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Dr. Janet Rossant
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Mammalian genetics, developmental biology, stem cell biology
Dr. Janet Rossant merits recognition for her sustained and important contributions to the cellular and molecular mechanisms of mammalian embryological development. She pioneered the use of chimaeric mice to study lineage development in the early mouse embryo and was amongst the first to apply gene targetting approaches to create mice carrying mutations in important regulatory genes. She and her colleagues have also pioneered the development of novel approaches to identify and mutate novel genes critical to embryological development.
Fabio Rossi
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Induction Year: 2022
Professor Fabio Rossi’s innovative approaches to understand the cellular origins and differentiation capabilities of tissue resident cells have opened up new fields of research. His work is recognized internationally for providing new strategies to treat chronic degenerative diseases such as muscular dystrophy. His efforts in the Canadian and international regenerative medicine community have catalyzed the creation of new interdisciplinary research clusters and advanced Canadian leadership in this important health research area.
Les approches novatrices du professeur Fabio Rossi pour comprendre les origines cellulaires et les capacités de différenciation des cellules résidentes des tissus ont ouvert de nouveaux champs de recherche. Il est reconnu à l’échelle internationale pour avoir fourni par ses travaux de nouvelles stratégies de traitement des maladies dégénératives chroniques telles que la dystrophie musculaire. Ses efforts au sein de la communauté canadienne et internationale de la médecine régénératrice ont catalysé la création de nouvelles grappes de recherche interdisciplinaires et fait progresser le statut de chef de file du Canada dans cet important domaine de recherche en santé.
Dr. Gordon Rostoker
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Aurora, magnetosphere, ionosphere, magnetic storm
Gordon Rostoker, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Alberta pioneered many new and novel approaches to allow an understanding of the mechanisms leading to polar magnetic substorms and high latitude geomagnetic pulsations. In the 1970s he installed one of the first large scale, digital magnetometer arrays in Canada. Data from this array lead to a number of definitive studies of auroral and substorm processes. In the 1980s he devised a refined conceptual model of the substorm that lead to many innovative insights and showed that many of the older models could not be correct. In his current work he continues his focus on substorm models both from an experimental and theoretical perspective. He is actively exploiting the exciting new data from the Canadian CANOPUS magnetometer array, and using these data to develop a refined boundary layer model of substorms.
Prof. E. Natalie Rothman
RSC College Member
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Cultural mediation, translation, knowledge production, orientalism, alterity, Mediterranean, Early Modern period
Induction Year: 2014
E. Natalie Rothman examines the connected histories of Venice and the Ottoman Empire, challenging claims about timeless civilizational divides between “East” and “West.” Instead, she traces how notions of religious, linguistic, and cultural difference were articulated through trade and diplomacy. The winner of three major international prizes for her book, Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul (2011), she leads a path-breaking digital initiative on early modern cultural interactions.
E. Natalie Rothman étudie le lien historique entre Venise et l’Empire ottoman, en remettant en question les affirmations sur l’éternel fossé civilisationnel entre « l’Est » et « l’Ouest ». Elle préfère se demander comment les notions de différences religieuses, linguistiques et culturelles ont été façonnées à travers le commerce et la diplomatie. Lauréate de trois prix littéraires majeurs pour son livre Brokering Empire : Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul (2011), elle dirige une initiative numérique révolutionnaire sur les interactions culturelles des temps modernes.
Dr. Daniela Rotin
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Induction Year: 2023
Professor Daniela Rotin is a world leader in membrane proteins and their regulation by the ubiquitin system, which controls protein degradation. Her work has illuminated how ion channels, ion transporters, and growth factor receptors are eliminated when required, to ensure normal animal development and health throughout life. Her cutting-edge research revealed that aberrant regulation of these membrane proteins by the ubiquitin system leads to diseases such as hypertension and cancer.
Daniela Rotin est une sommité internationale dans le domaine des protéines membranaires et de leur régulation par l’ubiquitine, qui contrôle la dégradation des protéines. Ses travaux ont mis en lumière la manière dont les canaux ioniques, les pompes à ions et les récepteurs de facteurs de croissance sont éliminés lorsque cela est nécessaire, afin de garantir le développement normal des animaux et leur santé tout au long de la vie. Ses recherches de pointe ont révélé qu'une régulation aberrante de ces protéines membranaires par l'ubiquitine conduit à des maladies telles que l'hypertension et le cancer.
