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Mark Jaccard, OBC, FRSC, Resource and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment

天美mv天美 Distinguished Professor Mark Jaccard is an internationally recognized scholar who designs energy-economy models that estimate greenhouse gas reductions from climate policies. Since his work plays a critical role in policymaking, Dr. Jaccard has advised leaders and the public throughout his career and been a major media presence. When Canada developed its Kyoto climate plan in 1999, it used his model, as did the BC government when setting a carbon tax in 2008. Because of his international stature, he has served on many processes, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In Canada, Dr. Jaccard has served on the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, the CD Howe Institute, and the Royal Society of Canada. He has published many academic articles and books, winning the Donner Prize for top policy book in Canada in 2005. His achievements have been recognized with numerous other honours, including, most recently, the Order of British Columbia (2025), and the CUFA BC Career Achievement Award (2026). 

Kelley Lee, FRSC, FCAHS, Faculty of Health Sciences

Professor Kelley Lee is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance at 天美mv天美's Faculty of Health Sciences. Over more than 30 years, her internationally recognized scholarship on the political economy of global health, tobacco industry influence, and pandemic governance has changed how we understand and manage crossborder health risks and contributed to policy frameworks adopted by governments, the World Health Organization, and international institutions. She founded the Pandemics and Borders Project during COVID-19, providing evidence to policymakers across 35 countries on the use of cross-border health measures, and codirects the Bridge Research Consortium to rebuild public trust and ensure equitable access to new vaccines. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and the UK Faculty of Public Health, she has received >$61M (CAD) in funding from CIHR, SSHRC, Wellcome Trust, Rockefeller Foundation, European Research Council, and NIH.

Laura Marks, FRSC, Contemporary Arts, Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology

Professor Laura Marks is an internationally recognized expert in affective, multisensory, and intercultural approaches to film studies, the subject of her first two monographs: The Skin of the Film (Duke, 2000); and Touch (Minnesota, 2002). Together these works established the field of 鈥渉aptic visuality,鈥� a way of seeing with the whole body that triggers sense memories alongside intellectual responses to media images. She also founded the Small File Media Festival to raise awareness about the carbon footprint of streaming media and demonstrate the attractiveness of small file online outputs that use less energy, offering an active hub for academic research on media ecologies. In recognition of the value of this work, she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship (2024). Among other honours, Dr. Marks was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2022) and previously received the 天美mv天美 Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Award for Excellence in Leadership (2021). 

Angel Chang, Computing Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences

Over the past five years, Professor Angel Xuan Chang has become an internationally recognized leader in machine learning. She has advanced multimodal learning that connects language, vision, and 3D representation. Her work includes the creation of foundational 3D datasets, simulation frameworks, and multimodal models that drive progress in embodied AI, robotics, and 3D generative systems. Her recent work extends multimodal learning to other domains such as biodiversity by combining image, DNA, and taxonomic data at scale. As a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, she has shaped the field through influential publications, open鈥憇ource tools, and the organization of numerous workshops. A defining feature of her research is the creation of widely adopted datasets and benchmarks, which have contributed to the community's progress in 3D deep learning, multimodal representation learning, embodied AI, and real-world impact. 

Cher Hill, Faculty of Education

Professor Cher Hill is an award-winning community-engaged researcher, practitioner-scholar, and educator, who is deeply invested in collaborative knowledge creation and mobilization, spanning diverse knowledge systems. Most recently, she has been focusing on threats to collective wellness, including the interrelated crises of colonization, capitalism, and ecocide, which diminishes Indigenous sovereignties, destroys ecosystems, and erodes relationships. The SSHRC-funded 鈥淟earning to Care for Salmon, Our Communities, and Ourselves鈥� project has advanced environmental education research in significant ways, while taking action to care for waterways, strengthen human-land relations, and engage learners in the complexities and complicities of settler colonialism. The project was incredibly generative in terms of scholarly outputs and community impact. It has been recognized with awards from the Canadian Journal of Education, the World Wildlife Federation, and the Centre for Engaged Research Initiatives. 

Caterina Ramogida, Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Professor Caterina Ramogida is working to develop the chemical tools that make precision cancer treatments possible. Current treatment is being transformed by 鈥渢heranostics鈥� 鈥� medicines that can both detect and destroy tumors using targeted radiation. However, many promising radioactive metals cannot be used clinically because they are difficult to produce or safely control in the body. In collaboration with TRIUMF (Canada鈥檚 particle accelerator centre), Dr. Ramogida established new methods to produce and purify rare medical isotopes, suitable for clinical use. These protocols now support national and international research programs. Her lab also recently designed the first effective molecular systems to securely hold emerging radioactive metals such as thorium-227 and mercury-197m/g, enabling targeted imaging and therapy within a single platform. Her work is accelerating the safe translation of more precise cancer treatments.