Research chairs & honorary positions

Research Chairs & Honorary Research Professor positions are designations for world-class faculty, known for advancing the frontiers of knowledge in their fields through their research and teaching. These positions are used to attract and retain the best research talent from around the world.
Canada 150 Research Chair
Ian Manners, an internationally recognized researcher renowned for his leading-edge work in molecular and materials chemistry, had joined faculty at the University of Victoria as a Canada 150 Research Chair in Materials Science.
Creating tiny particles with dimensions of about 10 to 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair—with control over their shape, size and composition, and therefore their properties—is a major global challenge, with crucial significance for advancing many technologies. Ian Manners has pioneered a new way to do so by using simple polymer molecules, in controlled crystallization in a solution. This chair will develop and expand this approach, to enable both fundamental scientific advances and applications in areas such as displays, electronics and biomedicine.
Faculty of Science Canada Research Chairs
The Canada Research Chairs program helps universities to attract and retain the best talent from around the world, assisting universities like UVic to achieve research excellence.
Name
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Tier
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Chair title
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Granting council
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Unit |
2
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Synaptic Physiology
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CIHR
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Biology
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2
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Medical Physics
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NSERC |
Physics & Astronomy
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2
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Molecular Interactions and Structural Biology
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NSERC |
Biochemistry & Microbiology
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2
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Microfluidics for Drug Assays
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NSERC |
Chemistry
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2
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Ocean Carbon Dynamics
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NSERC |
Earth & Ocean Sciences
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2
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Supramolecular and Medicinal Chemistry
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NSERC |
Chemistry
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1
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Genomics and Molecular Biology
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CIHR |
Biology
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2
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Biostatistics for Spatial and High-Dimensional Data
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NSERC | Mathematics & Statistics | |
2
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Earthquake Geophysics
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NSERC | Earth and Ocean Sciences | |
1
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Operator Algebras and Dynamical Systems
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NSERC | Mathematics & Statistics | |
1
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Deep Ocean Research
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NSERC |
Biology / Earth & Ocean Sciences
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2
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Bioactive Small Molecule Synthesis
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NSERC
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Chemistry
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2
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Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
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NSERC
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Mathematics & Statistics
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Endowed Academic Chairs
Endowed Academic Chairs are established through the generosity of donors who want to support research and teaching excellence at UVic. Learn how you can support UVic through an endowed position.
Current endowed academic Chairs include:
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- Francis Juanes, the Liber Ero Chair in Fisheries Research
- Christoph Borchers, the BC Leadership Chair in Biomedical and Environmental Proteomics
- Kim Juniper, the BC Leadership Chair in Marine Ecosystems and Global Change
Honorary Research Professors
This Faculty of Science designation recognizes truly exceptional adjunct professors involved with the research taking place at UVic and to strengthen their connection to the Faculty and the University. Honorary Research Professor appointments are recommended by the ARPT committee of the nominating unit and decided upon by the Dean of Science. Appointments last a term of 5 years.
Dr. Kelin Wang (Earth & Ocean Sciences) is a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada (Pacific Geoscience Centre). He is a world leader in the study of the geodynamics of subduction zones and related earthquake and tsunami hazards, plus a range of other topics linked to the thermal, mechanical, and hydrogeological processes of Earth’s lithosphere. He has published about 200 papers, gathering around 10,000 citations. He is Editor-in-Chief for the journal Tectonophysics, and has served on Editorial Boards for the Journal of Geophysical Research, Geology, Journal of Geodynamics, Science in China (Earth Science), and Earthquake Science. He was formerly the Secretary of the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) and Chair of the International Professionals for the Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences. In 2015 he was awarded the J. Tuzo Wilson Medal, the CGU’s highest career honour. In 2015, he also presented the prestigious Birch Lecture at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. In 2016, he was elected an AGU Fellow, an honour reserved for only 0.1% of the AGU’s 62,000 members each year.
Dr. Nathan Gillett (Earth and Ocean Sciences) is the Manager of and a Research Scientist with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma), the Environment and Climate Change Canada research lab responsible for developing and applying Canada’s earth system model to analyze past climate change and project future climate change. His research focuses on the detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate changes, the climatic influences of ozone depletion, and the global carbon cycle (particularly the long-term fate of anthropogenic carbon emissions). He has published more than 90 papers with over 10,000 citations. Dr. Gillett has been a Lead Author for chapters of both the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the 2010 and 2013/14 WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion. He is a recipient of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society's President's Prize for Research, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Outstanding Scientific Paper Award, and the UVic Craigdarroch Research Award. He has served as an editor of Journal of Climate and organizer of many international workshops and meetings.


