2024 NSERC DISCOVERY Grant Awardees announced
Today the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced more than $554 million is being invested in research over five years through the Discovery Research Program. Over $480 million of this funding provides new awards to researchers through the 2024 Discovery Research Program. An additional $72.4 million was awarded in one-time, one-year extensions with funds to existing Discovery Research grants held by more than 1,800 researchers across Canada impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
UBC AWARDEES
A total of 157 new programs and projects led by UBC researchers were awarded more than $36 million through the 2024 NSERC Discovery Research Program competition.
Nineteen UBC Okanagan researchers — including nine individuals from the School of Engineering — received more than $3.5 million in grants. Read more in the announcement from the office of the UBC Okanagan Vice President Research and Innovation (VPRI).
2024 DISCOVERY GRANTS
The NSERC Discovery Grants program supports ongoing programs of research with long-term goals rather than a single short-term project or collection of projects. These grants recognize the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances.
School of Engineering Awardees
Congratulations to the following researchers who have been awarded 2024 Discovery Grants:
Dr. Wouter Bam
Improving sustainable industrial development decision support through novel computational approaches and re-conceptualisation*
Dr. Md Jahangir Hossain
Holographic-MIMO empowered next-generation wireless networks
Dr. Thomas Johnson
Adapting wireless power system concepts to design efficient power combining networks for photovoltaic modules
Dr. Stephen O’Leary
Novel Semiconductor Materials for Future Device Applications: Materials Issues and Device Implications
Dr. Abbas Sadeghzadeh Milani
A Materials Informatics Approach for Intelligent Forming of Woven Fabric Composites
Dr. Rudolf Seethaler
Flexible and Wearable Electronic Devices made from Laser Induced Graphene
Dr. Liwei Wang
High power voltage source converter topologies, modeling, and analysis techniques for high voltage direct current transmission system
RESEARCH TOOLS AND INSTRUMENTS
The NSERC Research Tools and Instruments grants foster and enhance the discovery, innovation and training capability of university researchers in the natural sciences and engineering by supporting the purchase of research equipment.
Congratulations to the following researchers who have been awarded 2024 Research Tools and Instruments Grants:
Dr. Lisa Tobber
Advanced Data Acquisition and Feedback Control System for Resilient Infrastructure
Dr. Alexander Uhl
Optical Spectroscopic Characterization Equipment for Solar Energy Research