PhD Advisors at McMaster University 麦克马斯特大学 CA
Quick answer: McMaster University in Canada has 460 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 125 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at McMaster University, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (125)
Professors at McMaster University with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Addisu Lashitew
Associate Professor / CRC in Sustainable Enterprise · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Strategic Management
My research interest is on enterprise sustainability broadly defined, covering the intersection of business strategy/entrepreneurship an social/environmental issues.
Adedapo Awolayo
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Climate change mitigation, energy transition, geo-energy storage, water security, multiphase flow, geochemistry, reactive transport modeling, interfacial science; Intelligent Energy Systems; Water Security Under Climate Change; Energy; Environment
Adrian Kitai
Professor and Associate Chair, Graduate, Engineering Physics · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students; Currently Accepting Graduate Students; Two PhD student projects on this are being started.
Expertise: Fundamental luminescent materials, new luminescent devices, new avalanche injection devices, optical fibre liquid crystal display technology
Areas of Specialization: Interdisciplinary Engineering, Photonics Engineering, Smart Systems
Research Clusters: Digital & Smart …
Amanda Wissler
Assistant Professor, Anthropology · Faculty of Social Sciences
⭐ I am accepting graduate students for the 2027-2028 academic year, particularly those with with an interest in studying interactions between infectious disease mortality, inequality, and/or other demographic factors in the early 20th Century. Students with an interest in historical epidemiology, work…
Paleopathology, Bioarchaeology, 19th and 20th Century Epidemics, Anthropology of Infectious Disease, Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Infectious diseases, Epidemiology, Demography, Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health
Amber Dean
Professor, English & Cultural Studies · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
⭐ Dr. Dean's areas of graduate supervision include projects in trauma and memory studies, feminist and queer theory, and critical settler colonial studies. She welcomes graduate students working in the areas of public mourning, violence, memorialization, and cultural memory; feminist and queer theory,…
Dr. Amber Dean's research focuses on public mourning, violence, and cultural memory, engaging with the fields of trauma and memory studies, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, and critical settler colonial studies. She also investigates how creative forms of cultural pro…
Ameer M. S. Abdelhadi
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Application-specific custom-tailored computer architecture and hardware acceleration, hardware-efficient deep learning, neurotechnology reconfigurable computing, asynchronous circuits
Areas of Specialization: Biomedical Technologies; Integrated, Embedded and Interconnected System…
Andrew Roddick
Associate Professor, Anthropology · Faculty of Social Sciences
⭐ With the MACMINDS center opening in the coming months, there are lots of exciting laboratory opporutnities. I encourage any interested students to get in contact *well in advance* of the department application deadline to discuss any possible graduate projects. I am also happy to supervise postdocto…
Archaeology, Ceramics, Indigenous Knowledge, Materiality. My teaching and supervisory interests include social archaeology, ceramic analyses, archaeometry/compositional geochemistry, ethnoarchaeology, anthropologies of space and place, and South/Central/North American prehistory.
André Phillion
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Solidification of engineering metals, mathematical modelling of materials and processes, X-ray tomographic imaging, 4D materials science
Antoine Deza
Professor, Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Applied Computing, Theory of Computation; Research Clusters: Digital & Smart Systems
Berk Gorgulu
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Operations Management
Dr. Gorgulu's research focuses on data-driven optimization with applications to healthcare and public operations. His research focuses on constructing data-driven, realistic models and developing predictive and prescriptive analytics to support decision-making under uncertainty. …
Berker Bilgin
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Electric machines and energy conversion systems, power electronics and electric motor drives, acoustic noise and vibration reduction in electric motor drives, electric and hybrid powertrains, transportation electrification | Electrified & Autonomous Transportation, Power Electron…
Brent McKnight
Associate Professor / Director, Integrated Business and Humanities · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Strategic Management
Dr. McKnight studies how firms and organizations address complex societal problems. Currently this interest has led to him to undertake research in the areas of responsible investing at the retail advisory, the role of firms in community resilience and adaptation to climate chang…
Cal Biruk
Associate Professor, Anthropology · Faculty of Social Sciences
⭐ Cal is interested in working with graduate students with topical and theoretical interests in: anthropologies of data, postcolonial/feminist STS, biopolitical thought, medical anthropology, critical global/public health, queer/trans studies, critical development studies, and multispecies anthropolog…
Cal’s research and teaching interests include medical anthropology, critical global health studies, feminist STS, anthropologies of data, histories of anthropological theory, biopolitical thought, and queer/trans studies. Areas of Expertise: Anthropology, Cultural studies, Global…
Cansu Ekmekcioglu
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Information Systems
Her research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), data studies, and technology policy. Driven by an interdisciplinary approach grounded in sustainability and equity, she contributes to the study and design of data management and digital technologies across essentia…
Carlos Filipe
Associate Dean, Research, Innovation and Partnerships, Faculty of Engineering | Professor, Chemical Engineering | Associate Member, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Creating engineering solutions for a healthier society including thermal stabilization of vaccines, enzymes, antibodies, and phage, and applying of functional nucleic acids for biosensing including the development of materials able to detect pathogenic bacteria. Areas of Speciali…
Cheryl Quenneville
Associate Chair, Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering; Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Associate Member, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Expertise: Biomechanics
Areas of Specialization: Biomaterials and Devices; Biomechanics; Biomedical Engineering
Specific Research Activities:
My research interests are in human biomechanics and biomedical engineering, with a focus on:
Definition of bone fracture limits and injury…
Christian Brodbeck
Assistant Professor, Computing and Software; Associate Member, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Expertise: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Language, Speech recognition, Neural signal processing, Research Software; Areas of Specialization: Computing Methodologies; Research Clusters: Health & Bio-innovation
David Latulippe
Professor, Chemical Engineering; Associate Member, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering; Co-Director, Biointerfaces Institute · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Positions available:
Undergraduate Students – Undergraduate research is an outstanding learning experience both for students seeking careers in industry and those interested in graduate school. NSERC has funding available specifically for undergraduate students. Senior-year students in any of the ch…
Expertise: Integrated continuous biomanufacturing, microscale processing for high-throughput studies, unit operation modeling and optimization
Areas of Specialization: Bioengineering, Therapeutics, Water-Energy Technologies
Research Clusters: Advanced Materials & Manufacturing,…
Douglas Down
Professor, Computing and Software; Undergraduate Advisor for Mechatronics (January to June 2026), Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Expertise: Performance evaluation, stochastic models, data centres, scheduling. Areas of Specialization: Information Systems, Software and its Engineering, Theory of Computation. Research Clusters: Digital & Smart Systems. Current status: Accepting graduate students.
