Sponsored by the E. W. R. Steacie Endowment Fund (Supported by the CSC Board and some Subject Divisions of the CIC and CSC)
The E. W. R. Steacie Award is presented to a scientist who has made a distinguished contribution to chemistry while working in Canada.
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The 2025 winner of the E. W. R. Steacie Award is:
Martin J. Stillman, FCIC
The University of Western Ontario
Martin Stillman, FCIC, is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Western Ontario. He received his Ph. D. from the School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK working on the application of magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy to understand the electronic structures in porphyrins, phthalocyanines and the protein myoglobin, carried out under the supervision of Professor Andrew Thomson. Following a postdoctoral at the University of Alberta studying the optical properties of phthalocyanines and the heme enzyme horseradish peroxidase with Dr. Bryan Hollebone, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Western Ontario in 1975 specializing in bioinorganic chemistry. He has been Professor of Chemistry since 1986. His work has been continuously funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada since 1976. He has published over 280 papers in international journals, many with his world-wide collaborators. He has co-organized and chaired the biennial Canadian Bioinorganic Chemistry Conference (CanBIC) from 2007 in Parry Sound, Ontario. CanBIC-9 will be held in May 2025. This internationally-recognized conference brings together over 160 leading researchers from around the world, including Australia, Japan, China, across Europe, the USA and Canada. Over 90 cutting-edge talks take place in an intense format broken by classical music in the evenings, and where talks, discussions, and music exploit the cohesiveness and isolation of the Stockey Centre perched on its granite foundations overlooking the cold, dark blue pristine waters of Georgian Bay.