Canada Research Chairs are funded by the Government of Canada in order to ensure that Canadian universities "achieve the highest levels of research excellence to become world-class research centres in the global, knowledge-based economy."

Canada Research Chairs by Faculty

	Tier 1	Tier 2	Total
Arts & Science	3	10	13
Engineering & Computer Science	1	1	2
Fine Arts	-	2	2
John Molson School of Business	-	-	-
Total	4	13	17 filled

Arts and Science

Dr. Donal Hickey, Department of Biology
Canada Research Chair in Genome Evolution (Tier 1)

Dr. Robin N. Michel, Department of Exercise Science
Canada Research Chair in Cellular and Molecular Neuromuscular Physiology (Tier 1)

Dr. Alexander I. Shnirelman, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics (Tier 1)

Dr. Mark Ellenbogen, Department of Psychology
Canada Research Chair in Developmental Psychopathology (Tier 2)

Dr. Steven High, Department of History
Canada Research Chair in Public History (Tier 2)

Dr. Satoshi Ikeda, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Canada Research Chair in Political Sociology of Global Futures (Tier 2)

Dr. Adrian Iovita, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Canada Research Chair in Number Theory (Tier 2)

Dr. Erica Lehrer, Department of History (This is a joint departmental appointment with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology)
Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography and Museology (Tier 2)

Dr. Patrik Marier, Department of Political Science
Canada Research Chair in Comparative Public Policy (Tier 2)

Dr. Vincent Martin, Department of Biology
Canada Research Chair in Microbial Genomics and Engineering (Tier 2)

Dr. Szilvia Pápai, Department of Economics
Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory (Tier 2)

Dr. Uri Shalev, Department of Psychology
Canada Research Chair in the Neurobiology of Drug Abuse (Tier 2)

Dr. Christopher J. Wilds, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Canada Research Chair in Biological Chemistry (Tier 2)

Engineering and Computer Science

Dr. Vašek Chvátal, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization (Tier 1)

Dr. Yong Zeng, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
Canada Research Chair in Design Science (Tier 2)

Fine Arts

Prof. Sandeep Bhagwati, Department of Theatre (This is a joint departmental appointment with the Department of Music)
Canada Research Chair in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory (Tier 2)

Dr. Sha Xin Wei, Department of Design and Computation Arts (This is a joint faculty appointment with the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering)
Canada Research Chair in New Media Arts (Tier 2)