Ingrid Pickering appointed acting vice-dean

Professor Ingrid Pickering will join the College of Arts & Science dean’s office in the role of acting vice-dean research, scholarly and artistic work while Jack Gray is on administrative leave from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2018.

Pickering is a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Molecular Environmental Science. She holds a PhD from Imperial College, University of London and a BA (Hons.) in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge. She has been a faculty member with the Department of Geological Sciences since 2003 and has close links with the Canadian Light Source synchrotron. Pickering has served on both the College of Arts & Science’s Research, Scholarly and Artistic Work Committee and Faculty Relations Advisory Committee. She is a board director of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), one of just four faculty members from across Canada holding this position.

Pickering’s research uses and develops synchrotron-based techniques to investigate the molecular-level role of heavier elements in biological systems, with impacts from the environment to human health. She has secured research funding from a range of sources including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Grand Challenges Canada, and industry. She has published over 180 peer-reviewed journal articles and has supervised 24 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Pickering was the lead proponent on the CIHR-funded Training Grant in Health Research Using Synchrotron Techniques (CIHR-THRUST) program that has mentored 96 synchrotron health trainees from five colleges since 2010.

The College of Arts & Science congratulates Ingrid Pickering on her new appointment.

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