Awards
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
We shift research paradigms.
Every researcher who joins a CIFAR program demonstrates excellence, creativity, and openness to learning from different perspectives. Our community of fellows, chairs, scholars, and advisors are at the top of their fields. Many are decorated with national and international awards of excellence, recognized for their contributions to science, art, social science, and the humanities.
GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH
20 CIFAR fellows and advisors have earned a Nobel Prize.
From discoveries about the fundamental physics of our cosmos to the underlying rules that govern our economies, the advances made by researchers in our community are recognized at the highest levels.
HIGH-IMPACT SCHOLARSHIP
The groundbreaking ideas generated by CIFAR research programs change entire fields of inquiry.
Sixty-five percent of our fellows, advisors, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars, and Canada CIFAR AI Chairs contributed to the top 1% of most-cited research papers worldwide from 2016 to 2021.*
In 2021–2022, researchers in our programs produced 1,765 publications they say were influenced by CIFAR activities.
96 major awards were received by fellows, advisors, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars, and Canada CIFAR AI Chairs.
* Percentage of CIFAR researchers contributing to the top 1% of most-cited papers at the world level from 2016-2020 using SciVal and Scopus. Excludes Solutions Networks because they are not expected to publish traditionally and 5 chairs appointment while the 2021-22 year was already in progress (Glen Berseth, Foutse Khomh, Dhanya Sridhar, Anna Huang, Bang Liu).
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CIFAR is a registered charitable organization supported by the governments of Canada, Alberta and Quebec, as well as foundations, individuals, corporations and Canadian and international partner organizations.