
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)
- Assistance with contacting the Digital Research Alliance of Canada
- 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
- Feedback and assistance with research ethics applications
- Lead on research funding metrics/analytics
- 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