Biology
professor
Josh
Neufeld
has
been
named
a
member
of
the Royal
Society
of
Canada’s
College
of
New
Scholars,
Artists
and
Scientists. Four
other
Waterloo
researchers
were
also
named
Royal
Society
of
Canada
fellows
and
members
of
the
College.
These University of Waterloo professors are among 87 new fellows elected by their peers for outstanding scholarly, scientific, and artistic achievement and 50 new members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists across Canada announced this week.
Josh Neufeld is an ecologistwhocharacterizes microbial communities in terrestrial, aquatic, and host-associated habitats. By developing and combining cultivation-dependent and molecular techniques, his lab explores the “microbes that matter” to connect these novel microorganisms with the important roles that they play in their communities. His passion for microbiology and its communication has resulted in authorship of a microbiology textbook, multiple teaching awards, and service as Chief Editor for The ISME Journal.
Congratulations to Josh, and the other University of Waterloo researchers!