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24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President and Professor of Cell and Systems Biology
Office of the President
A neuroscientist who studies how neurons talk to each other, she became the University of Toronto's 17th president and its first woman to hold the office, and she leads with a scientist's care for people.
Vice-President and Provost
Office of the Vice-President and Provost
A psychiatrist and former dean of medicine, he now serves as the university's chief academic officer, steadily stewarding teaching and research for one of the world's great universities.
Dean, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Office of the Dean, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
A physician-scientist and champion of inclusion in medicine, she leads the Temerty Faculty of Medicine with a deep belief that great care and great science belong to everyone.
Interim Dean, Rotman School of Management
Rotman School of Management
A professor of operations management and longtime vice-dean of the MBA programs, he steps in to lead Rotman with steady, student-focused hands.
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
A leader in teaching machines to see and build worlds in 3D, and a co-founding member of the Vector Institute, she keeps Toronto at the frontier of AI research.
University Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Widely called the father of nanochemistry, he now turns sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into clean fuels, chasing answers to the climate crisis one material at a time.
Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
A string theorist probing black holes and quantum gravity, and a generous explainer of the universe's deepest puzzles to students and the public alike.
University Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
A founder of Earth system science, he models how ice sheets and a changing climate reshape our planet, and built Toronto's supercomputing for global change research.
Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
An authority on optimal transport who found the idea of displacement convexity, his mathematics reaches into physics and economics, and earned him the 2026 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize.
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
A thoughtful economist of marriage, family, and work, whose careful modeling helped make the economics of the family its own respected field.
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada who moves gracefully between rigorous social theory and bestselling public writing, he makes philosophy matter for everyday life.
University Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
The godfather of deep learning, a Turing laureate and Nobel laureate in Physics, whose decades in Toronto helped teach machines to learn and made this city a home of modern AI.
University Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Mathematics
Department of Computer Science
His work on NP-completeness gave computer science one of its deepest questions, and generations of students at Toronto learned to think clearly because of him.
University Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
A Nobel laureate in Chemistry for revealing how molecules glow as they react, and a lifelong voice for peace and the place of science in society.
University Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
His trace formula is one of the great tools of the Langlands program, and this Wolf Prize winner has quietly shaped modern number theory from Toronto.
Professor Emeritus of History
Department of History
A celebrated historian of war and peace whose Paris 1919 and Reith Lectures brought the twentieth century vividly alive for readers around the world.
University Professor Emeritus of English
Department of English
A defining theorist of postmodernism, irony, and adaptation, and the first Canadian woman to lead the Modern Language Association, she taught the world new ways to read.
Professor of Engineering and Medicine
Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
A pioneer who brought machine learning to the genome, he helped found the Vector Institute and shows how AI can read the code of life to help patients.
University Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
The only person elected to all three of Canada's national academies, she designs materials that help the body heal, and champions science for a whole country.
University Professor of Medical Biophysics and Immunology
Department of Immunology
He led the team that first cloned the human T-cell receptor, unlocking how our immune system knows friend from foe, a gift to immunology and cancer care.
University Professor of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Chemistry
Department of Biochemistry
A Fellow of the Royal Society whose NMR methods let us watch large proteins move, revealing the hidden machinery of life in beautiful detail.
University Professor Emerita of Molecular Genetics
Department of Molecular Genetics
A pioneer of mammalian development who discovered a new placental stem cell, she has transformed how we understand the earliest days of life.
Professor Emeritus and former Dean, Rotman School of Management
Rotman School of Management
As dean he made Rotman a global home for design thinking and strategy, and he is repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential management thinkers.
Professor of Law and Political Science
Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law
A leading scholar of Canadian constitutionalism and the Charter of Rights, whose work on constitutions and globalization has shaped how we think about the rule of law.
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