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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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  • Dafni, Galia
    • Full Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
  • Dang-Vu, Thanh
    • Professor & Concordia University Research Chair in Sleep, Neuroimaging and Cognitive Health, Centre for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology
    Research areas: Sleep, Sleep Disorders, Insomnia, Hypersomnia, Neuroimaging, Electroencephalography, Cognition, Neurodegeneration, Preventive Health, Dementia, Clinical Trials, Biomarkers
  • Daniel-Hughes, Carly
    • Professor, Religions and Cultures
    Research areas: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Religious Studies; Queer Theory and Cultural Studies; Feminist Theory; History of Christianity; Early Christianity; Roman Empire
  • Darlington, Peter
    • Associate Professor, Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
    • Associate Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Immunology and autonomic nervous system
  • David, Chantal
    • Full Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
  • David, Sylvain
    • Professeur titulaire, Études françaises
  • Dayanandan, Selvadurai
    • Professor, Department of Biology
    • Associate Dean - Research and Infrastructure, Faculty of Arts and Science
    Research areas: Evolution and maintenance of biodiversity in forest and agricultural landscapes
  • de Almeida, Roberto G.
    • Professor, Psychology
    Status: For details check https://psycholinguistics.weebly.com
    Research areas: Cognitive science, concepts, verb meaning, metaphors, compositionality, language comprehension, language-vision interface, semantic deficits in Alzheimer's, cognitive neuroscience
  • des Jardins, J.F. Marc
    • Associate Professor, Religions and Cultures
    Research areas: Tibetan and Chinese religions; Tibetan Bon religion, philosophy, practices and history; Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and popular cults; Tibetan and Chinese Tantric ritual studies; Chinese Daoism and Popular Cults along the Sino-Tibetan frontiers; History of China, Tibet and Central Asia.
  • Despland, Emma
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Individual behaviour in insect-plant interactions, and its role in population-level processes
  • DeWolf, Christine
    • Professor , Chemistry and Biochemistry
    • Co-Director, Centre for NanoScience Research
    • Vice-Dean, Dean of Arts & Science (Office)
    Research areas: biophysical chemistry, model membranes, Langmuir monolayers, liposomes, environmental pollutants, nanopatterning, lipid-protein interactions
  • Didur, Jill
    • Professor, English & Associate Dean Faculty Affairs and Inclusion, FAS, English
    Research areas: postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, plant studies, digital humanities, memory studies, Anthropocene studies, critical posthumanism, media studies, travel writing, disasporic studies, South Asian literature
  • DiTommaso, Lorenzo
    • Professor, Religions and Cultures
    Research areas: Apocalypticism: Ancient to Contemporary Apocalypticism and Popular Culture and Media Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Mediaeval Manuscripts and Manuscript Study
  • Dovonon, Prosper
    • Associate Professor, Economics
  • Dunfield, Kristen
    • Associate Chair, Psychology
    • Associate Professor, Psychology
    Research areas: cognitive development, social cognition, comparative cognition, prosocial behaviour, trust, cooperation

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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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  • Hall, Richard
    • Professor Emeritus , Mathematics and Statistics
    Research areas: Please see my web page: http://mypage.concordia.ca/mathstat/rhall/
  • Harnad, John P.
    • Full Professor , Mathematics and Statistics
  • Hetherington, Kregg
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Ethnography
    Research areas: Environment and Infrastructure, Politics, Bureaucracy, Paraguay, Montreal, Water
  • Hilgers, Tina
    • Associate Professor , Political Science
    Research areas: Comparative Politics; Political Sociology; Informal Politics; Subnational Politics; Urban Politics; Clientelism; Urban Violence; Developing Areas; Latin America; Caribbean; Brazil; Jamaica; Mexico
  • Howe, Nina
    • Professor , Education
    • Honorary Concordia University Research Chair in Early Childhood Development and Education
    Status: I am in the process of retiring and not taking on new graduate students.
  • Howes, David
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Anthropology of the Senses, Sensory Ethnography, Law and Society, Culture and Commerce, Art and Aesthetics
  • Hunter, Andrea
    • Professor, Journalism
    Research areas: Podcasting; Inclusive Journalism; Political Economy of Journalism; Critical Disabiltiy Studies
  • Hyndman, Cody
    • Full Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
    Research areas: Mathematical Finance, Computational Finance, Probability and Stochastic Analysis, Filtering and Control, Statistics, Insurance Mathematics, Machine Learning

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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, mechanochemistry

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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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