Natural sciences

This division comprises research and experimental development in natural sciences. Natural sciences refer to scientific disciplines concerned with understanding, exploring or developing the natural world, in the field of natural sciences, which includes mathematics and statistics; computer and information sciences; physical sciences; chemical sciences; earth and related environmental sciences; biological sciences; and other natural sciences. Research consists of systematic investigation carried by means of experiment or analysis to achieve a scientific or technological advance such as acquiring new knowledge of the underlying foundation of phenomena and observable facts. Experimental development consists of new or substantially improved goods, services, systems, methods or processes.

Sub-Categories

Mathematics and statistics

Computer and information sciences

Physical sciences

Chemical sciences

Earth and related environmental sciences

Biological sciences

Other natural sciences

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Rodriguez Mustafa, Maria Alejandra

Faculty of Science

Postdoctoral Fellow

Economic geology; Geology; Geochemistry; Mineral Deposits

Rogak, Steven

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Natural sciences; Aerosols, air pollution and climate

Rosen, David

Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Animal physiology; Physiology, behaviour, and ecology of marine mammals;; Bioenergetics; Nutrition; Conservation physiology

Ross, Colin

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Care; Genomics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Biomedical Technologies; Drug Metabolism; Gene Therapy; Gene-based therapeutics; Pharmacogenomics; Precision Medicine; transgenic models

Roth, Andrew

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics; Cancer Evolution; Cancer omics data; computational statistics; Computational Biology; computational methods for studying clonal population structures and tumour evolution; Evolutionary cancer biology; genomics; Machine Learning; Methodological work in computational statistics; Molecular Oncology

Rottler, Joerg

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Physical sciences; Condensed Matter and Materials Physics; Nanomaterials; Polymers; Soft Matter; Solids

Rubin, Julia

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Computer engineering; Programming languages and software engineering; Computer Systems; software engineering; Software quality, security, and robustness; program analysis; Adversarial robustness, explainability, and interpretability of ML-based systems; Mobile and cloud software

Russell, Kelly

Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Physical sciences; volcanology; petrology; magma rheology; geochemical thermodynamics

Ryu, Min Hyung

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Basic medicine and life sciences; Respiratory sciences; Transcriptomics; Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Environmental Respiratory Diseases; Genomics and Transcriptomics; Bioinformatics and Data Science; Personalized Medicine in Respiratory Care; Application of Next-generation Sequencing

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Sadarangani, Manish

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Immunology; Microbiology; Clinical sciences; Antimicrobial resistant bacteria; Bacterial Vaccines; Childhood infections; Epidemiology; Immune System; Vaccine Development; Vaccine immunity; Clinical trials and observational studies

Samuels, Anne Lacey

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Plant biology; plant cell biology; plant cell walls

Sargent, Risa

Applied Biology, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Plant biology; Biological control; community ecology; evolutionary ecology; Floral trait evolution; Flowering plants; Herbivory; Pollinator-mediated interactions

Sarkar, Shuvam

Faculty of Science

Postdoctoral Fellow

Condensed matter experiments; Quantum materials; Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Schiebinger, Geoffrey

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genomics; Mathematics and statistics; Applied & Theoretical Statistics; Computational Genomics; data science; Genetics; Genome Sciences; Machine Learning; Measurement technologies; Models Inference and Algorithms; Single-cell RNA sequencing; Theory of Statistics

Schluter, Dolph

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biological adaptation; Speciation (evolutionary processes); Natural selection and sexual selection; evolution; Origin of species; evolutionary genetics; Adaptive radiation

Schoof, Christian

Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Geophysics; Ice and Snow; Transformation and Evolution of the Earth Surface; Fluid mechanics; Hydraulic; Asymptotic and Classical Applied Analysis; Differential Equation; applied mathematics; glacier hydrology; Glaciology; ice sheet dynamics

Schuetz, Christian

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects

Scoates, James

Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Igneous petrology; Geochronology; Economic geology; magmatic evolution; layered intrusions; flood basalts; large igneous provinces; Proterozoic anorthosites; magmatic ore deposits