Prof. François Rouget
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Queen's University
Keywords: Littérature française de la Renaissance. Histoire littéraire et réception. Poésie et musique. Études néo-latines. Histoire du livre manuscrit et imprimé. Rhétorique. Études féminines.
Induction Year: 2014
ROUGET, François – Département d’études françaises, Queen’s University
François Rouget is a specialist in Renaissance literature. Leading researcher in the field of poetry, he is
internationally recognized as one of the best scholars who enriched the knowledge of the poets of the
second half of the sixteenth century. His pioneering work on the unsung poets as much as the
conventional ones (Pierre de Ronsard, Philippe Desportes) is authoritative.
ROUGET, François – Département d’études françaises, Queen’s University
François Rouget est un spécialiste de littérature de la Renaissance. Chercheur de pointe dans le domaine
de la poésie, il est reconnu internationalement comme l’un des meilleurs universitaires ayant enrichi la
connaissance des poètes de la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle. Ses travaux pionniers sur les poètes
méconnus autant que sur les classiques (Pierre de Ronsard, Philippe Desportes) font autorité.
Prof. Linda Rouleau
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: HEC Montréal
Induction Year: 2016
ROULEAU, Linda – Département de management, HEC Montréal
Linda Rouleau est reconnue internationalement pour l’importance de ses recherches sur la formation des stratégies comme pratiques sociales et organisationnelles. Dans le champ de la stratégie comme pratique, ses principales contributions portent sur le rôle des gestionnaires intermédiaires, des outils et des processus dans la fabrique du changement. Elle a publié dans les meilleures revues internationales de gestion, incluant Academy of Management Review, Organization Science and Journal of Management Studies.
Linda Rouleau is internationally known for the importance of her research on strategizing as social and organizational practices. In the strategy-as-practice field, her key contributions are about the role of middle managers, strategy tools and processes in the making of changes. She has published in the very top international management journals, including Academy of Management Review, Organization Science and Journal of Management Studies.
Prof. Guy Rouleau
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Neurologyt, Geneticist
Induction Year: 2019
ROULEAU, Guy – Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Over the last 25 years, Guy Rouleau focused on identifying genes causing neurological and psychiatric diseases, as well as providing a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms associated with them. Among Dr. Rouleau’s main achievements are his contribution to the identification of >20 genetic risk factors, his discovery of original mechanisms associated with CAG repeats and finally his studies highlighting the contribution of de novo mutation to psychiatric disorders.
Depuis plus de 25 ans, Guy Rouleau travaille à identifier les gènes responsables de désordres neurologiques et psychiatriques, de même qu’à comprendre les mécanismes moléculaires qui y sont liés. Parmi les principales réalisations du Dr Rouleau, mentionnons l’identification d’une vingtaine de facteurs de risques génétiques, la proposition d’un nouveau mécanisme lié aux expansions de type CAG, ainsi que la mise en évidence des mutations de novo aux maladies psychiatriques.
Prof. Nigel T Roulet
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: environmental science, biogeochemistry, climate change, ecohydrology
Induction Year: 2014
ROULET, Nigel – Department of Geography, McGill University
Nigel Roulet has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of how climate, hydrology and
ecosystem structure function by uniquely combining ecohydrology and biogeochemistry, investigating the
transport and transformation of elements and compounds and the greenhouse gas and carbon balance of
peatlands, including their sensitivity to climate variability and change. He contributed significantly to the use of
science in public policy and has supervised over 45 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
ROULET, Nigel – Department of Geography, McGill University
Nigel Roulet a apporté une contribution exceptionnelle à notre compréhension de la façon dont le climat,
l’hydrologie et la structure des écosystèmes fonctionnent en combinant de manière unique l’écohydrologie
et la biogéochimie, en examinant le transport et la transformation des éléments et des composés ainsi que
l’équilibre des gaz à effet de serre et de carbone dans les tourbières, y compris leur sensibilité à la variabilité et aux
changements climatiques. Il a contribué de manière significative à l’utilisation des sciences dans l’établissement de
politiques publiques et a supervisé plus de 45 étudiants des cycles supérieurs et chercheurs postdoctoraux.
