New perspectives
Meet the incoming professors at the Faculty of Science

Meet the incoming professors at the Faculty of Science

Our incoming professors bring fresh and unique perspectives to campus with their research and teaching experience. Click through to see profiles of the faculty member featured below.
Statistician Dr. Alexi Rodríguez-Arelis is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Master of Data Science program..
Dr. Alex Moore is a new Assistant Professor in the department of botany with a joint appointment in the faculty of forestry's department of forest and conservation sciences. Their researchers focuses on how predator
Dr. Caroline Lemieux's research aims to help developers improve the correctness, security, and performance of software systems.
Dr. Monika Fischer studies the role that fungi play in wildfire recovery. She combines genetics and molecular biology to better understand how fire-adapted fungi interact with each other and their environment.
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Dr. Ilsa Cooke is a new Assistant Professor in the department of chemistry. Her research focuses on laboratory surface and gas-phase experiments to unravel the formation of molecules in interstellar space.
Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor is a new Assistant Professor in the departments of botany and zoology. Her research examines the effects of human activity on global biodiversity.
Computer scientist Dr. Vered Shwartz studies how to improve common sense reasoning in natural language processing (NLP) by building and training machine learning models.
Dr. Miranda Holmes-Cerfon's research is at the intersection of soft matter physics and statistical physics, which helps design nanoscale systems that can be useful in different tools, from vaccines, nano-robots, to battery components and microscopes.
Dr. Joel Östblom is a new assistant professor of teaching in the Master of Data Science program. He is passionate about open access communities that can make data science more accessible for students.
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