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Dr. Dennis Salahub
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Keywords: Chimie quantique, théorie de la fonctionelle de la densité, modélisation biomoléculaire, modélisation en catalyse hétérogène, logiciels de modélisation chimique
DENNIS SALAHUB se distingue par ses contributions en chimie théorique appliquée. Il a reconnu très tôt le grand potentiel de la Théorie de la Fonctionelle de la Densité (TDF). De nombreux phénomènes complexes chez les agrégats, les surfaces, les catalyseurs et les systèmes magnétiques ont été éclaircis, grâce à son talent d'analyse. Depuis dix ans son groupe a construit une méthodologie permettant la modélisation de matériaux et de systèmes biologiques d'une complexité sans précédent. Si la TDF prend actuellement sa juste place en chimie quantique, Dennis Salahub en est un des moteurs principaux et ce, par ses multiples contributions réfléchies.
Dr. C. Andre Salama
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Microelectronics, devices, circuits, high frequency, low power
Andre Salama has, through his extraordinary innovation and creativity and his leadership in academic research, made outstanding contributions to semiconductor device research and analog and digital integrated circuit design. He, with his graduate students, has made major contributions to the design, development and implementation of novel microelectronic devices and integrated circuits
Dr. Oluwabukola Salami
RSC College Member
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Keywords: immigrant health, mental health, policy, equity and diversity, youth, social impact
Induction Year: 2024
Bukola Salami is a Professor at the Department of Community
Health Science, University of Calgary. She has been involved in
over 90 studies totalling around $250 million. She is a nationally
and internationally recognized leader in Black peoples health
and immigrant health whose work has contributed to the creation of the first
mental health clinic for Black Canadians in Western Canada and the first fully
interdisciplinary university-based mentorship program for Black youths in
Canada.
Bukola Salami est professeure et titulaire d’une chaire de
recherche du Canada de niveau 1 sur la santé des Noirs et des
populations racialisées au sein du département des sciences
de la santé communautaire de la University of Calgary. Elle a
participé à plus de 90 études d’une valeur totale d’environ 250 millions de
dollars. Cheffe de file reconnue sur le plan international, son travail a conduit à
la création de la première clinique de santé mentale pour les Noirs canadiens
dans l’ouest du Canada et du premier programme de mentorat universitaire
entièrement interdisciplinaire pour les jeunes Noirs au Canada.
Prof. Anne Salomon
RSC College Member
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Keywords: coastal marine ecology, biodiversity, climate change
Induction Year: 2019
Anne Salomon is an applied marine ecologist who builds collaborations across disciplines and sectors to advance the field of conservation science and practice. Dr. Salomon is internationally recognized for illuminating relationships between humans and the productivity, biodiversity and resilience of marine ecosystems to inform ecologically effective and socially just conservation strategies. She works closely with Indigenous communities as research partners and co-producers of knowledge in marine management and conservation efforts.
Anne Salomon est une écologiste des milieux marins qui développe des collaborations entre les disciplines et les secteurs pour faire avancer le domaine de la science et de la pratique de la conservation. La professeure Salomon est reconnue sur le plan international pour avoir mis en lumière les liens existant entre les humains et la productivité, la biodiversité et la résilience des écosystèmes marins afin d’alimenter des stratégies de conservation efficaces sur le plan écologique et justes sur le plan social. Elle travaille en étroite collaboration avec les communautés autochtones, en qualité de partenaires de recherche et de coproducteurs de connaissances en gestion marine et efforts de conservation.
Dr. Michael Salter
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Neuroscience, neural-glial interactions, synaptic transmission, pain, synaptic plasticity
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Professor Michael W. Salter is one of Canada's foremost neuroscientists and has made original and important contributions to our understanding of neuroplasticity and pain. He is widely known for his pioneering studies on the regulation of glutamate receptors and excitatory synaptic signalling in the central nervous system. Glutamate receptor regulation is critical in normal brain functions such as learning and memory, and pathological brain functions such as pain. He is also renowned for his leading work on glial cells in the nervous system. Professor Salter's groundbreaking studies have led to new concepts in the control of neuron-neuron and neuron-glia-neuron signalling, and have broad implications for understanding of the fundamental workings of the brain in health and disease.