Supriya Routh
RSC College Member
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Induction Year: 2025
Supriya Routh is the Canada Research Chair in Labour Law & Social Justice at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, the University of British Columbia. His interdisciplinary research agenda includes theoretical conceptualizations of the law of work, regulatory exclusion of informal workers in the Global South, deliberative lawmaking, and social justice and sustainable human development. Supriya’s current research examines non-Eurocentric normative ideas on the relationship between livelihoods and sustainability.
Supriya Routh est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en droit du travail et justice sociale à la Peter A. Allard School of Law de la University of British Columbia. Son programme de recherche interdisciplinaire concerne la conceptualisation théorique du droit du travail, l’exclusion réglementaire des travailleurs informels dans les pays du Sud, l’élaboration délibérative des lois, la justice sociale et le développement humain durable. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur les
idées normatives non eurocentriques sur la relation entre les moyens de subsistance et la durabilité.
M. Gilles Routhier
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Université Laval
Keywords: Vatican II, concile, église catholique, religion au Canada, réception (théories de la)
Induction Year: 2018
ROUTHIER, Gilles - Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses, Université Laval
Le professeur Gilles Routhier est un spécialiste mondialement reconnu de l'histoire, de l'enseignement, de l'herméneutique et de la réception du concile Vatican II. Les recherches menées par le professeur Routhier, ses publications, ses approches théoriques innovantes, la reconnaissance internationale dont il jouit, le leadership scientifique qu'il exerce sur le plan national et international en font un expert de premier plan des institutions ecclésiales dans la seconde moitié du vingtième siècle.
Prof. Benoît Roux
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The University of Chicago
Keywords: Theoretical biophysics, molecular dynamics simulations, statistical mechanics, computational methods, membrane proteins, ion channels, tyrosine kinases, polarizable force fields.
Induction Year: 2021
Benoît Roux has performed ground-breaking computer simulations that have served to establish the physical principles governing the function of biological macromolecules. His innovative work has revealed the critical role that molecular flexibility and thermal fluctuations play in defining the function of ion channel and protein kinase. His contributions have fundamentally advanced our understanding of many problems, including cellular excitability and cancer biology.
Benoît Roux est un pionnier des simulations informatiques établissant les principes physiques qui régissant le fonctionnement des macromolécules biologiques. En particulier, ses travaux ont révélé le rôle essentiel de la flexibilité moléculaire et des fluctuations thermiques dans la fonction des canaux ioniques et des protéines kinases. Ses contributions ont fondamentalement fait progresser notre compréhension de nombreux problèmes biologiques, notamment l’excitabilité cellulaire et la biologie du cancer.
Dr. Locke Rowe
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Evolution, Ecology, Animal Behaviour
Induction Year: 2019
ROWE, Locke – Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
Locke Rowe is an internationally leading evolutionary biologist. He is recognized for his ground breaking studies on the ecology and evolution of animal life cycles, and the evolutionary divergence of the sexes. Prof. Rowe’s influence results from original insights, critical tests of theory, and new syntheses.
Locke Rowe est un biologiste de l’évolution renommé sur la scène internationale. Il est reconnu pour ses études novatrices sur l’écologie et l’évolution des cycles de vie des animaux et sur la divergence évolutive des sexes. Les idées originales, les tests rigoureux des théories et les nouvelles synthèses sont à l’origine de l’influence du Professeur Rowe.
Prof. R. Kerry Rowe
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Queen's University
Keywords: geotechnical engineering, geosynthetics, geoenvironmental engineering
Professor R. Kerry Rowe has made sustained and original contributions to new scientific knowledge on the elasto-plastic finite element analysis of soil stability, the theoretical, experimental and practical development of geosynthetics for the lining of landfills and other applications, and on the diffusive migration of contaminants through composite liner systems used in landfills. His research is complemented by outstanding contributions to engineering education and to his profession.
Dr. David Rowe
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Nuclear structure, nuclear collective structure, group theory, symmetry, coherent state theory, mathematical physics
David Rowe has made outstanding contributions of a fundamental nature to theoretical nuclear physics, in particular to algebraic and geometric approaches to nuclear modeling. He pioneered the equations-of-motion method, now widely used in the analysis of experimental data in both nuclear and molecular physics. He also succeeded in embedding collective models into the microscopic shell model by the application of Lie algebra, group theory and differential geometry to the many-body problem, leading to a fully microscopic description of nuclear rotational bands. His international reputation is amply demonstrated by his many invitations to give lectures at international summer schools and conferences.