Dr. Amir Akbari
Associate Professor / Area Chair, Finance & Business Economics · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Finance and Business Economics
His main research interests include Empirical Asset Pricing, International Finance, Institutional Investing, and Financial Econometrics.
Dr. Anna Danielova
Associate Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Finance and Business Economics
empirical corporate finance and corporate governance
Dr. Ashish Pujari
Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Marketing
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Dr. Baniyelme Zoogah
Professor / Area Chair, Human Resources and Management · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Human Resources and Management
He leverages diverse methodologies to explore development issues at the intersection of individuals, teams, organizations, and societies across the macro (strategy, international business, environmental sustainability) and micro (human resources management, organizational behavio…
Dr. Benson Honig
Professor / Director, Centre for Research on Community Oriented Entrepreneurship (CRCE) / Business Research Chair · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Human Resources and Management
Entrepreneurship (nascent entrepreneurship, marginalized and transnational entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in transition economies, immigration and social entrepreneurship, gender and minority entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ingenuity); Intrapreneurship; Ethics in Scholarshi…
Dr. Chan Y. Ching
Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Heat transfer, multi-phase flow, turbulence; Thermo Fluid Sciences; Advanced Materials & Manufacturing; Energy
Dr. Christopher Morton
Associate Chair, Graduate Studies, Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Intelligent and autonomous systems, UAV technology development, energy engineering, sustainable sources, fluid structure interaction and flow control
Areas of Specialization: Imaging, Sensing and Detection; Intelligent Energy Systems; Nuclear Engineering and Energy Systems; Optim…
Dr. Denise Geiskkovitch
Assistant Professor, Computing and Software; Barber-Gennum Endowed Chair in Information Technology, Computing and Software; Associate Member, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, social robotics, socially assistive robots, space robotics. Computing Methodologies, Human-Centred Computing
Dr. Elkafi Hassini
Professor / Associate Dean, Research / Purolator Research Chair in Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Operations Management
data-driven optimization with applications in supply chain management; big data optimization, supply chain analytics, supply chain risk management, sustainability performance measurement and strategic procurement
Dr. Erin Reid
Professor / Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies (Acting) / Canada Research Chair in Work, Organizations and Careers-Tier II · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Human Resources and Management
She studies the connections between inequality, the careers people build, and the evolving design of work and organizations. Throughout her research, Dr. Reid pays careful attention to structural mechanisms of inequality, and people's strategies for success. Dr. Reid's field work…
Dr. Glen Randall
Professor / Area Chair, Health Policy and Management / Co-Director, Master of Health Management Program (Acting) · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Health Policy and Management
The impact of health policies on health professionals; Resource allocation and medical funding; Patient-centred care.
Dr. Istvan David
Assistant Professor, Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Sustainable systems engineering, modeling and simulation, digital twins, cyber-biophysical systems, model-driven engineering, multi-paradigm modeling, collaborative modeling, software engineering
Dr. Joey Kish
Professor, Chair, Materials Science and Engineering; Director, Centre for Automotive Materials and Corrosion, Materials Science and Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Corrosion prediction and protection of structural materials in the automotive, aerospace, energy generation and chemical processing industries
Dr. John Maheu
Professor / Business Research Chair · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Finance and Business Economics
Finance and Business Economics
Dr. Judy Han
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Strategic Management
International Entrepreneurship, Immigration Entrepreneurship, Startup Growth, Location Choice
Dr. Kai Huang
Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Operations Management
optimization under uncertainty and data-driven optimization techniques with applications in business analytics and supply chain management. His recent research interests include data-driven inventory management, electric/autonomous vehicles, humanitarian logistics, and food suppl…
Dr. Ken Li
Associate Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Accounting and Financial Management
Research interests: Financial accounting; Capital markets; Auditing.
Dr. Kevin Veenstra
Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Accounting and Financial Management
Accounting And Financial Management
Dr. Khalid Nainar
Professor of Accounting and Financial Management · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Accounting and Financial Management
Energy economics; Financial fraud; Market surveillance; Earning management; Corporate social responsibility.
Dr. Kyla Sask
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Associate Member, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Member, Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, McMaster University · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students. We are currently accepting applications for future MASc and PhD positions to work on various projects related to biomaterials and biointerfaces. Please see the posting for further details here.
Biomaterials, surface modification, protein and cell interactions, blood contacting medical devices, polymers; Areas of Specialization: Bioengineering, Biomaterials, Biomaterials and Devices, Biomedical Engineering, Health Technology, Smart Materials and Devices; Research Cluster…
Dr. Lingyang Chu
Associate Professor · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Data mining, machine learning, big data analytics, interpretability, fairness and security of deep models. Areas of Specialization: Computing Methodologies, Information Systems, Privacy and Security. Research Clusters: Digital & Smart Systems, Health & Bio-innovation.
Dr. Manish Verma
Professor / Associate Dean, Graduate Studies / Director, Master of Management in AI and Analytics AND Master of Management in Applied AI and Data-Driven Decision-Making (Acting) · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Operations Management
His research interests are in multimodal transportation of dangerous goods, risk assessment, network design and planning issues in transportation, humanitarian logistics, green supply chain management, and disruption/ resilience in transportation systems. His current research eng…
Dr. Marek Niewczas
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Plastic deformation and physical properties of deformed materials.
Magnetic and electrical properties of nanocrystalline Ni-, Fe-, Co-based solid solutions
Magnetic shape memory alloys and thin films.
Twinning and martensitic transformation.