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Professor Michael W. Salter is one of Canada's foremost neuroscientists. He has made original and important contributions to our understanding of neuroplasticity and pain. His ground-breaking research has led to new concepts in the control of neuronal and glial signalling, and have broad implications for understanding of the workings of the brain in a healthy state and in the presence of disease.
Prof. R. L. Liora Salter
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: Policy, regulation, standards, broadcasting, accessibility of research
In mid-career Professor Liora Salter has attained national pre-eminence (an international recognition) in two distinct venues: first, as a senior communications scholar in the academic community; and second, as a consultant to Canadian government departments and the author of many influential reports. Her accomplishments to date have changed the way we think and act in Canada in such diverse and important areas as broadcasting, telecommunications regulation, science and technology policy, the regulation of dangerous chemicals, and consultation between the public and government agencies. It is indeed remarkable for an individual to have an influence on so many areas of social concern.
Indira Samarasekera
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Heat transfer, continuous casting, hot-rolling, steels, stress analysis
Dr. Samarasekera is best known for her outstanding work in the continuous casting of steel. In this work she has combined mathematical modelling of the heat flow and stress fields in the system with unique in-plant measurements. These results have led to major improvements in continuous casting in plants throughout the world. She has made important contributions to our understanding of the hot rolling of steels, and has done extensive work dealing with the growth of large semiconductor and optical crystals pulled from the melt, among other activities. Her outstanding work is recognized internationally.
Prof. Pauline Sameshima
RSC College Member
Affiliation: Lakehead University
Keywords: curriculum theory, education, arts integrated methodologies, poetic inquiry, methodology, interdiscipinary research, teaching and learning, curation, journal editing
Induction Year: 2020
Pauline Sameshima pioneered Parallaxic Praxis, an award-winning interdisciplinary multimodal research methodology. She has been internationally recognized for her innovative work in curriculum theory, poetic inquiry, teaching, research dissemination and civic engagement development. She is Canada Research Chair in Arts Integrated Studies (2012-2022) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies.
Pauline Sameshima est la conceptrice d’une méthodologie de recherche multimodale interdisciplinaire primée, Parallaxic Praxis. Elle est reconnue sur le plan international pour ses travaux novateurs en théorie des programmes, en recherche poétique, en enseignement, en diffusion de la recherche et en développement de l’engagement civique. Elle est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en études intégrées des arts (2012-2022) et rédactrice en chef de La revue de l’association canadienne des études de curriculum.
Dr. Léon Sanche
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Université de Sherbrooke
Keywords: Radiothérapie, physique des radiations, électrons lents, nanolithographie, ADN.
Induction Year: 2011
Professor Sanche has remarkably enhanced our global understanding of the effects of radiation in biological systems and has applied this knowledge to increase the therapeutic and diagnostic efficiency of radiation. He has focused on secondary low energy electrons, providing the missing link between the physics and the chemistry of radiation damage. He can now suggest modifications to radiotherapy protocols to enhance the therapeutic value of radiation in cancer treatment. His basic discoveries in molecular physics have been applied by other researchers and himself to several practical areas including the depletion of the earth's protective ozone layer.
Prof. Richard Sandbrook
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Politics, development, neoliberelism, democratization, political economy
Richard Sandbrook has worked in three inter-related fields: the political economy of development strategics, comparative labour movements in Africa and the political economy of urban poverty. His work includes detailed field research, Ghana, and Various other African countries. From 1980 to 1993 he explored the political origins of economic stagnation in Africa and the politics of economic recovery in that continent. Since 1993, he has investigated the significances of democratization in Africa for dealing with the major challenges that people face.
He is independent in outlook, deeply concerned that his work be relevant to the real problems that people confront, and uncompromisingly scholarly. He has also been a fine teacher and stimulating and generous colleague.
Prof. Barry Sanders
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Keywords: quantum information; entangled coherent states; metrology; quantum walks; quantum key distribution, Quantum information, Physics and Astronomy
Induction Year: 2017
SANDERS, Barry - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary
Professor Barry Sanders is a leading expert in quantum physics and quantum computing whose pioneering work connects theoretical quantum information with experimental implementation. He has made major contributions in diverse areas, notably introducing entangled coherent states and determining requirements for practical quantum key distribution.
