2025 Fessenden Professorship Awards and Tomlinson Science Awards winners announced
The winners of the 2025 Fessenden Professorship Awards and Tomlinson Science Awards have been announced.
The Fessenden Professorship in Science and Innovation Award, named after Canadian electrical engineer Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, was established in 2007 to accelerate the validation and technology transfer of promising concepts in the early- or mid-stages of development and bring them closer to a commercial product and market.
Named for Canadian chemist and philanthropist Richard H. Tomlinson, the Tomlinson Science Awards fund high-risk, early-stage new research projects with a potential for high impact to increase their competitiveness for other funding sources.
Congratulations to this year’s winners!
2025 Fessenden Professorship Award
Chao-Jun Li, Chemistry
Synergistic Co-Conversion of Methane and CO2 into High Valued Products
Eric McCalla, Chemistry
All-solid batteries with both high deformability during assembly and rigidity during use
2025 Tomlinson Science Awards
John Stix, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Understanding and forecasting sudden explosive eruptions
Galen Halverson, Earth and Planetary Sciences
The Ecological Rise of Eukaryotes
Virginie Millien, Biology and Gregory Dudek, Computer Science
Drifting islands: Biodiversity dynamics associated with sargassum floating mats in near shore waters of Barbados
Lars L. Iversen, Biology
Empowering Communities through AI: Real-Time Monitoring of Mosquito-Borne Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hsiu-Chin Lin, Computer Science
Talk, trust, assist: Safer assistive robots with natural language understanding
