Awards and Honours
Wolfson Fellowship – The Royal Society (2021)
Brimacombe Medal – TMS (2021)
Annual Scientific Award – International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) (2020)
Guangxi Golden Silkball Friendship Award – Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China (2020)
World’s Top 2% Scientists – Listed by Stanford University (2020)
Fellow – International Association of Advanced Materials (2020)
Top 5% of highly cited authors of RSC journals – Royal Society of Chemistry (2019–2020)
Planet INRS Award for Education – INRS (2019)
Blaise Pascal Medal – Materials Science Division, European Academy of Sciences (2019)
John Wheatley Award – American Physical Society (2019)
Gold Medal – IEEE Montreal (2018)
Distinguished Fellow – International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) (2018)
Changbai Mountain Friendship Award – Province of Jilin, China (2018)
Foreign Member – Academia Europaea (2018)
Foreign Fellow – Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (2018)
ACerS Global Ambassador – American Ceramic Society (2018)
Fellow – Optical Society of America (2018)
Associate Fellow – African Academy of Sciences (2017)
Distinguished Award on Novel Materials and their Synthesis – XIIIth IUPAC Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis, Nanjing (2017)
Premio Venezia (Academic/Scientific category – Italian Chamber of Commerce, Montreal (2017)
Academician – World Academy of Ceramics (2017)
Senior Member – Optical Society of America (2017)
Planet INRS Award for Research – INRS (2017)
Foreign (Corresponding) Member – Mexican Academy of Engineering (2017)
Outstanding Engineer Award – IEEE Canada (2017)
1000 Talents short term award – Sichuan Province (2017)
Fulbright Visiting Chair (UCLA) – USA/Canada Fulbright Foundation (2017)
Fellow – World Academy of Art and Science (2016)
Planet INRS Award for Research – INRS (2016)
Fellow – Royal Society of Arts (2016)
Canada Research Chair, Tier I – Centre EMT, INRS (2016-2023)
John C. Polanyi Award – Canadian Society for Chemistry (2016)
Honorary Fellow – Chinese Chemical Society (2016)
Selby Fellowship – Australian Academy of Sciences (2016)
Planet INRS Award for Education – INRS (2015, shared with T.W. Johnston and A. Pignolet)
Fellow – ASM International (2015)
Fellow – Canadian Academy of Engineering (2015)
Excellence in Leadership – American Vacuum Society (2015)
Lash Miller Award – Canada Section, Electrochemical Society (2015)
Khwarizmi International Award (2nd laureate) – Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (2015)
Chang Jiang Chair Professor – UESTC, Chengdu (2015–2017)
Distinguished Lecturer- IEEE Nanotechnology Council (2015)
Fellow – SPIE (2015)
Fellow – American Physical Society (2014)
Fellow – Royal Society of Canada (2014)
Bell Outreach Award – Foundation INRS Armand Frappier (2014)
José Vasconcelos Award for Education – World Cultural Council (2014)
Member (Fellow) – European Academy of Sciences (2014)
Award for Excellence in Materials Chemistry – Canadian Society for Chemistry (2014)
EWR Steacie Memorial Fellowship – NSERC (2014), received from the Governor General of Canada
Distinguished Visitor/Speaker – California State University Northridge (2013)
Grand Challenge Lecture – Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology (2013)
Brian Ives Lectureship Award – ASM Canada Council / ASM International (2013)
Senior Member – SPIE (2013)
Herzberg Medal – Canadian Association of Physicists (2013)
Fellow – Australian Institute of Physics (2013)
Fellow – Engineering Institute of Canada (2013)
Member – Global Young Academy (2012)
Best Paper Award – Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (2012)
Fellow – American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012)
Senior Member – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2012)
Fellow – Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2012)
Fellow – Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK) (2011)
Fellow – Institute of Materials, Metallurgy and Mining (UK) (2011)
Rutherford Memorial Medal (Chemistry) – Royal Society of Canada (2011)
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award – Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010)
Fellow – Institute of Physics (UK) (2010)
JSPS Senior Special Visiting Fellowship – MANA–NIMS, Tsukuba (Japan) (2010)
Visiting Lectureship Award (India) – ASM IIM (2010)
Full Member – Sigma Xi Society (2010)
Fellow – Institute of Nanotechnology (UK) (2010)
Australian Professorial Fellowship – Australian Research Council (declined) (2010)
Excellent Scientist Award – Advances in Functional Materials Workshop, Jiuzhaigou (China) (June 2009)
Canada Research Chair – Centre EMT, INRS (2008, renewal)
Gledden Fellowship – University of Western Australia (2008)
Spheres of Influence Lecture – Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland Univ of Technology (2008)
Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship – Nanyang Technological University (2008)
Canada Research Chair – Centre EMT, INRS (2003)
New Strategic Professor – FQRNT, Province of Quebec (2002)
Marie Curie Fellowship – European Union (2001)
Italian–Danish Fellowship – To carry out research at CAMP (Univ. of Aarhus) (declined) (2001)
REES/JISTEC Fellowship – NTT Basic Research Laboratories (2000)
REES/JISTEC Fellowship – NTT Basic Research Laboratories (1999)
Scholarship for PhD students – University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ (1997)
