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Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Dr. Jules Blais
Dr. Jules M. Blais
Co-Editor-in-Chief
University of Ottawa

The founding Editor-in-Chief of FACETS, Dr. Jules M. Blais, is a Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Ottawa. He is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and has received numerous awards including Environmental Scientist of the Year, the Lindeman Award, the Stevenson Award, and is co-recipient of the prestigious NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering. This Prize is considered one of the highest research honours in Canada, and recognizes a research collaboration that highlights the importance of taking a multidisciplinary approach to complex scientific concepts.

Dr. Blais’ research focuses on identifying the consequences of environmental pollutants on natural systems. His main emphasis is on the sources, pathways and fate of persistent pollutants in aquatic environments. In particular, he is determining how industrial pollutants are transported and concentrated by natural processes to reach elevated exposures in target organisms, including humans.



Dr. Fanie Pelletier
Dr. Fanie Pelletier
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Université de Sherbrooke

Dr. Fanie Pelletier, Canada Research Chair in Human Impacts on Wildlife, is a Professor in the Department of Biology, Université de Sherbrooke. She is a fellow of the College of the Royal Society of Canada and has received several awards, including the prestigious NSERC E.W.R. Steacie award for early researchers in Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on the evolutionary ecology of vertebrates including life-history evolution, reproductive strategies, and population dynamics. She has used innovative methods to demonstrate how human activities affect wild populations. She is also a member of the terrestrial mammals specialist subcommittee for the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), as well as the co-director of the Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science (QCBS).

We're multidisciplinary and so is our Editorial Board. Much of the research done by our subject specialists crosses academic borders and our team has the expertise and experience to evaluate and refine multi- and interdisciplinary research in a variety of subjects.

Senior Editors

Dr. Tracie Afifi
Dr. Tracie Afifi

Dr. Tracie Afifi is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Childhood Adversity and Resilience, a Professor in the Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba, and a Research Scientist at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba.She is also an Associate Editor of Child Abuse & Neglect. Dr. Afifi’s primary research interests are in the areas of child maltreatment and mental health with a focus on resilience, intervention and prevention. She has published over 160 peer-reviewed journal publications and has 160 conference presentations at national and international conferences. To date, she has been awarded $33.5 million in research funding as Principal or Co-Investigator. Dr. Afifi is an inducted college member of the Royal Society of Canada, the 2018 recipient of the Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research, the 2019 recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Gold Leaf Award, the 2020 Alexander Leighton Award in psychiatric epidemiology, and named Canada’s 2021 top 100 most powerful women by the WXN Diversity Council of Canada.



Elena Bennett
Dr. Elena Bennett

Dr. Elena Bennett is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Science and Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the Bieler School of Environment at McGill. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, mostly on ecosystem services, agricultural landscapes, scenario development for sustainability, and human impact on phosphorus cycling. She is particularly interested in co-production of knowledge with local communities and how this impacts both science and decision-making.



PaulDufour Findlay
Paul Dufour

Paul Dufour is Principal of PaulicyWorks based in Gatineau, Quebec and Senior Fellow with the Univerty of Ottawa's Institute for Science, Society and Policy. In addition, he is a Board member the Ottawa Science Policy Network, and a mentor for the Chief Science Advisor of Canada's Youth Council. Mr Dufour served as interim executive director of the Office of the National Science Adviser to the Government of Canada. Mr Dufour was a member of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society gold medal award-winning Canadian National Committee for the International Polar Year. With over four decades of experience in policy advice, he was the lead of the Research on Knowledge Systems project with the International Development Research Centre; managed the science and technology attache network at Foreign Affairs Canada; headed the international partnerships group at Natural Resources Canada, and was advisor to several of Canada’s Ministers for Science, Research and Development. He was an Investment Committee Member of Grand Challenges Canada for global health for eight years. Mr Dufour was also research advisor for the Science Council of Canada in the early 80s and 90s. Born in Montréal, Mr. Dufour was educated at McGill, the Université de Montréal and Concordia University in the history of science and science policy. He writes regularly for various research magazines and publications, and consults on global developments in science and technology. He co-edited the Cartermill Series of books on science in Japan, Germany, the UK and Southern Europe. He is the author of the Canada Chapter for UNESCO’s 2020 (as well as those for 2015 and 2010). He is also co-editor of the book on the contributions of the Science Council of Canada to the science, technology and innovation debates as well as co-editor of selected speeches and remarks of Nobel laureate Gerhard Herzberg on The Value of Science in Society and Culture. In 2019, Mr Dufour was the first recipient of the Canadian Science Policy Centre Award for Exceptional Achievement in Science Policy.



Maud Ferrari
Dr. Maud Ferrari

Maud Ferrari is a Professor in the Departments of Veterinary Biomedical Science and Biology, at the University of Saskatchewan. She is a fellow of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research interests lay in behavioural, cognitive and evolutionary ecology in general, along with understanding how environmental change (both natural and anthropogenic) affects the ecology of predator-prey interactions.



