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  • Abrami, Philip C.
    • Professor Emeritus & Honorary Research Chair, Education
    Research areas: Cognitive Psychology, Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, Quantitative Synthesis
  • Acland, Charles R.
    • Distinguished University Research Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: Media and Cultural Theory, Film and Moving Image Studies, Cultural History, Audiovisual Technology, Popular Culture, Media Industries
  • Amir, Shimon
    • Affiliate Professor, Department of Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
    • Affiliate Professor , Chemistry and Biochemistry
    • Affiliate Professor , Biology
    • Professor, Psychology
    Research areas: Behavioral and molecular neuroscience of circadian biology
  • Arshad-Ayaz, Adeela
    • Professor, Education
    Research areas: Sociology of Education, Sociology of Technology/Critical Social Media Education, Citizenship/ Extremism and Radicalization, Foundations of Education, Comparative and International Education, Globalization and Education, Critical Pedagog

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  • Ellenbogen, Mark A.
    • Director, Centre for Research in Human Development
    • Professor, Psychology
  • English, Ann
    • Distinguished Professor Emerita and Honorary Concordia University Research Chair in Bioinorganic Chemistry, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Bioinorganic, analytical and biophysical chemistry, oxidative stress, nitric oxide biochemistry, proteomics, mass spectrometry.

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  • Foltz, Richard
    • Professor, Religions and Cultures
    Research areas: Iranian History, Religions of Iran, Zoroastrianism, Kurdish Religion, Central Asian history, Tajiks, Ossetia, Caucasus
  • Forgione, Pat
    • Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Catalysis, Drug Discovery, Biomass, Anti-Cancer Agents, Materials Chemistry
  • Frank, Marcie
    • Professor, English
    Research areas: Restoration & 18th century British literature / drama / the novel / literary criticism / 20th century American popular culture / media theory
  • Frank, Mariana
    • Professor, Physics
    Research areas: Theoretical Particle Physics: Beyond The Standard Model and Dark Matter
  • Fraser, Dylan
    • Associate Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Evolutionary applications to conservation biology; adaptation to environmental change; fisheries and wildlife management; population, conservation and quantitative genetics; molecular ecology.
  • Fritsch, Matthias
    • Professor, Philosophy
    Research areas: Contemporary European Philosophy (in particular Critical Theory, Deconstruction); Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Environmental Philosophy

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  • Jaeger, Jochen A. G.
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Landscape ecology, including road ecology, Quantification and assessment of landscape structure and landscape change, Urban sprawl, Ecological modelling, Impact assessment.
  • Jebali, Adel
    • Professeur agrégé, Études françaises
  • Johnson, Aaron
    • Associate Professor, Psychology
    • Associate Vice President Research (Strategic Institutional Initiatives & Innovation), General Administration
    Research areas: Vision, Attention, Eye movements, Low vision, Macular degeneration, vision rehabilitation,EEG, dyslexia, Aviation, Pilots, Marketing.
  • Joseph, Norma Baumel
    • Associate Director, Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies
    • Professor, Religions and Cultures
    Status: Professor
    Research areas: Religion and gender, Judaism, food studies, Jewish law and gender, Canadian Jewish studies
  • Joyce, Paul
    • Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Biochemistry, Genomics, Proteomics, Molecular/Cell Biology.

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  • O'Connor, Roisin M.
    • Core Member, Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH)
    • Professor, Psychology
    Research areas: alcohol misuse, alcohol use disorder, anxiety, personality, cognition, cognitive behaviour therapy, young adult transitions, Indigenous youth well-being and resilience
  • Oh, Jung Kwon (John)
    • Full Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Organic and polymer chemistry, Polymer synthesis and characterization, Materials science, biomedical applications, drug delivery
  • Orr, Leslie
    • Professor, Religions and Cultures
    Research areas: Religious & social history of medieval Tamil Nadu; women in pre-colonial India; temple architecture & epigraphy; interactions among and sectarianism in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism
  • Osana, Helena P.
    • Professor, Education
    Status: Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin--Madison while on sabbatical
    Research areas: Children's thinking and learning in mathematics; Instructional factors; Mathematical cognition; Professional development; Mathematics preservice teacher education
  • Ottenwaelder, Xavier
    • Associate Professor , Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Inorganic chemistry, oxidation chemistry, catalysis, aerobic reactions, coordination complexes, organic transformations

