Canada Impact+ Research Chair

Position Information-
- **Position Title**- Canada Impact+ Research Chair-
- **Posting Number**- F742P-
- **Type of position**- Tenure Stream-
- **Department/Unit**- VPRI Office-
- **Location**- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada-
- **About the opportunity**-
- **About the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs opportunity**- Impact+ Research Chairs receive long-term funding of either $8 million or $4 million, over eight years, with the possibility of a four-year extension at 50 percent of the original value based on demonstrated research impact and sustained partnerships. Globally pre-eminent researchers may be identified as Distinguished Chairs and receive up to $1.5 annually, in exceptional cases. Institutions may also request up to $6 million per chair in research infrastructure funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation.**Impact+ Strategic Priorities**
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs are awarded in areas identified by the Government of Canada as critical to global and national challenges. These priorities closely parallel Dalhousie’s own research priorities and strengths and are reflected in the university’s **Strategic Research Clusters**. Applications must demonstrate how the proposed program will advance one or more of the following strategic priority areas:

- advanced digital technologies (including Artificial Intelligence, quantum and cybersecurity);
- clean technology and resource value chains;
- defence and dual-use technologies;
- democratic and community resilience;
- environment, climate resilience and the Arctic;
- food and water security;
- health and biotechnology; and
- manufacturing and advanced materials. Chairholders are expected to build meaningful partnerships across sectors and Indigenous communities, and to ensure that research outcomes translate into practice, policy or commercialization pathways with measurable societal and economic benefit.

**Qualifications and Eligibility**-
- Have a strong recent record of research achievements and a demonstrated interest in contributing to Canada’s research and innovation landscape.
- Be internationally based at the time of the first intake deadline (working and residing outside Canada).
- Hold the rank of full professor or associate professorSuccessful applicants will be appointed to an appropriate academic**department/school/faculty** at Dalhousie University.

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- **Associated positions for consideration**- **Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders**- **Canada Research Chairs**-
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- **Why Dalhousie**- Dalhousie is the only East Coast member of Canada’s U15, the country’s leading group of research-intensive universities. With more than 250 million dollars in annual research funding, we are Atlantic Canada’s engine of discovery and innovation. Anchored in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with additional agricultural and medical campuses and academic and clinical programs across the province and beyond, we drive positive change in the communities we serve locally, nationally, and around the world.- Our faculty work within a highly collaborative research community supported by major infrastructure, including Canada’s largest aquatic research facility and advanced platforms accelerating discoveries in health and the physical sciences. Researchers contribute to and benefit from a growing network of centres, institutes, and hubs driving discovery and industry partnership in areas like battery innovation and clean technologies, carbon capture and storage, additive manufacturing, AI and semiconductors, vaccine and immunotherapy development, genomics, cancer treatment, and much more.- We lead Canadian universities with an extensive ecosystem built to support research commercialization. Our researchers own and control their intellectual property. And, from idea to impact, we support researchers at every stage, whether developing and protecting IP, launching a startup, partnering with industry, or advancing social innovation.- Explore more on via our **Canada Impact+ Research Chairs website**.

**How to Apply**
- To apply, applicants are asked to provide the following three documents:

- 1. A cover letter that identifies:

- Alignment with one or more of the strategic priority areas (listed above)
- The applicant’s start-up funding, infrastructure and space, and research team requirements
- The applicant’s interest in coming to Dalhousie, including any relevant connections to the university or the region- 2. A full curriculum vitae (please include details of research and teaching, scholarly record, funding, collaborations/partnerships with industry government, not-for-profit, and/or community, and leadership experience.
- 3. A Research Statement, submitted as a single PDF, including the following:

- A five-page (maximum) research statement that includes:

- An overview of the applicant’s research proposal, including knowledge mobilization and innovation activit