Dominique Bérubé appointed next Vice-President (Research and Innovation)

Professor Dominique Bérubé has been appointed the next Vice-President (Research and Innovation). Professor Bérubé’s five-year renewable term will begin on July 1, 2024.

The Advisory Committee for the Selection of the Vice-President (Research and Innovation) conducted an extensive search within Canada and internationally, which benefitted from regular input from the McGill community. The Board of Governors accepted the Committee’s recommendation at its meeting on December 14, 2023.

Professor Bérubé moves to McGill from Concordia University, where she has served since September 2022 as Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies and as Professor within the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science. Prior to her Concordia role, she had served since 2015 as Vice-President of Research at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) where she led the vision for core research funding and tri-agency programs, integrated principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) into the evaluation of research, and oversaw SSHRC’s Indigenous Strategy. During her time at SSHRC, she also worked to foster interdisciplinarity, eliminate systemic barriers to research funding, and champion high-risk, high-impact research.

Through her years of leadership experience, Professor Bérubé has developed extensive knowledge of the research and innovation landscape, also serving as Associate Vice-President of Research at the Université de Montréal where she led key strategic initiatives to promote and advance research across its expansive healthcare network.

A member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, Professor Bérubé holds a PhD in environmental sciences from the Université du Québec à Montréal, as well as Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the École Polytechnique de Montréal in the field of metallurgical and materials science.