Professor Hertzel Gerstein is a trailblazing diabetes researcher at McMaster University who has helped transform diabetes into one of the most evidence-based fields in medicine. His transdisciplinary approach, and patient-informed clinical trials, focuses on links between diabetes, cardiovascular, cognitive, and renal outcomes, and has yielded novel insights into the prevention, remission and care of people with diabetes, and in the prevention of diabetes in those at greatest risk.

Hertzel Gerstein est un pionnier de la recherche sur le diabète au sein de la McMaster University, qui a contribué à faire du diabète l'un des domaines de la médecine bénéficiant du plus grand nombre de données probantes. Son approche transdisciplinaire et ses essais cliniques chez des patients informés portent sur les liens entre le diabète et les conséquences cardiovasculaires, cognitives et rénales, et ont permis d'acquérir de nouvelles connaissances sur la prévention, la rémission et le traitement des personnes atteintes de diabète, ainsi que sur la prévention du diabète chez les personnes les plus à risque.

Bertrand Gervais is full professor in the Literary studies Department at the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) and the Head of the Canada Research Chair in Digital Art and Literature. He is the founding director of Figura, the Research Center on Textuality and the Imaginary, and of NT2, the Research Laboratory on Hypermedia Art and Literature. He teaches American literature and literary theory, specializing in theories of reading and interpretation, and on the Imaginary. He has published essays on literary reading and contemporary imagination, and digital aesthetics. He is also a novelist.

GERVAIS, Bertrand - Département d'études littéraires, Université du Québec à Montréal Bertrand Gervais est le titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les arts et les littératures numériques, ainsi que le directeur du NT2. Fondateur et directeur (1999-2015) de Figura, Centre de recherche sur le texte et l’imaginaire, il est professeur titulaire au Département d'études littéraires de l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a publié des essais sur la lecture, l’imaginaire et le numérique, de même que des romans.

Fadhel M. Ghannouchi is a Professor and former Alberta Innovates/Canada Research Chair, as well as the founding Director of the iRadio Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal and has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Prof. Ghannouchi has published six books, holds 40 U.S. patents, and has authored over 1,000 refereed papers, with more than 700 of those published in IEEE Xplore. His research interests encompass RF and wireless communications, nonlinear modeling of microwave devices and communication systems, design of power- and spectrum-efficient microwave amplification systems, and software-defined radio (SDR) systems for wireless, optical, and satellite communication applications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada's Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and an Emeritus Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Society.

Shohini Ghose is a theoretical physicist whose pioneering work in the field of quantum information science and quantum chaos has helped shape the field. She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her scientific breakthroughs, is an internationally sought-after public speaker, and a TED Fellow. She also makes a local, national and international impact as the founding Director of Laurier’s Centre for Women in Science, the first of its kind in Canada.

Shohini Ghose est une physicienne théoricienne dont les travaux originaux dans le domaine de l’informatique quantique et du chaos quantique se sont révélés fondamentaux. Récipiendaire de nombreux prix et distinctions pour ses découvertes scientifiques, elle est une conférencière très sollicitée sur le plan international et membre TED. Elle jouit d’un rayonnement local, national et international en tant que directrice-fondatrice du Laurier’s Centre for Women in Science, le premier organisme du genre du Canada.

Nassif Ghoussoub is a deep and prolific mathematician who is recognized as a world leader in the geometry of Banach spaces and in non-linear analysis. His work with Maurey connecting extremal properties of subsets with structural properties of the space led to the resolution of several long-standing problems in Banach space theory. In the area of non-linear analysis, he had pioneered new variational techniques which allow for the location and classification of saddle points. These results in turn have been used by Dr. Ghoussoub and others to make fundamental new discoveries in partial differential equations and geometry.

James R. Gibson, author of five major books and more than 50 articles in historical geography, is an authority on the colonial Russian fur trade in North America. His research, based upon exhaustive archival investigations in Russian and English sources, presents careful explanatory analyses of settlement and trading processes in frontier areas, particularly Eastern Siberia, Russian America, the Northwest Coast, and the Pacific Slope. He is capping his studies with documentary compilations on Russian enterprise in Hispanic California and the Hudson's Bay Company and the coast trade.