Basic aspects of Low Cycle Fatigue of …
Dr. Mohamed S. Hamed
Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Computational fluid dynamics; Fluid mechanics; Heat transfer; Modeling in thermo-fluid systems; Multi-phase flow; Renewable & sustainable energy systems; Thermal processing of materials. Areas of Specialization: Thermo Fluid Sciences. Research Clusters: Energy, Environment.
Dr. Mukesh K. Jain
Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Materials processes and systems, manufacturing processes and systems, metal forming, metallurgy, microscopy, plasticity and formability, process modelling and simulation, steel research, automotive applications, finite element analysis, materials and microstructural engineering, …
Dr. Neil Barr
Assistant Professor / eHealth Program Coordinator / MHM Executive Committee Member · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Health Policy and Management
the role of information and communication technology in enhancing information exchange among health care providers and increasing access to quality care, as well as the relationship between health policy and social organization (e.g., professional guidelines/roles and organizatio…
Dr. Oleg Rubel
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Undergraduate, Materials Science and Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
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Materials modeling, density functional theory, solar cells, lasers, LEDs, quantum materials, 2D materials
Areas of Specialization:
Biomaterials and Devices
Data Analytics & Computational Materials
Intelligent Energy Systems
Interdisciplinary Engineering
Nanotechnology and Micro-…
Dr. Philip Koshy
Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Machining processes; Advanced Manufacturing; Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
Dr. Qian Yang
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Finance and Business Economics
Dr. Yang’s research investigates how behavioral biases, emerging technologies, and information frictions influence asset prices and financial decision-making. His work sits at the intersection of empirical asset pricing, machine learning, and natural language processing, with a f…
Dr. Rosemary Luo
Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Finance and Business Economics
economic theory, behavioral finance, investments and financial accounting
Dr. S. Amy Sommer
Associate Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to supervisor doctoral students.
She specializes in teams and leadership in healthcare management. Her research investigates how to enhance performance, resilience, and creativity during crisis situations. In order to advance theoretical understanding of this complex phenomena, she is exploring and developing ne…
Dr. S. Andrew Gadsden
Associate Chair, Research; Professor · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Artificial intelligence, cognitive systems, control systems, data science, estimation theory, machine learning, mechatronics, smart systems
Dr. Sonia Hassini
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Alleviating land-use and climate change impacts on water runoff, analytical probabilistic stormwater management models, quantification of uncertainties. Areas of Specialization: Resilient Infrastructure Systems, Water Security Under Climate Change
Dr. Spencer Smith
Associate Professor, Computing and Software; Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies - External, Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Software engineering, scientific computing, requirements analysis, program families, finite element method
Areas of Specialization: Applied Computing, Software and its Engineering
Research Clusters: Digital & Smart Systems
Current status: Accepting graduate students
Dr. Susan McCracken
Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Accounting and Financial Management
Dr. McCracken’s research focuses on the decision making process of auditors. Her work focuses on decisions and approaches to negotiation in an audit context. Although her auditor negotiation work began in the audit litigation context, her most recent and extensive work has centre…
Dr. Yair Berson
Professor / Business Research Chair · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Human Resources and Management
His research helps demonstrate how leaders’ characteristics (e.g., values) and actions (e.g., visionary style) affect followers, organizational processes, and outcomes. Using diverse methods, from micro biological and psychological processes to more macro predictors, his research…
Dr. Yan Wang
Associate Professor / Director, Master of Finance Program · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD
Finance and Business Economics
Her research interests lie in price fragility, institutional investment, and empirical corporate finance.
Dr. Yang Pan
Assistant Professor (On Leave) · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Marketing
digital marketing, the marketing-finance interface, and retail analytics; livestream e-commerce, sponsored videos in social media, word of mouth, pricing power, customer-company relationship, spatial models, cybersecurity training, trade policy uncertainty, and inflation
Dr. Yaqin Hu
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Accounting and Financial Management
Yaqin Hu's primary research relates to corporate disclosures in capital markets and the executive labor market.
Dr. Yun Zhou
Associate Professor / Area Chair, Operations Management · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Operations Management
He is interested in revenue management, supply chain management, and healthcare operations management. Most recently, Yun’s research focuses on pricing and matching problems in the sharing economy.
Drew Higgins
Associate Professor · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Drew’s team is regularly recruiting talented and motivated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. If interested, please send your CV, transcript and a brief statement of interest to Drew (higgid2@mcmaster.ca). The Higgins group and McMaster University are committed …
Electrochemistry, catalysis, nanomaterials, energy conversion and storage. sustainable energy technologies, fuel cells, electrosynthesis, electrolyzers, batteries, supercapacitors, in situ/operando materials characterization.
Duncan Cree
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Developing unique blends of sustainable polymer 3D printable filaments, materials testing and characterization, natural fiber/bio-resin composites, agricultural crop residue as biodegradable sorbents for oil spills, and recycling industry waste into value added products.
Areas of…
Fei Chiang
Associate Professor, Computing and Software; Associate Chair for Research, Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Database systems, data quality, data privacy, data cleaning, mining temporal graphs, data profiling; Information Systems; Privacy and Security; Digital & Smart Systems
Gary M. Bone
Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Expertise
Robotics, collaborative robots, control systems, computer vision, machine vision, computer-aided manufacturing, manufacturing automation
Areas of Specialization
Advanced Manufacturing
Mechanics and Design
Research Clusters
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
Digital & Sm…
Giancarlo Dalle Ave
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Energy systems, demand response, planning and scheduling, power systems, process design, technoeconomic and life cycle analyses
Areas of Specialization: Process Systems Engineering; Water-Energy Technologies
Integrated Energy Systems: design, simulation, and optimal operation (bo…
Hassan Ashtiani
Associate Professor, Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Prospective students are encouraged to consult Dr. Ashtiani’s personal homepage about open positions.
