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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!

Congratulations to Pat Carr (PhD), Su Ji Lim (MSc), and Zack Bowman (MSc) who all successfully defended their theses this past summer!

The Murphy and Hopkins groups from the University of Waterloo and the Quideau group from the Universite de Bordeaux published a collaborative study describing the use of blue LEDs to drive metal-free cyclopropanation reactions in Angewandte Chemie. The work was highlighted on the journal cover!

The Hopkins group has published a study entitled " Determining molecular properties with differential mobility spectrometry and machine learning " in Nature Communications. Congratulations to Steve, Ahdia, Jarrod, and Jeff on co-authoring the study!