Gregor Wolbring, Professor of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, University of Calgary
Dr. Gregor Wolbring is a tenured Full Professor in the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies program, Department of Community Health Sciences, at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine. Trained as a biochemist, he is a disability studies, ability studies, sustainability studies, and science and technology governance scholar. His work explores how judgements about ability shape people’s lives, and how emerging science and technology affect marginalized groups, especially people with disabilities.
Dr. Wolbring is a member of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) in Karlsruhe, Germany, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. He is a former President of the Canadian Disability Studies Association, which presented him with its Tanis Doe Award in 2017. In 1998 he received the National Award from the Council of Canadians with Disabilities. In 2026, he was named a Killam Laureate at the University of Calgary, receiving the Killam Undergraduate Mentorship Award for his research mentorship of students.