Machine learning, statistical learning theory, algorithms and complexity. Areas of Specialization: Computing Methodologies, Theory of Computation. Research Clusters: Digital & Smart Systems. Dr. Ashtiani’s research interests revolve around Machine Learning, Statistics, and Theore…
Heather Sheardown
Dean, Faculty of Engineering; Professor, Chemical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Biomaterials, tissue engineering, mathematical modeling of physiologic processes and ophthalmic drug delivery. Areas of Specialization: Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Devices, Biomedical Engineering, Polymer Materials and Manufacturing. Research Interests: 1) Drug delivery – An…
Jacques Carette
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Computing and Software; Professor, Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Metaprogramming, mechanized mathematics, programming languages, and interactive theorem provers. I am most interested in programming languages, especially ones for typed meta-programming and in their application to software engineering and to mechanized mathematics. I am also wor…
Jake Doliskani
Assistant Professor, Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Post-quantum cryptography, quantum computing, cryptography; Computing Methodologies; Theory of Computation
James S. Cotton
Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Current status: Accepting graduate students
Expertise: Fluid mechanics, heat transfer, modeling in thermo-fluid systems, multi-phase flows, renewals and sustainable energy systems
Areas of Specialization: Thermo Fluid Sciences
Research Clusters: Energy, Environment
Jenna Evans
Associate Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Health Policy and Management
Dr. Jenna Evans studies multiteam systems and inter-organizational networks in healthcare using qualitative methods. She leads three inter-related streams of research on teams and networks focused on: (i) performance management, (ii) shared cognition, and (iii) organizational con…
Jennifer Bauman
Associate Professor · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Expertise: Hybrid and electric powertrain design and control, power electronic converters, advanced vehicle modeling, smart-charging and EV integration into the smart-grid; Areas of Specialization: Integrated, Embedded and Interconnected Systems; Research Clusters: Digital & Smar…
Johannes Steizinger
Associate Professor, Philosophy · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
⭐ Letter to Prospective Grad Students: https://macdrive.mcmaster.ca/f/3b7a48d2a8b440c18344/
Aesthetics, Contemporary continental, Critical theory in philosophy, History of philosophy, Philosophy of race, Political philosophy, Social philosophy
Joseph McDermid
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Associate Member, Mechanical Engineering; Director, Steel Research Centre, Materials Science and Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Expertise: Physical metallurgy of advanced high strength steels, microstructure-property relationships, high temperature oxidation, continuous galvanizing of advanced steels, reactive wetting, electron microscopy. Areas of Specialization: Materials for Manufacturing & Infrastruct…
Jun Chen
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Information & coding theory, machine learning, natural language processing, wireless communications, multimedia communications, signal & image processing, data compression & storage, networking, optimization; Communication Technologies, Systems & Networks; Optimization, Learning …
Justin Jin
Professor / Director of the CPA Ontario Centre for Accounting Research in Regulatory Reporting · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Accounting and Financial Management
Societal implications of accounting practices; Public policy and accounting
Kamil Khan
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Areas of Specialization: Process Systems Engineering. Expertise: Deterministic global optimization, batch and semi-batch systems, sensitivity analysis and optimization for discrete/continuous systems. Research Interests: My research aims to develop efficient, reliable, and automa…
Kathryn Grandfield
Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, Faculty of Engineering; Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Associate Professor, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering; Canada Research Chair in Microscopy of Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (Tier 2), Materials Science and Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Expertise
Biomaterials, osseointegration, electron microscopy, mineralized tissues, electron tomography, atom probe tomography
Areas of Specialization
Biomaterials
Biomaterials and Devices
Biomedical Engineering
Imaging, Sensing and Detection
Research Clusters
Advanced Materials …
Katya Malinova
Associate Professor / Mackenzie Investments Chair in Evidence-Based Investment Management · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Finance and Business Economics
Her research studies how the design of financial markets shapes trading costs, liquidity, competition, and access to market information. Her current work examines how market-data fees can entrench incumbent exchanges, why exchanges pay liquidity rebates, whether automated market …
Kazem Cheshmi
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
High-performance computing, compilers, scientific computing, machine learning, data analytics, numerical optimization
Leili Tafaghodi
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Graduate · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Sustainable high temperature materials processing, extraction and refining of metals and alloys, thermodynamics, reutilization of waste materials in metals and minerals industries; Materials for Manufacturing & Infrastructure; Sustainable Infrastructure; Advanced Materials & Manu…
Lingling Shi
Assistant Professor of Operations Management · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Operations Management
Operations Management; sustainable operations, green technology development, and innovative business models
Lydell Wiebe
Chair, Civil Engineering; Professor, Civil Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, seismic resilience, self-centering systems, controlled rocking systems, steel structures, reinforced masonry; Resilient Infrastructure Systems; Digital & Smart Systems; Infrastructure
M. Jamal Deen
Distinguished University Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Distinguished University Professor, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Member, Engineering Physics; Associate Member, Computing and Software; Dr. Haykin Distinguished Engineering Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Biomedical Technologies; Communication Technologies, Systems & Networks; Imaging, Sensing and Detection; Integrated, Embedded and Interconnected Systems; Microelectronics & VLSI; Advanced Materials & Manufacturing; Digital & Smart Systems; Environment; Health & Bio-innovation; Mi…
Mahdad Eghbalian
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Computational mechanics, constitutive modeling, multiscale modeling, micromechanics, mechanics of porous media, granular mechanics, computational fracture mechanics, mechanistic machine learning, digital twins; Areas of Specialization: Intelligent Energy Systems, Resilient Infras…
Maryam Aramesh
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Manufacturing, machining operations, machining of difficult-to-cut materials, surface engineering, lubricants, coatings, failure diagnostic models
Areas of Specialization: Advanced Manufacturing
Research Clusters: Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
My research interests include…
Maryam Ghasemaghaei
Professor / Area Chair, Information Systems / Canada Research Chair in EDI Issues in Artificial Intelligence-Tier II · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Information Systems
Her research interests relate to the use of data analytics in organizations; Canada Research Chair in EDI Issues in Artificial Intelligence-Tier II
Matthew Giamou
Assistant Professor, Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Mobile robotics, convex optimization, computer vision, machine learning; Applied Computing; Computing Methodologies; Digital & Smart Systems; Environment
Megan B Brickley
Professor, Anthropology · Faculty of Social Sciences
⭐ Dr. Brickley will be accepting graduate students for entry into the program in September 2025 and is interested in hearing from potential applicants at both the Masters and PhD levels. For those at the PhD level, I encourage you to get in touch with a basic outline of the type of research you would …
Research & Supervisory Interests
As the former Tier One Canada Research Chair in The Bioarchaeology of Human Disease, I have firmly established myself as a world expert on the paleopathology of metabolic bone disease, with particular recognition for my work on rickets and osteoma…
Melinda Gough
Professor, English & Cultural Studies · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
⭐ Melinda welcomes graduate supervisees interested in early modern studies; performance studies and performance history; and feminist and gender studies.
