UBC Mathematics is pleased to announce our faculty members who have been awarded a 2026 NSERC Discovery Grant. These grants are designed to support long-term research objectives that have the greatest potential to advance natural sciences and engineering. They also recognize the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances. 

Congratulations to the following recipients:

Omer Angel
Applications of discrete probability

Rodolfo Brandão
Mathematical Modelling of Liquid Sheets and Filaments

Eric Cytrynbaum
From Cytoskeleton to Tissue: Mechanochemical Models of Developmental Organization

Leah Edelstein-Keshet
Modeling and simulating the regulation of cell motility and cell-cell interactions: from single cells to collective behaviour

Ailana Fraser
Minimal submanifolds in Riemannian geometry

Kasia Jankiewicz
Covers and fiberings of cell complexes

Deanna Needell
Towards foundational machine learning

Chadi Saad-Roy
Theoretical models for adaptation and response of pathogens to new and changing host environments

Nicolle Gonzalez
Combinatorics and representation theory in link homology

Pablo Shmerkin
Deeper interactions between fractal geometry, harmonic analysis and ergodic theory

Lior Silberman
Projects in pure and applied mathematics

Christoph Ortner
Scientific machine learning for particle systems