Elisabeth Gidengil is an internationally recognized expert on electoral behavior and democratic engagement. Unquestionably among the most accomplished political scientists in Canada, she has also conducted pioneering research on the role of gender in politics, political communication, and media coverage of politics. She is the founder of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and has served as president of the Canadian Political Science Association.

Elisabeth Gidengil est une experte de renommée mondiale du comportement électoral et de l’engagement démocratique. Figurant parmi les politologues les plus brillantes au Canada, elle a également mené des recherches originales sur les questions de parité hommes-femmes en politique, sur la communication politique et sur la couverture médiatique de la politique. Elle est la fondatrice du Centre pour l’étude de la citoyenneté démocratique et a été présidente de l’Association canadienne de science politique.

GIESBRECHT, Marnie – Department of Music, University of Alberta An adventurous and consummate keyboard artist, Marnie Giesbrecht, University Organist and Professor Emerita is passionate about playing and teaching a breadth of keyboard instruments, including organ, piano and harpsichord, allowing idioms and techniques to cross-pollinate and create new modes of expression. Internationally acclaimed for her work with the unique Duo Majoya, she is renowned as a performer, pedagogue and advocate for the organ and Canadian music.

GIESBRECHT, Marnie – Department of Music, University of Alberta Claviériste audacieuse et accomplie, madame Marnie Giesbrecht, organiste de l’université et professeur émérite joue et enseigne toute une gamme d’instruments à clavier, dont l’orgue, le piano et le clavecin, permettant au langage musical et à la technique de s’influencer mutuellement et de créer de nouveaux modes d’expression. Ayant acquis une renommée internationale au sein de l’exceptionnel Duo Majoya, elle est reconnue en tant qu’interprète, pédagogue et promotrice de l’orgue et de la musique canadienne.

Vincent Giguère's groundbreaking work has led to major advances in our understanding of the roles played by nuclear receptors and their natural and synthetic ligands in embryonic development, adult physiology and several diseases, most notably hormone-dependent cancers and metabolic disorders.

GIGUÈRE, Vincent -, The Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Centre, McGill University Vincent Giguère is an international leader in the field of nuclear receptors, a class of DNA-binding proteins that regulate the expression of genes in a cell and tissue-specific manner in response to small lipophylic molecules such as steroid hormones and vitamin A. Dr. Giguère identified several members of the super-family of nuclear receptors and revealed mechanisms demonstrating how these proteins work at the molecular level. His groundbreaking work also led to major advances in our understanding of the roles played by nuclear receptors and their natural and synthetic ligands in embryonic development, adult physiology and several diseases, most notably hormone-dependent cancers and metabolic disorders.

GILES, Wenona - Department of Anthropology and Centre for Refugee Studies, York University An anthropologist at York University, Wenona Giles’ path-breaking scholarship has made significant contributions to the anthropologies of gendered migration, displacement and war. Her groundbreaking work on the gender relations of militarization and conflict and her research and engaged scholarship on long term forced migration ranks among the best in its field and has consistently helped to open doors to new scholarly explorations through synergistic laboratory like collaborations.

DR. ROBERT W. GIILLHAM, Professor and Chairman, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, is an earth scientist who has made major advances in understanding the behaviour of natural and contaminated water in the subsurface environment. His research has answered long-standing questions about the manner in which groundwater feeds streams and about the origin of water pumped from shallow wells. He did pioneering research on nitrogen contamination in groundwater before nitrogen became recognized as the most common form of groundwater contamination worldwide. He recently made the most important advance in groundwater contamination science of the past two decades by identifying a new way in which contaminated groundwater can be cleansed 'in situ' without pumping the water out of the ground and without consuming energy or expensive materials. For this contribution he has received patents that provide the foundation for a growing Canadian commercial enterprise with a global market and a recent award from the Royal Society of Canada. His scientific papers on this topic are the landmarks for a field research that has rapidly become the focus of more than twenty research groups in North America and Europe.