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Jean-Gabriel Castel
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: International, conflicts, settlement, peace, arbitration
In addition to being Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and editor (24 years) of the "Canadian Bar Review" , he has been a visiting professor at the following Canadian universities: Ottawa, McGill, Montreal, Toronto, Moncton and Laval and the following foreign universities: Puerto Rico, Nice, Lisbon, Mexico Paris I, Paris II, Osaka, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Aix Marseilles and the Hague Academy of International Law. Fluently bilingual, he has made a major contribution to the basic textual materials in Canada on both Private and Public International Law through over 100 major articles in both English and French and 14 books, of which the most important are: "Private International Law", 1960; "Conflict of Laws", 4th ed.; "Canadian Conflict of Laws", 2 vols.; "The Civil Law System of the Province of Quebec", 2nd. ed.; "International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada", 3rd. ed. and "Extraterritorality in International Trade".
Prof. Daniel Castillo Durante
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Stéréotypes, Littérature nomade, métissages culturels, francophonie latine, rapports nord-sud (Canada-Amérique latine)
Induction Year: 2010
Castillo Durante, Daniel - Littérature - Université d’Ottawa
Daniel Castillo Durante, chercheur, essayiste et romancier d'origine argentine voit dans la littérature un outil de recherche et d'expérimentation qui rejaillit sur l'ensemble des sciences humaines. Aussi découvre-t-il dans ses livres un monde où l'hybridité, la mondialisation des marchés et le métissage des cultures finissent par remettre en question le stéréotype.
Castillo Durante, Daniel - Littérature - Université d’Ottawa Daniel Castillo Durante, professeur titulaire au Département de français de la Faculté des arts de l’Université d’Ottawa, est un chercheur, essayiste et romancier d’origine argentine qui a su se distinguer aussi bien dans le domaine de la théorie littéraire que de la littérature francophone. Ses travaux d’inspiration sociocritique et phénoménologique sur le stéréotype et son rôle dans la représentation littéraire et le transfert des savoirs dits « migrants », remarquables par leur originalité et leur indépendance d’esprit, leur rigueur analytique et leur envergure conceptuelle, ont été accueillis autant au Canada qu’à l’étranger comme des contributions majeures à la connaissance des rapports entre la littérature et les discours investis par le cliché et le martèlement des médias.
Prof. Heather Castleden
RSC College Member
Affiliation: University of Victoria
Induction Year: 2021
Heather Castleden is a community-engaged human geographer; she has spent two decades doing research in partnership with Indigenous peoples across the country by aligning her expertise with their priorities for sovereignty and resurgence in governance across multiple spheres including treaty implementation, water management, and renewable energy development. She also concentrates her energies in supporting research ethics and accountability, the politics of knowledge production, and decolonizing settler colonialism in institutional settings.
Heather Castleden est une géographe humaine engagée dans la communauté. Elle a passé deux décennies à faire de la recherche en partenariat avec des peuples autochtones à travers le pays en alignant son expertise sur leurs priorités en matière de souveraineté et de résurgence de la gouvernance dans de multiples sphères, notamment la mise en œuvre des traités, la gestion de l'eau et le développement des énergies renouvelables. Elle s’efforce également de soutenir l'éthique et la responsabilité en matière de recherche, la politique de production de connaissances et la déconstruction du colonialisme au sein des milieux institutionnels.
Prof. Sean Caulfield
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: creative research, interdisciplinary, biomedical, technology, environment, printmaking, visual art
Induction Year: 2017
CAULFIELD, Sean - Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta
Sean Caulfield engages in innovative, interdisciplinary creative explorations of the complex ethical and philosophical questions related to health science research. His ground-breaking work involves sculpture and printmaking, biomedical and mechanical, ancient and modern, internal conversation and external conflict. Working with biomedical researchers, academics and artists, Caulfield’s award-winning collaborations have been exhibited throughout the world, including at the Art Gallery of Alberta; UQAM Gallery, Montreal; and Chelsea Art Museum, New York.
Sean Caulfield s'engage dans des explorations créatives et interdisciplinaires des questions éthiques et philosophiques complexes liées à la recherche en sciences de la santé. Son travail novateur implique la sculpture et la gravure biomédicale et mécanique, ancienne et moderne, la conversation interne et les conflits extérieurs. Les collaborations primées que Caulfield a réalisé avec des chercheurs biomédicaux, des universitaires et des artistes ont été exposées à travers le monde, y compris à la Galerie d'art de l'Alberta; la Galerie UQAM, Montréal; et la Galerie d’art de Chelsea, New York.
