Waterloo’s Canada Research Chairs | Research

Job postings

Please note: You must be nominated by your department for a CRC position.

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Faculty of Science (Health and Biomedical Sciences; Environment and Ecology; Sustainable Materials and Sensing; or Discovery and Exploration), Associate Professor/Full Professor (internal)
Department of Biology Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Sciences (internal/external)
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health (internal/external)
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health, Professor (internal/external)

Applications under development

School of Optometry & Vision Science NSERC Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cellular-Scale Retinal Imaging (Internal)
School of Pharmacy CIHR Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Pharmaceutical Policy and Health Services (internal/external)
Faculty of Environment SSHRC or NSERC Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs (2 positions – internal/external)
NSERC Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs in Computer Science (2 positions - internal/external)

Applications submitted to the Canada Research Chairs Program

Faculty of Engineering NSERC Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (internal)
SSHRC Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Social/Personality Psychology, Associate or Full Professor(Internal/external)
NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Engineering (Internal - 2 positions)

Archive (past three years)

Internal/external

Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Pure Mathematics (Internal/external)
CRC Tier 1 in Health, Professor (Internal/external)
CRC Tier 1 Chair in Engineering (Internal/external)

Internal

External

Active Chairholders

Talena Atfield, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Tentewatenikonhra'khánion (We Will Put Our Minds Together); Chair Profile
Nandita Basu, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology; Chair Profile
Andrew Bauer, Renewal 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
Zahid Butt, New CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Interdisciplinary Research for Pandemic Preparedness; 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
Travis Craddock, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Quantum Neurobiology; 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
Brian B. Dixon, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Fish and Environmental Immunology; Chair Profile
Christine Dow, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Glacier Hydrology and Ice Dynamics; Chair Profile
Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens, New CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Gait and Neurodegeneration; Chair Profile
Chris Eliasmith, Renewal 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, Renewal 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
Ian Goldberg, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Privacy Enhancing Technologies; Chair Profile
Laura Hug, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Environmental Microbiology; Chair Profile
Aukosh Jagannath, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Mathematical Foundations of Data Science; 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
Juewen Liu, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Biosensors and Bionanotechnology; 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
Chantel Markle, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Wildlife Ecohydrology and Global Change; 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
Tizazu Mekonnen, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Sustainable Multiphase Polymers; Chair Profile
Juan Moreno Cruz, Renewal 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, Renewal SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in etudes des minorites/Minority Studies; 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, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Multiscale Modelling and Process Systems; Chair Profile
Pierre-Nicholas Roy, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Quantum Molecular Dynamics; Chair Profile
Michelle Rutty, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Tourism, Environment, and Sustainability; Chair Profile
Rebecca Saari, New NSERC T2 CRC in Global Change, Atmosphere, and Health; 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
Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, New NSERC T2 CRC in Minimizing Human Error in Operating Modern Networks; Chair Profile
Ehsan Toyserkani, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Intelligent Systems of Additive Manufacturing Processes; Chair Profile
John Turri, Renewal SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Philosophy and Cognitive Science; Chair Profile
Mihaela Vlasea, New NSERC T2 CRC in Sustainable Additive Manufacturing; Chair Profile
Ruodu Wang, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Quantitative Risk Management; Chair Profile
Zhou Wang, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Multimedia Quality-of-Experience; Chair Profile
Valerie Ward, New NSERC T2 CRC in Microalgae Biomanufacturing; 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

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
Clark Dickerson, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Shoulder Mechanics
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
Lukasz Golab, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Data analytics
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
Michel Gingras, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Condensed Matter Theory & Statistical Mechanics
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
Raafat Mansour, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Micro & Nano Integrated RF Systems
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
Janusz Pawliszyn, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Chemistry
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
Evan Risko, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Embodied and Embedded Cognition
Catherine Rosenberg, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in The future Internet
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
Derek Schipper Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Organic Material Synthesis
Abigail Scholer, Former SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Motivated Social Cognition
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
Maria Strack, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Ecosystem and Climate
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
En-Hui Yang, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Information Theory and Applications
John Yeow, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Biomedical Micro and Nanodevices
Weihua Zhuang, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Wireless Communication Networks