Thirty-four new Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) were funded in the fourth competition. Nominations were carefully reviewed by external experts and a multidisciplinary selection board composed of distinguished Canadian and international research experts. Funding decisions were approved by the CERC steering committee.
The names and institutions of successful Competition 4 Canada Excellence Research Chairs will be added as each of their terms begin.
Zenghu Chang
University of Ottawa | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Attosecond X-ray Photonics
Kalyan Das
University of Alberta | CIHR
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Antiviral Drug Design
Evelyne de Leeuw
Université de Montréal | CIHR
Canada Excellence Research Chair in One Urban Health
Trung Q. Duong
Memorial University of Newfoundland | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Next-Generation Communication Technologies
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
University of Toronto | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Intelligent Digital Infrastructures
Darren Grant
Simon Fraser University | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Astroparticle Physics
Sara Hart
University of Waterloo | SSHRC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Developmental Science
Jason Hessels
McGill University | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Transient Astrophysics
Niko Hildebrandt
McMaster University | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Nano-Optical Biosensing and Molecular Diagnostics
Rebecca Hull-Meichle
University of Alberta | CIHR
Canada Excellence Research Chair in the Islet Microenvironment
Heather Igloliorte
University of Victoria | SSHRC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices
Thomas Jennewein
Simon Fraser University | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Global Quantum Internet Systems
Kayla King
The University of British Columbia | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Evolutionary Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions
Robyn Klein
Western University | CIHR
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neurovirology and Neuroimmunology
Paul Kubes
Queen’s University | CIHR
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Immunophysiology and Immunotherapy
Steven Laureys
Université Laval | CIHR
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neuroplasticity
Frédérique Le Roux
Université de Montréal | CIHR
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Eco-Evo-Patho of Microbes in Nature
Leonard MacGillivray
Université de Sherbrooke | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Crystal Engineering for Green Chemistry and Sustainable Materials
David McCarthy
University of Guelph | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Waterborne Pathogens: Surveillance, Prediction and Mitigation
Deborah McGregor
University of Calgary | SSHRC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Indigenous Ways of Climate and Water Sustainability for Planetary Health and Well-being
Renée Miller
University of Waterloo | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Intelligence
Isla Myers-Smith
The University of British Columbia | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Global Change Ecology of Northern Ecosystems
Shinichi Nakagawa
University of Alberta | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Open Science and Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution
Nicholas Reo
Simon Fraser University | SSHRC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Coastal Relationalities and Regeneration
Patricia Romero-Lankao
University of Toronto | SSHRC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Sustainability Transitions
Carlos Silva Acuna
Université de Montréal | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Light-Matter Interactions
Urbasi Sinha
University of Calgary | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Photonic Quantum Science and Technologies
Dana Small
McGill University | CIHR
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Metabolism and the Brain
Karen Soldatić
Toronto Metropolitan University | CIHR
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Health Equity and Community Well-being
Corey Stephenson
The University of British Columbia | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Innovative Synthetic Methods for Translational Chemistry
Kanta Subbarao
Université Laval | CIHR
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biology and Control of Zoonotic and Pandemic Respiratory Viruses
Maia Vergniory
Université de Sherbrooke | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Topological Quantum Matter
Darcy Wagner
McGill University | CIHR
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Lung Regenerative Medicine
Yanwen Zhang
Queen’s University | NSERC
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Impact of Radiation in Energy and Advanced Technologies