Le professeur Barry Sanders est un spécialiste de la physique quantique et de l'informatique quantique dont le travail pionnier relie l'information quantique théorique à la mise en œuvre expérimentale. Il a apporté d'importantes contributions dans divers domaines, notamment l'introduction d'états cohérents enchevêtrés et la détermination des exigences pour la répartition pratique des clés quantiques.
Leonie Sandercock
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Induction Year: 2020
Innovative, visionary and audacious, Leonie Sandercock’s community-based scholarship and practice in the fields of urban planning and community development have engaged some of the most intractable issues of our time—inequality, discrimination, and racism. Through award-winning books and films, she has influenced the planning field to become more culturally-fluent, addressing diversity and difference through structural change, and her partnerships with Indigenous communities model reconciliation in practice.
Leonie Sandercock, chercheuse innovante, visionnaire et audacieuse, s’intéresse aux œuvres communautaires et à la pratique dans les domaines de l’urbanisme et du développement communautaire pour démêler les enjeux de notre époque, à savoir l’inégalité, la discrimination et le racisme. À travers ses livres et films primés, la Prof. Sandercock a mené la discipline de l’urbanisme à améliorer ses compétences culturelles avec des transformations structurelles qui s’adressent à la diversité et la différence. Ses partenariats avec des communautés autochtones sont des exemples d’une pratique authentique de réconciliation.
Prof. John K Sandlos
RSC College Member
Affiliation: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Keywords: history, northern Canada mining, Aboriginal people, conservation
Induction Year: 2018
John Sandlos conducts innovative research in the field of environmental history in Canada, with expertise in the areas of wildlife conservation, national parks, and extractive industries. He has directed three major SSHRC-funded projects examining the environmental impacts of historical mines on northern Indigenous communities. He is author of the award winning book, Hunters at the Margin, and co-editor of the award winning collection, Mining and Communities in Northern Canada.
John Sandlos mène des recherches novatrices dans le domaine de l’histoire environnementale au Canada, avec une expertise dans les domaines de la conservation de la faune, des parcs naturels et des industries extractives. Il a mené trois projets majeurs financés par le CRSH étudiant les répercussions environnementales des mines historiques sur les communautés autochtones du nord. Il est l’auteur du livre primé, Hunters at the Margin, et co-éditeur de la collection primée, Mining and Communities in Northern Canada.
Prof. Örjan Sandred
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Induction Year: 2023
Örjan Sandred is a Swedish-Canadian composer and is since 2005 a Professor of Composition at the University of Manitoba in Canada where he founded Studio FLAT – a studio for Computer Music research and production. He taught composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm 1998-2005. In 2016 he was a DAAD visiting professor at Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany. In 2022 he was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Örjan Sandred est un compositeur suédo-canadien. Depuis 2005, il est professeur de composition au sein de la University of Manitoba, au Canada, où il a fondé le Studio FLAT, un studio de recherche et de production de musique assistée par ordinateur. Il a enseigné la composition au Royal College of Music de Stockholm de 1998 à 2005. En 2016, il a été professeur invité par la DAAD à la Hochschule für Musik Detmold en Allemagne. En 2022, il a reçu une bourse de la John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Dr. Joan Sangster
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Trent University
Keywords: feminism, labour, law and social policy, women's history
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Joan Sangster is one of the foremost historians of twentieth-century Canada. Her scholarship is prodigious and pioneering, crossing intellectual and disciplinary boundaries to focus attention on women workers, activists, Aboriginal peoples, and the criminalized. Award-winning publications examine neglected Canadians with insight and compassion. National and international scholars admire her deft combination of detailed empirical research, theoretically informed discussion, and sensitive reconsideration of modern Canada. She has combined this scholarship with an impressive teaching and administrative career at Trent University, where she is the only faculty member to have won both the prestigious Symons Teaching Award and the Distinguished University Research Award.
