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.

Barbara Gibson is a physical therapist and bioethicist whose research investigates how social, cultural, and institutional practices intersect in producing health, inclusion/exclusion, and identity with disabled children and young people. The work is interdisciplinary drawing upon sociological studies of health, bioethics, and critical disability studies. She has examined key areas of health practices and policies including transitions to adulthood, independent living, and understanding relationships between mobility, identity, and social inclusion

Barbara Gibson est physiothérapeute et bio-éthicienne. Son travail de recherche examine les intersections des pratiques sociales, culturelles et institutionnelles et comment celles-ci influencent la santé, l’inclusion et l’exclusion sociale et l’identité des enfants et des jeunes handicapés. Ce travail interdisciplinaire s’appuie sur la recherche sociologique dans les domaines de la santé, de la bioéthique et des études critiques sur la situation des personnes handicapées. Prof Gibson étudie les aspects pertinents des politiques et des principes directeurs des soins de la santé reliés à la vie indépendante et aux transitions adolescent-adulte, et cherche à mieux comprendre les relations entre la mobilité, l’identité et l’inclusion sociale.

GICK, Bryan - Department of Linguistics, The University of Brtitish Columbia Bryan Gick’s pioneering work uncovering the basic mechanisms of spoken language is remarkable for its originality, impact and breadth. He has made surprising discoveries in multimodal perception, advanced theories of movement control, developed applications for ultrasound imaging in language teaching and clinical intervention and co-developed ArtiSynth, the state-of-the-art biomechanical modelling platform for head/neck/face simulation, applied in areas from surgical planning to telecommunications and computer animation.

Catherine Gidney’s extensive and award-winning publications have established her as a leading historian of Canadian education. Her research on youth culture, nutrition, commercialism, physical education, moral education, psychology, and student mental health provides essential context for understanding our contemporary educational patterns and initiatives. Her current projects examine the politics of school commercialism and the transformation of educators’ approaches to children’s emotional development.

Les nombreuses publications récompensées de Catherine Gidney lui ont permis de se positionner comme éminente historienne de l’enseignement canadien. Ses recherches sur la culture juvénile, la nutrition, le mercantilisme, l’éducation physique, l’éducation morale, la psychologie et la santé mentale des étudiants contribuent grandement à comprendre nos modèles et initiatives éducatifs contemporains. Ses projets actuels visent à examiner les politiques de mercantilisme en milieu scolaire et la transformation des approches pédagogiques du développement émotionnel des enfants.

Professor John P. Giesy, Ph.D., FRSC received his degrees in Limnology from Michigan State University in 1971 and 1974, respectively. He is currently Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan on the faculties of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and Toxicology Centre. He has published 892 works: 80 book chapters, 736 peer-reviewed open literature journal articles, seven books written, and books edited, with an h index of 72.

Membre de la Société royale du Canada et titulaire d’une chaire de recherche du Canada, le professeur John P. Giesy a obtenu deux diplômes en limnologie de Michigan State University en 1971 et 1974. Il enseigne actuellement au Département de sciences biomédicales et vétérinaires et au Centre de toxicologie de l’University of Saskatchewan. Il est l’auteur de quelque 892 publications, dont sept ouvrages et plusieurs autres en collaboration, 80 chapitres de livres et 736 articles parus sur divers sujets dans des revues avec comité de lecture. Son indice de Hirsch est de 72.

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.

Updated July 28, 2015 Dr. Gingras is a senior scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and Professor in the department of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto. She is an internationally recognized leader in the field of systems biology, having developed and applied innovative new technologies and analysis tools for understanding complex protein:protein interactions associated with human diseases. Her tools and data analysis methods are used by researchers across the globe.

Updated July 28, 2015 GINGRAS, Anne-Claude, Médecine, University of Toronto Dr Gingras est chercheur principal à l'Institut Lunenfeld Research-Tanenbaum et professeur dans le département de génétique moléculaire à l'Université de Toronto. Elle est internationalement reconnue dans le domaine de la biologie des systèmes pour ses efforts novateurs visant à élucider les complexes d'interactions protéine:protéine associés aux maladies humaines. Ses nouveaux outils et méthodes d'analyse des données sont utilisés par des chercheurs à travers le monde.

Philip Girard’s prize-winning work on the legal history of Canada has shaped the field and redefined its agenda for the twenty-first century. Tracing the roots of today’s legal pluralism to the historic encounter of two European empires with Indigenous peoples in northern North America, he stresses how this pluralism allowed Quebec civil law to flourish on a continent of common law and now creates space for the renaissance of Indigenous law.

Les études primées de Philip Girard sur l’histoire du droit au Canada ont façonné ce champ disciplinaire et l’ont redéfini pour le 21e siècle. En faisant remonter les origines du pluralisme juridique d’aujourd’hui à la rencontre historique de deux empires européens avec les habitants Autochtones du nord de l’Amérique du Nord, il démontre comment cela a permis au droit civil québécois de s’épanouir sur un continent où règne la common law, et a contribué à la renaissance actuelle du droit Autochtone.