Scott Findlay
C. Scott Findlay

C. Scott Findlay is a Researcher in Residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, and former director of the Institute of Environment at the University of Ottawa. His research interests include evolutionary game theory, the evolution of therapeutic resistance in cancer, the impacts of human activities on ecosystems, species at risk, and more recently, the relationship between law and science and the (appropriate) role scientific evidence in policy and regulatory decision-making. At the Office of the Chief Science Advisor, he leads files on impact assessment, biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and scientific integrity.



Dr. Irene Gregory-Eaves
Dr. Irene Gregory-Eaves
My lab’s long term research goals are to make essential progress in our understanding of the structure and functioning of lakes and to quantify how these ecosystems have responded to the accelerated rate of change introduced by human activities over the Anthropocene. Central to this program is the ability to develop, scrutinize and integrate data from different sources: lake surveys, time series and field experiments.


Dr. Irene Gregory-Eaves
Dr. Béla Joós
Béla Joós is a Professor of Physics at the University of Ottawa. He is a theoretical physicist who has published in many areas of condensed matter physics, from semiconductor physics, adsorbed monolayers, dislocations in solids, to soft materials. His focus over the last decades has been on biological physics, initially cell membranes and currently mostly cell excitability in challenging conditions. He has held editorial and administrative positions, notably Editor of Physics in Canada since 2006, Department Chair (1997–2000, 2007–2011) and President of the Canadian Association of Physicists (2003–2004).


Dr. Dawn Kellett
Dr. Dawn Kellett

Dawn Kellett is a Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada branch of Natural Resources Canada. Her research focuses on the tectonic evolution of mountain belts using a range of structural, metamorphic and geochronology approaches. In addition to her role as Senior Editor of FACETS, she is an associate editor for Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth and the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.



Parminder Raina
Dr. Parminder Raina

Dr. Parminder Raina is a Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University. He specializes in the epidemiology of aging with emphasis on developing the interdisciplinary field of geroscience to understand the processes of aging from cell to society. He has expertise in epidemiologic modeling, systematic review methodology, injury, and knowledge transfer. Dr. Raina is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, holds a Canada Research Chair in Geroscience, and the Raymond and Margaret Labarge Chair in Research and Knowledge Application for Optimal Aging. He is the inaugural Scientific Director of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging, and The Labarge Centre for Mobility in Aging, and is the lead principal investigator of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. He is one of the founding members of the McMaster Optimal Aging



Parminder Raina
Dr. Vance Trudeau

Professor Vance L. Trudeau holds the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Neuroendocrinology and leads a team of dynamic graduate students with wide interests. His group's research is directed towards understanding how the vertebrate brain regulates anterior pituitary hormones that control sexual development and reproduction using fish and frog models. Applications of this basic research include spawning induction methods for endangered animals, among others. One of the most compelling recent discoveries is the fundamental role of a peptide called secretoneurin. We have made the proposal that it is a new reproductive hormone. The team also studies the effects of sex steroids and pollutants (pharmaceuticals, pesticides, petroleum products) on development and reproduction in fish and frogs. This concept is called endocrine disruption. This has important implications for environmental and human health because many of these hormonal systems are conserved across species. This means that what is discovered in one species, has major implications in other vertebrates, including humans.



