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Herzberg Gold Medal, Brockhouse Canada Prize, Polanyi Award, and Donna Strickland Prize


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Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering sub-committee

Committee number: 155 Program: Prizes and Science Promotion Competition year: 2025

Herzberg Gold Medal, Brockhouse Canada Prize, Polanyi Award, and Donna Strickland Prize
Role Name Organization End date
Chair Cathleen Crudden Queen’s University 2025
Members Gordon Ball TRIUMF 2025
Laleh Behjat University of Calgary 2025
Kathryn Bethune University of Regina 2025
Jean-Michel Lavoie Université de Sherbrooke 2025
Kirk McManus University of Manitoba 2025
Rafik Naccache Concordia University 2025
Taha Ouarda Institut national de la recherche scientifique 2025
Kristine Spekkens Queen’s University 2025
Cristina Stoica Wilfrid Laurier University 2025
Tian Tang University of Alberta 2025
Alison Thompson Dalhousie University 2025
Program Officer Nour Yahfoufi Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering sub-committee

Committee number: 1027 Program: Prizes and Science Promotion Competition year: 2025

Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering sub-committee
Role Name Organization End date
Chair Cathleen Crudden Queen’s University 2025
Members Svetlana Barkanova Memorial University of Newfoundland 2025
Laleh Behjat University of Calgary 2025
Jalel Ben-Othman Université Paris-Saclay 2025
Mamadou Fall University of Ottawa 2025
Frederic Lesage Polytechnique Montréal 2025
Kirk McManus University of Manitoba 2025
Tian Tang University of Alberta 2025
Program Officer Nour Yahfoufi Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

NSERC John C. Polanyi Award sub-committee

Committee number: 1052 Program: Prizes and Science Promotion Competition year: 2025

NSERC John C. Polanyi Award sub-committee
Role Name Organization End date
Chair Cathleen Crudden Queen’s University 2025
Members Gordon Ball TRIUMF 2025
Jalel Ben-Othman Université Paris-Saclay 2025
Nabiha Chaumeix Centre national de la recherche scientifique 2025
Annie DesRochers Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue 2025
Jean-Michel Lavoie Université de Sherbrooke 2025
Cheryl McCormick Brock University 2025
Rafik Naccache Concordia University 2025
Kristine Spekkens Queen’s University 2025
Cristina Stoica Wilfrid Laurier University 2025
Alison Thompson Dalhousie University 2025
Marguerite Xenopoulos Trent University 2025
Program Officer Nour Yahfoufi Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

NSERC Donna Strickland Prize for Societal Impact of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research sub-committee

Committee number: 1628 Program: Prizes and Science Promotion Competition year: 2025

Role Name Organization End date
Chair Cathleen Crudden Queen’s University 2025
Members Svetlana Barkanova Memorial University of Newfoundland 2025
Kathryn Bethune University of Regina 2025
Nabiha Chaumeix Centre national de la recherche scientifique 2025
Annie DesRochers Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue 2025
Mamadou Fall University of Ottawa 2025
Frederic Lesage Polytechnique Montréal 2025
Cheryl McCormick Brock University 2025
Taha Ouarda Institut national de la recherche scientifique 2025
Veronica Savu Morphotonix 2025
Marguerite Xenopoulos Trent University 2025
Program Officer Nour Yahfoufi Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

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