Dr. Melinda Gough's research interests include early modern literature and culture; feminist, queer, and trans studies; Performance as Research; editing early modern plays; and early modern court studies.
Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music); Cultural studies; His…
Milena Head
Professor / Wayne C. Fox Chair in Business Innovation / Director, McMaster Digital Transformation Research Centre / Director of the EMBA Program · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Information Systems
Human-computer interaction and understanding how we use and misuse technology. Of particular focus, she seeks to expand understanding of marginalized groups’ (e.g., older adults) use of technologies so that digital divides can be bridged for benefits to all.
Mohamed Bakr
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Optimization methods, computer-aided design and modeling of microwave circuits, neural networks applications, smart analysis of microwave circuits, efficient optimization using time domain simulation methods
Electrified & Autonomous Transportation
Electromagnetics & Photonics
Mic…
Moshe Schwartz
Professor · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Coding theory, storage systems, digital sequences; Communication Technologies, Systems & Networks; Theory of Computation; Digital & Smart Systems
Nabil Bassim
Professor; Scientific Director, Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy (CCEM); Associate Member · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Structure-processing-property relationships, electron microscopy, focused ion beam microscopy, nanomaterials, 2-D materials, image processing, beam-sample interactions, structural materials (concrete, metallurgical alloys), nanofabrication. Areas of Specialization: Data Analytics…
Nooshin Salari
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Operations Management; For available positions please visit ddoor.ca
data-driven decision-making with applications in supply chain management and large-scale optimization problems, as well as developing models that balance performance with equitable outcomes; theory and application of Markov decision processes and approximate dynamic programming
P. Ravi Selvaganapathy
Distinguished Engineering Professor, Canada Research Chair in Biomicrofluidics (laureate), Mechanical Engineering; Co-Director (Engineering), McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering; Professor, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Expertise: Micro/Nanofabrication, bioprinting, biomedical microdevices, microelectromechanical systems, microfluidics, medical and environmental sensors, smart textiles. biomaterials, artificial organs. Areas of Specialization: Advanced Manufacturing, Biomaterials and Devices, Bi…
Prashant Mhaskar
Professor, Chemical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Process control, nonlinear Lyapunov-based and model predictive control, fault-tolerant control, control of hybrid systems.
Qiyin Fang
Professor, Engineering Physics; Associate Member, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering; Canada Research Chair in Biophotonics · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Biophotonics, microscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging, intelligent sensing for point-of-care, aging-in-place, environmental monitoring; Imaging, Sensing and Detection; Advanced Materials & Manufacturing, Digital & Smart Systems, Environment, Health & Bio-innovation, Mic…
Rafael Kleiman
Professor and Department Chair, Engineering Physics · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Expertise
Solar energy: photovoltaics and concentrator photovoltaics, solar testing and instrumentation, solar materials (silicon, III-V, CIGS), hyperspectral imaging, device modelling, advanced light trapping, MEMS devices, photonic integrated circuits, quantum materials and dev…
Raja Ghosh
Professor, Chemical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Expertise: Bioseparation using ultrafiltration, bioseparation using membrane chromatography, biomimetic membranes. Areas of Specialization: Bioengineering, Polymer Materials and Manufacturing. Research Clusters: Health & Bio-innovation. Research Interests: Membrane chromatography…
Richard Paige
Professor, Computing and Software; Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Professor, Computing and Software; Chair, Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ I’m actively looking for great students interested in working on modeling, safety, security and software engineering at McMaster.
Expertise: Software engineering, model-driven engineering, safety-critical systems, formal methods, software testing, software requirements, data analytics, open-source, cloud computing, low-code techniques, compilers, aerospace, avionics | Areas of Specialization: Information Sy…
Ronald Balvers
Professor / Michael Lee-Chin & Family Chair in Investment & Portfolio Management · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Finance and Business Economics
Area of expertise is Asset Pricing and Financial Markets, Investments. His research focuses on asset pricing, financial markets, and investment strategies, with a particular interest in explaining global market anomalies, risk premia, and the predictability of returns, predominan…
Ronald Cummings
Professor, English & Cultural Studies · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
⭐ I welcome graduate supervisees interested in Caribbean Studies, queer studies, literary archives and historiography, Black political thought and social movements.
My research has been primarily oriented around three particular sites of inquiry. These might be broadly classified in terms of 1) questions of cultural and literary decolonization, 2) questions of sexual citizenship and 3) the histories of Black freedom struggles. These are inte…
Ruhai Wu
Associate Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Marketing
His research expertise spans industrial and retail marketing strategies, including pricing, advertising, channel relationships, customer relationship management, and digital platform management. Dr. Wu employs both game-theoretic modelling and empirical analysis to examine the st…
Rui Duan
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Finance and Business Economics
sustainable finance, climate and biodiversity risks, green innovation, cybersecurity risks, customer–supplier networks, and corporate disclosure
Ryan Ahmed
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Expertise: Artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning, autonomous vehicles, electric and hybrid powertrains, electrified vehicles, renewable and efficient energy systems, energy and sustainability. Areas of Specialization: Intelligent Energy Systems, Smarter Mobility. Res…
Saeid Habibi
Professor, Mechanical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Automotive applications, control systems, hybrid vehicles, mechatronics, renewal and sustainable energy systems, Battery Management Systems, Battery Characterization, Smooth Variable Structure Filter, Battery Pack Design; Advanced Manufacturing; Mechanics and Design; Smart System…
Sarah Brophy
Professor, English & Cultural Studies · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
⭐ She welcomes graduate supervisees interested in critical interdisciplinary approaches to disability, embodiment, and health humanities; contemporary literatures, especially life writing (e.g. memoir, graphic narrative); and visual and digital media. She also serves on MA and PhD committees related t…
Dr. Sarah Brophy's research interests include auto/biography, contemporary literatures, critical disability studies, health humanities, and visual culture and media studies, with a focus on cultural production by writers and artists working in Turtle Island/North America and in t…
Sash Vaid
Associate Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Marketing
Political Economy of Marketing; Dual-use Industrial and Cyber Technologies; Exogenous Shocks (e.g. regulatory, policy actions); Marketing Interfaces
Sean O'Brady
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Human Resources and Management
Sean's research focuses on:
1) low-wage work and its regulation;
2) digitalization and the future of work;
3) labour unions and collective bargaining;
4) comparative capitalism and employment systems; and
5) management control and worker exploitation.
