ACADEMIC MEMBERS
Gordon Osinski
Assistant Professor / NSERC/MDA/CSA Industrial Research Chair in Planetary Geology
Department of Earth Sciences/ Physics and Astronomy
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Planetary surface processes, in particular impact cratering; shock processes in earth and planetary materials
Pascal Audet
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Ottawa
Research Areas: Gravity and topography of the terrestrial planets. Lithospheric and thermal structure of the Moon.
Greg Baiden
Canadian Research Chair – Robotics and Mine Automation
Laurentian University
Research Areas: Robotic Mining and Construction, Undersea and Lunar Mining, Lunar Mobility, Prospecting and Exploration
Neil Banerjee
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Petrogenetic studies and triple oxygen stable isotope analyses of lunar materials. Drilling technologies for lunar sampling
Tim Barfoot
Assistant Professor, CRC
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS)
University of Toronto
Research Area: Rovers to support planetary science and exploration
Steve Braham
Director, PolyLAB for Advanced Collaborative Networking
Telematics Research Laboratory (SFU)
Research Area: Solar System Exploration Systems; Mission Operations Infrastructure; Spaceflight Communications , Networking, Computing and Software Systems; Life and Mission Critical Infrastructure; Human and Robotic space mission design; Collaborative Systems; Spaceflight Cloud Computing; Analogue Exploration Science and Support; Spaceflight Communications Physics.
Audrey Bouvier
Associate Professor/ Tier II Canada Research Chair in Planetary Materials
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Stable and Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
Research Website: http://publish.uwo.ca/~abouvie/
Peter Brown
Associate Professor, CRC, Director CPSX
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Small bodies of the solar system
Robbie Campbell
Assistant Professor
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Western Ontario
Ed Cloutis
Professor
Department of Geography
University of Winnipeg
Research Area: Planetary remote sensing and spectroscopy, lunar mapping
Daolun Chen
Professor, Ryerson Research Chair
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ryerson University
Research Area: Characterization and testing of advanced materials and critical engineering materials, fatigue and reliability
Thomas Conroy
Assistant Professor
Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
University of Regina
Research Area: Space Radiation Instrumentation
Mike Daly
Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University
Research Area: Planetary science instrumentation
Mike Dixon
Professor, Director CESRF
Environmental Biology
University of Guelph
Research Area: Biological life support for food production, atmosphere revitalization and water recycling
Roberta Flemming
Associate Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Mineralogy of meteorites
Rebecca Ghent
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Toronto
Research Area: Regolith characteristics and evolution, impact cratering
John Greenough
Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Research Area: Petrology, geochemistry, planetary evolution, exploratory statistics, basalts
Tim Haltigin
NSERC Visiting Fellow
Space Science & Technology
Canadian Space Agency
Research Area: Periglacial geomorpholgy, Mars analogues, near-surface geophysics
Ioannis Haranas
Researcher
York University
Research Areas: Solar System Dynamics, Planetary Science, Gravity, Martian Dust Storms
Christopher Herd
Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Alberta
ISSET
Research Area: Mineralogy and petrology of meteorites, curation and handling of pristine planetary samples.
Catherine L. Johnson
Associate Professor of Geophysics
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Research Area: Planetary geophysics
Mehrdad Kermani
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Robotics, mechatronics, human-safe robot interactions, robot path planning, vibration control and smart technologies
Yunlong Lin
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering
York University
Research Area: Space Systems Engineering, Space Physics and Space Instrumentation
Ian Mann
Professor, CRC Space Physics, Co-Director Institute for Space Science, Exploration and Technology
Department of Physics
University of Alberta
Research Area: Space plasma physics, relativistic particle acceleration in space, solar-terrestrial and solar-planetary interactions.
Phil McCausland
CPSX Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Earth Sciences & Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Paleomagnetism and physical properties of meteorites, for irradiation, magnetization, impact, and atmosphereic entry studies
Ken McIsaac
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Mobile robotics; motion planning; robot locomotion; assistive devices
Louis Mercier
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Director, Centre in Mining Materials Research
Laurentian University
Research Area: Synthesis, characterization and applications of functional nanostructured materials
Desmond Moser
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth Sciences/Geography
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Isotope studies
Michael D. Naish
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Mechatronics, robotics, sensing systems
Ian Nicklin
Earth Sciences Technician
Department of Natural History
Royal Ontario Museum
Research area: Asteroidal achondrites
Rajni Patel
Distinguished University Professor, CRC
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Surgery
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Advanced robotics, teleoperation, haptics, mechatronics, control
Wayne Pollard
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
McGill University
Research Area: Polar desert geomorphology, planetary analogues, shallow geophysics, geologic mapping
Robert Shcherbakov
Associate Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Earthquake physics, planetary geodynamics, self-organization and complexity
Sean Shieh
Associate Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Structure and dynamics of planetary interiors and material study at extreme conditions
Bob Sica
Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Laser radar (lidar) studies of Earth’s atmosphere
John Spray
Professor, CRC Planetary Materials
Planetary and Space Science Centre
University of New Brunswick
Research Area: Impact cratering, shock processes, SEM, analog field work
Sabine Stanley
Associate Professor/ Canada Research Chair in Planetary Physics
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Research Area: Planetary magnetism
Research Website: http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~stanley/
Phil Stooke
Associate Professor
Department of Geography/Physics and Astronomy
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Cartography, Planetary Geology, Space History
Paul Sylvester
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Memorial University
Research Area: Geology and petrology of anorthositic impact melts, Mistastin Crater, Labrador
Peter Suedfeld
Dean Emeritus of Graduate Studies and Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Department of Psychology
The University of British Columbia
Research Area: Psychological adaptation to extreme, unusual, and isolated environments
Kimberly Tait
Associate Curator of Mineralogy/Assistant Professor
Department Natural History/Department of Geology
Royal Ontario Museum/University of Toronto
Research Area: Crystallography, mineralogy, high pressure mineralogy, neutron & X-ray diffraction
Lucy Thompson
Professor
Planetary and Space Science Centre
University of New Brunswick
Research Area: Impact cratering, lunar and martian materials
Livio Leonardo Tornabene
Adjunct Professor; Research Scientist
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Moon and Mars Remote Sensing / Impact Cratering
Jack Trevors
Professor
Department of Environmental Biology
University of Guelph
Research area: Microbial activities and gene expression under microgravity and hypobaric conditions.
Bjarni Tryggvason
Visiting Professor
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Rovers
Jim Whiteway
Associate Professor, CRC
Physics and Astronomy
York University
Research Area: Lidar measurements of atmospheric particulates
Paul Wiegert
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Western Ontario
Research Area: Asteroids, comets, lunar impact rates