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Joan Sangster is one of the foremost historians of twentieth-century Canada. Her scholarship is prodigious and pioneering, crossing intellectual and disciplinary boundaries to focus attention on women workers, activists, Aboriginal peoples, and the criminalized. National and international scholars admire her deft combination of detailed empirical research and sensitive reconsideration of modern Canada.
Dr. David Sankoff
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Genomics, evolution, bioinformatics, algorithms
David Sankoff is a pioneer in the area of biomathematics that studies the genetic sequences of molecular biology. His most important work has been in sequence analysis and molecular evolution. One would cite, in particular, his very influential studies of multiple sequence alignment, RNA structure and evolutionary tree construction, and current study of genome rearrangement and flowering plant genomics. He has made significant contributions to the mathematical foundations of linguistics.
Dr. Pere Santamaria
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Keywords: Autoimmunity, Diabetes, Genetics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Targeted Mutations, Transgenics, COVID-19, Covid-19, corona virus
Induction Year: 2017
Pere Santamaria is Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Calgary.He has made seminal contributions to our understanding and treatment of autoimmune diseases. Le plus remarquable est sa découverte d'une nouvelle plate-forme thérapeutique, basée sur la nanomédecine, pour traiter ces troubles. Current efforts focus on translating this revolutionary discovery into the clinic, to treat the ~100 autoimmune diseases affecting humankind.
Mike (Przemyslaw) Sapieha
RSC College Member
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Keywords: Angiogenesis, Neuroscience, Retina
Induction Year: 2018
Mike (Przemyslaw) Sapieha is the Wolfe Professor in translational vision research, Canada Research Chair in retinal cell biology and director of the Neurovascular Eye Disease Lab at the Université de Montréal. His team made several fundamental discoveries implicating deregulation of neuronal metabolism and cellular senescence in retinal vascular diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age related macular degeneration. Notably, he identified critical roles for Semaphorins and Netrins in these diseases.
Titulaire de la chaire de recherche du Canada en biologie cellulaire rétinienne et la bourse professorale Wolfe en recherche translationnelle sur la vision de l’Université de Montréal, Mike (Przemyslaw) Sapieha a identifié les mécanismes impliqués dans la dérégulation du métabolisme neuronal et la sénescence cellulaire dans la rétinopathie diabétique et la dégénérescence maculaire liée à l’âge; notamment, un rôle crucial pour les sémaphorines et nétrines a été démontré dans ces maladies.
Prof. Edward Sargent
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: solar cells, photovoltaics, materials science, photonics
Induction Year: 2014
SARGENT, Edward – Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, University of Toronto
Edward Sargent’s research has resulted in advances in nanotechnology and materials chemistry, which he
has translated into novel engineered devices for energy harvesting, light sensing, and medical diagnosis.
He pioneered solution-processed solar cells that absorb the sun’s full spectrum, including both its visible
and infrared components. He has also created exceedingly sensitive light detectors to enable image acquisition in low
light.
SARGENT, Edward – Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, University of Toronto
Edward Sargent a fait usage des progrès de la nanotechnologie et de la chimie des matériaux pour mettre à
point des inventions permettant la récupération énergétique, la détection de lumière et le diagnostic
médical. Il est le pionnier des cellules solaires traitées en solution qui absorbent le spectre solaire complet.
Il a aussi créé des détecteurs de lumière extrêmement sensibles, permettant l’acquisition d’images dans des conditions
de faible éclairage.
Rolf Sattler
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Ken Wilber, logic, mandala, meditation
Professor Rolf Sattler is a distinguished plant morphologist, internationally recognized for his studies in floral development, his critical analyses of the methods and conclusions of comparative morphology and his interpretations of the relationship between developmental processes and evolutionary changes. In addition to numerous papers he has published a volume of original research which is a major contribution to the field of floral morphogenesis. He has lectured by invitation in numerous universities around the world and has participated in several symposia. In 1974 he was awarded the Lawson Medal by the Canadian Botanical Association.
Prof. Elizabeth Sauer
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Brock University
Induction Year: 2014
SAUER, Elizabeth – Department of English, Brock University
Elizabeth Sauer is one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of John Milton’s writings. Her awardwinning
works combine critical topics in Milton studies and offer new perspectives on literary criticism.
