Email: shehzad.ali@uwo.ca

Office: Kresge Building K201

Shehzad Ali is an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and a CRC in Public Health Economics.

Email: mande54@uwo.ca

Office: WIRB 7174

Michael is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy. His research is located at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and the philosophy of cognitive science.

Email: barker.ga@gmail.com

Gillian Barker received her training at the University of Toronto and the University of California, San Diego, and has held positions at Indiana University and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University.

Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 81557

Email: pbarmby@uwo.ca

Office: PAB 204

Pauline is a Professor of Physics & Astronomy and an observational astrophysicist, with research interests in observational studies of star formation and stellar populations in nearby galaxies; and astroinformatics.

Email: bbaruah@uwo.ca

Bipasha Baruah is Professor and CRC in Global Women’s Issues at Western University. She specializes in interdisciplinary research at the intersections of gender, economy, environment, and development.

Telephone: (412) 624-5782

Email: rbatterm@pitt.edu

Robert W. Batterman is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to his arrival in Pittsburgh, he was the Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science at Western University 2005--2010.

Email: tim.bayne@gmail.com

Tim Bayne a Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. He is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science, with a particular interest in the nature of consciousness.

Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 81161

Email: nbiswasm@uwo.ca

Office: SSC 7316

Nandita Biswas Mellamphy (BA Manitoba, MA Western, PhD Toronto) is Associate Professor and former Undergraduate Chair (2021-4) of Political Science in the faculty of Social Sciences at Western University.

Email: isra.black@ucl.ac.uk

Isra Black is a Lecturer in Health Law and Research Impact and Engagement Lead in the Faculty of Laws, UCL. Isra’s expertise lies at the intersection of health law and philosophy.

Email: sjbrennan@uoguelph.ca

Samantha Brennan is a philosopher who works in the area of moral and political philosophy, with a special interest in feminist ethics. Although a philosopher by education and training, Samantha is cross-appointed to the Department of Woman’s Studies and Feminist Research.

Email: jburkell@uwo.ca

Jacquelyn Burkell is currently Associate Vice-President (Research). She holds a PhD in Psychology (Cognitive Science) from Western and is an associate professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies.

Email: acentiva@uwo.ca

Office: FIMS 2050

Dr. Alissa Centivany is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario working on technology policy, law, and ethics. She holds a PhD in Information and a JD specializing in intellectual property and technology law.

Email: benjamin.chinyee@gmail.com

Dr. Benjamin Chin-Yee is a clinician-researcher and philosopher of medicine whose work examines the conceptual foundations of clinical reasoning, medical communication, and emerging healthcare technologies, integrating philosophical analysis with empirical research in real-world clinical practice.

Email: ecichock@uwo.ca

Emily Cichocki is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Philosophy and Global Great Books at Huron University. She completed her PhD at Western University in 2024 (“Solidarity Building in a Structurally Unjust World”).

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x 88785

Email: rcorless@uwo.ca

Office: WIRB 7152

Robert M. Corless is an emeritus professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Western, first appointed in 1987. He holds honorary appointments in both the Department of Computer Science and in the Department of Philosophy.

Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 85024

Email: ccurri25@uwo.ca

Office: Schulich 3rd Floor

Cheryl Currie earned a PhD in Public Health from the University of Alberta. She is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Director of the Masters of Public Health program.

Email: mark.daley@uwo.ca

Office: MC 28D / SSB 5150

Mark is the Chief Digital Information Officer at Western University, and a full professor in the Department of Computer Science with cross-appointments in five other departments.

Email: edesjar3@uwo.ca

Eric Desjardins is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western University. His research and teaching delve into the philosophical implications of biological and environmental sciences, with a particular focus on historical contingency and biological entanglement.

Email: eagleson@uwo.ca

Roy Eagleson completed his PhD with Zenon Pylyshyn at the UWO Centre for Cognitive Science in 1992. After a short post-doctoral position at Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, he was on Faculty in Toronto before returning to the University of Western Ontario in 1996.

Telephone: 519-661-3133

Email: dedgell@uwo.ca

Office: MSB 307

David Edgell is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Western University. Trainees in his lab develop tools for gene editing and synthetic biology.

Email: nfice@uwo.ca

Office: HSB 340

Nicole Fice is an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Studies. As a philosopher, her work centers on how we should think about and address ethical, social, and political issues that concern us.

Telephone: 519-888-4567 x42780

Email: dlfraser@uwaterloo.ca

Office: UWaterloo HH 330

Doreen Fraser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Waterloo University, an associate faculty member of Rotman Institute of Philosophy, and an affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo.

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x86707

Email: sgalla4@uwo.ca

Office: PAB 205, WIRB 7134

Sarah Gallagher is a professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Director of the Institute for Earth and Space Exploration at Western University. Her research focuses on studying growing supermassive black holes at the centres of distant galaxies and the interactions between galaxies in crowded environments.

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x82070

Email: mgoodale@uwo.ca

Melvyn A. Goodale is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. In addition to his research activities, he has been active in developing the graduate program in Neuroscience, and was awarded the prestigious E.G. Pleva Award for Contributions to Teaching.

