Graduate Student Awards
We congratulate 31 graduate students across Concordia’s health-related research centers, departments and faculties on being awarded a 2025 School of Health Graduate Student Award! Each student will receive a prize of $5,000.
All winners are members of the School of Health and their additional affiliations are listed below.
Participating institutional research centers
- Centre for the Arts in Human Development (CAHD)
- Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology (CASB)
- Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH)
- Centre for NanoScience Research (CeNSR)
- Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling (CERMM)
- Centre for Oral history and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)
- Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH)
- Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology (CSBN)
- Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics (CSFG)
- Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP)
- Centre for Sensory Studies (CSS)
- Centre for Research on Aging (engAGE)
- Indigenous Futures Research Centre (Milieux) (IFRC)
- Technoculture, Art and Games (Milieux) (TAG)
2025 graduate student awardees
In alphabetical order:
- Lyne Al-Nabelsi, MSc, Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
- Dimitrios Avramidis, CSBN, MA, Psychology
- Courtney Blamey, TAG, PhD, Communication Studies
- Annabelle Brault, CAHD, PhD, INDI, SGS-FoFA
- Mary Brooks, engAGE, MA, Psychology
- Mahgol Darvishmolla, CSBN, PhD, Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
- Brock Dishart, TAG, PhD, HUMA-FoFA
- Nathan Ferguson, CSS, MA, Sociology and Anthropology
- Xiaowei Gong, CRDH, PhD, Psychology
- Mohammadreza Niknam Hamidabad, CERMM, PhD, Physics
- Mehri Hajiaghayi, PhD, Biology
- Sofia Iuliano, PhD, Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
- Lynn Karam, CASB, PhD, Biology
- Radina Koleva, CeNSR, MSc, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Tori Langmuir, CCRH, MA, Psychology
- lako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers, IFRC, MA, INDI, SGS - FoFA
- Curtis John Logan, CASB, PhD, Biology
- Sofia Marinou, CRDH, MA, Psychology
- Liam McMahon, CSLP, PhD, Education
- Mahsa Mehranfar, CSFG, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Chanelle Montpetit, PhD, Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
- Samira Norouzi, CERMM, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Daniela Presta, engAGE, PhD, Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
- Alexander Pizzo, CCRH, PhD, Psychology
- Vanessa Racine, IFRC, MA, INDI, SGS - FoFA
- Niloufar Rahbari, CSFG, PhD, Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Brent Rosenstein, PhD, Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
- Thomas Seibel, CSS, PhD, Religions and Cultures
- Sarah Taylor, CeNSR, MSc, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Kathryn Urbaniak, CAHD, PhD, Education
- Clare Walker, MA, Sociology and Anthropology
Congratulations to all the winners and we look forward to seeing you present your findings at this year's Annual SoH Conference!
