The University of British Columbia

Infrastructure Rehabilitation and
Sustainability chair - Nemkumar Banthia

for Applied Science

Significant indicators of Applied Science’s high-calibre research activity are its number of research chairs and professorships. Each of these prestigious appointments has been made by either industry or government to individuals within the faculty with whom these funding bodies have the utmost confidence. Their mandate in all cases is to advance the frontier of knowledge within their fields in areas identified as of the utmost critical concern to industry and/or society.