M. Murphy

M. Murphy

Nominated PI | University of Toronto

M. Murphy (they/them) is the Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit. Murphy is a Red River Métis from Winnipeg and a feminist anti-colonial technoscience studies scholar with a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. They are a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science and Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice and Professor in the School for Environment and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

They are the lead social science PI in the Acceleration Consortium CFREF project on ethical substance and automated substance discovery. Murphy’s current research is in the area of Indigenous Science and Technology Studies and environmental justice, with a particular focus on reimagining chemicals and chemical exposures, data justice, and chemical informatics. They also co-direct the Indigenous-focused Environmental Data Justice Lab at the TRU with Vanessa Gray.