Faculty of Science
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William McCutcheon
Professor Emeritus
- Radio astronomy
- star formation
- interstellar medium
- radio telescopes
- solar system
- space science
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Dr. Jaymie Matthews, PhD
Professor
- MOST: Canada's first space telescope
- pulsating stars and the nature of stars in general
- search for and study of extrasolar planets
- public education in astronomy
- tracking asteroids from space
- solar system
- space science
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Alan Mackworth, BASc, AM, DPhil
Professor Emeritus
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- machine learning (ML)
- robotics
- computer science
- technology and aging
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Karen Needham
Lecturer and Curator, Spencer Entomological Collection
- Aquatic insects
- biological diversity
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Prof. William Mohn, PhD
Professor
- microbiology, microbial ecology, microbiome, bacterial catabolism, lignin degradation, lignocellulose degradation, steroid degradation, aromatic compound degradation, forest soil ecology, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metatranscriptomics, vaccine response, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bioproducts
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Dr. Janis McKenna
Professor
- Particle physics
- subatomic physics
- quarks
- leptons
- accelerators and their applications
- science education
- women in physics
- women in science
- solar system
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Professor Chris Orvig
Professor
- Medicinal inorganic chemistry
- coordination chemistry of biological and medical relevance
- coordination chemistry of the early transition metals, the lanthanides, and the actinides
- main group bioinorganic chemistry (particularly group 13)
- role of metal ions in Alzheimer's Disease and other neurological dysfunctions
- metal complexes as nuclear medicine imaging and therapeutic agents, and as antitumour agents
- technetium and rhenium chemistry
- radiopharmaceutical chemistry
- vanadium compounds as anti-diabetic agents
- lanthanide coordination and bioinorganic chemistry
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Giuseppe Carenini
Associate Professor
- Intelligent interfaces
- decision-support systems
- natural language processing, NLP
- natural language generation, NLG
- information visualization
- user modeling
- preference elicitation
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David M. Perrin
Professor
- Bioorganic chemistry
- combinatorial chemistry
- enzyme mimics
- antisense therapies