The Canadian Science Policy Centre in partnership with Canada's Chief Science Advisor Dr. Mona Nemer is pleased to announce the Delegates for the 2023 Science Meets Parliament program.

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Congratulations to all successful applicants!

Total Applicants (n=120)
Selected Delegates (n=38)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Banting Postdoctoral Fellows

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Anna Funk

Emerging infectious diseases in women and children

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University of Calgary
Calgary, AB

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Jonathan Michaels

Motor neuroscience

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Western University
London, ON

Headshot of Elaine Toombs
Elaine Toombs

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Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, ON

Tier II Canada Research Chairs

Headshot of Miriam Beauchamp

Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

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Université de Montréal
Montréal, QC

Headshot of Jennifer Brunet

Physical Activity Promotion and Cancer Prevention

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University of Ottawa
Montréal, QC

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Health Economics

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Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS

Headshot of Björn Herrmann

Auditory Aging

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Baycrest Health Sciences & University of Toronto
North York, ON

Headshot of Kenneth Jason Kindrachuk

Molecular Pathogenesis of Emerging Viruses

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University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB

Headshot of Shalini Lal

Technology for Youth Mental Health Services

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University of Montreal
Montréal, QC

Headshot of Ryan Van Lieshout

Perinatal Mental Health

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McMaster University
Hamilton, ON

Headshot of Ayman Oweida

Anti-Tumor Immunity by Radiotherapy

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Universite de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, QC

Headshot of Sylvia Santosa

Clinical Nutrition

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Concordia University
Montréal, QC

Headshot of Mireille Schnitzer

Causal Inference and Machine Learning in Health Science

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Université de Montréal
Montréal, QC

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Banting Postdoctoral Fellows

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Gregory Funston

Deep-time lessons for biodiversity conservation

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Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, ON

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Effie Pereira

Attention and how we flexibly process different information around us

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University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON

Tier II Canada Research Chairs

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Assistive Technologies

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University of Victoria
Victoria, BC

Headshot of Thomas Brunner

Subatomic Physics

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McGill University
Montréal, QC

Headshot of Timothy Chan

Novel Optimization and Analytics in Health

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University of Toronto
Toronto, ON

Headshot of Catherine Febria

Freshwater Restoration Ecology

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University of Windsor
Windsor, ON

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Endogenous Repair

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University of Toronto
Toronto, ON

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Decision Neuroscience

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University of Toronto Scarborough
Toronto, ON

Headshot of Hadis Karimipour

Secure and Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems

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University of Calgary
Calgary, AB

Headshot of Audrey Laventure

Functional Polymer Materials

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Université de Montréal
Montréal, QC

Headshot of Yifeng (Ethan) Li

Machine Learning for Biomedical Data Science

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Brock University
St. Catharines, ON

Headshot of Rebecca Shapiro

Microbial Functional Genomics and Synthetic Biology

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University of Guelph
Guelph, ON

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Real-Time Intelligence Embedded for High-Speed Sensors

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Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, QC

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Banting Postdoctoral Fellows

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Sarah Moritz

Environmental Action Anthropology

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Concordia University
Montreal, QC

Tier II Canada Research Chairs

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Developmental Trauma

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Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivieres, QC

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Indigenous Justice and Wellbeing

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University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK

Headshot of Sonia Kang

Identity, Diversity and Inclusion

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University of Toronto
Mississauga, ON

Headshot of Jennifer Khoury

Interdisciplinary Studies in Neuroscience

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Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, NS

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Youth Mental Health and Performance

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Brock University
St. Catharines, ON

Headshot of Robert Mizzi

Queer, Community, and Diversity Education

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University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB

Headshot of Lindsay Morcom

Language Revitalization and Decolonizing Education

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Queen's University
Kingston, ON

Headshot of Haorui Wu

Resilience

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Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS

Independent Indigenous Researchers

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Warren Cardinal-McTeague

Indigenous relationships with land and ecosystem health

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University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

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Jessica Kolopenuk

Indigenous science, technology, and society

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University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB

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Melissa Perreault

Sex differences in neurological disorders

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University of Guelph
Guelph, ON

2022 Delegates completing this year

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Patient and Community Partnership

CIHR/IRSC
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Université de Montréal
Montréal, QC

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Open Data Science

CIHR/IRSC
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The University of British Columbia (UBC)
Vancouver, BC

Headshot of Frank Deer

Indigenous Education

SSHRC/CRSH
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University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB

headshot of Natalya Gomez in a purple blazer

Ice Sheet - Sea Level Interactions

NSERC/CRSNG
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McGill University
Montréal, QC

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Analytical Environmental Chemistry

NSERC/CRSNG
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University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK

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Atlantic Canada Communities

SSHRC/CRSH
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Saint Mary's University
Halifax, NS

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Personalized Medicine of Upper Airway Health and Diseases

CIHR/IRSC
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McGill University
Montréal, QC

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Persuasive Technology

NSERC/CRSNG
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Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS

Thanks to the Science Meets Parliament organizing committee for making this program possible:

  • Christopher Caputo, York University
  • Sandy Hanna, Office of the Chief Science Advisor

  • Mehrdad Hariri, Canadian Science Policy Centre

  • Cecile Malardier-Jugroot, Royal Military College of Canada

  • Matt McTaggart, Royal Military College of Canada

  • Trushar Patel, University of Lethbridge

  • Homa Kheyrollah Pour, Wilfrid Laurier University

  • Peter Thornton, Office of the Chief Science Advisor

  • Wendi Zhou, Canadian Science Policy Centre