Mr. Timothy Caulfield
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Biotechnology policy, health law, bioethics
Long Citation
Professor Caulfield is an international leader in the field of health law. His influential research, particularly his analysis of the legal and social issues associated with emerging technologies, has been cited by numerous provincial, national and international policy makers, including the Supreme Court of Canada, the OECD and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health. Professor Caulfield is an international leader in the field of health law. His scholarly activity has resulted in over 120 academic publications and book chapters. His influential research, particularly his analysis of the legal and social issues associated with emerging technologies, has been cited by numerous provincial, national and international policy makers, including the Supreme Court of Canada, the OECD and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health. He has been closely involved in the production of many influential policy documents, including several by the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, the Canadian Institute of Health Research and the Royal Society of Canada.
Short Citation
Professor Caulfield is an international leader in the field of health law whose scholarly activity has resulted in over 120 academic publications and book chapters. His influential research, particularly his analysis of the legal and social issues associated with emerging technologies, has been cited by numerous provincial, national and international policy makers, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Prof. Patrick Cavanagh
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: vision, perception, memory
Induction Year: 2019
CAVANAGH, Patrick – Department of Psychology, Glendon College, York University
Patrick Cavanagh has pioneered new directions in the areas of spatial and temporal resolution of visual attention. He discovered a distorted perception of position caused by movement and has presented a new theory of position perception based in the cortical and subcortical areas of attention and eye movement control. Cavanagh has also opened new research that uses the properties of art to reveal the functioning of the visual brain.
Patrick Cavanagh fait de la recherche sur la perception du mouvement, la perception des couleurs, et les mécanismes de l’attention visuelle. Il a montré que le mouvement crée des distorsions de la position. Il a aussi proposé une nouvelle direction de l’analyse scientifique de l’art en démontrant que certaines erreurs dans les tableaux révèlent le fonctionnement du système visuel.
Prof. Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Trent University
Induction Year: 2023
Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez is an internationally recognized historian of political violence and dictatorship in 20th-century Europe, especially of the Spanish Civil War and the Francisco Franco regime. A prominent participant in the important public debates about Spain’s difficult past and how it is remembered, he is well-known for his innovative contributions to public history, including co-founding and co-directing Spanish Civil War: A Virtual Museum, the world’s first museum about the conflict.
Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez est un historien reconnu sur le plan international, spécialiste de la violence politique et de la dictature dans l'Europe du XXe siècle, en particulier de la guerre civile espagnole et du régime de Francisco Franco. Il participe activement aux grands débats publics sur le passé difficile de l'Espagne et sur ses commémorations. Il est connu pour ses contributions novatrices à l'histoire publique, notamment en tant que cofondateur et codirecteur de Spanish Civil War : A Virtual Museum, le premier musée au monde consacré à ce conflit.
Prof. Marta Cerruti
RSC College Member
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Biomaterials, Material Surfaces, Drug delivery
Induction Year: 2019
Marta Cerruti is a Canada Research Chair in Biosynthetic Interfaces. Working at the intersection between chemistry, biology and medicine, she develops materials that control mineral formation in the body and how drugs are delivered. Her research may help millions of people needing bone grafts and suffering from cardiovascular diseases. More broadly, Marta is committed to working on improving the health of our world’s communities.
Marta Cerruti est titulaire d’une Chaire de recherche du Canada en interfaces biosynthétiques. Travaillant dans les domaines de la chimie, de la biologie et de la médecine, elle développe des matériaux qui contrôlent la formation des minéraux dans le corps et la façon dont les médicaments sont administrés. Ses recherches pourraient aider des millions de personnes ayant besoin de greffes osseuses et souffrant de maladies cardiovasculaires. Plus généralement, Marta s’est engagée à travailler à l’amélioration de la santé des communautés du monde.
Benoît Chabot
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Université de Sherbrooke
Induction Year: 2025
Dr. Rafael Chacon
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Ergodic and probability theory
The work of R.V.S. Chacon deals with probability and ergodic theory. His papers are characterized by outstanding originality and clever ingenuity. He has solved difficult outstanding problems. Among these achievements is a complete answer to a deep conjecture of E. Hopf of 1954 in the Chacon-Ornstein ergodic theorem. In answer to a question of Halmos he has constructed a 1-1 measure preserving transformation of the unit interval into itself which has a continuous spectrum, no non-singular square root and is not strongly mixing in the ergodic sense. Much of his work contains promise of interesting subsequent development, some of which has already been realized in the rather large number of his joint papers.