Subject Editors

  • Tom Al
    University of Ottawa
    Geosciences
  • Steve Alsop
    York University
    Science Education
  • Raid Al-Tahir
    University of New Brunswick
    Engineering
  • Catherine Anderson
    Science World/University of British Columbia
    Science Communication
  • Gregory Aranovich
    Johns Hopkins University, USA
    Engineering
  • Graeme Auld
    Carleton University, Canada
    Integrative Sciences
  • Jehannine Austin
    University of British Columbia
    Psychiatry
    Medical Genetics
  • Clément Bataille
    University of Ottawa
    Geosciences
  • Maxim Berezovski
    University of Ottawa
    Chemistry
  • Catherine Beauchemin
    Toronto Metropolitan University
    Biophysics
  • Idil Boran
    York University
    Ethics
  • Lia Bronsard
    McMaster University
    Mathematics and Statistics
  • Jacob Brownscombe
    Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Science, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Marine and Aquatic Sciences
  • Christofer Clemente
    University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
    Anatomy and Biomechanics
  • Jeffery Clements
    DFO Gulf Region
    Integrative Sciences and Science Communication
  • Imogen Coe
    Toronto Metropolitan University
    Cell and Developmental Biology
    Science Communication
  • Steven Cooke
    Carleton University
    Ecology and Evolution
    Marine and Aquatic Sciences
    Science Communication
    Science and Policy
  • Charles Couillard
    Université Laval
    Clinical Sciences
    Nutrition, Sport, and Exercise Sciences
  • Trevor Day
    Mount Royal University
    Anatomy and Physiology
    Neuroscience
    Science Communication
  • Carolyn Emery
    University of Calgary
    Pharmacology
  • Eva Enders
    Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Eau Terre Environnement Research Centre
    Marine and Aquatic Sciences
  • David Evans
    Royal Ontario Museum/University of Toronto
    Anatomy and Biomechanics
    Geosciences
    Zoology
  • Michael Evans
    University of Toronto
    Mathematics and Statistics
  • Brock Fenton
    Western University
    Ecology and Evolution
    Zoology
  • Julio Mercader Florin
    University of Calgary
    Ecology and Evolution
    Geosciences
  • Christoph Geiss
    Trinity College, USA
    Geosciences
  • Kathy Georgiades
    McMaster University
    Mental Health
  • A. Godavari
    Early Career Researcher
    Vels University
    Cell and Developmental Biology
    Microbiology
  • Jessica Grahn
    Western University, Canada
    Neuroscience
  • Blane Leslie Harvey
    McGill University
    Integrative Sciences
  • Matthew Hogan
    Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/University of Ottawa
    Neuroscience
  • Andrew Iwaniuk
    University of Lethbridge
    Neuroscience
  • Jean-Paul Jay-Gerin
    Université de Sherbrooke
    Chemistry
  • Petar Jevtic
    Arizona State University, USA
    Data Science Theory and Methods
  • Yann Joly
    McGill University
    Science and Policy
  • Lina Kattan
    University of Calgary
    Engineering
  • Jeremy Kerr
    University of Ottawa
    Ecology and Evolution
    Geosciences
  • Peter Kevan
    University of Guelph
    Plant and Agricultural Sciences
    Ecology and Evolution
  • Ronald Kluger
    University of Toronto
    Chemistry
  • Philippe Lavoie
    University of Toronto
    Engineering
  • David Lentz
    University of New Brunswick
    Geosciences
  • David Lesbarreres
    Laurentian University
    Ecology and Evolution, Zoology, Conservation and Sustainability
  • Danika Littlechild
    Carleton University
    Integrative Sciences
  • Ivana Pajic-Lijakovic
    University of Belgrade
    Engineering
  • Juewen Liu
    University of Waterloo
    Chemistry
  • Jian Liu
    Jian Liu
    Brock University
    Epidemiology
  • Yang Liu
    University of Alberta
    Atmoshperic and Climate Sciences
    Engineering
  • Tanzy Love
    University of Rochester, USA
    Data Science Applications
  • Volodymyr Melnykov
    University of Alabama, USA
    Data Science Applications
  • Prashanta Kumar Mandal
    Visva-Bharati University, India
    Mathematics and Statistics
  • Bethann Garramon Merkle
    University of Wyoming
    Science Communication
  • Victoria Metcalf
    Office of the Prime Minister's Chief Science Adviser, New Zealand
    Science Communication
  • David Moher
    Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa
    Epidemiology and Ethics
  • Christophe Morell
    University of Lyon 1, France
    Chemistry
  • Candace Nykiforuk
    University of Alberta
    Public Health
  • M. Tamer Özsu
    University of Waterloo
    Data Science Theory and Methods
  • Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban
    Aalborg University, Denmark
    Engineering
  • Nitika Pai
    McGill University
    Biomedical and Health Sciences and Epidemiology
  • James Pinfold
    University of Alberta
    Physics
  • Lisa Porter
    University of Windsor, Canada
    Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Alexandre Poulain
    University of Ottawa
    Microbiology
  • Michael Rennie
    Lakehead University
    Marine and Aquatic Sciences
  • Michael Ryan
    Carleton University
    Anatomy and Biomechanics
    Geosciences
    Zoology
  • Anne Salomon
    Simon Fraser University
    Marine and Aquatic Sciences
  • Chris Sergeant
    Early Career Researcher
    University of Washington, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
    Marine and Aquatic Sciences
    Science and Policy
  • Marie-Claire Shanahan
    University of Calgary
    Science Communication
    Science Education
  • John Smol
    Queen's University
    Marine and Aquatic Sciences
  • Yang Song
    Western University
    Materials Science
  • Kimberly Strong
    University of Toronto
    Department of Physics
  • Neil Swart
    Environment Canada
    Atmospheric and Climate Sciences
  • Iain Taylor
    University of British Columbia
    Plant and Agricultural Sciences
    Ethics
  • Sharifu Ura
    Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan
    Engineering
  • Arun Valsangkar
    University of New Brunswick
    Engineering
  • Nicholas Vlachopoulos
    Royal Military College
    Engineering
  • Dietrich Volmer
    Humboldt University, Germany
    Chemistry
  • Hongyi Xu
    Fudan University, China
    Engineering
  • Yangfan Zhang
    Early Career Researcher
    Harvard University
    Marine and Aquatic Sciences
    Ecology and Evolution
    Zoology
  • Jiang Zhu
    National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC/MCTI), Brazil
    Mathematics and Statistics
  • Yingqing Zu
    Fudan University, China
    Mathematics and Statistics

Publishing Team

Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Elaine Stott
Sr. Director, Editorial Judy Busnarda
Editorial Director Celia Charron, M.A.Sc
Journal Development Specialist Hilary Belleville
Director, Peer Review Natasha McDonald, Dr. rer. nat.
Peer Review Manager Alistair Coulthard, Ph.D.
Peer Review Coordinator Nicole Huskins
Director, Integrity and Engagement Melanie Slavitch
Editorial Outreach Specialist Jenny Crick, M.Sc.
Manager, Production Neha Gupta
Production Editor Michelle Welsh

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