Shahab Asoodeh
Assistant Professor, Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ There are several open Ph.D. positions available on the topic of trustworthy machine learning (e.g., privacy, algorithmic fairness, interpretability). The ideal candidates have strong background in mathematics and passion for information theory and theoretical machine learning. Interested candidates…
Data privacy, algorithmic fairness, information theory, machine learning and AI; Computing Methodologies; Privacy and Security; Theory of Computation; Digital & Smart Systems; responsible machine learning, differential privacy, distributed optimization and learning, social and ec…
Shane Saunderson
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Information Systems
Shane’s research interests focus on human interactions with social machines, with particular interests in topics such as trust, persuasion, and anthropomorphism. He is the Director of the Research on Artificial Persons (RAP) Lab, which investigates the psychological, organization…
Sivan Sabato
Associate Professor, Computing and Software · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students. I am currently hiring Computer Science PhD and MSc students. Current graduate students can also apply for a research internship in my lab through Vector Institute. The next available time periods for Vector internships in my lab are Fall 2026 and Winter 2027. Please cons…
Interactive machine learning, machine learning theory, fairness in machine learning | Computing Methodologies | Digital & Smart Systems | My research is in machine learning theory and algorithms. I focus mainly on active and interactive learning: a setting where the data source a…
Stuart Linley
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Stuart is always looking for bright, enthusiastic young researchers to join his team. If you are interested in joining our team, please contact Stuart by email at linleys@mcmaster.ca with:
1. Your CV
2. Your transcript
3. A brief personal statement expressing your resear…
Photocatalysis, nanomaterials, solar fuels, sustainable energy technologies, functional materials, nanocomposites, catalyst recovery; Water-Energy Technologies; Environment
Suraj Persaud
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Materials Performance in Nuclear Energy Applications, Corrosion Science, Environmentally Assisted Cracking, Electrochemistry, Materials Characterization
Telex M. N. Ngatched
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Wireless communications and underwater communications Signal processing for communications and networking 5G and 6G enabling technologies Optimization methods Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and smart environments
Communication Technologies, Systems & Networks
Digital & Smart…
Thomas E. Doyle
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Associate Member, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Biomedical signal processing, human-computer interfacing (HCI), machine learning for the augmentation, rehabilitation and enhancement of human attributes; Areas of Specialization: Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Technologies, Imaging, Sensing and Detection, Integrated, Embedde…
Tim Davidson
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Signal processing for communications and networking
Areas of Specialization:
Communication Technologies, Systems & Networks
Optimization, Learning & Control
Signal, Image & Video Processing
My research interests lie in the broad fields of signal processing, communications, and …
Todd Hoare
Professor, Chemical Engineering; Associate Member, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Chair (Research), Chemical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Nanotechnology, interfacial engineering, biomaterials engineering, polymer science, pharmaceutical science, drug delivery, tissue engineering, agriculture. Areas of Specialization: Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Devices, Biomedical Engineering, Polymer Materials and Manufacturi…
Tohid Didar
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nano-biomaterials, Mechanical Engineering; Associate Professor, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Biomedical devices, bio-sensing, microfluidics, bio-functional interfaces, bio-hybrid micro/nano-robots; Biomaterials and Devices; Biomechanics; Biomedical Engineering; Therapeutics; Advanced Materials & Manufacturing; Digital & Smart Systems; Health & Bio-innovation; Micro-Nano …
Trevor William Chamberlain
Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Finance and Business Economics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Yao Yao
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Human Resources and Management
Her research focuses on the digital transformation of work, with a particular interest in professional occupations. For example, she has studied lawyers providing legal services in an Uber-like online labour platforms and the HRM profession under the influence of analytics and AI…
Younggy Kim
Professor, Civil Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Biological wastewater treatment, water reuse, physical/chemical water treatment, nutrient recovery, energy recovery, water quality sensors, heavy metal removal, anaerobic digestion, sludge pre/post-treatment, numerical modeling, microbial electrochemistry, ion exchange membrane, …
Zeinab Hosseinidoust
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering; Associate Professor, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering; Canada Research Chair in Bacteriophage Bioengineering (Tier 2), Chemical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students. If you are a self-driven and innovative individual who likes to think outside the box and is considering applied research at the graduate or undergraduate level, please contact me with your CV and transcripts.
Phage-biomaterial & phage-device combinations; Phage processing stability; Phage preservation; Phage self-organization; In vitro and in vivo models for phage therapy; Phage spray drying; Phage aerosolization; High throughput assays and biosensors with bacteriophages; Phage hydrog…
Zoe Li
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering; Associate Member, Computing and Software; Associate Chair, Graduate Studies, Civil Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ Accepting graduate students
Uncertainty analysis, risk management, stochastic modelling, water resources management, climate change impacts, environmental systems analysis. Areas of Specialization: Smarter Mobility, Water Security Under Climate Change. Research Clusters: Digital & Smart Systems, Environment…
Zohair Alam
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
⭐ Available to Supervise PhD: Finance and Business Economics
His overall research interests lie in empirical asset pricing. Currently, he is interested in examining how information is incorporated into asset prices, particularly focusing on how markets develop expectations of central bank decisions.
