Sponsored by the Canadian Council of University Chemistry Chairs (CCUCC)
The CCUCC Chemistry Master of Science Award is intended to recognize outstanding achievement and potential in research by a graduate student who has fulfilled all of the requirements for an MSc degree for graduation from a Canadian university in the 12‐month period preceding the nomination deadline of Sept. 15. The formal convocation need not have occurred. In selecting candidates for the award, the Selection Committee shall be primarily concerned with demonstrated ability and achievements in research.
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The 2025 winner of the CCUCC Chemistry Master of Science Award is:
Claire Anderson
University of New Brunswick
Claire Anderson is from Fredericton, NB and attended the University of New Brunswick (UNB) where she completed both her BSc (2021) and MSc (2024) in Chemistry. During her time at UNB she had the opportunity to work on an undergraduate research project in computational chemistry and machine learning (ML) under the supervision of Dr. Stijn De Baerdemacker, which further developed into her master’s research project. Her work was focused on the automated discovery of organic redox-active materials for use in symmetric non-aqueous redox flow batteries (RFBs). Throughout the project, she used ML methods to automate the generation of a set of bipyridine-based organic molecules, applied a genetic algorithm to further improve upon the generated molecules, and computationally assessed their capabilities as redox-active materials for non-aqueous RFBs, which have shown potential as large-scale electrochemical energy storage systems.
Jason Hsu