VPRI Leadership

Role:

• Vice-Principal and Associate Vice-President, Research and Innovation

Research Focus: 

Comparative animal physiology, focused on understanding how fish will cope with ongoing climate warming.

Profile:

Dr. Suzie Currie is the Vice Principal and Associate Vice-President, Research and Innovation. In her role, she leads the strategic direction of UBC Okanagan’s research enterprise and provides oversight to advance research, scholarly activity and innovation. An integral member of both the senior leadership team for the Okanagan campus and the senior team in UBC’s Vice-President Research office in Vancouver, she plays a critical leadership role in advancing the goals set out in UBCO’s long-term vision, Outlook 2040.

Dr. Currie’s previous administrative experience includes serving as Department Head at Mount Allison University, as well as Dean of Pure and Applied Science and interim Associate Vice-President Research, Innovation and Graduate Studies at Acadia University.

She is passionate about research, innovation and creative activity. As an active NSERC-funded researcher, she is currently studying how social environments influence the way fish respond to elevated temperatures.

Dr. Currie holds an MSc and PhD in Biology from Queen’s University and completed NSERC and Leverhulme-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Cambridge, where she also served as the Charles and Katherine Darwin Research Fellow at Darwin College.