Awards, Honors, and Distinguished Service

Year

        Distinction

Awarding Body
2021 – 2022
  • Chemistry – Science Atlantic “Annual Speaker Tour of Notable Scientists” of the Year (2021-2022).
 Co-sponsored by Science Atlantic and the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC)
2019
  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB)
  Royal Society of Biology
 2018 – 2022
  • Chair (2021-2022); Member(2019-2021); Invited member (2018):  Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program’s Interdisciplinary  Adjudication Committee (IAC)
 Canadian Tri-Agency (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC)
2018
  • Ambassador Award (For bringing Sagamore 2018 Conference to Halifax)
 City of Halifax – Discover Halifax, Nova Scotia
2018
  • Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
 Royal Society of Arts
2018 – 2021
  • Member: Accreditation Committee of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC)
 Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC)
2018 – 2020
  • Member: Selection Committee (1604) – Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grants Program competition for the Chemistry
 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2017 – 2020
  • Member: Commission on Quantum Crystallography of the IUCr
  International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
2017
  • Award for Research Excellence of 2017
 Mount Saint Vincent University
2016
  • Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)
 The Institute of Physics (IOP)
 2016
  • Lady Davis Fellow & L. D. Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ($7,000)
 Lady Davis Fellowship Trust
2016
  • National Acfas-NSERC Prize “La preuve par l’image” ($2,000)
 Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas), Québec – Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSRC)
2010
  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
 Royal Society of Chemistry
2009
  • MGMS Silver Jubilee Prize Laureate
 Molecular Graphics and Molecular Simulation Society (MGMS)
2004
  • Winner of the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Chemistry
 Council of Ontario Universities
2004­­­­ – 2006
  • Awardee of the Izaak Walton Killam Fellowship in Chemistry
 The Killam Trusts
2005, 2003
  • BioVision-Next Science Fellow “Bio-Leaders of Tomorrow”
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) & The World Life Science Forum
2003 – 2004
  • Chemistry Teaching Fellowship Award Recipient
 University of Toronto
2004, 2001
  • IUCr Young Scientist Travel Award Recipient
 International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
2003
  • Dept. of Chemistry Nominee for the University Distinguished Thesis Award
McMaster University
2001
  • Finalist: Schrödinger Prize
American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Chemical Computing Group (CCG), Inc.
2001
  • Finalist: “Dean of Science Award for Academic Excellence in Graduate Work”
McMaster University
2001
  • Centennial Scholar
 McMaster University


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