He was awarded the Rutherford Medal in Physics of the Society in 1983.
Dr. Jennifer Rowsell
RSC College Member
Affiliation: University of Bristol
Keywords: Digital literacy, multimodality, design, New Literacy Studies, ethnography, phenomenology, socio-cultural approaches, multiliteracies, critical theory, longitudinal research
Induction Year: 2014
Jennifer Rowsell is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair at Brock University’s Faculty of Education and a leader in literacy studies, multimodality, and multiliteracies. Her research program focuses on ways of moving such literacy skills as reading, writing, and communicating into the 21st century. Researching across ages and grade levels from small children to teenagers in Canada and international contexts, Rowsell pushes for new definitions, frameworks, and knowledge mobilization so that education better meets the demands of digital and media-driven age.
Jennifer Rowsell est titulaire d’une chaire de recherche du Canada de niveau 2 de la faculté d’enseignement de la Brock University et est spécialisée dans l’étude de l’alphabétisation, la multimodalité et la multilitératie. Son programme de recherche est axé sur l’adaptation des capacités de lecture, d’écriture et de communication au 21e siècle. Quel que soit l’âge ou le niveau, de la petite enfance aux adolescents, et quel que soit le contexte, canadien ou international, Roswell préconise de nouvelles définitions, de nouveaux cadres et une mobilisation du savoir de sorte que l’éducation réponde mieux aux exigences de cette ère numérique axée sur les médias.
Dr. Patricia Roy
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Victoria
Keywords: Canadian History, Ethnic and Immigration History, British Columbia History, Canadian Political History, British Columbia Polotocs
Long Citation
Patricia Roy is an historian known especially for her work in Canadian ethnic history. Students of Euro-Canadian attitudes to East Asian immigrants and their descendants cannot ignore her work. Grounded in meticulous research and analyses of local contexts, her approach contributes to legal, ethnic, educational, and regional historiographies. The final volume of her trilogy on the Canadian reception to East Asians is at the press. She also contributed to Canadian urban history with the first scholarly history of Vancouver. Recently, she co-authored (with John Herd Thompson) a history of British Columbia.
Short Citation
Patricia Roy is an historian known especially for her work in Canadian ethnic history. Students of Euro-Canadian attitudes to East Asian immigrants and their descendants cannot ignore her meticulously researched work. She has also contributed to Canadian urban history with the first scholarly history of Vancouver. Recently, she co-authored (with John Herd Thompson) a history of British Columbia.
Dr. Ranjan Roy
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Keywords: Chronic pain, psychosocial, familial, epidemiological, psychological therapys
Ranjan Roy has devoted much of his career to exploring social dimensions in the etiology, management and treatment of sufferers of chronic pain disorders. In his eleven books and many chapters and articles, Roy has been single-minded in his efforts to view the patient as a person. His major contribution has been to demonstrate the central role of the family in all facets of illness.
Prof. Rima Rozen
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Genetics, nutrition, birth defects, heart disease, molecular biology
Induction Year: 2010
Dr. John Rubinstein
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The Hospital for Sick Children
Induction Year: 2024
Professor John Rubinstein has pioneered methods in electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM), allowing the technique to reveal biomolecular structures at unprecedented resolution. He has also used cryo-EM to reveal how cells energize membranes and produce the energy currency ATP. His work has applications ranging from design of new antibiotics for tuberculosis to understanding how neurons communicate with each other in the brain.
Prof. John Rubinstein a été le pionnier des méthodes de cryomicroscopie électronique (cryo-EM), permettant à cette technique de révéler des structures biomoléculaires à une résolution sans précédent. Il a également utilisé la cryomicroscopie électronique pour révéler comment les cellules dynamisent les membranes et produisent l’ATP, la monnaie énergétique. Ses travaux ont des applications allant de la conception de nouveaux antibiotiques pour la tuberculose à la compréhension de la communication entre les neurones dans le cerveau.
