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Fourteen University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ researchers have been named new or renewing Canada Research Chairs (CRC).

The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, made the . Over $275 million will support 346 Canada Research Chairs deemed world-class scientists and scholars.

 was awarded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) . Professor Evan Risko will receive an additional $45,000 to establish an immersive and psychophysiological testing suite.

À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s Canada Research Chairs named in the announcement are:

Applied Health Sciences

Jack Callaghan (Kinesiology) – NSERC Tier 1 Renewal: Spine Biomechanics and Injury Prevention ($1.4 million over seven years)

Clark Dickerson (Kinesiology) - NSERC Tier 2 Renewal: Shoulder Mechanics ($500,000 over five years) 

Arts

Evan Risko (Psychology) – NSERC Tier 2 Renewal: Embodied and Embedded Cognition ($500,000 over five years)

Dillon Browne (Psychology) - SSHRC Tier 2 New: Child and Family Clinical Psychology ($500,000 over five years)

Engineering

Hossein Abouee Mehrizi (Management Sciences) – CIHR Tier 2 Renewal: Health Care Analytics ($500,000 over five years)

Dongpu Cao (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering) - NSERC Tier 2 New: Driver Cognition and Automated Driving ($500,000 over five years)

Michael Fowler (Chemical Engineering) – NSERC Tier 1 New: Zero Emission Vehicles and Hydrogen Energy Systems ($1.4 million over seven years)

Sriram Narasimhan (Civil and Environmental Engineering) - NSERC Tier 2 Renewal: Smart Infrastructure ($500,000 over five years)

Zhou Wang (Electrical Computer Engineering) – NSERC Tier 1 New: Multimedia Quality-of-Experience ($1.4 million over seven years)

Environment

Jennifer Clapp (School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability) - SSHRC Tier 1 Renewal: Global Food Security and Sustainability ($1.4 million over seven years)

Brian Kendell (Earth and Environmental Sciences) - NSERC Tier 2 New: Redox-Sensitive Metal Isotope Geochemistry ($500,000 over five years)

Juan Moreno-Cruz (School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development) – SSHRC Tier 2 New: Energy Transitions ($500,000 over five years)

Mathematics

Ian Goldberg (Cheriton School of Computer Science) - NSERC Tier 1: Privacy Enhancing Technologies ($1.4 million over seven years)

Science

Brian Dixon (Biology) – NSERC Tier 1 Renewal: Fish and Environmental Immunology ($1.4 million over seven years)