Tier 1 Canada Research Chair

Located in downtown Toronto, the largest and most culturally diverse city in Canada, and situated on the territory of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Mississaugas of the Credit and the Wendat Peoples, the Department of Physics, in the Faculty of Science at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) (formerly Ryerson University), invites applications for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) position from outstanding researchers across the broad field of Medical Imaging. Areas of research may include, but are not limited to:

diagnostic and therapeutic imaging,

AI-driven and computational imaging,

quantitative imaging,

molecular imaging,

translational imaging,

image-guided interventions, theranostics, and emerging imaging technologies

Conditional upon a successful CRC application and subject to final budgetary approval, the successful candidate will be appointed to a tenure-track position at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor, effective January 1, 2028 or a date thereafter.

The Canada Research Chairs Program is a federally funded program that seeks to achieve excellence by attracting and retaining the most accomplished and promising researchers. Further details on the CRC eligibility criteria can be found on the CRC Program’s Nominate a Chair webpage [https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/program-programme/nomination-mise_en_candidature-eng.aspx].

The successful candidate will develop the CRC application in collaboration with TMU. The CRC Tier 1 appointment is tenable for seven years and renewable once. All nominations are subject to review and final approval by the CRC Secretariat.

The successful candidate will engage in a combination of research, teaching, and service duties, and maintain an inclusive, equitable, and collegial work environment across all activities. The incumbent will be expected to develop and maintain a strong, independent, externally funded research program that will be internationally recognized as leading in their field. The CRC will also mentor and support diverse trainees, students, future researchers, and colleagues in forms such as organizing workshops, co-authoring papers, obtaining patents, and contributing to public policy and professional practice. The incumbent will also effectively teach undergraduate and graduate courses and engage in collegial service.

With recent investments of over $22M in infrastructure and operation funding by TMU, the successful candidate will join a rapidly growing ecosystem focused on Medical Imaging and Therapy involving the Greater Toronto research hospital cluster, TMU’s newly opened School of Medicine, as well as the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Technology (iBEST), a partnership between TMU and St. Michael’s Hospital (SMH - part of the Unity Health Toronto network), bringing together science, engineering, biomedical research and clinical expertise at SMH’s Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science.

Qualifications

Candidates must have a Ph.D. or a terminal degree in Medical Physics, Physics or a related discipline. Nominees for Tier 1 Chair positions must be full professors or associate professors who are expected to be promoted to the full professor rank within one or two years of the nomination. Alternatively, if they come from outside the academic sector, the nominees must possess the necessary qualifications to be appointed to these ranks. If the candidate falls outside these requirements but fits the other criteria of research excellence, their individual eligibility will be sent to the CRC Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) for verification.

Candidates must also:

be outstanding and innovative world-class researchers whose accomplishments have made a major impact in their fields, in accordance with the CRC Program guidelines;

be recognized internationally as leaders in their fields, in accordance with the CRC Program guidelines;

have superior records of attracting and supervising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (taking into account different practices in the relevant field or discipline) and, as chairholders, be expected to attract, develop and retain excellent trainees, students and future researchers, in accordance with the CRC Program guidelines;

be proposing an original, innovative research program of the highest quality, in accordance with the CRC Program guidelines;

have a strong research profile that demonstrates creativity and evidence of impact, such as peer reviewed publications/contributions, patents, special papers, reviews, conference/ symposia proceedings and abstracts, government publications and policy contributions, book reviews by the nominee or published reviews of their work, papers presented at scholarly meetings or conferences, and other forms of scholarly expression, including participation in public discourse and debate and non-peer reviewed public