ORF Review panel members

Co-Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Cannon

President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Calgary

Elizabeth Cannon is President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calgary, and a professor in Geomatics Engineering with expertise in GPS and navigation technologies. She is Past Chair of Universities Canada and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Co-Chair: Dr. Benjamin Geiger

Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Biology, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Prof. Geiger served as President of the Israel Cell Biology Organization, the Israel Society for Microscopy, the European Cytoskeletal Forum, and various other scientific initiatives. He chaired the Life Science and Medicine Section of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), the major funding source for basic research in Israel between 2003 and 2009, and since 2009 he serves as the ISF Chair.

Dr. Isabelle Catelas

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) at the University of Ottawa

Isabelle Catelas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa, with cross-appointments to the Department of Surgery and to the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine. She holds the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering in Orthopaedics. She worked for Baxter International Inc. in Research and Development after receiving her Ph.D. in 2002, and joined the University of Ottawa in 2008.

Dr. Usha George

Professor, Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University

Since 2017, Dr. George is the Director of the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement, after completing terms as the Dean of the Faculty of Community Services and the interim Vice-President, Research and Innovation at Ryerson University. Her area of research and scholarship is Migration Studies.

Dr. Amir Khajepour

Professor, University of Waterloo

Amir Khajepour is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Mechatronic Vehicle Systems, and Senior NSERC/General Motors Industrial Research Chair in Holistic Vehicle Control.

Dr. Steven Rothstein

Professor, University Research Chair, University of Guelph

Dr. Steven Rothstein is a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph. His main area of study is to use genetics and genomics technologies to develop crop plants having better to tolerance to environmental stresses like drought.

Dr. Ted Sargent

Vice-President International, University of Toronto

Ted Sargent holds the rank of University Professor at the University of Toronto and the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology and Photonics. His research includes applications in communications and computing, medicine, and energy. He has also founded or co-founded two start-up companies, InVisage Technologies and Xagenic.

Dr. Rui Wang

Vice-President Research, Laurentian University

Dr. Wang has been Vice-President Research of Lakehead University (2004-2014) and Laurentian University (2015-). He is also an international leader in biomedical study of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), holding concurrent research grants from all of the tri-agencies as the principal investigator.