Faculty members
Meet the faculty from the eight different departments represented at the Science College and learn about their interests and expertise.
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Key areas of expertise
The Science College is comprised of more than 25 faculty members, including the Science College Principal, who are experts in the following areas of research:
Biology
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Grant E Brown
- Professor , Biology
Research areas: Behavioural ecology, Chemical ecology, Predator-prey interactions, Cognitive ecology, Trinidadian guppies, Atlantic salmon, Convict cichlids -
Emma Despland
- Professor, Biology
Research areas: Individual behaviour in insect-plant interactions, and its role in population-level processes -
Alisa Piekny
- Professor, Biology
- Associate Dean Research and Infrastructure, School of Health
Research areas: cell division, cell migration, gene editing, cancer, drug discovery, nanoparticle uptake -
Brandon Helfield
- Tier II Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biophysics in Human Health
- Assistant Professor, Physics
- Assistant Professor, Biology
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Carly Ziter
- Assistant Professor, Biology
Research areas: Landscape ecology; ecosystem services; biodiversity science; urban ecology; multifunctional landscapes; forest ecology; land-use legacies; sustainability -
James W.A. Grant
- Professor, Biology
Research areas: The behaviour, ecology and conservation biology of stream-dwelling salmonids.
Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Paul Joyce
- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Biochemistry, Genomics, Proteomics, Molecular/Cell Biology. -
Dajana Vuckovic
- Director, Centre for Biological Applications of Mass Spectrometry
- Professor and Concordia University Research Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: analytical chemistry, metabolomics, lipidomics, mass spectrometry, sample preparation, separation science, bioanalysis, biomarker discovery and validation, inflammation, oxylipins, cardiovascular health, nutrition -
Christopher J. Wilds
- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Synthesis of chemically modified nucleic acids, DNA / RNA nanoscience, DNA repair. -
Ashlee J. Howarth
- Associate Professor and Concordia University Research Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Rare-Earth Cluster-Based MOFs, Porous Materials, Materials Design, Adsorbents, Catalysts, Photoluminescent Materials, Green Chemistry. -
Xianming Zhang
- Co-director, Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling
- Cross-appointed faculty member, Geography, Planning and Environment
- Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Status: positions available for graduate studies and undergraduate researchResearch areas: Organic Contaminants in the Environment; Analytical Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Modeling; Chemical Exposure and Risk Assessment; Chemical Management and Regulation
Geography, Planning and Environment
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Pascale Biron
- Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Hydro-geomorphology and river dynamics, River management in agricultural watersheds, Geographical Information Systems, Morphodynamic numerical modelling, Stream restoration for fish habitat. -
Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: North American freshwater availability, decadal-to-centennial water variability, regional hydrology and climate, impacts of global warming, water management for sustained droughts and floods, paleoclimatology, tree-rings, pollen, instrumental data, climate models.
Mathematics & Statistics
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Lisa Kakinami
- Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
- Research Member, PERFORM Centre
- Affiliate, Department of Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
- Fellow, Science College
Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
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Simon L Bacon
- FRQS co-Chair in AI and Digital Health for Health Behaviour Change, Department of Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
- CIHR-SPOR Chair in Innovative, Patient-Oriented, Behavioural Clinical Trials, Department of Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
Research areas: Behavioural Medicine, Behaviour change interventions, Obesity and Bariatric care, Stress, Patient-Oriented Research, Evidence synthesis and systematic reviews -
Richard DeMont
- Professor, Department of Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
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Peter Darlington
- Associate Professor, Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
- Associate Professor, Biology
Research areas: Immunology and autonomic nervous system
Physics
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Claudine Gauthier
- Associate Professor, Physics
- Co-op Director, Physics
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Brandon Helfield
- Tier II Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biophysics in Human Health
- Assistant Professor, Biology
- Assistant Professor, Physics
Psychology
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Erin Barker
- Associate Professor, Psychology
- Undergraduate Program Director, Psychology
Research areas: Lifespan Developmental Psychology; Transition to Adulthood; Well_Being and Mental Health; Stress and Coping -
Natalie Phillips
- 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 -
Diane Poulin-Dubois
- Professor, Concordia University Research Chair in Developmental Cybernetics, Psychology
Status: Full ProfessorResearch areas: Cognitive Development (categorization, selective trust, theory of mind) Language Development (bilingualism);
