Waterloo researcher receives Canada's highest recognition for scientific excellence for work with batteries
University of Waterloo professor Linda Nazar has been awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for her pioneering research in battery materials. Her work focuses on developing safer, more sustainable solid-state batteries to replace traditional liquid-state lithium-ion batteries.
Why it matters
Advancements in battery safety and efficiency are critical for the global transition to renewable energy and the expansion of electric transportation.
Linda Nazar is a distinguished university professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo and has been studying battery materials for over three decades.
She was recently announced as the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for her break-through work in helping develop batteries that are safer and more sustainable.
"I'm deeply honoured to win this award. And I'm also quite honestly humbled to join the remarkable scientists and engineers who have received this distinction before me," she told CBC News.
According to a news release from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Nazar's "world-leading discoveries have transformed the science of electrochemical energy storage, laying the foundation for safer, more efficient batteries that are helping accelerate the global shift to clean transportation and renewable energy."
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