Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Cao Thang Dinh, who has been elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists for 2024.
The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists is Canada’s first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership. It comprises a fourth entity (along with the current three Academies) within the Royal Society of Canada. The Members of the College are Canadians and Permanent Residents who, at an early stage in their career, have demonstrated a high level of achievement. The criteria for election is excellence, and membership is for seven years.
Dr. Dinh’s research focuses on developing electrochemical processes for renewable fuel and chemical production from carbon dioxide, water and renewable electricity. He has published over 100 papers in prestigious journals, including multiple publications in Science and Nature and has been listed as a “Highly Cited Researcher” in the field of Chemistry since 2021 by Clarivate. He is also the inventor of 6 patents, three of which were purchased by TotalEnergies. He is the recipient of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Rising Star Award (2021), the Prize for Excellence in Research for Outstanding Emerging Researcher at Queen’s University (2022), the “Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023” from the Falling Walls Foundation and was recently received the Smith Engineering Research Excellence Award. Dr. Dinh is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the new interdisciplinary journal Cambridge Prisms: Carbon Technologies published by Cambridge University Press. He has rapidly built a productive lab with a diverse team, having already mentored 40 HQP of all levels. His undergraduate students have gone on to work as engineers for various industries or pursued further academic studies.
For more information on the 2024 cohort of fellows and College members, visit the Royal Society of Canada website.
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