AITKEN, Sally - Forest and Conservation Sciences Department, The University of British Columbia Sally Aitken is a Professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia, and an internationally recognized authority on the genetic adaptation of forest trees to climate. Her research links genomics, ecology and climatology to understand adaptation and the capacity of trees to adapt to new conditions. She is helping re-shape forest management, conservation, and reforestation decisions for new climates.

Sally Aitken est une professeur du Département des Sciences des Forêts et de la Conservation à l'Université de la Colombie Britannique. Elle est reconnue comme une autorité au niveau international en génétique de l'adaptation des forêts aux variations climatiques. Son travail de recherche relie la génomique, l'écologie et la climatologie pour comprendre l'adaptation, et la capacité des arbres à s'adapter à de nouvelles conditions. Elle participe au remaniement de la gestion des forêts, de la conservation, et des décisions de reforestation face à l'apparition de nouveaux climats.

Mustafa Akcoglu, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, has made outstanding contributions to ergodic theory, a branch of mathematics which has developed from the study of Gibbs and Boltzmann on the dependence between time and space averages in a physical system. Professor Akcoglu has recently obtained the proof of an ergodic theorem in Lp, a most important result long-sought for by mathematicians. The success of his original and ingenious methods make him one of the world's leading ergodic theorists.

Professor Payam Akhavan is a renowned scholar and practitioner of international criminal law, transitional justice, and human rights. His seminal publications and ground-breaking victim-centred research have had a significant impact on shaping these fields, with a focus on the relevance of global accountability mechanisms for survivors of genocide. He is also a noted public intellectual and advocate for persecuted minorities, who has made significant contributions to the jurisprudence of international courts and tribunals.

Le professeur Payam Akhavan est un spécialiste et un praticien renommé du droit pénal international, de la justice transitionnelle et des droits de la personne. Ses publications fondamentales et ses recherches novatrices axées sur les victimes ont eu un impact considérable sur l’évolution de ces domaines, en particulier sur la pertinence des mécanismes mondiaux de reddition de compte pour les survivants des génocides. Il est également un intellectuel public reconnu qui soutient les minorités persécutées et qui a apporté d’importantes contributions à la jurisprudence des cours et tribunaux internationaux.

Al-Haddad, Kamal - Département de génie électrique, École de Technologie Supérieure Dr. Al-Haddad is a pioneer in the field of power electronics and energy conversion systems. An internationally recognized expert, he has advanced the field by proposing novel power electronics converter topologies and digital control techniques. He has made tremendous impact in innovative product designs by transferring new technologies from his research lab to aerospace, transportation, telecommunications and electric utility industries in Canada and throughout the globe.

Dr. Alcock's research is concerned with the development of high powered lasers and their application to the production and study of high density, high temperature plasmas. He is recognized as a pioneer in the area of laser instrumentation and laser diagnostics preparing the way for inertially-confined fusion experiments. As head of the NRC Laser and Plasma Physics Section, he has led his colleagues to the forefront in these fields within Canada and on the world scene As author and co-author, he has published more than eighty papers and his work has provided valuable scientific support for an indigenous high powered laser industry.

Le professeur Yvan Allaire enseigne au département des sciences administratives de l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a fait ses études de doctorat au Sloan School of Management du Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Ses articles ont été publiés dans les revues scientifiques les plus prestigieuses : «Journal of Marketing Research», «Sloan Management Review», «Organization Studies» et «Strategic Management Journal». La revue «Gestion», en 1982, et le «Sloan Management Review», en 1985, ont tour à tour primé ses textes. Le professeur Allaire a fourni de nombreuses contributions à des ouvrages collectifs, enseigné des séminaires importants sur la planification stratégique et participé à de nombreux conseils et comités d'orientation. Son influence sur l'évolution des organisations des secteurs public et privé au Québec a été considérable et il a été l'un des grands leaders dans le monde des études en stratégie d'entreprise au Québec et au Canada français.

Yann Allard-Tremblay, a member of the Huron-Wendat First Nation, is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at McGill University. His transdisciplinary research explores the decolonization and Indigenization of political theory. Centering indigenous lifeways and political practices in his scholarship, he challenges ongoing colonial dynamics in political thought that silence and distort Indigenous views.

