Executive Team

Melike Schalomon

After beginning her university education in Medicine in her native Germany, Dr. Schalomon immigrated to Canada. She holds a BSc in Behavioural Neuroscience at Laurentian University, as well as an MSc in Psychology and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Alberta. Her research is focused on behavioural neuropharmacology in zebrafish.

Dr. Schalomon joined MacEwan University in Edmonton as a sessional instructor in 1996 and currently holds a faculty appointment as Professor of Psychology. She served as Associate Dean, Operations for seven years prior to her appointment in 2020 as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science. MacEwan’s Faculty of Arts and Science has 200 tenure / tenure track faculty members and approximately 4,700 FLEs across nine academic departments.

Hans-Peter Loock

Dr. Hans-Peter Loock received his bachelor at the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, in engineering chemistry, then moved to UVic to obtain his PhD in Chemistry. He spent 25 years in Ontario – first as a postdoc at the NRC in Ottawa but mostly at Queen’s – before UVic recruited him back to the West Coast. He has been Dean of Science (150 Faculty in 6 departments with about 400 graduate students and 3000 undergrads) since January 2020.

Jonathan Withey

Dr. Jonathan Withey held undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chemistry from the University of Oxford. He started his academic career in 2004 at MacEwan University (Edmonton). He has been Dean of the Faculty of Science & Technology at Mount Royal University (Calgary) since January 2017. The Faculty offers a Bachelor of Computer Information Systems program as well as a variety of majors within its Bachelor of Science degree. There are approximately 90 full-time faculty and 2,000 students in Science & Technology at Mount Royal.

Kristen Baetz

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