Contact

Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation (VPRI)
Okanagan Campus
ADM006 – 1138 Alumni Way
Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 1V7
vpresearch.ok@ubc.ca

Office Hours
Monday to Friday
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

*Please note we are currently working a hybrid schedule and are on-campus on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

VPRI TEAM

Dr. Philip Barker
Vice-Principal & Associate Vice-President, Research and Innovation
ADM006M
philip.barker@ubc.ca

Daniela Hetrea
Executive Assistant to the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation
250-807-9042 | ADM006 (WK15)
daniela.hetrea@ubc.ca

Dr. Paul van Donkelaar
Associate Vice-Principal, Research
250-807-8858 | ADM006K
paul.vandonkelaar@ubc.ca

office of the vice-principal, research and innovation

VACANT
Communications Manager
250-807-8035 | ADM006H

Christine Humphries (on leave)
Sr. Manager, Strategic Initiatives & Operations
250-807-8154 | ADM006I
christine.humphries@ubc.ca

Gerald Levac
Finance Manager
250-807-9034 | ADM006J
gerald.levac@ubc.ca

Andrea Osachoff
Administrative Coordinator
250-807-8602 | ADM006J
andrea.osachoff@ubc.ca

Jenny Matechuk
Events & Engagement Officer
250-807-8142 | ADM006 (WK16)
jenny.matechuk@ubc.ca

Nicole Bennett
Internal Programs Manager
250-807-8408 | ADM006 (WK14)
nicole.bennett@ubc.ca

Pierre Rondier
Institutional Programs Officer (CFI/BCKDF)
250-807-9438 | ADM006 (WK17)
pierre.rondier@ubc.ca

University-Industry Liaison Office (UILO)

Inquiries

Derek Gratz
Associate Director
250-807-9853 | ADM006D
derek.gratz@ubc.ca

James McCartney
Industry Project Officer
604-722-4772 | ADM006 (WK10)
James.McCartney@ubc.ca

Jacqui Brown
Administrative & Special Projects Coordinator
250-807-8195 | ADM006Z
jacqui.brown@ubc.ca

Partnership Development

Janice Larson
Interior University Research Coalition (IURC)
250-807-8025 | ADM006 (WK11)
janice.larson@ubc.ca

Candice Loring
Director, Business Development Indigenous Community Engagement (Mitacs)
Cell 778-392-8581 | ADM006 (WK08)
cloring@mitacs.ca

Entrepreneurship@UBCO

Colin Gervais
Program Facilitator
Cell 778-392-7045
On campus | ADM006 (WK10)
Innovation UBC Hub | #203-460 Doyle Ave
colin.gervais@ubc.ca

Sarah Sutherland (on maternity leave)
Program Facilitator
Cell 250-869-9718
Innovation UBC Hub | #203-460 Doyle Ave
s.sutherland@ubc.ca

Office of Research Services (ORS)

Kristen Korberg
Associate Director
250-807-8832 | ADM006G
kristen.korberg@ubc.ca

Lisa Shearer
Associate Manager
Behavioural Research Ethics
250-807-8289 | ADM006 (WK02)
lisa.shearer@ubc.ca

Rachel Howard
Awards Coordinator
250-807-9412 | ADM006 (WK01)
rachel.howard@ubc.ca

Sandra Fox
Indigenous Community Liaison
250-807-8187 | ADM006 (WK04)
sandra.fox@ubc.ca

Denise Maines
Research Development Officer
Natural Sciences and Engineering
250-807-8510 | ADM006 (WK03)
denise.maines@ubc.ca

Brianna Wells
Research Development Officer
Social Sciences and Humanities
250-807-8520 | ADM006 (WK06)
brianna.wells@ubc.ca

POSITION VACANT
Research Development Officer (Health)
250-807-8861 | ADM006 (WK05)

survive and thrive applied research (star) initiative

Dr. Keith Culver
Director
250-807-9875 | EME 4153
keith.culver@ubc.ca

Patrick Gall
Research Network Facilitator
Cell 403-478-6066 | EME 2131
patrick.gall@ubc.ca

Ryan Mandau
Laboratory Technician V
Cell 250-575-1095 | EME 2131
ryan.mandau@ubc.ca

VPRI Directory

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Neurodegenerative disease, signal transduction, neurotrophin biology, cell biology, fly and mouse genetics.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Health promotion, health behaviour change, healthy lifestyles, community health, gender influences, cancer prevention, smoking cessation, harm reduction, men's health, family health, knowledge translation

Courses & Teaching: Qualitative research, research methods, nursing theory

Patrick Gall | Research Network Facilitator | Survive and Thrive Applied Research (STAR) | patrick.gall@ubc.ca | EME 1203

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Structural geology; tectonics; petrology; microstructures; evolution of mountain belts; the geology of the Himalaya-Tibet-Karakorm system; tectonics of Southwestern British Columbia.

Courses & Teaching: Structural geology; regional geology/tectonics.

Stacey Leavitt | Research Development Officer | Office of Research Services (ORS) | stacey.leavitt@ubc.ca | ADM006WK005

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Textile Composites; Material Constitutive Relations; Finite Element Modelling; Robust Inverse Methods; Material Selection for End-of-Life Design Strategies; Multiple Criteria Decision Making; Design and Analysis of Computer & Physical Experiments; Surrogate Models for Process Optimization; Machine Learning and Industry 4.0

Courses & Teaching: Mathematical Methods in Modelling Engineering Materials; Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision-Making; Continuum Mechanics; Composite Materials; Engineering Vibrations

Samantha Olivier | Plant Growth Facility Manager | Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, Research & Innovation Office (VPRI) | samantha.olivier@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Understanding ecosystems and landscapes as complex systems in which human and biophysical processes are coupled across multiple scales of space and time; incorporating complexity into natural resource management approaches; regional-scale landscape modelling; social-ecological networks; agent and individual-based modelling approaches; landscape science and scenario building.

Courses & Teaching: Dynamic modelling of coupled human-environment systems.

Barbara Stein-Zarchikoff | Finance Assistant

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: van Donkelaar's research focuses on gaining a better understanding of traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to sports concussion or intimate partner violence. Dr. van Donkelaar is currently not accepting any new graduate students.