Lectureship Award

Sponsored by The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

The Lectureship Award is presented to a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who has made an outstanding contribution to chemical engineering, demonstrating exceptional promise, while working in Canada. Eligible candidates must have held their first professional appointment in Canada as an independent researcher in academia, government, or industry for seven years or less at the time of nomination submission.

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The 2025 winner of the Lectureship Award is:

Cao Thang Dinh, MCIC
Queen’s University

 

Dr. Cao Thang Dinh is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals at Queen’s University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Laval University in 2014. From 2014 to 2019, Dr. Dinh was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. Dinh’s research focuses on developing electrochemical processes for the production of fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide, water, and renewable electricity. He has published over 100 papers in prestigious journals, including multiple publications in Science and Nature family journals. Dr. Dinh is the recipient of several awards, including the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Rising Star Award (2021), the Prize for Excellence in Research for Outstanding Emerging Researcher at Queen’s University (2022), the Science Breakthrough of the Year in Engineering and Technology from the Falling Walls Foundation (2023), and the Ontario Early Researcher Award (2025). He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Chemistry by Clarivate since 2021. Dr. Dinh is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Prisms: Carbon Technologies, a new interdisciplinary journal published by Cambridge University Press.

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