Seminars

2025-2026

Yun Hang Hu

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI


Advanced Materials for Sustainable Energy and Environment: From Nanomaterials to Superstructured Materials

Visits 2025

  • November 24: INRS
  • November 25: McGill
  • November 26: UQAM

Yury Gogotsi

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA


2D MXenes and Other Atomically Thin Materials – The Building Blocks of Future Technology

Visits 2026

  • April 7: McGill
  • April 8: INRS
  • April 9: UdS

Kenan Song

University of Georgia, Athens, GA


Multiscale Polymer–Nanoparticle Assembly via Advanced Manufacturing

Visits 2026

  • April 28: UdS
  • April 29: UdeM
  • April 30: Concordia

Mauro Pasta

University of Oxford, Oxford, England


Linking electrolyte bulk properties to interphase behaviour in lithium metal anodes

Visits 2026

  • May 19: UQAM
  • May 20: UdeM

2024-2025

Tsun-Kong Sham

Western University, London, ON


The prospects of synchrotron techniques

Visits 2024

  • December 12: INRS
  • December 13: McGill

Lilo Pozzo

University of Washington, Seattle, WA


AI for accelerated soft matter research

Visits 2025

  • January 21: McGill
  • January 22: Concordia

Nicola Pinna

Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany


Novel Materials Chemistry for Energy and Environmental Applications

Visits 2025

  • March 12: UdS
  • March 13: INRS
  • March 14: Concordia

Peng Zhang

Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS


Nanoalloy catalysts: Correlations between structure, electronics and catalytic properties

Visits 2025

  • April 15: McGill
  • April 16: INRS

2023-2024

Nathalie Lavoine

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC


Lignocellulosic biomass

Visits 2023

  • October 6: UL, Zoom 2pm
  • October 10: UQTR

Lingzi Sang

University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB


All-solid-state sodium batteries

Visits 2023

  • November 21: INRS
  • November 23: Concordia
  • November 24: UdS
  • November 28 : McGill

Natalie Stingelin

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA


Cool plastics for Energy Sustainability

Visits 2024

  • February 20: UdS
  • February 21: INRS
  • February 22: UdeM
  • February 23: Concordia

Ning Chen

Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, SK


X-ray absorption spectroscopy in material science

Visits 2024

  • March 18: Concordia
  • March 19/20: INRS
  • March 21: ETS
  • March 22: McGill

Arthi Jayaraman

University of Delaware, Newark, DE


Computational methods: macromolecular soft materials

Visits 2024

  • April 24: UdeM
  • April 25: INRS

2022-2023

Marcel Mayor

University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland


Single-molecule junctions

Visits 2022

  • July 27 : McGill
  • July 28 : Concordia

Holly Reeve

CEO, co-founder at HydRegen


HydRegen: taking a biotechnology from academic research to commercialisation

Malika Jeffries-EL

Boston University, Boston, MA


Design and synthesis of organic electronic materials

Visits 2023

  • January 30: ULaval
  • February 1: UdeM
  • February 2: UQAM

Renaud Demadrille

Grenoble-Alpes University, Grenoble, France


Photochromic photosensitizers for a new generation of solar cells

Visits 2023

  • March 1: UdeS
  • March 2: ETS
  • March 3: Concordia

Luís D. Carlos

University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal


The coming of age of luminescence nanothermometry

Visits 2023

  • March 27: INRS
  • March 28: McGill

2021-2022

Takuzo Aida

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan


  • Supramolecular Polymerization: Its Significance and Applications

Luis M. Liz-Marzán

CIC biomaGUNE, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain


  • Chiral Growth and Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles

Jodie L. Lutkenhaus

Department of Chem.Eng., Texas A&M University, Texas


  • Redox-active Macromolecular Radicals for a Metal-Free, Degradable Batteries

Kui Yu

Sichuan University, Chengdu, China


  • Induction Period of Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Bert Meijer

Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands


  • Functional supramolecular systems and materials

Meagan S. Mauter

Department of Civ. & Environ. Eng., Stanford University, California


  • Desalination for a Circular Water Economy

2020-2021

Caroline Duchaine

University Laval, Québec


  • Why is it so difficult to agree on COVID-19 modes of transmission?

Laura Fabris

Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ


  • Nanomaterials Chemistry Approaches to Address Health and Energy Challenges

Jason Kindrachuk

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg


  • Eleven Covid months equals one decade – Emerging virus research during a pandemic

Yi Cui

Stanford University, Stanford, CA


  • Reinventing Batteries

MOLLY SHOICHET

University of Toronto, Toronto


  • Biology-inspired Polymer Design

Omar M. Yaghi

University of California, Berkeley, CA


  • The Discovery and Reticular Chemistry of Covalent Organic Frameworks

2019-2020

SONG JIN

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

Visits 2019

  • December 4 : INRS
  • December 5 : McGill
  • December 6 : Concordia

JILLIAN BURIAK

  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Visits 2019

  • December 9 :  INRS
  • December 10 :Université de Sherbrooke
  • December 11 : Université de Montréal

THIERRY BROUSSE

  • University of Nantes, Nantes, France

Visits 2020

  • February 18: UQAM
  • February 19: Université de Sherbrooke
  • February 20: Concordia
  • February 21: McGill

2018-2019

Ben Zhong Tang

  • Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, China

Visits 2018

  • October 11 : UQTR
  • October 15 : ETS
  • October 16 : Université de Sherbrooke
  • October 17 : Université de Montréal

Chinedum Osuji

  • Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Visits 2018

  • December 3 : Université de Sherbrooke
  • December 4 : McGill
  • December 5 : Université de Montréal
  • December 6 : INRS

Menachem Elimelech

  • Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Visits 2019

  • March 19 : INRS
  • March 20 : Université de Sherbrooke
  • March 21 : Concordia
  • March 22 : McGill

Emily Cranston

  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Visits 2019

  • April 15 : Université de Sherbrooke
  • April 16 : Concordia
  • April 17 : Université de Montréal
  • April 18 : McGill