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The Environment Division Mehran Alaee Early Career Researcher Award recognizes an outstanding early career researcher who has made distinguished contributions in the fields of environmental chemistry or environmental chemical engineering, while working in any sector in Canada, e.g., academia, government, industry, for-profit/not-for-profit, private/public sector. Mehran Alaee was always very supportive of junior scientists and their research.
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The 2024 Environment Division Mehran Alaee Early Career Researcher Award is:
Hui Peng, MCIC
University of Toronto
Hui Peng is an Associate Professor at the department of chemistry and school of the environment, University of Toronto. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. at Peking University in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Following postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto and University of Saskatchewan, Hui Peng joined the department of chemistry and school of the environment at the University of Toronto as an assistant professor in 2017. His research focuses on establishing the environmental Chemical-Protein Interaction Network (eCPIN) by pursing two research directions: 1) Identification of exogenous and endogenous ligands using protein-guided nontargeted analysis. 2) Identification of protein targets through chemical proteomics.
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