Prof. Chandrima Chakraborty
RSC College Member
Affiliation: McMaster University
Keywords: South Asian cultures, diaspora, history and public memory, postcolonial studies, nationalism, gender, race
Induction Year: 2019
Chandrima Chakraborty has emerged as one of Canada’s leading scholars of the literature of India and its diaspora, recognized for her path-breaking contributions to the fields of postcolonial, gender and trauma studies. She has generated positive and meaningful impacts within Canada and internationally through her commitment to exchanging knowledge with broader communities, most recently drawing public attention to the socio-political contexts surrounding the 1985 Air India tragedy and its aftermath.
Chandrima Chakraborty est l’une des plus éminentes chercheuses canadiennes dans le domaine de la littérature indienne et de sa diaspora, reconnue pour ses contributions novatrices dans les domaines des études postcoloniales, de genre et des traumatismes. Son engagement pour le partage de connaissances avec des collectivités plus vastes, tel que récemment l’information au public sur les contextes sociopolitiques entourant la tragédie d’Air India en 1985 et ses répercussions, ont eu des conséquences positives et significatives au Canada et à l’étranger.
Mallar Chakravarty
RSC College Member
Affiliation: McGill University
Induction Year: 2023
Mallar Chakravarty is an award-winning computational neuroscientist. He foundational contributions in neuroimaging have been used to study neuroanatomy, population-level brain variation, and model
systems of brain disease by integrating techniques from data science, neuroscience, and biological psychiatry. His multi-scale and -disciplinary approach have demonstrated novel associations between
behaviour, whole brain phenotypes, and their putative cellular and molecular underpinnings. His
internationally recognized research has resulted in >310 publications and >22,000 citations.
Mallar Chakravarty est neuroscientifique informatique et a reçu de nombreuses distinctions. Ses contributions fondamentales dans le domaine de la neuro-imagerie ont été utilisées pour étudier la neuroanatomie, les variations cérébrales au niveau de la population et les systèmes modèles de maladies cérébrales en intégrant des techniques issues de la science des données, des neurosciences et de la psychiatrie biologique. Son approche pluridisciplinaire et à plusieurs niveaux a permis de mettre en évidence de nouvelles associations entre le comportement, les phénotypes du cerveau entier et leurs fondements cellulaires et moléculaires supposés. Ses recherches reconnues internationalement ont donné lieu à plus de 310 publications et plus de 22 000 citations.
Prof. Nathalie Chalifour
RSC College Member
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Environmental law, social justice, economics, climate change, carbon pricing, fiscal policy
Induction Year: 2018
Nathalie Chalifour is a widely recognized expert in environmental law and policy, known for her pioneering efforts to build bridges between environmental issues, economics and social justice. Her research is helping to shape Canada’s developing legal framework for climate change and environmental justice. She explores how markets and fiscal policy can be harnessed to protect the environment and promote social justice, and how the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms can be used to safeguard the rights of those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Nathalie Chalifour est une experte de grande renommée dans le domaine du droit et des politiques environnementales, connue pour avoir établi des liens entre les problématiques environnementales, l’économie et la justice sociale. Ses travaux contribuent à définir le cadre juridique canadien pour le changement climatique et la justice environnementale. Elle explore la manière dont les politiques fiscales et des marchés peuvent à la fois protéger l’environnement et promouvoir la justice sociale, et la façon dont on peut recourir à la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés afin de protéger les droits des personnes les plus vulnérables aux conséquences du changement climatique.
Dr. John Richard George Challis
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Physiology, fetus, pregnancy, placenta, parturition
Dr. John Challis, Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Fetal and Neonatal Health and Development, is an international leader in reproductive biology. He has made very substantial contributions to an understanding of the endocrinology of pregnancy and parturition, and of fetal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal development. This has been done by pursuing the general hypothesis that birth is initiated through the sequential maturation of an endocrine organ communication system, beginning with the fetal hypothalamic - hypophyseal adrenal axis, and with subsequent influences on intra-uterine hormone production, and myometrial contractility. John Challis has used very effectively a comparative approach in studies of sheep, monkey and humans that provide advances of a fundamental and theoretical nature that have major clinical relevance. Dr. Challis was elected as President of the Canadian Physiological Society and received a number of awards including the G. Malcolm Brown Memorial Award of CFBS and the President's Scientific Achievement Award of the Society for Gynaecologic Investigation.
