The April Issue of CJCE features biographies of the 2026 winners of two CJCE-supported awards: the Best Graduate Student Paper Award and the Lectureship Award.
This year’s winner of the Best Graduate Student Paper Award is Dr. Shahab Ghasemi from the University of Calgary for his article “Introducing a novel method for determining the effective thermal conductivity at moderate and high Péclet numbers” (S. Ghasemi, G. Chourio Arocha, A. Fayazi, A. Kantza, Can. J. Chem. Eng. 2025, 103(1), 410). His biography highlights that his work “blends analytical modelling, numerical simulation, and experimental validation, with contributions that improve computational efficiency for complex subsurface systems” and his research interests include “enhanced oil recovery, geothermal systems, lattice-based methods, and machine learning for subsurface energy”.
Dr. Ghasemi will be delivering an award lecture at the upcoming x2026 Conference. His talk is titled “Coupled Heat and Mass Transfer in Heterogeneous Porous Media: Linking Thermal and Solute Dispersion Across Flow Regime”. Read the abstract and details about the time and location of this talk here, and don’t miss this opportunity to hear from this exceptional award winner!
This year’s winner of the Lectureship Award is Dr. Jinguang Hu from the University of Calgary. His biography notes that “since establishing his independent academic career in Canada in 2018, he has emerged as an international leader in sustainable chemical engineering, with a research program focused on biomass valorization, green hydrogen production, CO₂ conversion, and renewable materials”. He is the “inventor of Biomass Photorefining, a sunlight-driven platform that enables the co-production of green hydrogen and value-added biochemicals under ambient conditions, representing a new paradigm in low-energy biorefining” and his work “integrates catalysis, biotechnology, photochemistry, and reactor engineering, and has led to over 300 peer-reviewed publications.”
Dr. Hu will also be delivering an award lecture at the upcoming x2026 Conference in Toronto, titled “Advances in Catalytic Materials and Processes: Electrocatalysis, Photocatalysis, Thermo-photo catalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis”. Read the abstract and details about the time and location of this talk here. Be sure to add this lecture to your conference itinerary to hear from another outstanding award winner!