The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada is the major federal agency responsible for funding natural sciences and engineering research in Canada. NSERC directly funds university professors and students as well as Canadian companies to perform research and training. With funding from the Government of Canada,NSERC supports the research of over 41,000 students,trainees and professors at universities and colleges in Canada with an annual budget of CA$1.1 billion in 2015. Its current director is Alejandro Adem.
The Joseph L. Rotman School of Management is the University of Toronto's graduate business school,located in Downtown Toronto. The University of Toronto has been offering undergraduate courses in commerce and management since 1901,but the business school was formally established in 1950 as the Institute of Business Administration. The name was changed to the Faculty of Management Studies in 1972 and subsequently shortened to the Faculty of Management in 1986. The school was renamed in 1997 after Joseph L. Rotman (1935–2015),its principal benefactor.
David H. Dolphin,is a Canadian biochemist.
Expenditures by Canadian universities on scientific research and development accounted for about 40% of all spending on scientific research and development in Canada in 2006.
Mark S. Workentin is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Western Ontario. The primary interests of the Workentin research group are materials chemistry,organic electrochemistry,organic photochemistry,physical organic chemistry and physical materials organic electrophotochemistry.
Margaret Elizabeth Cannon is a Canadian engineer specializing in geomatics engineering and president Emerita of the University of Calgary. From 2010 to 2018,she served as the university's eighth president and vice-chancellor,the first alumna to hold that position.
The Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia was established in May 1968. UBC CS is located at the UBC Point Grey campus in Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada. As of November 2023,it has 66 faculty,64 staff,259 graduate students,and 2,774 undergraduates.
The Don Wright Faculty of Music is the faculty of music at the University of Western Ontario in London,Ontario,Canada. The faculty was founded in 1968. Originally known as just the Faculty of Music,it was renamed in 2002 in honour of Don Wright after a significant donation.
RiskLab is a laboratory that conducts research in financial risk management.
Rogemar Sombong Mamon,is a Canadian mathematician,quant,and academic. He is a co-editor of the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics published by Oxford University Press since 2009.
Mitacs is a nonprofit national research organization that,in partnerships with Canadian academia,private industry and government,operates research and training programs in fields related to industrial and social innovation.
Alejandro Adem is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia and President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Previously he was Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences for the period 2008–2015 and during 2015-2019 was the CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs. In 2024 he was reappointed to a second five-year term as President of NSERC.
Laurie Hendren was a Canadian computer scientist noted for her research in programming languages and compilers,and for her advocacy for patients to have access their health data in Quebec.
AndréFortin is a French Canadian mathematician,known for his research in applied and industrial mathematics. He holds a NSERC Research Chair in High Performance Scientific Computing at UniversitéLaval.
Jane Marie Heffernan is a Canadian mathematician. Her research focuses on understanding the spread and persistence of infectious diseases. She is a full professor at York University and a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Multi-Scale Quantitative Methods for Evidence-Based Health Policy. She is the director of the Centre for Disease Modelling,and is on the board of directors of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society.
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.
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.
Curtis A. Suttle is a Canadian microbiologist and oceanographer who is a faculty member at the University of British Columbia. Suttle is a Distinguished University Professor who holds appointments in Earth &Ocean Sciences,Botany,Microbiology &Immunology and the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. On 29 December,2021 he was named to the Order of Canada. His research is focused on the ecology of viruses in marine systems as well as other natural environments.
Cristián Bravo is a Chilean academic. He currently holds a Professor position at the Departments of Statistical &Actuarial Science,and is the Canada Research Chair in Banking and Insurance Analytics at Western University. He is also the Director of the Banking Analytics Lab,and a lead researcher at Canada's Financial Wellness lab and recurrent panelist at CBC News.