Scott, Douglas

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Astronomical and space sciences; Physical sciences; Cosmology; Science and Knowledge

Semenoff, Gordon Walter

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Particle physics theory (including aspects of field theory and string theory); Physical sciences; Moedal experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN; String theory, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics; Theoretical and mathematical physics, the physics of elementary particles, condensed matter physics

Shahrad, Mohammad

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Computer engineering; Computing systems; cloud computing; serverless computing; Resource Management; Sustainable computing; data center efficiency

Sharma, Abhishek

Faculty of Science

Postdoctoral Fellow

Particle physics, experimental; particle physics

Sheel, William

School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Animal physiology, exercise; Kinesiology; airways, exercise, hypoxia, pulmonary physiology, respiratory muscle

Shelhamer, Evan

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Machine learning; Computer vision in artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence (AI); Machine Learning; Computer Vision / Visual Recognition; Robustness and Adaptation; Self-Supervised / Unsupervised Learning; Applications to Remote Sensing and Sustainability

Shepherd, Bruce

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Natural sciences; Algorithms, Combinatorics, Polyhedra

Shmerkin, Pablo

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Metric and fractal geometry; fractal geometry; Harmonic Analysis; ergodic theory; Connections with additive combinatorics and probability

Sigal, Leonid

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Computer and information sciences; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science and Statistics; Parametric and Non-Parametric Inference; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Semantic Recognition; Vision + Natural Language Processing; Visual Recognition and Understanding

Silberman, Lior

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mathematics and statistics; Mathematics; Analysis on manifolds; Automorphic forms; Group Theory; Homogenous dynamics; Metric geometry; Number theory; Representation Theory; Topology

Silva, Luis

Faculty of Science

Postdoctoral Fellow

Life histories; Biological evolution, n.e.c.; Disease Ecology; evolutionary ecology; Parasitology; Microbiology and Immunology; host-parasite interactions; Ecological immunology; Virulence evolution; Tolerance evolution

Singh, Ashutosh

Faculty of Science

Postdoctoral Fellow

Electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter and supraconductivity; Condensed matter experiments; condensed matter physics; Solid State Chemistry; magnetism

Sinnamon, Luanne Silvia

School of Information, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human information behaviour (including human information retrieval); Web search; Information retrieval; human information interaction; Information Systems; information retrieval; New Technology and Social Impacts

Smukler, Sean

Applied Biology, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Natural sciences; Agricultural ecology; Soil health; Climate change adaptation and mitigation; Ecosystem services

Soma, Kiran

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Zoology; Behavior; Biological Behavior; Endocrinology; Neuroendocrine Diseases; Neuronal Communication and Neurotransmission; Neuronal Systems; neuroscience; stress

Somasekharan, Syam

Department of Urologic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cancer, n.e.c.; Cell biology, n.e.c.; RNA Biology; Cell Biology; molecular biology; Biomolecular Condensates; Nucleolus; mRNA Translation; Liquid-liquid Phase Separation

Speak, Thomas

Faculty of Science

Postdoctoral Fellow

Astrochemistry; Development and applications of spectroscopic and structural techniques; Reaction kinetics and dynamics; Chemical thermodynamics and energetics; Computational chemistry; atmospheric chemistry; combustion chemistry; astrochemistry; origins of life; reaction kinetics; energetic materials

Spering, Miriam

Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biological sciences; vision; movement; perception and action; eye movements; hand movements; eye-hand coordination; sport vision; Parkinson's disease

Srivastava, Diane

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); community ecology, food webs, tropical conservation, metacommunities, open science, data syntheses,

Steif, Adi

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics; Algorithms and computational genomics; Genomics; Cancer genetics; Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Cancer progression and metastasis; Statistical methods for high throughput data; High dimensional data analysis; Computational Biology; Machine Learning; Cancer Genomics; Single cell sequencing; Tumour evolution; Genomic technology development

