Keith Laidler Award

The 2010 winner is:

Ruth Signorell, MCIC
The University of British Columbia

Born and raised in Switzerland Ruth Signorell received her undergraduate and graduate education at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) where she obtained her PhD degree in 1999. Following a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Academy of Natural Scientist Leopoldina she was appointed assistant professor at the University of Göttingen in 2002. In 2005, she was offered tenured professorships at the Phillips-University of Marburg in Germany and The University of British Columbia in Canada. She joined UBC’s Chemistry Department as an associate professor in 2005 and was promoted to full professor in 2009. Signorell’s research in physical chemistry focuses on spectroscopic investigations of aerosols, clusters, and nanoparticles combining experiment and modelling on a molecular level. Among the awards she has received are the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society in 2005, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2007, a UBC Killam Research Prize in 2008, and the Thermo Fisher Scientific Spectroscopy Award of the Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy in 2009.

Previous winners of the CSC Keith Laidler Award  

Nomination Form: submit your nomination package as a PDF

Terms of Reference

This award is presented to a scientist residing in Canada who has made a distinguished contribution to the field of physical chemistry while working in Canada. The award recognizes early achievement in the awardees independent research career.

Deadline: July 2 of every year.

Sponsor: CIC Physical, Theoretical and Computation Chemistry Division

Award: A framed scroll

The recipient will be required to present an award lecture at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition.

Membership in the Institute is not a prerequisite for this award.

All nominations will remain in force for three years. Nominators are responsible for keeping the record of the nominee up to date and complete.

The award shall be presented annually unless the Committee considers that no suitable candidate has been nominated.