Five CRCs announced

 

The university has been awarded five new Canada Research Chairs. This brings to 15 the number awarded to Concordia so far by the federal government:

Jerzy Floryan, CRC in Fluid Mechanics and Computational Engineering; Alexander Shnirelman, CRC in Applied Mathematics (both Tier 1); David Forman, CRC in Human Development Vincent Martin, CRC in Microbial Genomics and Engineering and Xin Wei Sha, CRC in New Media Arts (all Tier 2).

Tier 1 chairs are awarded to established researchers and provide $200,000 per year over seven years. Tier 2 Chairs are awarded to emerging researchers, and provide $100,000 per year over five years.

Only three of the latest CRCs to be announced are actually in place; the others will be in place by January. We will bring you more about these welcome new faculty members in future issues of CTR.