Prof. Hopkins published The Family Chemist: Volume 0 - 20 activities that move, glow, fizz, grow, and reveal. This is a collection of fun and educational chemistry experiments that you can do at home. The book is available worldwide via Amazon.
Today we began installing the equipment for a new magnet mapping laboratory, associated with the WaterFEL free electron laser laboratory. Over the next year, we will be collaborating with scientists from the private sector and from the HFML-FELIX facility in the Netherlands to build two new undulatory (mid- and far-IR) for the WaterFEL infrared free electron laser.
As a fun extracurricular activity, Prof. Hopkins wrote a historical fiction novel, The Spirit Fountain. It is now available worldwide via Amazon.
Congratulations, Dr. Mashmoushi, on an outstanding thesis!
This award is given to a Canadian spectroscopist in recognition of a significant contribution to the application of spectroscopy to analytical chemistry or to other technological problems relevant to industry, medicine, or the environment. Visit the Canadian Society of Applied Sciences and Spectroscopy website to learn more.
The Keith Laidler Award recognizes outstanding early-career contributions to physical chemistry, for research carried out in Canada, by a scientist residing in Canada. Hopkins' research explores gas phase ion chemistry and employs controlled environments to study the evolution of condensed phase properties. Hopkins’ research develops and uses experimental tools such as ion mobility spectrometry, mass spectrometry, and laser spectroscopy, as well as computational tools including artificial intelligence.
In a new study, University of Waterloo chemists Scott Hopkins and Christian Ieritano have found a new technique to analyze mirror image molecules, known as chiral molecules, in order to distinguish the two different versions.
Congratulations to Prof. Hopkins on receiving the 2020 Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry Young Investigator Award!
Congratulations to Fiorella Villaneuva-Heldmaier and Yuting Li for defending their MSc theses, and to Weiqiang Fu for defending his PhD thesis! Good luck on your future endeavours!
Congratulations to Ce Zhou who successfully defended his PhD Thesis!