Zhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor, and Lukasz Golab, a management sciences professor cross-appointed to mathematics, have been named new Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs. The announcement made April 9 by the Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology) included new and renewed CRCs for six other University of Waterloo professors.
Chen is the Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy and Golab is the Canada Research Chair in Data Analytics for Sustainability. Both appointments are for five years.
Chen was one of five professors campus wide to receive a John R. Evans Leaders Fund award from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to help cover infrastructure costs for his research. He received $75,000 for his work into advanced chemical vapour deposition system for nanostructured energy materials development.