Faculty Membership

Natalie Allen

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Samuel Asokanthan

Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies

Neil Banerjee

Associate Professor and Industrial Research Chair in Advanced Mineral Exploration

Pauline Barmby

Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Galactic and Stellar Processes

Shantanu Basu

Professor and Department Chair, Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Galactic and Stellar Processes

Jerry Battista

Professor Emeritus, Department of Medical Biophysics (Former Chair), Department of Oncology

Nigel Blamey

Assistant Professor; Earth Sciences

Audrey Bouvier

Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Planetary Materials

Peter Brown

Professor, Physics & Astronomy, CRC in Meteor Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Earth Observation, Monitoring, and Protection

Shauna Burke

Associate Professor; School of Health Studies

Jan Cami

Western Space Acting Associate Directror, Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Galactic and Stellar Processes

Margaret Campbell-Brown

Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Earth Observation, Monitoring, and Protection

Blaine Chronik

Professor; Physics and Astronomy

Sayra Cristancho

Assistant Professor/Scientist - CERI

Research Interests / Specializations: Medical Biophysics
Biography: My research program overall looks at the processes of team adaptation in unexpected, acute and high-stakes situations. Up to now, my research has taken place in clinical contexts including trauma teams, surgical teams, intensive care teams, etc. As my research is informed by systems theories, including swarm intelligence, that have been applied in other contexts and very nascent in healthcare, I am currently interested in learning from teams who are required to perform in complex environments, such as SWAT teams earth and space exploration teams, and high-stakes business teams.

John de Bruyn

Professor; Physics and Astronomy

Isha DeCoito

Associate Professor: Education

Roberta Flemming

Associate Professor, Earth Sciences

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Materials

Raymond Francis

Adjunct professor; Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Scientific Applications Software Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Sarah Gallagher

Associate Professor; Physics and Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Black Holes

Richard Grieve

Adjunct Professor; Earth Science, Geological Survey of Canada

Wayne Hocking

Professor; Physics and Astronomy

Martin Houde

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Star Formation

Cindy Hutnik

Associate Professor, Depts of Ophthalmology and Pathology

Mehrdad Kermani

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies

Fred Longstaffe

Distinguished University Professor & Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Stable Isotope Science Director, Laboratory for Stable Isotope Science

Phil McCausland

Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Materials

Ken McIssac

Western Space Acting Director; Associate Professor Department Chair Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies

Stan Metchev

Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, and CRC in Exoplanets

Research Interests / Specializations: Galactic and Stellar Processes

Sheri Molnar

Assistant Professor; Earth Sciences

Desmond Moser

Associate Professor; Earth Science

Michael Naish

Associate Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies

Sobhi Nasir

Adjunct Professor; Earth Science

Catherine Neish

Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences

Tim Newson

Associate Professor: Engineering

Valerie Oosterveld

Professor; Western Law

Gordon Osinski

Western Space Director; Professor, Department of Earth Sciences (cross appointed with Physics and Astronomy and Electrical and Computer Engineering), and NSERC/MDA/CSA/CEMI Industrial Research Chair in Earth and Space Exploration.

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Processes, Planetary Materials

Rajni Patel

Distinguished University Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and CRC in Advanced Robotics and Control

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies

Els Peeters

Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: carbonaceous molecules and dust (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon molecules, fullerenes, carbonaceous dust) galactic and extra-galactic star forming regions the interstellar and circumstellar medium

Howard Plotkin

Professor; Philosophy

Ilia Polushin

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies

Peter Rogan

Professor; Biochemistry

Jayshri Sabarinathan

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies

Mariek Schmidt

Adjunct Professor; Earth Science

Richard Secco

Professor; Earth Science

Robert Shcherbakov

Associate Professor & Graduate Chair; Earth Science

Sean Shieh

Associate Professor, Earth Sciences (adjunct with Physics & Astronomy)

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Processes

Kevin Shoemaker

Professor: Kinesiology

Bob Sica

Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Processes / Earth Observation, Monitoring, and Protection

Kamran Siddiqui

Research Interests / Specializations: Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Aaron Sigut

Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Galactic and Stellar Processes

Maxwell Smith

Assistant Professor; School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences

Viktor Staroverov

Professor; Chemistry

Elizabeth Steyn

Assistant Professor - Faculty of Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous theory; legal anthropology; natural resources law; public international law; comparative law
Biography: Elizabeth Steyn is Cassels Brock Fellow and Assistant Professor in Mining and Finance Law. She hold a doctorate in law (LLD) from the Université de Montréal and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany and at the Institute for European Law at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany. She has previously lectured at the Université de Montréal and at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.

Phil Stooke

Associate Professor, Dept. Geography (cross-appointed with Physics & Astronomy)

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Processes

Adam Sirek

Adjunct Professor: Schulich Medicine & Dentistry

Research Interests / Specializations: Family Medicine

Kim Tait

Associate Professor; Earth Science - University of Toronto

Livio Tornabene

Adjunct Professor, Earth Sciences

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Processes

Ana Luisa Trejos

Associate Professor; Engineering

Jonathan Vance

Distinguished University Professor; History

Rajiv Varma

Associate Professor Hydro One Chair, Power Systems, Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies

James Voogt

Department Chair; Geography

Jinfei Wang

Professor, Geography

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Processes

Paul Wiegert

Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Galactic and Stellar Processes