Join Research is student-led and student-first, guided by a small crew of mentors: university students, graduate students, researchers, professors, and teachers. Sessions have been led by MIT mentors, professors at Princeton and Queen's University, a TMU professor, a biology PhD candidate, and a Western University medical student.
A small crew of university students, graduate students, researchers, and teachers runs every season. Applications are short, and every one gets read. Research 101 runs online, so you can mentor from anywhere in Canada or beyond.
Questions first? Email info@joinresearch.ca.
A crew of university mentors, plus a wider network of researchers who have advised us, sat down for interviews, or mentored students. No minimum commitment and no teaching experience required.
Advice, interviews, and mentorship from
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Backgrounds in the group include work at
Our mentors are undergrads, grad students, and professors doing the work right now. And beyond them, two Nobel laureates and a Fields medalist have given their time to our students.
Nobel Laureate
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2013
For uncovering the machinery that routes molecular cargo inside every living cell.
What we are asking: How a question about yeast cells turned into a discovery that changed medicine.
About the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (opens in a new tab)
Recorded · Publishing soon
Photo: Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.
Fields Medalist
Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto
Fields Medal, 2026
For work in number theory including a proof of the André-Oort conjecture, open for decades.
What we are asking: What it takes to stay with one problem for years, and how to know a question is worth it.
About the Fields Medal (opens in a new tab)
Recorded · Publishing soon
Photo: Simons Foundation, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.
Nobel Laureate
Professor Emeritus of Physics, Queen's University
Nobel Prize in Physics, 2015
For the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
What he told our students: How a detector two kilometres down a Sudbury nickel mine solved the solar neutrino problem, and what dark matter and dark energy leave for the next generation to find.
About the Nobel Prize in Physics (opens in a new tab)
Live talk · Sep 10, 2026
Photo: Bengt Nyman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.
Free, no catch. We email once when an interview goes live.