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The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded funding to 23 University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ researchers for infrastructure.

The announcement was made today by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, as part of a $61 million investment for state-of-the-art research labs and equipment through the  that will support 261 projects across Canada.

The John R. Evans Leaders Fund helps exceptional researchers at universities across the country conduct leading-edge research by giving them the tools and equipment they need to become leaders in their field.

The funding for À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ research is valued over $2.9 million. The researchers are:

Applied Health Sciences

• Paolo Dominelli (Kinesiology): Integrative physiology laboratory to study sex-differences during exercise ($100,000)

Arts

• Alexis Dolphin (Anthropology): Ancient and contemporary environmental bioindicators laboratory (ACEBioLab) ($91,500)

Engineering

• Eihab Abdel-Rahman (Systems Design Engineering): Electrical drive and detection system ($80,000)
• Arash Arami (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering): Neuromechanics-based assistive robotics: Towards optimal personalized robotic assistance ($182,000)
• Sahar Pirooz Azad (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Control and protection of next-generation power electronically enabled hybrid AC-DC power systems ($100,000)
• Elliot Biro (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering): Understanding weld cracking using in-situ thermography and simulation ($80,000)
• Dongpu Cao (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering): CogSim: An interaction-aware tri-simulator facility for research on driver behaviours and cognitive autonomous driving ($150,000)
• Kerstin Dautenhahn (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Infrastructure for research on social and intelligent robotics ($350,000)
• Amir Khandani (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Infrastructure for research on next generation wireless networks ($80,000)
• Nima Maftoon (Systems Design Engineering): A therapeutic device for otitis media ($120,000)
• Etienne Martin (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering): Scanning electron microscope ($100,000)
• Tizazu Mekonnen (Chemical Engineering): Rational design of multiphase and multifunctional renewable – resourced polymers ($100,000)
• Oliver Schneider (Management Sciences): Haptic computing lab ($80,000)
• Valerie Ward (Chemical Engineering): Microalgae biomanufacturing laboratory ($80,000)
• Christopher Wilson (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Taking superconducting electronics to the next level of integration ($170,819)
• Seyed Majid Zahedi (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Resource management in heterogenous clusters: Maximizing efficiency and guaranteeing security, privacy, and fairness ($80,000)

Environment

• Peter Deadman (Geography and Environmental Management):GIS-based virtual and augmented reality tools ($72,000)
• Paul Parker (Geography and Environmental Management): Engaging technology and people to achieve advanced building performance ($85,228)

Mathematics

• Anita Layton (Applied Mathematics): The virtual physiological human project ($100,000)
• Ali Mashtizadeh (Computer Science): Scalable systems software for next generation architectures ($101,000)
• Omid Salehi-Abari (Computer Science): Intelligent connectivity lab: Software-hardware systems for the Internet of Things ($150,000)

Science

• Thorsten Dieckmann (Chemistry): High resolution NMR facility for structure eluicidation ($352,810)
• Emmanuel Ho (School of Pharmacy): Advanced microbicide research and analysis facility (AMRAF) ($123,378)