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

Joshua Pearce

Professor & John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation

Research Interests / Specializations: The use of open source appropriate technology (OSAT) to find collaborative solutions to problems in sustainability and to reduce poverty.

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