Email: jkunkel@uwo.ca

Office: Stevenson Hall 4140

Jasmine Gunkel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. She is also a member of the Centre for Bioethics.

Email: wlharp@uwo.ca

Office: WIRB 7162

Bill Harper began teaching as an assistant professor at Western in 1970. He was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 1975 and promoted to full professor in 1980. In 2010 he retired with the status Professor Emeritus. In 2011 he became a senior fellow at the Rotman Institute for Philosophy.

Email: khill22@uwo.ca

Office: WSC 333

Kathleen is appointed to the Department of Biology. She serves as Associate Chair of Research in Biology in the Faculty of Science. Her collaborative research includes Computer Science, Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Statistics and Bioethics.

Email: alice.huang@uwo.ca

Office: WIRB 7160

Alice Huang works in the ethics of machine learning and social formal epistemology. She thinks about the social impact of computing and uses computational models to investigate pressing issues in our social discourse today, such as questions about scientific practices and polarization.

Email: ijohnsru@uwo.ca

Dr. Johnsrude trained as a clinical neuropsychologist (PhD 1997) at McGill University where Brenda Milner was her MSc and PhD adviser. She has won awards including NSERC’s EWR Steacie Fellowship (2009), and an IgNobel prize (2003).

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x86299

Email: stefank@uwo.ca

Office: NSC 245

Dr. Stefan Köhler is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, a Principle Investigator at the Western Institute for Neuroscience, and a core member of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience.

Email: henrik.lagerlund@philosophy.su.se

Henrik Lagerlund was previously Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department at Western University. He works on the history of philosophy, primarily on Medieval and Renaissance philosophy.

Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 80815

Email: rotmandr@uwo.ca; dlizotte@uwo.ca

Office: WIRB 7180

Dan is jointly appointed to the Department of Computer Science, and to the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He is also appointed to the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health and cross-appointed to the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences.

Email: dgmckeo2@uwo.ca

Gerry McKeon is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics. and has research interests in Quantum field Theory, Gravity, and Elementary Particle Physics.

Email: cmcleod2@uwo.ca

Office: Stevenson Hall 3141, WIRB 7176

Carolyn has been directly involved in policy-making and public debate in Canada on topics that concern her research in ethics. In recognition for her scholarly contributions and contributions to Canadian public life, she was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2021.

Telephone: (403) 944-1635

Email: Andrew.McRae@albertahealthservices.ca

Andrew McRae is an emergency physician and clinical researcher. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy from 2009 – 2011.

Email: amendel5@uwo.ca

Office: Stevenson Hall 4135

Angela Mendelovici's research is on intentionality, consciousness, and the relationship between the two. Her book The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality, defends an account of intentionality on which it is ultimately based in phenomenal consciousness.

Email: amoehrin@uwo.ca

Office: BGS 2080

Amanda Moehring is a Professor of Biology at Western University. She runs the Moehring Lab, which studies the genetic and neural basis of complex traits.

Email: michael.montess@camh.ca

Michael Montess is a Bioethicist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He was previously a Postdoctoral Associate in the Rotman Institute of Philosophy.

Email: gmourout@uwo.ca

Office: WIRB 7162

Georgia Mouroutsou focuses on ancient philosophy (metaphysics and ethics in Platonic, Aristotelian, and later Stoic philosophy), and on interdisciplinary collaboration with clinical psychologists. She has held various research grants and fellowships (SSHRC Insight Grant; National Humanities Centre in North Carolina; Clare Hall and CRASSH, University of Cambridge).

Email: lmuller2@uwo.ca

Office: WIRB 4168

Lyle Muller’s research spans computational/theoretical neuroscience, neural networks, and applied mathematics. After studying computational neuroscience at Brown University, he completed a PhD in computational/theoretical neuroscience.

Email: markusm23@univie.ac.at

Markus Müller is a theoretical physicist and an external member of the Rotman Institute. He is also a Research Group Leader at the IQOQI in Vienna and a Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo.

Telephone: (519) 661-4198

Email: nnajjar@ivey.ca

Office: Ivey 3327

Nouri Najjar is an Assistant Professor at Ivey Business School. He is an applied microeconomist working primarily on environmental issues, with a focus on firms and the environment.

Email: jnichola@uwo.ca

John Nicholas' work is in history and philosophy of science. He did a doctoral dissertation at the University of Pittsburgh under the supervision of Larry Laudan, and has been at Western since 1971.

Telephone: 519 661-2111 x82217

Email: enouvet@uwo.ca

Office: HSB 215

Elysée Nouvet is a medical anthropologist and an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Studies (Global Health). She specializes in research ethics, public health emergencies, the social determinants of suffering, and community engagement.

Email: dolkowsk@uccs.edu

Dorothea Olkowski is a philosopher with broad, intersecting philosophical interests. Her current work on the mathematical and scientific frameworks of phenomenology and postmodern philosophy reconnects these philosophical methodologies to analytic philosophy of language.

