An overview of the Research funding received by the Faculty of Science in 2024-2025.
Research insights
Explore the numbers behind our discoveries and meet the people driving research excellence at the Faculty of Science.
Research statistics
Funding
| Source | Amount | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Foundation for Innovation | $6,681,875 | 16.2% |
| Tri-Council Grants (including CRC & CERC) | $20,890,145 | 51.0% |
| Other External Operating | $3,301,704 | 8.1% |
| Internal Funding | $2,359,949 | 5.8% |
| Contracts-Public sector (including Mitacs, non-profit organizations, foundations) | $7,181,846 | 17.5% |
| Contracts-Industry | $581,150 | 1.4% |
TOTAL | $40,996,668 | 100% |
Legend:
- CRC: Canada Research Chairs
- CERC: Canada Excellence Research Chairs
Success in numbers
16
awards to our researchers
36
Undergraduate Science Research Opportunity Program (USRO) recipients
26
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) scholarship recipients
Innovation
- 11 invention disclosures
- 18 patent applications filed
- 7 patents issued
- 81 contracts signed
Researchers
- 165 APUO researchers
- 33 Emeritus Professors
- 317 PhD students
- 257 MSc students
- 145 Postdoctoral researchers
- 4 new researchers:
- Jennifer Ogilvie, Professor, Department of Physics
- Kevin Kubarych, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
- Terri Lovell, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
- Aiko Kurimoto, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
Research chairs
Chairs
30 research chair-holders.
30 active chairs in 2024/25
- Canada Excellence Research Chair : 1
- University Research Chair (URC): 12
- Distinguished Research Chair : 1
- Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC): 8
- Tier 2 Canada Research Chair: 8
4 new chairs
- Anne Broadbent – Tier 1 CRC in Quantum Communications and Cryptography
- Terri Lovell – Tier 2 CRC in Super Resolution Biomolecular Imaging
- Heather Kharouba – URC in Global Change Ecology
- Jean-Michel Ménard – URC in Quantum THz Photonics, in partnership with Iridian (IDEX Optical Technologies)
1 renewed chair
- Robert Boyd – Tier 1 CRC in Quantum Nonlinear Optics
Grants
- $41 M in grants
- 89% success rate in the 2024/25 NSERC Discovery Grant competition
- 4 NSERC RTI grants
Funding success story
Biology
Nature’s archive: What sediments reveal about Canada’s environmental past and f…
Professor Jules Blais has spent over 30 years uncovering the environmental stories hidden in lake sediments. With two new NSERC Alliance grants, his research will help address oil spills in salmon habitats and the lasting impacts of uranium mining on northern lakes.
Multidisciplinary
Quantum research at uOttawa: Creating the future with NSERC support
uOttawa Science professors secured NSERC support for quantum research—advancing quantum light sources, cryptography, sensing, materials and computing. Their work positions Canada at the forefront of next-gen technology with real-world societal impact.
Research committee & department chairs 2024-25
Faculty of Science Research Committee members
- Alexandre Poulain (Chair); Vice-Dean, Research and Infrastructure
- Deryn Fogg (Vice-Chair); Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies
- Nicolas Corradi; Professor, Department of Biology
- Stephen Newman; Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
- Oliver Warr; Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- David Haziza; Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Michel Godin, Professor, Department of Physics
- Jasmine Lefebvre (non-voting member); Senior Research Advisor
- Hugo Lemieux (non-voting member); Senior Research Advisor
- Caroline Vuillermoz (non-voting member); Chief Administrative Officer
Department chairs
- Tuan Bui – Department of Biology
- Darrin Richeson – Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
- Glenn Milne – Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Alistair Savage – Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- James Harden – Department of Physics
