Concordia secures $4.35 M for six research infrastructure projects
CFI funding will enable Concordia to acquire, upgrade and operate advanced infrastructure that underpins high-impact research in energy, materials, computation, and biological and environmental systems.
Six Concordia faculty have received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund. With matching contributions from Quebec’s Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie and additional support from Concordia, the total investment of $4,351,221 will enable six new research infrastructure projects spanning multiple disciplines.
“This investment ensures our researchers have the instruments, facilities and computational capacity to push boundaries in areas vital to society,” says Tim Evans, vice-president, Research, Innovation and Impact. “By strengthening Concordia’s research infrastructure, these projects will provide students and faculty across disciplines with the tools they need to explore, learn and innovate.”
The funded projects are:
- Kelly Meek, Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering
Polymers for a hydrogen economy: Designing electrolytes and ionomers for the anion exchange membrane fuel cell.
- Patricia Comeau, Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering
Improving wound dressing technology through use of natural ingredients and sustainable light energy sources.
- Sixu Deng, Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering
Accelerating the application of next-generation electric vehicles by developing new battery materials. - Mahdi Hosseini, Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
On scaling computing infrastructure for foundational modelling in computational pathology.
- Jaehoon Hwang, Department of Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Sustainable zero-waste biomass for carbon-neutral processes and bio-circular economy via data-driven approaches. - Rafik Naccache, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
CARBON: Cryo-NMR for Accelerated Research in Biology, Organic Chemistry and Nanoscience.
These awards will enable Concordia to acquire, upgrade and operate advanced infrastructure that underpins high-impact research in energy, materials, computation, and biological and environmental systems.
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