Louis Schmidt is the Science Research Chair in Early Determinants of Mental Health and a Pickering Award recipient. He is an internationally recognized expert in socioemotional development who has championed the importance of viewing personality development and developmental risk through individual, familial, and cultural lenses. His innovative interdisciplinary approach has transformed our understanding of socioemotional development across the lifespan, reduced stigma around mental illness, and challenged cultural stereotypes.

Louis Schmidt est titulaire de la chaire de recherche scientifique sur les déterminants précoces de la santé mentale et lauréat du prix Pickering. Il est un expert reconnu sur le plan international dans le domaine du développement socioémotionnel qui a défendu l’importance de considérer le développement de la personnalité et le risque de développement à travers un prisme individuel, familial et culturel. Son approche interdisciplinaire innovante a transformé notre compréhension du développement socioémotionnel tout au long de la vie, réduit la stigmatisation de la maladie mentale et remis en question les stéréotypes culturels.

Dr. M. Schnitzer is the leading world authority on soil organic matter, with emphasis on chemical structure of humic substances, mechanisms of interactions of humic materials with metals and minerals, and the isolation and identification of complex nitrogen compounds from soils. From extensive chemical and spectroscopic studies, he established a novel structural concept for humic materials. His research findings, embodied in 340 refereed papers and a textbook, have had an enormous impact on world agricultural production and environmental protection. In addition, he has edited two books and trained and inspired soil scientists worldwide. His contribution has been recognized by Fellowships in the CSSS, SSSA and the ASA, and the Wolf Prize in 1996.

Greg Scholes is an international leader in the study of how light interacts with complex nanoscale systems. His principle contributions include the elucidation of mechanisms by which the energy of light absorbed by a molecule can be transferred efficiently to other molecules; a process predominant in photosynthetic antenna systems and organic light-emitting diodes. ------------------ SCHOLES, Gregory –Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto Greg Scholes is an international leader in the study of how light interacts with complex nanoscale systems. His principle contributions include the elucidation of mechanisms by which the energy of light absorbed by a molecule can be transferred efficiently to other molecules; a process predominant in photosynthetic antenna systems and organic light-emitting diodes. In other work he has contributed to our comprehension of the basic electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals, where new viewpoints needed to be elucidated to extrapolate our understanding between molecules and bulk semiconductors.

SCHULLER, Eileen – Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University Eileen Marie Schuller holds the Senator William McMaster Chair in Social Sciences. Dr. Schuller is Canada’s pre-eminent scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls. One of only a handful of international researchers responsible for the Scrolls’ initial decipherment and publication, she has been instrumental in educating other scholars and the general public about the Scrolls and their significance.

SCHULLER, Eileen – Department of Religious Studies , McMaster University Eileen Marie Schuller occupe la Senator William McMaster Chair en sciences sociales. Madame Schuller est une éminente spécialiste des manuscrits de la mer Morte au Canada. Elle est l’une des rares chercheures au monde qui est responsable du déchiffrement initial et de la publication des manuscrits, et elle a joué un rôle important auprès d’autres chercheurs et du grand public pour les sensibiliser aux manuscrits et à leur signification.

Elisabeth Schulze-Busacker est une médiéviste de réputation internationale qui occupe, en raison de l'éminente qualité de ses travaux, une position de premier ordre au plan de la recherche. Grâce à une triple formation en philologie française et romane, en littératures romanes et germaniques et en histoire, elle a pu orienter sa recherche aussi bien vers la littérature médiévale (française et occitane) et l'histoire des mentalités que vers la parémiologie ou étude des proverbes médiévaux. Les spécialistes d'Amérique et d'Europe sont unanimes à rendre hommage à l'originalité de sa recherche, à sa rigueur méthodologique et à son sens de l'innovation.

SCHWARTZ, Joan M. – Department of Art History and Art Conservation, Queen’s University Joan M. Schwartz is an internationally recognized photographic historian, archival theorist, and historical geographer. As the leading authority on early photography in Canada, and an advocate of its importance to archival collections, she has pioneered new understandings of photographs as spaces of power and sites of knowledge production. Her research challenges traditional approaches to photographs in historical analysis and provides creative strategies for scholarly engagement with visual images across a range of disciplines.

Joan M. Schwartz est historienne de la photographie, théoricienne archiviste et géographe historienne internationalement reconnue. En tant que sommité des premières photographies au Canada et pionnière de la défense de leur importance pour les collections archivistiques, elle a développé de nouvelles interprétations de photographies en tant qu’espaces de pouvoir et lieux de production de savoir. Ses recherches remettent en question les approches traditionnelles des photographies en matière d’analyse historique et fournissent des stratégies créatives pour l’engagement intellectuel avec des images visuelles dans un éventail de disciplines.