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Aadil Merali Juma
Associate Professor / Director, Graduate Diploma in Professional Accountancy Program · DeGroote School of Business
Teaching interests: Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, and Accounting for Decision Makers. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of financial accounting, managment accounting, and professional judgment in decision-making. He is particularly focused…
Abhimanyu Acharya
Assistant Professor, Global Peace and Social Justice · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adam Lavecchia
Associate Professor, Economics · Faculty of Social Sciences
Public economics, Labour economics, Applied Econometrics
Adeel Mahmood
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adrien Crossman
Assistant Professor, School of the Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adrienne Davidson
Associate Professor, Political Science · Faculty of Social Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Aida Geraldina Polanco Sorto
Associate Professor, Sociology · Faculty of Social Sciences
Gender, sexuality and education; Globalization and culture; Cultural studies; Industrial relations
Alan Wassyng
Professor, PEng; Graduate Advisor for Software Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
Safety and certification of software-intensive systems; Software and its Engineering; Digital & Smart Systems; Health & Bio-innovation
Alexander Klein
Professor, Philosophy · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alexandre Sevigny
Associate Professor, Communication Studies & Media Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
Communications, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Digital Technology, Linguistics, Data & Security
Alice Pinheiro Walla
Associate Professor, Philosophy · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
Philosophy (except philosophy of specific fields), Political philosophy, History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Kant, History and philosophy of law and justice
Alim Nagji
Associate Clinical Professor, Family Medicine · Gap Fill - Faculty of Health Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alina Sajed
Professor, Political Science · Faculty of Social Sciences
International relations; international relations theory, globalization and transnationalism, the politics of the Global South, and political violence. She is particularly interested in colonialism and decolonization, anticolonial theory and praxis, North Africa and the Middle Eas…
Alison Baker
Associate Clinical Professor, Family Medicine · Gap Fill - Faculty of Health Sciences
Her research activities include using simulation to teach essential conversations in palliative care, identifying opportunities for increasing access to palliative care, and examining motivations for pursuing enhanced skill credentials in family medicine.
Alison Mcqueen
Professor, History · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Allan Downey
Associate Professor, History · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
Indigenous history
Allauren Forbes
Associate Professor, Philosophy · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
Feminist philosophy, History of philosophy, Political philosophy
Allison Platt
Professor, Communication Studies & Media Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
Media arts; Media, visual and digital culture; Visual arts and media arts; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Video, Film, Photography, Visual Art, Web-based Art, Digital Media, Performance Art, Installation Art, Conceptual Art, Documentary, Personal Narrative, Su…
Alok Johri
Professor, Economics · Faculty of Social Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alpha Abebe
Associate Professor, Communication Studies & Media Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
Anti Oppression, Citizenship Studies, Community Based Research, Critical Race Theory, Globalization, Globalization & Transnationalism, Immigration, Interdisciplinary, Marginalized Groups, Movements, Race, Race and Ethnicity, Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, Research Ethics, Soci…
Amanda Bell
Clinical Professor, Family Medicine · Gap Fill - Faculty of Health Sciences
Amanda’s research interests include distributed medical education, professionalism, student mistreatment and experience and leadership development. Special Interests: student mistreatment, distributed medical education, professionalism, women's health, adolescent medicine.
Amanda M Grenier
Associate Member, Social Work; Associate Professor in Health, Aging and Society, Gilbrea Chair in Aging and Mental Health, and Director of the Gilbrea Centre for the Study of Aging · Faculty of Social Sciences (Social Work)
Aged health care; Social policy; bridging gaps between concepts, research, and practice in social gerontology; exploring the intersections of aging and homelessness in Montreal, Quebec; developing an international network of scholars advancing critical perspectives on the study o…
Amanda Ramdyal
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine · Gap Fill - Faculty of Health Sciences
strong clinical interest in women’s health and sexual health; special research interest in prevention, screening and management of sexually transmitted infections
Ameil Joseph
Professor, Social Work · Faculty of Social Sciences (Social Work)
Aging, Post-colonialism, Criminological theories, History and philosophy of the social sciences, Mental health, Social change, Social philosophy, Social theory, Social work, Health Equity, Migration, Services for persons with disabilities, Critical identity, ethnic and race studi…
Amie Davis
Associate Professor, Family Medicine · Gap Fill - Faculty of Health Sciences
Family Medicine Obstetrical Care, Gender Affirming Primary Care, Medical Education.
Amir Taherizadeh
Assistant Professor · DeGroote School of Business
His research investigates the evolving dynamics of innovation and digital transformation, particularly within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It contributes to knowledge on how organizations adapt to and leverage emerging technologies to distinguish themselves from com…
Anastasios Papanastasiou
Assistant Professor, Economics · Faculty of Social Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrea Zeffiro
Associate Professor, Communication Studies & Media Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
Communication technology and digital media studies, Communications, Data & Security, Digital Technology, Social Justice, Theory & Computing; critical data studies, critical cybersecurity studies, data justice, and qualitative digital research methods
Andrew Mactavish
Associate Professor, Communication Studies & Media Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew Mitchell
Assistant Professor, School of the Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Angela Sheng
Professor, School of the Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Angela Zheng
Associate Professor, Economics · Faculty of Social Sciences
Labour Economics, Macroeconomics, Labour economics, Macroeconomics (including monetary and fiscal theory)
Anjali Linda Candice Menezes
Assistant Clinical Professor, Family Medicine · Gap Fill - Faculty of Health Sciences
A family physician, educator, and community-based scholar firmly rooted adjacent to the academy. My work is grounded in my love for family medicine and for understanding how our social contexts have far-reaching impacts for our health and attainment.