Yann Allard-Tremblay, membre de la Première Nation huronne-wendat, est professeur adjoint en sciences politiques à l'Université McGill. Ses recherches transdisciplinaires portent sur la décolonisation et l'indigénisation de la théorie politique. En mettant l'accent sur les modes de vie et les pratiques politiques des Autochtones dans ses recherches, il remet en question la dynamique coloniale de la pensée politique actuelle qui réduit au silence et déforme les points de vue autochtones.

ROBERT C. ALLEN, Department of Economics, The University of British Columbia, is one of the world's leading economic historians now doing research on the economic history of Britain and Europe. His work combines painstaking detailed archival research with the application of sophisticated economic theory and econometric techniques in the testing of imaginative hypotheses that question and reexamine the conventional wisdom. His book on British Agriculture will set the agenda for scholarly debate on this subject for years to come. His earlier work on technological change in the iron and steel industry has been seminal. Allen has also published pioneering articles on applied economic theory and on the economy of British Columbia.

Noted for the breadth and diversity of his research contributions in organic and organometallic chemistry, Dr. Howard Alper has yet maintained a clear focus on the development of new synthetic pathways to organic compounds. His work, which is distinguished by a high degree of experimental ingenuity and skill, has pioneered in the application of phase transfer catalysis to organometallic chemistry and in the development of new synthetic applications catalyzed by transition metal complexes. Alper has invented novel carbonylation-ring expansion reactions and cycloaddition reactions of heterocycles with heterocumulenes. Both of these processes can be achieved in high enantiomeric excess using appropriate chiral ligands. He has also made seminal contributions in the areas of polymers (synthesis and functionalization) and clays. In addition, Dr. Alper has represented the Royal Society of Canada in the following capacities: President --- The Royal Society of Canada, 2001-2003. President-Elect --- The Royal Society of Canada, 2000-2001. President --- Academy of Sciences, The Royal Society of Canada, 1999-2001. Vice-President --- Academy of Sciences, The Royal Society of Canada, 1995-98. Chair --- Partnership Group for Science and Engineering, 1995-99. Co-Chair --- InterAcademy Panel, 2007-2013 (now called InterAcademy Partnership) Co-Chair --- Royal Society of Canada – Academia Lincea Workshop on “Science for Environmentally Sustainable Development”, 2004. Co-Chair --- InterAmerican Network of Academies of Science, 2004-2007 Member --- Organizing Committee, Canada and the World-Agenda 2000, Royal Society of Canada, Nov. 1992. Member --- International Relations Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 1991-94. Member --- Fellowship Review Committee Royal Society of Canada, 1990-93 Member --- Council, Academy III, Royal Society of Canada, 1989-92. Member --- Program Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 1989-92. Member --- Rutherford Memorial Award Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 1989-92. Member --- Committee on the Reorganization of the Academy of Science, The Royal Society of Canada, 1988-89. Convenor --- Chemistry Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 1989-93.

Dr. Rotimi Aluko, Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, has pioneered research on the production and use of novel food proteins as nutritional tools to maintain human health and prevent diseases. His groundbreaking work has established the structural and functional basis to facilitate the development of food-derived peptides as potent health-promoting agents. In 2022 he received the American Oil Chemists’ Society Lifetime Achievement Award for Protein and Co-Product research.

Rotimi Aluko, professeur et titulaire d'une Chaire de recherche du Canada de niveau 1, est un pionnier de la recherche sur la production et l'utilisation de nouvelles protéines alimentaires en tant qu'outils nutritionnels pour le maintien de la santé humaine et la prévention des maladies. Ses travaux novateurs ont permis d'établir les bases structurelles et fonctionnelles facilitant le développement de peptides alimentaires en tant que puissants agents de promotion de la santé. En 2022, l'American Oil Chemists' Society lui a décerné un prix pour l’ensemble de ses réalisations dans le domaine de la recherche sur les protéines et les coproduits.

Shimon Amir is an international leader in the study of behavioral neuroscience and regulatory physiology. He is known for early seminal work on the roles of endogenous opioids and in pain and stress, and his recent studies on brain mechanisms of circadian rhythms. His discoveries that the effectiveness of daylight as a clock-resetting stimulus varies with emotional state and is subject to Pavlovian conditioning have implications for the regulation of circadian rhythms in humans. His discovery of circadian oscillators in brain regions controlling emotion represents an important advance in the understanding of the relationship between emotional states and circadian rhythms.