Winner of a Canada Council Killam Research Fellowship, Sauer is acclaimed for her insight, ambition,
and the impressive range of her scholarship, and has made fundamental contributions to the study of early modern
English literature, history, religion, print culture, nationalism, toleration, and imperialism.
SAUER, Elizabeth – Department of English, Brock University
Elizabeth Sauer est l’une des plus éminentes spécialistes universitaire de l’oeuvre de John Milton. Ses
travaux, couronnés par de nombreux prix, associent plusieurs aspects critiques des études sur Milton et
ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives sur la critique littéraire. Lauréate d’une bourse de recherche Killam du
Conseil des Arts du Canada, Sauer est renommée pour sa perspicacité, son ambition et l’étendue impressionnante de
sa recherche ; elle a apporté des contributions fondamentales à l’étude de la littérature anglaise du début de l’époque
moderne, à l’histoire, à la religion, à la culture de l’imprimé, au nationalisme, à la tolérance et à l’impérialisme.
Dr. Guy Sauvageau
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Keywords: hematopoiesis, stem cells, leukemia
Induction Year: 2019
SAUVAGEAU, Guy - Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal
Guy Sauvageau’s pioneering discoveries bear on the regulation of both normal hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and their malignant counterpart, the leukemic stem cells (LSCs). His seminal studies have identified both cellular factors and synthetic molecules capable of modulating HSCs self-renewal and permitting, for the first time, the ex vivo expansion of these cells. His research has had a direct impact on the development of better and safer treatments for leukemia.
Les découvertes pionnières de Guy Sauvageau portent sur la régulation des cellules souches hématopoïétiques normales (CSH) et de leurs homologues malignes, les cellules souches leucémiques (CSL). Ses études fondamentales ont identifié des facteurs cellulaires et des molécules synthétiques capables de moduler l'auto-renouvellement des CSH et de permettre, pour la première fois, l'expansion ex vivo de ces cellules. Ses recherches ont un impact direct sur le traitement de la leucémie.
Prof. Sébastien Sauvé
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Keywords: Chimie environnementale, Pollution, Contaminants émergents, Analyses chimiques, Toxicologie, Normes environnementales
Induction Year: 2024
Sébastien Sauvé is a Full Professor of Environmental Chemistry and outgoing Vice-Dean of Research at the Université de Montréal, and a correspondent of the Académie d’agriculture de France. His work focuses on contaminated soils, the circular economy, blue-green algae, ultra-trace analysis by mass spectrometry, and the impact of emerging contaminants on health and the environment. He regularly contributes as an expert to the media. He received the ACFAS Michel Jurdant Environmental award in 2020. He is the Chief Editor of the journal Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry.
Sébastien Sauvé est professeur titulaire en chimie environnementale et vice-doyen à la recherche sortant à l’Université de Montréal et correspondant de l’Académie d’agriculture de France. Il étudie les sols contaminés, l’économie circulaire, les algues bleues, l’analyse en ultra-trace par spectrométrie de masse ainsi que les impacts des contaminants émergents sur la santé et l’environnement. Il est omni-présent dans les médias. Il a reçu le prix Michel Jurdant en Environnement de l’ACFAS en 2020. Il est rédacteur en chef pour le journal Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry.
Candace Savage
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: None
Keywords: Grass lands, conservation, non-fiction, literature, history
Induction Year: 2010
Savage, Candace - Creative Writing
Candace Savage has earned an international reputation for the intellectual depth of her literary scholarship. The author of more than two dozen books on an impressive breadth of subjects, she has become one of the distinctive voices of Canada.
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Savage, Candace - Creative Writing
Candace Savage has earned an international reputation for the intellectual depth of her literary scholarship. The author of more than two dozen books on an impressive breadth of subjects, she moves from topic to topic with apparent ease, ranging from cultural studies to conservation biology to plasma physics. Her writing is animated by a desire to create connections, whether between science and literature, the past and the present, or readers and the urgency of the living world. In a literary career that spans thirty years, Savage has become one of the distinctive and distinguished voices of Canada.






