Faculty Membership

Natalie Allen

Professor, Department of Psychology

Research Interests / Specializations: Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Samuel Asokanthan

Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies

Neil Banerjee

Associate Professor, Earth Sciences

Research Interests / Specializations: Industrial Research Chair in Advanced Mineral Exploration

Pauline Barmby

Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Galactic and Stellar Processes

Shantanu Basu

Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Galactic and Stellar Processes

Jerry Battista

Professor Emeritus, Department of Oncology

Research Interests / Specializations: Medical Biophysics and Space Health

Nigel Blamey

Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences

Peter Brown

Professor, Physics & Astronomy

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

Shauna Burke

Associate Professor, School of Health Studies

Jan Cami

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

Sayra Cristancho

Assistant Professor/Scientist - CERI

Research Interests / Specializations: Medical Biophysics

Isha DeCoito

Associate Professor, Education

Research Interests / Specializations: STEM and Space Education

Lorie Donelle

Associate Professor, School of Nursing

Research Interests / Specializations: Remote and Rural Medicine

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 & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Black Holes

Wayne Hocking

Professor, Physics & Astronomy

George Knopf

Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Material engineering and synthesis, advanced fabrication technologies, and engineering design

Martin Houde

Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Canada Research Chair in Star Formation

Cindy Hutnik

Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Pathology

Mehrdad Kermani

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies

Fred Longstaffe

Distinguished University Professor, Earth Sciences

Research Interests / Specializations: 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

Associate Professor, 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 Sciences

Michael Naish

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies

Sobhi Nasir

Adjunct Professor, Earth Sciences

Catherine Neish

Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Surfaces and Impact cratering

Tim Newson

Associate Professor, Engineering

Valerie Oosterveld

Professor, Faculty of Law

Gordon Osinski

Professor, Earth Sciences

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Processes, Planetary Materials and Impact cratering

Els Peeters

Associate Professor, Physics & 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

Rajni Patel

Distinguished University Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies, and Advanced Robotics and Control

Howard Plotkin

Professor, Philosophy

Larry Plummer

Associate Professor, Ivey School of Business

Research Interests / Specializations: Entrepreneurship

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

Richard Secco

Professor, Earth Sciences

Robert Shcherbakov

Associate Professor, Earth Sciences

Sean Shieh

Associate Professor, Earth Sciences

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

Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Aaron Sigut

Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Galactic and Stellar Processes

Maxwell Smith

Assistant Professor, 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

Phil Stooke

Associate Professor, Department of Geography

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Processes

Adam Sirek

Adjunct Professor, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry

Research Interests / Specializations: Family Medicine

Kim Tait

Associate Professor, Earth Sciences - University of Toronto

Eytan Tepper

Adjunct Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Space Resource Law and Policy

Keith Thompson

Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine

Research Interests / Specializations: Remote and Rural Medicine

Livio Tornabene

Adjunct Professor, Earth Sciences

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Processes

Ana Luisa Trejos

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Wearable technology

Jonathan Vance

Distinguished University Professor, Department of History

Rajiv Varma

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Exploration Technologies,Hydro One Chair, Power Systems

James Voogt

Department Chair, Department of Geography

Jinfei Wang

Professor, Department of Geography

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary Processes

Danielle Way

Associate Professor, Biology

Research Interests / Specializations: Earth Observation, Monitoring, and Protection; Climate Change effects on vegetation

Paul Wiegert

Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Galactic and Stellar Processes