Stephen Larter has become Calgary’s associate vice-president for research and innovation, adding to his duties as chief scientist of the university’s CDL-Rockies accelerator for energy startups.
University of Calgary has hired Stephen Larter (pictured) as its associate vice-president for research and innovation, a title known internally as AVPR-I.
He took over the role on February 25 from the previous AVPR-1, André Buret, who had held the role on a temporary basis.
Larter will work closely with the university’s Innovate Calgary tech transfer and incubator department. His duties include supporting commercialisation, knowledge transfer and innovation across the university, while fostering collaborations with industry and programs in the University Research Park.
Larter is currently chief scientist at a Calgary-operated accelerator for energy startups, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)-Rockies, which is part of a wider CDL initiative established by University of Toronto. He provides counsel to several Calgary faculty, postdoctoral and student-founded businesses.
Previously, he was Calgary’s Canada Research chair for petroleum geology from 2004, focusing on research fields including organic geochemistry and petroleum geochemistry. In 2006, he co-founded Calgary petroleum geochemistry and fluid analysis spinout Gushor, which was acquired by oilfield services firm Schlumberger for an undisclosed sum in 2013.
Larter has experience in research and development in the oil and gas industry and has previously worked for the universities of Oslo and Newcastle. He was also the scientific director of multi university-backed research program Carbon Management Canada from 2009 until 2014.