Anna Korol
Assistant Professor, Integrated Biomedical Engineering & Health Sciences · Faculty of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Anna Moro
Associate Professor, Linguistics and Languages · Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Anne-Marie Livingstone
Assistant Professor, Sociology · Faculty of Social Sciences
Anne-Marie Livingstone’s research explores the intersections between politics, public policy, and racism in the Canadian settler colonial context. The goal is to build knowledge of the ways by which public institutions perpetuate and exacerbate racism and racial inequality. She h…
Anthony Adili
Associate Professor, McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
Clinical outcome studies in hip and knee surgery/injury, surgical robots, navigation and modeling, MSK pain management and optimized care, preoperative total joint arthroplasty, orthopaedic total arthroplasty trials, health economic analysis, basic science/bio materials research …
Ariella Binik
Associate Professor, Philosophy · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Arij Elmi
Assistant Professor, Social Work · Faculty of Social Sciences (Social Work)
Gender, Race, Social Justice, Violence
Arthur Sweetman
Professor, Economics · Faculty of Social Sciences
Healthcare systems and health economics research, Labour economics
Barrington Walker
Vice Provost, Equity & Inclusion, Equity and Inclusion Office; Professor, History · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Basit Iqbal
Associate Professor, Anthropology; Associate Member, Religious Studies · Faculty of Social Sciences
Religion and Politics; History, Temporality, and Time; Postcolonial Theory; Violence
Behrouz Bakhtiari
Assistant Professor / Director of the MBA Programs / Director, Blended Learning Part-Time MBA Program · DeGroote School of Business
Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Analytics, Application of Game Theory in OM, etc.
Beth Marquis
Associate Professor, School of the Arts; Director, Arts & Science · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bettina Brueggemann
Associate Professor, Economics · Faculty of Social Sciences
Public economics, Entrepreneurship, Financial economics
Billur Gorgulu
Assistant Professor, Economics · Faculty of Social Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bonnie Marie Freeman
Associate Professor, Social Work · Faculty of Social Sciences (Social Work)
Studies of Indigenous societies, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous-Settler Relations, Arts-Informed Social Work, Social Work Practices, Critical Social Work, Indigenous health, Social work, Other social work, n.e.c., Indigenous psychology
Bonny Ibhawoh
Professor, History; Vice-Provost (International Affairs), Office of International Affairs · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
Human rights; Human rights and justice ethical issues; Politics and History; global human rights, peace/conflict studies, legal and imperial history
Bradley Ruffle
Professor, Economics · Faculty of Social Sciences
Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Industrial Organization, Experimental economics, Industry economics and industrial organisation
Brian Detlor
Professor of Information Systems · DeGroote School of Business
Information Systems; digital literacy training programs offered by community organizations, such as public libraries and social service agencies; enhancing the digital literacy skills of older adults
Briana Palmer
Associate Professor, School of the Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bridget O'Shaughnessy
Associate Professor, Economics · Faculty of Social Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bryan Lee
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
Biomaterials, surface characterization, cell-material interface, sustainable development goals
Biomaterials
Biomaterials and Devices
Biomedical Engineering
Health & Bio-innovation
Cameron Churchill
Director, Engineering & Society; Assistant Professor (Teaching Professor), Civil Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Candice Chow
Assistant Professor / Director of the Foresight Lab · DeGroote School of Business
Her research sits at the intersection of strategic leadership, values-based management, foresight, and governance — with a focus on how organizations navigate uncertainty while remaining anchored in human-centric and sustainable principles. Current projects examine how strategic …
Carmela Alfaro-laganse
Associate Professor, School of the Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Catherine Anderson
Professor, Linguistics and Languages · Faculty of Humanities
Dr. Anderson's teaching and research interests center around equity, justice, and decolonization in universities, particularly in online teaching, active learning classrooms, and in the field of Linguistics.
Catherine Frost
Professor, Political Science · Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Theory; History of Political Thought; Communications; Public Leadership; International Law; Political theory; Communication and media studies; political thought and history, including political community, communications theory, and international theory; the birth of sta…
Catherine Grise
Associate Professor, English & Cultural Studies · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
My research engages the study of gender, reading, and religion; women’s literature and culture; and pedagogy and education. I also teach and write feminist speculative fiction.
My areas of graduate supervision cover a wide historical range, from medieval and early modern literat…
Cathy Risdon
Professor, Family Medicine · Gap Fill - Faculty of Health Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Celia Elaine Rothenberg
Associate Professor, Religious Studies · Faculty of Social Sciences
Religion and religious studies, Jewish studies, Current research Areas: Jewish Studies, Anthropology of Religion
Chandrima Chakraborty
Professor, English & Cultural Studies · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
Dr. Chandrima Chakraborty’s research is on public memory, nationalist history, masculinity and religion, social and cultural determinants of health, race and nation-making in Canada, and the politics of memorialization in South Asia and Canada. Areas of Expertise: Canadian Politi…
Cheryl Allaby
Associate Member, Medicine · Gap Fill - Faculty of Health Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Chih-Hung (James) Chen
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering · Faculty of Engineering
High-frequency characterization of nano-scale semiconductor transistors, thermal noise characterization and modeling of MOSFETs ultra low-power, low-noise analog ICs for telecommunications, analog and RF ICs for wireless transceivers | Areas of Specialization: Biomedical Technolo…
Chris Myhr
Associate Professor, Communication Studies & Media Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christiaan Mueris
Associate Professor, Economics · Faculty of Social Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christina Baade
Professor, Communication Studies & Media Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
Christina Baade's research crosses popular music, media, and sound studies. In her research, she examines the performative work of women stars; the intersections of music and labor (including caregiving labor), the cultural impact of music radio and streaming; and cultural memory…
Christina Sinding
Professor, Social Work · Faculty of Social Sciences (Social Work)
Social work, Arts-Based Research Methods, Arts-Informed Social Work
Christine Quail
Associate Professor, Communication Studies & Media Arts · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christopher Rowley
Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy · Gap Fill - Faculty of Health Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Claude Eilers
Associate Professor, Greek & Roman Studies · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Claudia Isabel Emerson
Professor, Philosophy · Gap Fill - Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Claudia Steffler
Assistant Clinical Professor, Family Medicine · Gap Fill - Faculty of Health Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Clifton van der Linden
Associate Professor, Political Science · Faculty of Social Sciences
Electoral Politics, Public Opinion, Digital Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy
Daniel Pape
Associate Professor, Linguistics and Languages · Faculty of Humanities
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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