Research Leadership Chairs recognize research excellence of mid- to late-career-stage faculty who have proven records of distinguished and sustained scholarly work. Research Leadership Chairs are prominent researchers who have received significant recognition on both a national and international level.

Currently, the University of Guelph Research Leadership Chairs are:

• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2019
• 2017

2024

Laurie Barclay [1]
Department of Management
LANG

Animesh Dutta [2]
School of Engineering
CEPS

Jess Haines [3]
Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition
CSAHS

Cezar Khursigara [4]
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
CBS

Stephen Lewis [5]
Department of Psychology
CSAHS

Andrew MacDougall [6]
Department of Integrative Biology
CBS

Melissa Perreault [7]
Department of Biomedical Sciences
OVC

Flavio Schenkel [8]
Department of Animal Biosciences
OAC

Anna Kate Shoveller [9]
Department of Animal Biosciences
OAC

2023

Stephen LeBlanc [10]
Department of Population Medicine
OVC

2022

Yiguo Sun [11]
Department of Economics and Finance
LANG

2021

Leah Bent [12]
Human Health and Nutritional Sciences
CBS

Dorothee Bienzle [13]
Pathobiology
OVC

Myrna Dawson [14]
Sociology and Anthropology
CSAHS

Hafiz Maherali [15]
Integrative Biology
CBS

Dorothy Odartey-Wellington [16]
School of Languages and Literatures
COA

Ann Pegoraro [17]
Department of Management
LANG

Eric Poisson [18]
Physics
CEPS

Kathryn Preuss [19]
Chemistry
CEPS

Robin Roth [20]
Geography, Environment and Geomatics
CSAHS

Norman Smith [21]
History
COA

Claudia Wagner Riddle [22]
School of Environmental Sciences
OAC

Tina Widowski [23]
Animal Biosciences
OAC

2019

Towhidul Islam [24]
Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies
CBE

2017

Emma Allen-Vercoe [25]
Molecular and Cellular Biology
CBS

Stephen Henighan [26]
School of Languages & Literatures
COA

Rene Kirkegaard [27]
Department of Economics and Finance
LANG

David Ma [28]
Human Health and Nutritional Sciences
CBS

David MacDonald [29]
Department of Political Science
CSAHS

Ed McBean [30]
School of Engineering
CEPS

Amar Mohanty [31]
Plant Agriculture
OAC

Shayan Sharif [32]
Pathobiology
OVC

Alfons Weersink [33]
Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
OAC