CIFAR by the Numbers

CIFAR’s annual budget is $16 million, which funds 12 interdisciplinary programs that bring together a highly unusual and innovative mix of expertise.

These programs are:
• Cosmology and Gravity
• Earth System Evolution
• Experience-based Brain and Biological Development
• Genetic Networks
• Institutions, Organizations and Growth
• Integrated Microbial Biodiversity
• Nanoelectronics
• Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception
• Quantum Information Processing
• Quantum Materials
• Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being
• Successful Societies

Since the Institute’s inception, 14 Nobel Laureates have been associated with CIFAR. Six of these are current*.

*Roger B. Myerson (Economic Sciences), Institutions, Organizations and Growth Program
*George A. Akerlof (Economic Sciences), Institutions, Organizations and Growth Program and Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being Program
• Sidney Altman (Chemistry), Evolutionary Biology Program
*Philip W. Anderson (Physics), Quantum Materials Program
• Kenneth Arrow (Economic Sciences), Economic Growth and Policy Program
• Walter Gilbert (Chemistry), Evolutionary Biology Program
• Leland H. Hartwell (Medicine), Genetic Networks Program
*Daniel Kahneman (Economics), Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being Program
• Robert B. Laughlin (Physics), Quantum Materials Program
*Anthony J. Leggett (Physics), Quantum Information Processing Program
* John C. Polanyi (Chemistry), Nanoelectronics Program
• Richard J. Roberts (Medicine), Evolutionary Biology Program
• Michael Smith (Chemistry), Evolutionary Biology Program (deceased)
• Willard Boyle (Physics), Former Research Council member

CIFAR currently (as of January 1, 2009) supports a total of 317 distinguished Canadian and international researchers:

262 program members, comprising:
o 106 Fellows
o 99 Associates
o 57 Scholars
o 55 advisory committee members

CIFAR researchers currently represent 11 countries. They are:

Canada
China
Finland
France
Germany
Israel
Italy
Japan
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States  

CIFAR researchers are based in Canada:

• 65% of program members are based in Canada
• 27% of advisory committee members are based in Canada
• CIFAR deliberately engages only the best researchers. Almost 43% of senior CIFAR researchers* are ranked among the top 1% of researchers in their field, according to the number of citations from January 1996 to June 2006.
• 43% of all Fellows and Associates
• 32% of Canadian Fellows and Associates
• 41% of advisory committee members

CIFAR researchers represent 96 academic and research institutions around the world:

• 75 institutions are represented by program members
• 40 institutions are represented by advisory committee members

* fields are tracked by Reuters Essential Science Indicators database