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  • Paquet, Mireille
    • Associate Professor, Political Science
    • Concordia University Research Chair on the Politics of Immigration
    Research areas: Immigration, Public Policy, Public Policy and Canadian politics.
  • Pawelek, Peter
    • Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Bacterial iron uptake, molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, protein-protein interactions, membrane proteins, biophysical chemistry, protein chemistry, phage display, X-ray crystallography.
  • Penhune, Virginia
    • Professor, Psychology
    Research areas: Brain plasticity related to motor learning. Emphasis on musical expertise and development. Structural and functional brain imaging. Auditory-motor integration and timing.
  • Peslherbe, Gilles
    • Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    • Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling (CERMM)
    • Professor (cross-appointed), Physics
    • Professor (cross-appointed), Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Computational Chemistry, Molecular and Reaction Dynamics, Nanomaterials and Materials Engineering, Chemical Biology, Therapeutics, Photochemistry, Ultrasfast Spectroscopy, Chemical Physics, Environmental Chemistry, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing
  • Petrakos, Harriet Hariclia
    • Associate Professor, Education
  • Phillips, Natalie
    • Professor, Concordia University Research Chair (Tier 1) in in Sensory-Cognitive Health in Aging and Dementia, Psychology
    Research areas: Neuropsychology, Cognition, Aging, Dementia, Speech and Language, Sensory function
  • Popovic, Lea
    • Full Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
  • Poulin-Dubois, Diane
    • Professor, Concordia University Research Chair in Developmental Cybernetics, Psychology
    Status: Full Professor
    Research areas: Cognitive Development (categorization, selective trust, theory of mind) Language Development (bilingualism);
  • Prelipcean, Laura
    • Affiliate Assistant Professor, Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics

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  • Rail, Geneviève
    • Distinguished Professor Emerita, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
    Research areas: Feminist Cultural Studies of Health
  • Ravvin , Norman
    • Past Chair, Canadian Jewish Studies, Religions and Cultures
    Status: Professor
    Research areas: Canadian Jewish Studies, North American Literature, Holocaust Studies, Eastern Europe, Yiddish literature, Creative Writing
  • Robinson, Ira
    • Professor, Religion
    • Chair & Director of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies
    Research areas: Jews in Canada; Orthodox Judaism in North America
  • Rowan, Sam
    • Assistant Professor, Political Science
    Research areas: International relations, climate change, global environmental politics, international organizations, international cooperation.
  • Roy, Andre
    • Chargé de cours, Études françaises
  • Rudin, Ronald
    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus, History
  • Rutland, Ted
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Urban politics, urban planning, and urban security/policing in Canada.
  • Ryder, Andrew G.
    • Professor & Chair, Psychology
    • Core Member, Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH)
    Research areas: Cultural-Clinical Psychology (acculturation, anxiety, assessment, China, culture, depression, emotion, Korea, language, meaning, personality, psychotherapy, religion, somatization, Russia)

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  • Teplova, Natalia
    • Professeure agrégée, Études françaises
    Research areas: Traductologie; traduction littéraire
  • Tsang, Adrian
    • Professor and Director, Center for Functional and Structural Genomics, Biology
    Research areas: Structural and functional genomics of filamentous fungi; identification and production of enzymes with biomass conversion or antimicrobial activities; analysis of gut microbiomes of livestock animals to improve gut health; and development of fungal platforms for the biomanufacturing of extracellular enzymes and metabolites.
  • Turcescu, Lucian
    • Professor and Graduate Program Director, Theological Studies
    Research areas: Religion and Politics, Religion and Human Rights, Orthodox Christianity and Gender, Early Christianity / Patristics, Ecumenism

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  • Yuen, Felice
    • Professor, Applied Human Sciences
    Research areas: community development, Indigenous women in prison, leisure as healing, arts-based research, decolonizing practices

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  • Zazubovits, Valter
    • Professor, Physics
    • Chair, Physics
    Research areas: Photosynthesis research using optical methods. Energy and charge transfer. Protein dynamics. Tunneling in biological systems. Explosives detection. Novel microscopy and single-molecule imaging techniques.
  • Zeitz, Alexandra O.
    • Assistant Professor, Political Science
    Research areas: International Political Economy, finance, foreign aid, international development, sovereign debt, international cooperation, negotiations, China, Africa
  • Zerges, William
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Molecular mechanisms underlying the biogenesis of the thylakoid membrane compartment in the eukaryotic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardti
  • Zhou, Xiaowen
    • Full Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
    Research areas: Stochastic processes and applications
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