Straus, Suzana

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Chemical sciences; Proteins; Antimicrobial peptides; Protein-protein interactions; Structure-function; Viral membrane proteins

Stull, Roland

Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Meteorology and weather; weather; Meteorology; atmospheric science; numerical weather prediction; clean energy meteorology; storms; transportation weather; forest fire weather; weather disasters; atmospheric boundary layers; aviation meteorology

Summers, Alexander

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Programming languages and software engineering; programming languages; software engineering

Sun, Chin

Faculty of Science

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Natural sciences; I am a field ecologist by training,having studied behaviour and ecology of mammals and birds

Sun, Jim

Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cellular immunology; Pathogenesis; Intracellular signaling, signal transduction, receptor and membrane biology; Bacteriology; Host immunity to tuberculosis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Cellular microbiology; Host-directed therapy; TB drug discovery; Macrophage biology; Intracellular pathogens

Sunderland, Terence

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Earth and related environmental sciences; Social and economic geography; biodiversity; Communications; Communities and Livelihoods; conservation; Conservation Biology; Ecosystem services; Environmental communication; Forest policy; Land-use Change; Landscape ecology; Natural Resource Management; social science; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Developing countries; Forest management

Suttle, Curtis

Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Botany, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics; Fisheries sciences; Immunology; Microbiology; Oceanography; Plant biology; Biological Oceanography; Environmental Virology; Marine Environment; Marine Microbiology; Microbial Diversity; Phage; Viral Discovery; Viruses

Swindale, Nicholas

Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Eye and Visual System Diseases; Neuronal Modeling; Neuronal Systems; Visual System

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Tam, Roger

School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Machine learning; Biomedical signal processing; Biomedical Design and Innovation; Biomedical Technologies; Computer Science and Statistics; Data Analytics; Medical Imaging; Machine Learning; Neurodegenerative diseases; Precision Medicine; Radiology

Tang, Xin

Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics; Artificial intelligence (AI); Cell biology; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Mathematical biology; Genetics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Cancer; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Explainable and Interpretable Learning, Representation Learning, Knowledge Distillation; Biologically Informed Neural Network, Physically Informed Neural Network; Knowledge Distillation, Biological LLM, Biomedical Image Processing; Computational Cell Biology, Single-cell Biology, Multi-omics, Virtual Cell, Spatial Omics; Brain-Computer Interface, Neuroscience, Brain Mapping; Cancer Genomics, Development, Aging

Taubert, Stefan

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other health sciences; Gene regulation and expression; Transcriptomics; Genomics; Aging; beta cells; C. elegans; Diabetes; Gene Regulation and Expression; Gene regulation; Genetics of Aging; genomics; Hypoxia; Metabolism; Molecular Genetics; Mouse; stress; Stress and Cancer; Stress responses; Toxin and Toxicant Metabolism; Transcription

Teves, Sheila

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biochemistry; Genomics; Epigenetics; Genetics; Genome Science; Molecular Epigenetics (MEG); molecular biology; Transcriptional memory and cellular identity in mouse embryonic stem cells

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French Name

Sciences naturelles

French Description

Cette division comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en sciences naturelles. Les sciences naturelles réfèrent aux disciplines scientifiques relevant de la compréhension, de l'exploration ou de l'évolution du monde matériel, dans le domaine des sciences naturelles, lequel inclut les mathématiques et la statistique; l'informatique et les sciences de l'information; les sciences physiques; les sciences chimiques; les sciences de la terre et de l'environnement; les sciences biologiques; et les autres sciences naturelles. La recherche consiste en l'investigation systématique par l'expérimentation ou l'analyse, afin de réaliser un progrès scientifique ou technologique, comme l'acquisition de nouvelles connaissances sur les fondements des phénomènes et des faits observables. Le développement expérimental consiste à réaliser de nouveaux biens, services, systèmes, méthodes ou procédés, ou d'améliorer substantiellement les biens, services, systèmes, méthodes ou procédés existants.

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