Dr. Scobie is a distinguished critic of Canadian literature, and is also a recipient of the Governor-General's award for poetry. Much of his work concentrates on areas where literature intersects with other forms of discourse, including Cubist painting, popular song, and the writings of the theoretician, Jacques Derrida. In five important book-length studies, Dr. Scobie deals with a wide range of Canadian authors, whom he places in an international context through a comprehensive vision of developments in modem culture since the 1920's. There is a strong coherence between his criticism and the eighteen volumes of poetry he has published to date. He is also an energetic and effective ambassador for Canadian literature, especially in Europe.

Professor Stephen Scott from Queen’s University is a world leader in the computational, neural, mechanical and behavioural aspects of voluntary motor control. He invented Kinarm, interactive robotic technologies that provide unprecedented experimental control over arm motor function, which he has used to transform our understanding of the intimate link between cortical circuits and limb biomechanics. Kinarm robots are now widely used around the world to quantify brain function and dysfunction.

Le professeur Stephen Scott de l’Université Queen’s est un chef de file mondial dans les domaines computationnel, neural, mécanique et comportemental du contrôle moteur volontaire. Il a inventé Kinarm, des technologies robotiques interactives qui fournissent un contrôle expérimental sans précédent sur la fonction motrice du bras, qu'il a utilisé pour transformer notre compréhension du lien intime entre les circuits corticaux et la biomécanique des membres. Les robots Kinarm sont maintenant largement utilisés dans le monde pour quantifier les fonctions cérébrales et les dysfonctionnements.

Geoffrey Scudder is the world's authority on the lygaeid bugs, a family of insects that includes some of the world's most damaging agricultural pests. He has studied these insects in all the major museums, and has himself collected them on four continents. This work in systematics and distribution is only part of the much broader interest in the mechanism of organic evolution, where his studies include the adaptive mechanism of corixid bugs living in saline lakes, the functional morphology of the flight muscles, and the evolutionary significance of cardiac glycosides - brightly coloured poisonous compounds which some bugs sequester from plants and use as warning colours. Professor Scudder is recognized as an outstanding and knowledgeable teacher both in the University and community; he is one of Canada's most dedicated and productive zoologists.

LONG Adel Sedra is internationally recognized for his scientific contributions to the field of microelectronics and in particular for his seminal research work on the design of analog filters used in communications and signal processing systems. By applying powerful analysis techniques to practical industrial applications, Dr. Sedra has helped to create new circuits and structures that are used in industry worldwide. Some of his notable achievements include the co-invention of the current conveyor, the development of low sensitivity structures for both active-RC and switched capacitor filters, and the development of a widely used filter design software package. In addition he has co-authored an internationally acclaimed microelectronics textbook. SHORT Adel Sedra is internationally recognized in the field of microelectronics and in particular for his seminal research on the design of analog filters used in communications and signal processing systems. Dr. Sedra has helped to create new circuits and structures that are used in industry worldwide. His achievements include the development of low sensitivity structures for both active-RC and switched capacitor filters.

Dr. Nabil Seidah was trained at Georgetown University in physical chemistry before joining the Institute first as as post-doctoral fellow and then as director of the laboratory on biochemical neuroendocrinology. Dr. Seidah is the co-discoverer of human beta-endorphin and has worked on its biosynthesis for four to five years demonstrating in particular the exact sites of cleavage during pulse-chase experiments. For this work, he received the Clarke Institute Award in 1978 (Toronto). He was the first to develop, in collaboration with the late Margaret Dayhoff, (in the mid 1970's) computer programs to identify protein fragments from data of partial sequence at 10-15 M range. Since 1979, he has tackled one of the most crucial and central aspects of brain chemistry which is the characterization of the enzymatic systems for the cleavage of precursors at pairs of basic amino acid residues. Only a few scientists have had the courage and the determination to tackle this complicated problem. He, Donald Steiner, Peng Loh and J. Thorner are the main leaders in the field. Even though the international competition was very high, Dr. Seidah is the first to have identified a new family of enzymes by reverse genetics which has all the properties of the cleavage enzyme. Dr. Seidah is a superb protein biochemist and he has added molecular biology to his wide expertise by spending one year sabbatical at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1987. He is now working on the protein aspect of his discovery and he is superbly prepared to bring it to fruition. Dr. Seidah is a chemist who has become an excellent biochemist and a world leader in his field. The new enzymes he discovered, called convertases, are at the crossroads of the new chemistry of the brain i.e. the neuropeptides. The cleavage of their precursors is a universal phenomenon which helps the brain to produce the tens of thousands of molecules it needs to insure his numerous and varied functions.