Prof. J.K. Chambers
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Socio-Linguistics, English Dialects, Jazz
Induction Year: 2009
Jack Chambers is a professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Sociolinguistic Theory (2009) and Dialectology (1998) and many other books and articles. He maintains a parallel vocation in jazz criticism, with the biographies of Miles Davis (1998) and Richard Twardzik (2008), as well as scores of articles.
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CHAMBERS, J.K. (Jack) –Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
J.K. (Jack) Chambers is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He is author of Sociolinguistic Theory (3rd ed 2009) and Dialectology (with Peter Trudgill, 2nd ed. 1998), first editor of The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (2002), and other books. His articles include "Canadian Raising" (1973), "Dialect Acquisition" (1992), "Sociolinguistics of Immigration" (2003), "Canadian Dainty" (2004) and "Sociolinguistics and the Language Faculty" (2005). He maintains a parallel vocation in jazz criticism, including the biographies Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis (Da Capo 1998) and Bouncin' with Bartok: The Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik (Mercury 2008).
Dr. Ann F Chambers
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Western University
Keywords: Biology and regulation of metastasis, tumor progression and dormancy, tumor metastasis
Induction Year: 2019
CHAMBERS, Ann – Departments of Oncology, Medical Biophysics, and Pathology, Western University
Ann Chambers is one of Canada’s most internationally renowned experts on tumor progression and metastasis, the cause of most cancer deaths. Among her many exceptional achievements in basic and translational cancer research aimed at benefitting patients are the development of novel ways to image metastasis, identification of dormant cancer cells that resist treatment and later form metastases, and development of approaches for studying biomarkers of cancer progression in patients.
Ann Chambers est une experte canadienne renommée sur le plan international dans le domaine de la progression tumorale et des métastases, la cause de la plupart des décès liés au cancer. Ses réalisations exceptionnelles en recherche fondamentale et translationnelle sur le cancer se traduisent par le développement novateur de méthodes d’imagerie des métastases, l’identification de cellules cancéreuses dormantes résistantes au traitement et qui forment ensuite des métastases, et le développement d’approches pour l’étude des biomarqueurs de la progression du cancer chez les patients.
Prof. Lori Lorene Chambers
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Lakehead University
Induction Year: 2021
Lori Chambers is a legal historian who focuses on gender. She has published books on marital property law, the treatment of unmarried mothers, the law of adoption and child welfare, and intimate partner violence. She is currently involved in a number of projects on various aspects of police and legal responses to gender-based violence. She is also a community activist in the movement to end gendered, sexualized, and racially-motivated violence.
Lori Chambers est une historienne du droit qui se concentre sur le genre. Elle a publié des livres sur le droit des biens matrimoniaux, le traitement des mères célibataires, le droit de l’adoption et de la protection de l’enfance, et la violence entre partenaires intimes. Elle participe actuellement à un certain nombre de projets sur divers aspects des réponses policières et juridiques à la violence fondée sur le sexe. Elle est également une activiste communautaire dans le mouvement pour mettre fin à la violence sexiste, sexualisée et à motivation raciale.
Dr. Christine Chambers
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Keywords: Pediatrics, Pain, Families, Psychology, Children
Induction Year: 2022
Christine Chambers is an internationally recognized researcher and clinician who has made important contributions to the understanding and treatment of pain in children. Her award-winning research has provided new tools for assessing pain and significant new approaches to managing children’s pain. She is a tireless advocate who uses social media and other means to provide parents and health professionals the information needed to ensure optimal pain care for children.
Christine Chambers est chercheuse et clinicienne de renommée internationale qui a largement contribué à la compréhension et au traitement de la douleur chez les enfants. Ses travaux de recherche primés ont mené à l’élaboration de nouveaux outils pour l’évaluation de la douleur et de nouvelles approches afin de gérer la douleur chez les enfants. Travailleuse infatigable, elle utilise les médias sociaux et d’autres moyens de communication afin de transmettre aux parents et aux professionnels de la santé les renseignements nécessaires pour offrir des soins pédiatriques optimaux contre la douleur.
Dr. Savvas Chamberlain
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: DALSA Corporation
Keywords: Technology transfer from R&D labs to industry
Induction Year: 2010
Chamberlain, Savvas - Engineering – DALSA
Savvas Chamberlain can be characterized as a scientist, inventor, Professor and entrepreneur. His research on semiconductor devices, his basic charge transfer theories on CCD’s and time-delay integration-imager, and the transfer of his technology to commercialization, are all well recognized internationally. Founder of DALSA Corp and growing it to more than 1000 employees are also noted achievements.
