Prizes/awards/recognitions of students and trainees
Awards/prizes at conferences and research events
- Christopher Ferrari Negraes (Undergraduate trainee), Best Presentation (Overall) at the McGill Physics/TSI Summer Research Showcase (2026).
- Clément Fortin (PhD student), Best Poster Award (by Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering), Topological Photonics and Beyond, TPB’25 (2025).
- Max Ehrhardt (Postdoctoral fellow), Best Experimental Paper (a Physical Review Journal Award), Metamaterials’2025 Congress (2025).
- Mengfan Jiang (MSc student), Best Oral Presentation Award (Second Place), 2025 Photonics North (2025).
- Polina Blinova (Undergraduate trainee then; now PhD student), First Place Poster Award, Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics, Syracuse University (2025).
- Yuming Niu (MSc student then; now PhD student), Best Poster Award, Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL) Annual Meeting (2024).
Scholarships/fellowships
Our trainees have been successful in securing a range of competitive external and internal scholarships and fellowships, including postdoctoral fellowships from Leopoldina and FRQNT, multiple NSERC and FRQNT graduate scholarships, a McCall MacBain scholarship, and other competitive awards. We actively support students and postdoctoral researchers in developing competitive fellowship and scholarship applications.
