An overview of research funding received by the Faculty of Science
Research statistics
Competitive research funding, research chairs, technology transfer and more – learn about the Faculty of Science’s successes last year.
Funding
Source |
Amount |
Percentage |
---|---|---|
Canada Foundation for Innovation |
$2,173,835 |
6.2% |
Tri-Council Grants (including CRC) |
$14,509,314 |
41.7% |
Other External Operating |
$3,348,708 |
9.6% |
Internal Funding |
$3,871,355 |
11.1% |
Contracts-Public sector (including Mitacs) |
$8,277,140 |
24.0% |
Contracts-Industry |
$2,608,965 |
7.5% |
TOTAL |
$34,789,317 |
100% |
CRC: Canada Research Chairs
Major funding success stories
![Maia Fraser](/faculty-science/sites/g/files/bhrskd386/files/styles/max_width_l_1470px/public/2023-06/Maia%20Fraser.jpg?itok=e-d1t6H_)
Emboldening students to cross disciplinary boundaries
![Roberto Chica](/faculty-science/sites/g/files/bhrskd386/files/styles/max_width_l_1470px/public/2023-06/Roberto%20Chica.jpg?itok=xYe2KLTk)
Making the world a better place – One enzyme at a time
![Adina Luican-Mayer and Jean-Michel Ménard](/faculty-science/sites/g/files/bhrskd386/files/styles/max_width_l_1470px/public/2023-06/Growing%20our%20research%20teams%20to%20advance%20quantum%20technologies%20%28web%29.png?itok=hKEq2UlO)
Growing our research teams to advance quantum technologies
![Anne Broadbent](/faculty-science/sites/g/files/bhrskd386/files/styles/max_width_l_1470px/public/2023-06/Anne%20Broadbent.jpg?itok=HNruSJhq)
Better, faster, stronger: the future of quantum computing
![Drone view of campus](/faculty-science/sites/g/files/bhrskd386/files/styles/max_width_l_1470px/public/2023-05/Success%20in%20number%202021-22_0.jpg?itok=ZkO_Whd3)
Advancing science by collaborating across disciplines
Success in numbers
awards to our researchers
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) scholarship recipients
Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) scholarship recipients
Research
- 3 invention disclosures
- 24 patents issued
- 10 patent applications filed
- 126 contracts signed
Researchers
- 150 APUO researchers
-
142 Postdoctoral researchers
- 2 new researchers:
- Kelsey Gasior, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Augusto Gerolin, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
![Close up on samples](/faculty-science/sites/g/files/bhrskd386/files/2023-05/Success%20in%20number%202021-22%20%28subsection%201%29.jpg)
Emeritus Professors
PhD students
MSc students
Chairs
31 research chair holders
31 active chairs
- University Research Chair (URC): 13
- Distinguished Research Chair : 1
- Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC): 10
- Tier 2 Canada Research Chair: 7
4 new chairs
- Augusto Gerolin – Tier 2 CRC in AI at the Interface of Chemistry and Mathematics
- Derek Pratt – URC in Free Radical Chemistry
- Vincent Tabard-Cossa – URC in Nanoscale Biophysics and Nanopore Science
- Paul Corkum – Distinguished Research Chair in Attosecond Science
3 chairs renewed
- Pascal Audet – URC in Solid Earth Geophysics
- David Bryce – URC in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- Vance Trudeau – URC in Neuroendocrinology
Grants
- $34.8 M in grants
- 94% success rate in the 2021/22 NSERC Discovery Grant competition
- 3 NSERC RTI grants
- 1 new CREATE grant
- 3 NFRF – Exploration grants
![STEM complex exterior](/faculty-science/sites/g/files/bhrskd386/files/2023-05/Success%20in%20number%20%28subsection2%29.jpg)