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Office of Research

The Office of Research (OOR) provides the services required to support the development and growth of funded research and scholarship at Concordia. It is a professional service unit reporting to the Vice-President, Research, Innovation, and Impact.

Office of the Vice-President, Research, Innovation, and Impact, and Office of Research

  • Cinzia Miscio, Manager, Operations, Research, Innovation, and Impact sector 
  • Sabine Xia, Assistant to Associate Vice-Presidents 
  • Natalie Burnett, Administrative Assistant (on leave) 
  • Angie Continisio, Administrative Assistant

  • Mona Hamzeh, Senior Advisor, Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives 
  • Shoghig Mikaelian, Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives and Special Projects 
  • Vacant, Associate Advisor, Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives 
  • Philippe Jacques, Administrator, Strategic & Institutional Programs and Infrastructure 
  • Skye Soobin Kim, Coordinator, Strategic & Institutional Programs and Infrastructure

Research Development

Michael Verwey, Senior Advisor, Research Development

Rebekah Thompson, Advisor, Research Development (business and social sciences). ext. 2338 

Areas of responsibilities:

  • Accountancy
  • Applied Human Sciences
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Political Science
  • Religions & Cultures
  • School of Community & Public Affairs
  • Simone de Beauvoir Institute
  • Sociology & Anthropology
  • Supply Chain and Business Technology Management

Marjan Shayegan, Advisor, Research Development (engineering and computer science).

Areas of responsibilities:

  • Centre for Engineering in Society
  • Chemical & Materials Engineering
  • Computer Science & Software Engineering
  • Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering

Holly Nazar, Advisor, Research Development (engineering and computer science). ext. 4450

Areas of responsibilities:

  • Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Mechanical, Industrial & Aerospace Engineering

Michele Kaplan, Advisor, Research Development (fine arts, humanities and Concordia Library).
ext. 5632

Areas of responsibilities:

  • Art Education
  • Art History
  • Classics, Modern Languages & Linguistics
  • Communication Studies
  • Concordia Library
  • Contemporary Dance
  • Creative Arts Therapy
  • Design & Computation Arts
  • English
  • Etudes françaises
  • History
  • Journalism
  • Liberal Arts College
  • Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • School of Canadian Irish Studies
  • Studio Arts
  • Theatre
  • Theological Studies

Jessica Safarian, Advisor, Research Development (Sciences). ext. 5001

Areas of responsibilities:

  • Biology
  • Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Geography, Planning & Environment
  • Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
  • Mathematics & Statistics
  • Physics
  • Psychology

David Nguyen, Director

Frédéric Poulin, Specialist, Research Agreements

Areas of responsibilities:

  • Building, civil and environmental engineering 
  • John Molson School of Business and the social sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science (including geography, planning and environment)
  • Faculty of Fine Arts and the humanities 
  • Next-Generation Cities Institute

Vikas Nehra, Specialist, Research Agreements

Areas of responsibilities:

  • Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
  • Mechanical, industrial and aerospace engineering
  • Natural sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science (except biology)
  • Milieux Institute

Étienne Gagnon, Specialist, Research Agreements

Areas of responsibilities:

  • Computer science, software engineering, electrical and computer engineering, chemical and materials engineering
  • Center for Engineering in Society   
  • Biology
  • Applied AI Institute

Valeria Marquet, Senior Specialist, Intellectual Property 

Areas of responsibilities:

  • Intellectual property & technology transfer   
  • Interinstitutional agreements   
  • Administrative agreements
  • Other agreements

Vanessa Buzzelli, Advisor, Internship and Service agreements 

Areas of responsibilities:

  • Mitacs - all faculties 
  • Post-award administration
  • Service agreements

Maureen Forrester, Coordinator, Post-Award Support

Gabriel Sales, Senior Advisor, Research Security

Jeremy Lemieux, Advisor

  • Brett Cox, Coordinator, Sustainability in Research

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