Waterloo's Research Chair programs

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

• Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics (Internal)

• Engineering NSERC Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (internal)

• 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)

• Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health (internal/external)

• Canada Impact+ Research Chairs - Associate Professor/Professor

• Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC), Associate or Full Professor in Computer Sciences

• Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Applied mathematics, Combinatorics & Optimization, or Pure Mathematics (internal)

• Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health, Professor (internal/external)

• Faculty of Environment SSHRC or NSERC Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs (2 positions – internal/external)

• School of Optometry & Vision Science NSERC Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cellular-Scale Retinal Imaging (Internal)

• NSERC Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs in Computer Science (2 positions - internal/external)

• School of Pharmacy CIHR Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Pharmaceutical Policy and Health Services (internal/external)

• Faculty of Arts SSHRC Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, Associate or Full Professor (internal)

Internal/external

• Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC), Associate or Full Professor in Quantum Information
• Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC), Associate or Full Professor in Neutron Sciences
• Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC), Associate or Full Professor in Health Engineering and Technology
• ​​​​​​Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Pure Mathematics (Internal/external)

• CRC Tier 1 in Health, Professor (Internal/external)

• Department of Biology Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Sciences (internal/external)

• SSHRC Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Social/Personality Psychology, Associate or Full Professor(Internal/external)

Internal

• Faculty of Engineering NSERC Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (internal)

External

• Talena Atfield, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Tentewatenikonhra'khánion (We Will Put Our Minds Together)
• Nandita Basu, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology
• Andrew Bauer, Renewal SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Taxation, Governance and Risk
• Dillon Browne, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Clinical Psychology
• Sarah Burch, Renewal SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Sustainability Governance and Innovation
• Catherine Burns, New CIHR Tier 1 CRC in Human Factors in Healthcare Systems
• Zahid Butt, New CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Interdisciplinary Research for Pandemic Preparedness
• Jack Callaghan, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Spine Biomechanics and Injury Prevention
• Alana Cattapan, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in The Politics of Reproduction
• Jennifer Clapp, Renewal SSHRC Tier 1 CRC in Global Food Security and Sustainability
• Travis Craddock, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Quantum Neurobiology
• James Craig, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Hydrologic Modelling and Analysis
• Duane Cronin, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Trauma Biomechanics and Injury prevention
• Kerstin Dautenhahn, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Socially Intelligent Robotics
• Christine Dow, Renewal NSERC  Tier 2 CRC in Glacier Hydrology and Ice Dynamics
• Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens, New CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Gait and Neurodegeneration
• Chris Eliasmith, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Theoretical Neuroscience
• Monica Emelko, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Water Science, Technology & Policy
• Lai-Tze Fan, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Technology and Social Change
• Mark Ferro, Renewal CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Youth mental health
• David Fortin, New SSHRC Tier 1 CRC in Critical Relationalism and Design
• Michael Fowler, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Zero Emission Vehicles  and Hydrogen Energy Systems
• Lora Giangregorio, New CIHR Tier 1 CRC in Bone Health and Exercise Science
• Ian Goldberg, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
• Laura Hug, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Environmental Microbiology

• Aukosh Jagannath, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Mathematical Foundations of Data Science

• Naila Keleta-Mae, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Race, Gender and Performance

• Brian Kendall,  New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Redox-Sensitive Metal Isotope Geochemistry
• Kelsey Leonard, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Indigenous Water, Climate and Sustainability
• Juewen Liu, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Biosensors and Bionanotechnology
• Jun Liu, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Hybrid Systems and Control
• Logan MacDonald, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Indigenous Art
• Chantel Markle, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Wildlife Ecohydrology and Global Change
• John McPhee, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Biomechanatronic System Dynamics

• Ashley Mehlenbacher, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Science, Health, and Technology Communication

• Tizazu Mekonnen, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Sustainable Multiphase Polymers
• Juan Moreno Cruz, Renewal SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Energy Transitions
• Hannah Neufeld, New CIHR Tier 2 CRC in Indigenous HEALTH, Wellbeing and Food Environments
• Nicole Nolette, Renewal SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in etudes des minorités/Minority Studies
• Mahla Poudineh, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Health Monitoring BioNano Devices

• Katherine Ratliff, New SSHRC Tier 1 CRC in Intergroup Attitudes

• Carolyn Ren, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Microfluidic Technologies

• Luis Ricardez-Sandoval, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Multiscale Modelling and Process Systems
• Pierre-Nicholas Roy, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Quantum Molecular Dynamics
• Michelle Rutty, New SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Tourism, Environment, and Sustainability
• Rebecca Saari, New NSERC T2 CRC in Global Change, Atmosphere, and Health
• Crystal Senko, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
• Stephen Smith, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Autonomous Systems
• Maria Strack, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Wetland Climate Solutions
• Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, New NSERC T2 CRC in Minimizing Human Error in Operating Modern Networks
• Ehsan Toyserkani, Renewal NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Intelligent Systems of Additive Manufacturing Processes
• Mihaela Vlasea, New NSERC T2 CRC in Sustainable Additive Manufacturing
• Ruodu Wang, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Quantitative Risk Management
• Zhou Wang, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Multimedia Quality-of-Experience
• Valerie Ward, New NSERC T2 CRC in Microalgae Biomanufacturing
• Lan Wei, New NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Nanoscale Devices and Circuits
• Karen Yeats, Renewal NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Combinatorics of quantum field theory
• Evelyn Yim, New NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Nanomaterials for Regenerative Medicine

• 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
• Clark Dickerson, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Shoulder Mechanics
• Brian B. Dixon, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Fish and Environmental Immunology
• Brian Doucet, Former SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Urban Change and Social Inclusion
• 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
• Linda Nazar, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Solid State Materials
• Janusz Pawliszyn, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Chemistry
• Alexander Penlidis, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Engineering of Polymers With Tailor-made Properties
• Luke Postle, Former NSERC Tier 2 CRC in Graph Theory
• 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
• Mark Servos, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Water quality protection
• 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
• John Turri, Former SSHRC Tier 2 CRC in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
• 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
• Norman Zhou, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Advanced Materials Joining and Processing
• Weihua Zhuang, Former NSERC Tier 1 CRC in Wireless Communication Networks