Research Chairs


Reseach Chairs and Professorships

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Canada Research Chairs - Tier I

Name	Department	Field of Research
Praveen Jain	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Telecom Power Electronics
Ian Moore	Civil Engineering	Infrastructure Engineering
Brant Peppley	Chemical Engineering	Fuel Cells
Ugo Piomelli	Mechanical and Materials Engineering	Computational Turbulence
Kerry Rowe	Civil Engineering	Civil and Geoenvironmental Engineering
David Thomson	Mathematics and Engineering	Statistics and Signal Processing

Canada Research Chairs - Tier II

Name	Department	Field of Research
Mark Daymond	Mechanical and Materials Engineering	Nuclear Materials and Mechanics of Materials
Aristides Docoslis	Chemical Engineering	Colloids and Nanoscale Engineering
Amir Fam	Civil Engineering	Innovative and Retrofitted Structures
Kevin Robbie	Engineering Physics	Nanostructured Materials
Stephen Waldman	Chemical Engineering Mechanical and Materials Engineering	Tissue Engineering of Human Joints

Queen's Research Chairs

Name	Department	Field of Research
John Cartledge	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Fibre-Optic Communications
Andrew Daugulis	Chemical Engineering	Biochemical and Cell Culture Engineering
Randy Ellis	School of Computing Mechanical and Materials Engineering	New Technologies for Computer-Assisted Surgery
Andrew Pollard	Mechanical and Materials Engineering	Computational Fluid Dynamics

NSERC Chairs

Name	Department	Field of Research
Mark Daymond	Mechanical and Materials Engineering	Nuclear Materials (Associate Chairholder)
Rick Holt	Mechanical and Materials Engineering	Nuclear Materials
John Peacey	Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining	Minerals and Metals Processing Engineering
David Strong	Mechanical and Materials Engineering Engineering and Applied Science	Design Engineering

Named Chairs and Professorships

Name	Department	Position
Michael Cunningham	Chemical Engineering	Ontario Research Chair in Green Chemistry and Engineering
Laeeque Daneshmend	Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining Mechanical and Materials Engineering	Noranda-Falconbridge Chair in Mine Mechanical Engineering
Anthony Hodge	Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining Geological Engineering	Helen and Arthur Stollery Professor in Mining Engineering & Geological Engineering
Steve McKinnon	Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining	Chair in Mine Design, Government of Ontario
Vic Pakalnis	Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining	Kinross Professor of Mining and Sustainability