The Canada Research Chairs Program invests approximately $265 million per year ($5M per year at the University) to attract and retain some of the world’s most accomplished and promising minds. Chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Currently, the University of Guelph Canada Research Chairs chairholders are:

Tier 1​

• Kim Anderson [1]
  • Indigenous Relationality and Storied Practice, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Emma Allen-Vercoe [2]
  • Human Gut Microbiome Function and Host, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Susan Brown [3]
  • Collaborative Digital Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Aicheng Chen [4]
  • Electrochemistry and Nanoscience, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Monique Deveaux [5]
  • Ethics and Global Social Change, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Lawrence Goodridge [6]
  • Foodborne Pathogen Dynamics, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Nina Jones [7]
  • Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Alejandro Marangoni [8]
  • Food, Health and Aging, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Manjusri Misra [9]
  • Sustainable Biocomposites, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Barbara Morrongiello [10]
  • Child & Youth Injury Prevention, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Jim Petrik [11]
  • Translational Health and Clinical Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Carla Rice [12]
  • Feminist Studies and Social Practice, Social Sciences and Humanities

Tier 2

• Christine Baes [13]
  • Livestock Genomics, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Clara Cho [14]
  • Precision Nutrition, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Georgina Cox [15]
  • Antimicrobial Resistance, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Ali Dehghantanha [16]
  • Cyber Security and Threat Intelligence, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Trevor DeVries [17]
  • Dairy Cattle Behaviour and Welfare, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Jennifer Geddes-McAlister [18]
  • Proteomics of Fungal Disease in One Health, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Leah Levac [19]
  • Critical Community Engagement and Public Policy, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Diana Lewis [20]
  • Indigenous Environmental Health Governance, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Heather Murphy [21]
  • One Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Jesse Popp [22]
  • Indigenous Environmental Science,  Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Mike Rogers [23]
  • Food Nanotechnology, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Rebecca Shapiro [24]
  • Microbial Functional Genomics and Synthetic Biology, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Graham Taylor [25]
  • Machine Learning, Natural Sciences and Engineering

Learn more about the Canada Research Chair program at the University of Guelph [26]

Former CRCs

Tier 1

• John Dutcher
  • Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• James France
  • Biomathematics in Animal Nutrition, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Evan Fraser
  • Global Food Security, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Christopher J. Hall
  • Recombinant Antibody Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Paul Hebert
  • Molecular Biodiversity, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• W. Allan King
  • Animal Reproductive Biotechnology, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Ed McBean
  • Water Supply Security, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Linda Parker
  • Behavioural Neuroscience, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Carl Svensson
  • Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Rare Isotope Physics, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Christopher Whitfield
  • Molecular Microbiology, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Tier 2

• Madhur Anand
  • Global Ecological Change, Natural Science and Engineering
• Aaron Berg
  • Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Natural Science and Engineering
• Dorothee Bienzle
  • Veterinary Pathology, Natural Science and Engineering
• Myrna Dawson
  • Public Policy in Criminal Justice, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Kari Dunfield
  • Environmental Microbiology of Agro-Ecosystems, Natural Science and Engineering
• Hermann Eberl
  • Computational Biomathematics, Natural Science and Engineering
• Amy Greer
  • Population Disease Modelling, Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Brian Husband
  • Ecological Genetics, Natural Science and Engineering
• Nina Jones
  • Eukaryotic Cellular Signaling, Natural Science and Engineering
• Rene Kirkegaard
  • Risk Management and Regulation, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Vladimir Ladizhansky
  • Biophysics, Natural Science and Engineering
• Georgia Mason
  • Animal Welfare, Natural Science and Engineering
• Kevin McCann
  • Biodiversity, Natural Science and Engineering
• Kathryn Preuss
  • Chemistry of Molecular Materials, Natural Science and Engineering
• Carla Rice
  • Care, Gender and Relationships, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Sharada Srinivasan
  • Gender, Justice and Development, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Scott J. Weese
  • Zoonotic Diseases, Canadian Institutes of Health Research