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Funding for UVic health, climate, fundamental physics and more

July 09, 2025

Installation in the LHC © 2025 CERN
One successful project supports the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. LHC © 2025 CERN

UVic researchers are recipients of almost $21 million in grants from several Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) programs announced today by Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions.

“This funding for science and engineering projects reflects the wide range of research being led by UVic scholars,” says Fraser Hof, associate vice-president of research at UVic. “From food security in partnership with northern communities to international subatomic physics projects, from health to climate to the mysteries of the universe, our researchers are engaged with the most pressing questions of our time.”

NSERC Subatomic Physics Discovery Grant

Robert McPherson $18.8 million over three years toward the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.

NSERC Research Tools and Instruments

  • Peter Oshkai High-speed camera for quantitative flow of multi-phase flows
  • Jianping Pan A coast-to-coast-to-coast low-earth-orbit satellite network testbed for Canada
  • Kurt Smith Replacing aging brain imaging equipment to assess the mechanisms that regulate cerebrovascular function in males and females

NSERC Discovery and NSERC Discovery early-career researcher supplement

  • Carsten Abraham “Parameterization development of urban environments for applications in climate models;” also a one-time NSERC Discovery early-career grant
  • Keivan Ahmadi “Advanced dynamics modelling for self-optimizing machine tools”
  • Alisdair Boraston “Enzymatic cascades in the microbial metabolism of algal polysaccharides”
  • Noemie Boulanger-Lapointe “Berry species in a changing Arctic: spatial distribution and trophic interactions;” also a one-time NSERC Discovery early-career grant
  • Bradley Buckham “Computer Aided Engineering for a Canadian Marine Energy Sector”
  • Dante Canil “Temperatures and thermal histories of lavas, lithospheres and critical mineral ore deposits”
  • Jaya Prakash Champati “Reliable, Low-Cost, and Low-Latency LLM Inference in Edge AI Systems;” also a one-time NSERC Discovery early-career grant
  • Yu-Ting Chen “Stochastic Path Integrals of Singular Hamiltonians: Theory and Applications”
  • Laurence Coogan “Ocean chemistry and climate regulation on geological timescales: the role of hydrothermal fluxes”
  • Sara Ellison “From local to global - a comprehensive assessment of the role of gas in galaxy evolution”
  • David Goluskin “Variational methods for fluid dynamics using polynomial optimization”
  • Barbara Hawkins “Functional diversity of mycorrhizae in temperate conifer rainforests”
  • Falk Herwig “Solving stellar structure, asteroseismology and nuclear astrophysics puzzles through 3D hydrodynamic simulations”
  • Slim Ibrahim “Analyzing Nonlinear Dynamics Across Various Wave-Particle Systems”
  • Kathryn Jackson “Adaptive Optics for the next generation of ground-based astronomy;” also a one-time NSERC Discovery early-career grant
  • Nelson Yuen Sum Lam “Selective Manipulations of Nucleophilic Alcohols and Amines;” also a one-time NSERC Discovery early-career grant
  • Keonhag Lee “Rational Design of Porous Layers for Clean Hydrogen Production;” also a one-time NSERC Discovery early-career grant
  • David Leitch “Predictable, Programmable, Sustainable Synthesis of Complex Molecules and Materials: from Reaction Design to Catalyst Resurrection”
  • Stephen Lindsay “Memory Source Monitoring and Response Bias”
  • Hans-Peter Loock “New instruments and techniques for micro-analytical spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging”
  • Junling Ma “Use mathematical modeling to understand the impact of contact heterogeneity on disease transmission and interventions”
  • Christian Marois “A New Era of Exoplanet Science: Imaging of Reflected Light Gas Giants to Earth-like Worlds”
  • Scott McIndoe “Interrogation of catalytic reactions using accessible automation and analysis”
  • Nishant Mehta “Learning from Self-Interested Agents”
  • Adam Monahan “Using Machine Learning to Model Cross-Scale Interactions in Weather and Climate”
  • Raad Nashmi “Cholinergic mediated neurotransmission in the central nervous system”
  • Julio Navarro “Dark Matter Clues from the Faintest Galaxies”
  • Ibrahim Numanagic “Secure and scalable bioinformatics software: programming frameworks and genomics applications”
  • Makhsud Saidaminov “Perovskite photovoltaics and X-ray sensors”
  • Sowmya Somanath “Designing Novel Happiness-Fostering Work Technologies”
  • Margaret-Anne Storey “Harmonizing Software Quality, Development Productivity and Developer Thriving in a Dynamic World”
  • Tao Wang “Nonparametric Quasi-Mode Learning for Massive Data and High-Dimensional Structures;” also a one-time NSERC Discovery early-career grant
  • Stephanie Willerth “3D bioprinting complex tissues”
  • Hong-Chuan Yang “Intelligent wireless communications for trustworthy, sustainable, and ubiquitous connectivity”

NSERC Northern Research Supplement

Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe “Berry species in a changing Arctic: spatial distribution and trophic interactions”