Harry Ruda
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Nanostructures synthesis, semiconductors, quantum, electronics, nanophotonics, optoelectronics
Induction Year: 2010
Ruda, Harry - Applied Science - University of Toronto
Harry Ruda is an international leader in the synthesis and understanding of the behaviour of semiconductor nanostructures. He founded Canada's first centre for nanotechnology, and cofounded the Canadian Centre of Excellence in Photonics.
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Ruda, Harry - Applied Science - University of Toronto
Harry Ruda is an international leader in synthesis and understanding the behavior of semiconductor nanostructures. His pioneering work spans nanowire/quantum dot growth, individually and in ordered arrays, controlling carrier recombination in nanostructures using surface engineering, studying electron transport in nanostructures, discovering room temperature spintronic behavior from Mn-doped semiconductor nanowires, realizing unique nonlinear optical response in nanostructures, harnessing giant excitonic response in nanowire array cavities, and contributing to new optoelectronic devices with profound benefits in computing, communications, and health. He has authored/co-authored two books in optoelectronics/photonics, cofounded the Canadian Centre of Excellent in Photonics, and founded Canada’s first Centre for Nanotechnology.
Christopher E. Rudd
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Induction Year: 2021
Christopher Rudd is an internationally renowned immunologist who uncovered how T-cells of the immune system are activated to respond in infections and cancer immunology. He discovered that T-cells become activated via a phosphorylation cascade involving specific kinases and adaptor complexes. He held professorial positions at Harvard and Cambridge Universities before returning to Canada, has won many international awards where his work laid the foundation for present immune therapies against cancer including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy.
Christopher Rudd est un immunologiste de renommée internationale qui a découvert comment les cellules T du système immunitaire sont activées pour répondre aux infections et à l'immunologie du cancer. Il a découvert que les cellules T sont activées par une cascade de phosphorylation impliquant des kinases spécifiques et des complexes adaptateurs. Il a occupé des postes de professeur aux universités de Harvard et de Cambridge avant de revenir au Canada. Il a remporté de nombreux prix internationaux et ses travaux ont jeté les bases des thérapies immunitaires actuelles contre le cancer, notamment la thérapie par récepteur d'antigène chimérique (CAR).
Dr. Ronald Rudin
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Concordia University
Keywords: Quebec, Acadie, memory, documentaries, environment
Induction Year: 2009
Ronald Rudin is both one of the leading historians of French Canada and a pioneer in the realm of historical documentary filmmaking. Dr. Rudin's work has been enormously influential inside Quebec, across Canada and internationally.
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RUDIN, Ronald –Department of History, Concordia University
Ronald Rudin is both one of the leading historians of French Canada and a pioneer in the realm of historical documentary filmmaking. His writing about the history of both Quebec and Acadie is astonishingly broad and covers topics from finance and the social history of banking to the history of English-speaking Quebeckers, the politics of historic commemoration and social memory, and the role of ideology in nationalist historiography. Dr. Rudin's work has been enormously influential inside Quebec, across Canada and internationally. The author of six major monographs and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, Dr. Rudin is also an acclaimed historical documentary filmmaker. In addition to his research and research-creation activity, Dr. Rudin is the Academic Convenor for the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dr. Michael A. Rudnicki
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Myogenesis, stem cells, genetics, transcription, regeneration
Long Citation
Dr. Michael Rudnicki is an outstanding young scientist whose studies of muscle development have placed him at the forefront of international science. He has discovered the key molecules that regulate muscle development in the embryo and that control muscle regeneration from stem cells following injury. For close to 15 years, Dr. Rudnicki's research has consistently broken new ground and challenged existing paradigms resulting in entirely new concepts of muscle development. His research clearly delineates the importance of stem cells in the regenerative process and paves the way for new therapeutic approaches to a cure for muscular dystrophy and the 40 other neuromuscular disorders. As an internationally renowned scientist, a mentor to a large group of young researchers, a highly effective leader in his own institution and as a scientific opinion leader, Dr. Rudnicki's election to the Royal Society of Canada will bring credit to the Society.
Short Citation
Michael Rudnicki is an outstanding young scientist whose studies of muscle development have placed him at the forefront of international science. He has discovered the key molecules that regulate muscle development in the embryo and that control muscle regeneration from stem cells following injury. Dr. Rudnicki's research has consistently broken new ground and challenged existing paradigms resulting in entirely new concepts of muscle development.