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Chamberlain, Savvas - Engineering - DALSA
Sawas Chamberlain is the Chainnan and Founder of DALSA Corporation (www.dalsa.com), a leading Canadian high-performance semiconductor and electronics company specializing in digital imaging, with more than1000 employees worldwide. Before founding DALSA, Savvas was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He was instrumental in putting the department and the Faculty on the academic international map. He has published over 150 papers and conference proceedings on charge-coupled devices, semiconductor devices, and metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 patents. His basic theories on charge transfer in CCD’s in 1980’s let to the and commercialization of high speed image sensor devices. His research work on the CCD TDI image sensor device led to the commercialization of high speed and high responsivity imagers for industrial application. Dr. Chamberlain is a generous supporter of engineering education, the arts, and charitable organizations in the Kitchener-Waterloo region of Ontario. Savvas is a member of the Order of Canada.
Savvas Chamberlain est à la fois un scientifique, un inventeur, un professeur et un entrepreneur. Ses recherches sur les dispositifs à semiconducteurs, ses théories sur le transfert de la charge dans les dispositifs à couplage de charges, la mise au point de l’imagerie par intégration temporelle et la commercialisation de cette technologie l’ont fait connaître sur le plan international. Il est également le fondateur de DALSA Corp, qui compte aujourd’hui plus de 1000 employés
J. Edward Chamberlin
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Ted Chamberlin is the ideal model of the Canadian academic as committed public intellectual. A noted literary critic, whose important work in the fields of both modernist studies and West Indian culture has opened up and even provoked new interdisciplinary avenues of investigation, he has at the same time also been actively involved in public policy development concerning Indian, Métis, and Inuit affairs for over twenty years, serving on major Canadian Royal Commissions. This is a dedicated and appreciated teacher, an innovative scholar, a committed university citizen, and an engaged Canadian—a man of multiple talents and achievements.
Prof. Pascale Champagne
RSC College Member
Affiliation: Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)
Keywords: environment, passive treatment, wastewater treatment, bioresources, biomass, renewables, bioresources engineering; solid waste management; water contamination
Induction Year: 2014
Pascale Champagne, associate professor of both civil and chemical engineering at Queen’s University, is an innovative and collaborative researcher rapidly establishing herself as an expert in the development of alternate water and waste management technologies and sustainable environmental approaches with a focus on integrated bioresource management. Her work has important societal, economic and environmental implications, which have been recognized both nationally and internationally.
Pascale Champagne, professeure agrégée de génie civil et chimique à l’Université Queen’s, est une chercheuse innovante et collaborative qui s’est rapidement distinguée comme spécialiste du développement de technologies alternatives pour la gestion des eaux et des déchets, ainsi que d’approches environnementales durables, en particulier la gestion de ressources biologiques intégrées. Ses travaux, dont l’impact social, économique et environnemental est majeur, sont reconnus aux niveaux national et international.
Yolande Chan
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Induction Year: 2025
Kai Ming Adam Chan
RSC College Member
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, environmental values
Induction Year: 2017
Kai Chan is a Professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Chan is a leader in the field of ecosystem services, having contributed to core methodologies and insights linking human and natural systems. His interdisciplinary scholarship bridges ecology, evolutionary biology, ethics and ecological economics. He is also a public scholar engaged in improving decision-making on complex environmental issues.
Kai Chan est professeur à l’Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability de l’University of British Columbia. Le Prof. Chan a acquis une réputation d’excellence dans le domaine des services écosystémiques et a contribué à l’élaboration de nouvelles méthodologies et de nouvelles démarches de recherche reliant l’homme et les systèmes naturels. Ses travaux interdisciplinaires conjuguent écologie, biologie évolutionniste, éthique et économie écologique. C’est également un chercheur engagé s’efforçant d’améliorer la prise de décisions en matière de problèmes environnementaux complexes.
Tak-Hang Chan
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Green chemistry, organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry
Tak-Hang Chan has pioneered in the development of new organic reactions and new synthetic methodologies. His imaginative use of organosilicon compounds has led to convenient syntheses of plant growth regulators, carbohydrates, and spruce budworm pheromones and insect anti-feedants. He has introduced reagents containing fluorine, tin, sulfur, selenium, indium, and many other elements into organic chemistry and made many otherwise difficult reactions possible. Recently he has discovered how to carry out some organometallic reactions in water, instead of using anhydrous solvents. Such reactions are likely to have a strong impact in organic synthesis. His work is making a host of strained and otherwise inaccessible molecules available by synthesis, and is being discovered and utilized by a world-wide community of chemists.





