankar Menon is a Canadian-American biophysicist. He is a former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the University of Western Ontario and director of the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping at the Robarts Research Institute.
