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
- Effrosyni Diamantoudi, interim Vice-President, Research, Innovation, and Impact
- Monica Mulrennan, Associate Vice-President Research, Development and Impact
- Aaron Johnson, Associate Vice-President Research, Strategic Institutional Initiatives and Innovation
- William Cheaib, Associate Vice-President, International
- Heather Adams-Robinette, Senior Director, Vice President, Research, Innovation, and Impact
- Christian Moreau, Senior Advisor to the Vice-President, Research, Innovation, and Impact on Aerospace
- Cameron Skinner, Research Integrity Officer
- 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
- Eli Friedland, Advisor, Institutional Recognition Initiatives
- Dominique Michaud, Director
- Marie-Elyse Lafaille-Magnan, Advisor, Business Development
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
- Andrea Rodney, Manager, Research Grants
- Michael Guadagno, Lead, Research Grants
- Tamara Chazin, Coordinator, Research Grants
- Ann-Marie Giglione, Coordinator, Research Grants (on leave)
- Magella Skerritt, Assistant, Research Grants (on temporary assignment)
- Cameron Raman-Nair, Assistant
- Monica Toca, Manager, Research Ethics
- Karen Gregg, Coordinator, Research Ethics
- Andrew Khoury, Coordinator, Research Ethics
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
- Cameron Skinner, Research Integrity Officer
Jeremy Lemieux, Advisor
- Prem Sooriyakumar, Knowledge Broker
- David Ward, Knowledge Broker
- Brett Cox, Coordinator, Sustainability in Research
- Matthew Adie, Analyst, Research Information Systems
- Nada Hafez, Analyst, Research Data