Email: poneil2@uwo.ca

Office: HSB 200C

Peggy’s work focuses on art as a means for human beings to know humanity, find beauty in everyday life, and realize human flourishing.

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x84672

Email: uwocerc@uwo.ca

Office: WIRB 6176

Adrian Owen's research interests include “brain mapping” in the human frontostriatal system, cognitive deficits in patients with Parkinson’s disease, and detecting residual cognitive function in people in a vegetative state and related consciousness disorders.

Email: mark.perry@une.edu.au

Professor Mark Perry earned his LLB at the University of Manchester, England in 1976. He went on to receive both a Diploma in Computer Science and a Master’s of Jurisprudence from the University of Auckland.

Email: psillos@phs.uoa.gr

Professor Department of Philosophy and History of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Rotman Institute with many visits from 2016 - 2020.

Email: vicente.raja@um.es; vicendio@gmail.com

Vicente Raja is a research fellow at Universidad de Murcia (Spain) and external affiliate faculty of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University (Canada)

Email: jredden2@uwo.ca

Office: FIMS & Nursing 4007

Joanna Redden is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Media & Information Studies at Western University and Co-Director of the Data Justice Lab.

Email: rovelli.carlo@gmail.com

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist with research interests in loop quantum gravity, relational quantum mechanics, and the history and philosophy of science. He is a Professeur de classe exceptionnelle in the Department of Physics at Aix-Marseille University.

Email: harudnick@hotmail.com

Dr. Rami Rudnick is a Professor at Dalhousie University and the Clinical Director of the Nova Scotia Operational Stress Injury Clinic at the Nova Scotia Health Authority. He has published, taught, and influenced policy and practice in relation to bioethics and person-centered mental health services internationally.

Email: asarka27@uwo.ca

Atrisha Sarkar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western University. Her research focuses on multiagent systems, behavioural game theory, and the development of computational tools.

Email: scottschaffer@uwo.ca

Office: SSC 5306

Scott Schaffer is an Associate Professor of Sociology. He is keenly interested in studying the exclusionary impacts of forms of social stratification on individuals and groups in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and the collective future being developed.

Telephone: 519 661-2111 x80043

Email: jshelle6@uwo.ca

Office: LHSB 21

Jacob Shelley holds a joint appointment with the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Health Sciences, and he has a cross appointment to the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health. Jacob is also the Director of the Health Ethics, Law & Policy (HELP) Lab at Western.

Email: bsingh@uwo.ca

Bhagirath Singh is a Professor Emiritus in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Scientific Director and CIHR, Institute of Infection and Immunity, at Robarts Research Institute.

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x87953

Email: askelto4@uwo.ca

Office: Stevenson Hall 4145

Anthony Skelton is currently an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario and Faculty Scholar (2023-25). He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford and at Fondation Brocher.

Email: csmeenk2@uwo.ca

Office: WIRB 7178

Chris Smeenk is a professor in the Department of Philosophy whose research focuses on scientific method and the structure of our knowledge in physics: what is the structure and content of physical theories, how are theories evaluated and justified, and how are they extended and refined?

Email: maxwell.smith@uwo.ca

Office: HSB 331

Maxwell Smith is a bioethicist whose research focuses on public health ethics, and especially infectious disease ethics. He is cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health.

Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 82757

Email: rstainto@uwo.ca

Office: Stevenson Hall 3126

Robert Stainton discovered linguistics and philosophy at Glendon College of York University back in the 1980s. He pursued his PhD in both fields at MIT. Since then, he has taught at Carleton University and here at Western Ontario.

Email: cstark23@uwo.ca

Luke Stark is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. His work interrogates the historical, social, and ethical impacts of computing and artificial intelligence technologies, particularly those mediating social and emotional expression.

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x85757

Email: jsulli29@uwo.ca

Office: WIRB 7170

Dr. Sullivan is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Philosophy, a Member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy and an Associate Member of the Western Institute for Neuroscience. She has a PhD in HPS (2007) and a MS in Neuroscience (2003) from the University of Pittsburgh.

Email: jthorp@uwo.ca

John Thorp is a member and former chair of the Philosophy Department at Western University, and a member of the graduate faculty in Classics and in Theology

Email: wturkel@uwo.ca

Office: Lawson Hall 2267

William J. Turkel uses machine learning, text mining, and computational techniques in his study of the histories of science and technology from the Cold War through the present, drawing on many decades of programming experience.

Email: vidottof@gmail.com

Francesca Vidotto is an internationally recognised Quantum Gravity expert. Since 2025, Dr. Vidotto is a tenured senior researcher of the Spanish National Research Council, working at the Institute for the Structure of Matter in Madrid.

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x85755

Email: cviger@uwo.ca

Chris Viger is an Associate Professor of Philosophy. He works in philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive science, with his research focused on the relation between language and thought.

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x87472

Email: aweis@uwo.ca

Tony Weis is an Associate Professor in Geography at Western University. His research is broadly located in the field of political ecology, with a focus on agriculture and food systems.