Keith Laidler Award

Sponsored by the CSC Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Division

This award recognizes outstanding early-career contributions to physical chemistry, for research carried out in Canada, by a scientist residing in Canada.

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The 2025 winner of the Keith Laidler Award is:

Kevin Stamplecoskie, MCIC
Queen’s University

Kevin Stamplecoskie, is an assistant professor at the Queen’s University. He has been trained by world leaders in photochemistry (Juan C. Scaiano), photocatalysis (Prashant Kamat), and former Laidler Award recipient (Pavle Radovanovic). In every stage of his early career Stamplecoskie has been impressively productive, making impactful contributions to the field and having his research highlighted by ACS editors, and most recently as an Emerging Investigator in Nanoscale.

Stamplecoskie has given dozens of invited seminars and lectures, having made critical discoveries that are driving photonic materials for photocatalysis, cancer therapy, and most recently engineering new materials for renewable energy devices. His work has been highlighted by ACS and RSC editorial boards and continues to shape the direction of emerging fields. His accomplishments are as diverse as his team of researchers which has enabled him to shape the direction of fields like metal cluster research, chemical sensing, and hydrovoltaics.

Past Winners