Waterloo’s Canada Research Chairs

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Job postings

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

CRC Tier 1 in Health, Professor (internal/external)
NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Engineering (Internal - 2 positions)
NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Computer Science (2 positions)
NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Networked Systems (internal)
CRC NSERC Tier 2 Chair in Engineering (internal)
CRC Tier 1 Chair in Engineering (internal/external)

Applications under development

Applications submitted to the Canada Research Chairs Program

Archive (past three years)

Internal

External

CRC Tier 2 SSHRC Chair in Technology and Social Change (external)
CRC Tier 2 Chair in Technology and Social Change (external/internal)
CRC Tier 2 SSHRC Chair in Indigenous Waters, Climate, and Sustainability
CRC Tier 1 NSERC in Computer Science - 2 positions (external)
CRC Tier 2 NSERC in Optometry and Vision Science (external)

Active Chairholders

Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, Renewal CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Health Care Analytics; Chair profile
Nandita Basu, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology; Chair Profile
Andrew Bauer, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Taxation, Governance and Risk; Chair Profile
David Blowes, 2nd Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Groundwater remediation; 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
Jack Callaghan, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Spine Biomechanics and Injury Prevention; Chair Profile
Dongpu Cao, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Driver Cognition and Automated Driving
Alana Cattapan, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in The Politics of Reproduction; Chair Profile
Zhongwei Chen, Advancement NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy; Chair Profile
Jennifer Clapp, Renewal SSHRC Tier 1 CRC in Global Food Security and Sustainability; 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
Clark Dickerson, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Shoulder Mechanics; Chair Profile
Brian B. Dixon, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Fish and Environmental Immunology; Chair Profile
Brian Doucet, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Urban Change and Social Inclusion; Chair Profile
Christine Dow, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Glacier Hydrology and Ice Dynamics; Chair Profile
Chris Eliasmith, Advancement NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Theoretical Neuroscience; Chair Profile
Monica Emelko, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Water Science, Technology & Policy; Chair Profile
Mark Ferro, New 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
Michel Gingras, 2nd renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Condensed Matter Theory & Statistical Mechanics; Chair Profile
Lukasz Golab, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Data analytics; Chair Profile
Ian Goldberg, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Privacy Enhancing Technologies; Chair Profile
Laura Hug, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Environmental Microbiology; Chair Profile
Ning Jiang, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Artificial Intelligence for Human-centered Human-machine Interfaces; 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
Amir Khajepour, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Mechatronic Vehicle Systems; Chair Profile
Raymond Laflamme, 2nd Renewal Tier 1 CRC in Quantum Information; Chair Profile
Kelsey Leonard, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Indigenous Water, Climate and Sustainability; Chair Profile
Ming Li, 2nd Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Bioinformatics; 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
Raafat Mansour, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Micro & Nano Integrated RF Systems; 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
Roger Melko, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Computational Quantum Many-Body Physics; Chair Profile
Juan Moreno Cruz, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Energy Transitions; Chair Profile
J. Ian Munro, 2nd Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Algorithm Design; 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, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in etudes des minorites/Minority Studies; Chair Profile
Janusz Pawliszyn, 2nd Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Chemistry; 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
Kevin Resch, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Optical Quantum Technologies; Chair Profile
Luis Ricardez-Sandoval, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Multiscale Modelling and Process Systems; Chair Profile
Evan Risko, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Embodied and Embedded Cognition; Chair Profile
Catherine Rosenberg, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in The future Internet; Chair Profile
Pierre-Nicholas Roy, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Quantum Molecular Dynamics; Chair Profile
Michelle Rutty, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Tourism, Environment, and Sustainability; Chair Profile
Derek Schipper Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Organic Material Synthesis; Chair Profile
Abigail Scholer, Renewal SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Motivated Social Cognition; 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
Ken Stark, Renewal CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Nutritional Lipidomics; Chair Profile
Cameron Stewart, 2nd Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Number Theory; Chair Profile
Maria Strack, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Ecosystem and Climate; Chair Profile
Ehsan Toyserkani, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing; Chair Profile
John Turri, Renewal SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Philosophy and Cognitive Science; Chair Profile
Zhou Wang, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Multimedia Quality-of-Experience; Chair Profile
Alexander Wong, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging; Chair Profile
En-Hui Yang, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Information Theory and Applications; 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
Weihua Zhuang, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Wireless Communication Networks; Chair Profile

Former Chairholders

David Landriault, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Insurance Risk Processes
Sriram Narasimhan, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Smart Infrastructure
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
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
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
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
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 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
Debbie Leung, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Quantum Communication
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
Arokia Nathan, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Nano-scale Flexible Circuits
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
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
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
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
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
John Yeow, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Biomedical Micro and Nanodevices

Date modified: April 1, 2022