Raquel De Souza, PhD
Strategic Research Initiatives & Partnerships Manager
If you are an external organization looking to collaborate with UTM researchers, contact Raquel to get started.
The UTM community may contact Raquel to:
- Discuss and brainstorm areas of your research that could benefit from research partnerships with not-for-profits, industry, community groups, government, and other external organizations
- Identify and reach out to potential external research partners
- Navigate formalizing your research partnership via research agreements at U of T
- Get support with navigating interactions and project discussions with your research partner
- Expand upon existing research partnerships
- Get support for new or existing strategic research initiatives
- Coordinate with the U of T central Innovations & Partnerships Office
- Explore wet lab venture incubation in the life sciences
View our Research Partnerships resources.
Email: raquel.desouza@utoronto.ca
Veron Fernandes
Office Administrator
Contact Veron for the following:
- General inquiries
- Vice-Principal, Research and Associate Vice-Principals, Research scheduling
- Information dissemination
- Office of the Vice-Principal, Research meetings and event organization
- Office of the Vice-Principal, Research conference room booking
- UTM ethics committee submission
- Office space management support
Email: veron.fernandes@utoronto.ca
Phone: 905-569-5768
Anastassia Pogoutse, PhD
Strategic Research Development Officer
Contact Ana for the following:
- Consultations for project alignment with available STEM funding opportunities (local, national - including NSERC and CIHR, and international)
- Consultation and feedback on Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) applications (IF, JELF)
- Inquiries related to the Canada Research Chair (CRC) program
- Editing services for grant and award applications (proofreading, feedback on fit with program requirements)
- Feedback on incorporation of EDI best practices into applications
- My Research Applications (MRA) approval process
- Lead on research funding metrics/analytics investigating strategies for measuring research impact
- Development of targeted workshops for UTM community
- Maintains and provides access to Funding Application Repository
- Help with contacting the U of T central research services office
Email: a.pogoutse@utoronto.ca
Stefanie Bernaudo, PhD
Strategic Research Development Officer
Contact Stefanie for the following:
- Consultations for project alignment with available STEM funding opportunities (local, national - including NSERC and CIHR, and international)
- Leading UTM strategy to support nominations of honours & awards (sciences, humanities, social sciences)
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) applications
- Editing services for grant and award applications (proofreading, feedback on fit with program requirements)
- Feedback on incorporation of EDI best practices into applications
- My Research Applications (MRA) approval process
- Development of partnerships and industrial grant applications, including NSERC Alliance, Mitacs, OCI or similar programs.
- Provides bibliometric analysis and visualization (Scopus & SciVal)
- Development of targeted workshops for UTM community
- Maintains and provides access to Funding Application Repository
Kate Steinmann, PhD
Strategic Research Development Officer
Contact Kate for the following:
- Consultations for project alignment with available social science and humanities funding opportunities (local, national - including SSHRC, and international)
- Editing services for grant and award applications (proofreading, feedback on fit with program requirements)
- Feedback on incorporation of EDI best practices into applications
- Lead on supporting large-scale, multi-disciplinary social sciences and humanities funding opportunities, including SSHRC Partnership suite grants
- First Book Workshop
- Collaborative Digital Research Space (CDRS) liaison
- My Research Applications (MRA) approval process
- Development of targeted workshops for UTM community
- Maintains and provides access to Funding Application Repository
Email: kate.steinmann@utoronto.ca
Tanya Rohrmoser
Communications Officer
Contact Tanya for support with the following:
- Sharing your research: consultations, support, and strategy
- Items for the OVPR's newsletter and social media feeds
- Event promotion
- Updates to the OVPR website
- Digital communications: best practices and content development
- Building your 'brand' and growing your audience
- Messaging, storytelling, and media outreach
- Marketing for OVPR-led events and programs: the Annual Research Prize Symposium, Annual Research Excellence Lecture, Summer Undergraduate Research Fair (SURF), Celebration of Books, and Interdisciplinary Summer Program in Research and Entrepreneurship (INSPIRE)
Please also contact Tanya with any communications needs and requests for the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI).
Email: tanya.rohrmoser@utoronto.ca
Rong Wu
Internal Competitions & Events Coordinator
Contact Rong for the following:
- Internal funding opportunities for faculty and postdoctoral fellows
- Internal faculty awards: Annual Research Prize and Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award
- University of Toronto Excellence Award and tri-agency Undergraduate Student Research Awards
- Office of the Vice-Principal, Research led events: Summer Undergraduate Research Fair and Annual Celebration of Books
Email: rong.wu@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416-979-4904
Location: MN 3231